The Secret to the AC/DC Sound - Guitar Lesson video free download
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Duration: 07:22
Uploaded: 2011/10/22
People have asked for my amplifier info: It's a Kustom Wav 2x12 - it's a hybrid tube/solid-state with tubes in the preamp stage. It's no longer manufactured and I got it several years ago to serve as a smaller practice amp. However, it sounds amazing and I actually prefer to use it over my Marshall JCM2000 half-stack. Kustom makes great stuff. I highly recommend them as a brand if you want to save some money and yet still have awesome tone. Settings used for AC/DC tone in this video is: Low: 8 1/2 Mid: 3 1/2 High: 6 1/2. - These settings change depend on what type of amplifier/guitar being used. Also, it depends on the songs being played. Some require more mids than others, etc.
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8 years ago
Aaron Manderscheid
Great vid. been playing 35 yrs but interesting non the less !!8 years ago
Robin Lith
Guitar Player Magazine had a interview with the legend Angus Young, where he tells that he don't use pedals, only his Schaffer-Vega Diversity System. If I'm listening to your sound, I miss something. So maybe it is really the SVDS that finish the sound. Try that8 years ago
Solidusangus
they don't play trough any channel cause they use marshall jtm45 (and wizard modern classic when they play live) and it doesn't have any channels. 3:50 you're pissing me off? you you want me to think that you're not hitting any distortion or booster pedals?? come on, dude... we're not stupid8 years ago
Jeffery Peters
Can i do this on guitar rig 5?8 years ago
scorp4165
great vid ,super sound9 years ago
elvirtnt
Nice!9 years ago
scallen2112
Very interesting. I'll have to give that a try. I might be able to do it on the first setting on my Blackstar HT40 clean channel, but I doubt it would work on the second - the "Blackstar Clean". It's made not to clip. Way too much headroom to even try. And, I don't own an attenuator, so I'm sure to piss off the neighbors.9 years ago
lacusicusi
No, quite frankly I think you are doing all new guitar players a favor and whoever doesn't share your tips, should say it respectfully.9 years ago
lacusicusi
For those about to troll... we salute you9 years ago
Max Karl
Thank you man! Totoally the sound i was looking for, thanks alot! :D:D:D9 years ago
tubal1
Can you get the same effect with one small amp? I mean one of those 10-15-20 watts amps used for practicing at home.9 years ago
Michael Wranich
This is great!9 years ago
Zac Noble
I love you for this video! I always new something wasnt sounding right when i would play acdc on the metal chanel!9 years ago
darkknight .ad38
What kind of guitar is that ?9 years ago
netineither
you are right about that,, but it is not enough to just play on the clean channel on the amp, you also got to have an SG with the same pickups he have, and you also need a Marshall amp or something with that english sound, Angus use an old Marshall plexi, with a les paul and a Marshall ,you can get very close to his sound, but it's just not the same as if you would have an SG,, they do not sound the same, even if you got the same pickups, with any other guitar especially guitars made from other woods than mahogany you will have a very hard time to get that sound, and with a strat it's totally impossible, don't even try it9 years ago
Mark L
Of course the old Marshalls from the 60s and 70's we're nothing but a clean channel where you had to push the power tubes to the max to get that clean natural type of distortion. I do recall that AC/DC either used those old Marshalls or some newer ones where they had modified into a non master volume/power amp format.9 years ago
nytephntom
This video should be required watching for all new guitar players. Picking dynamics seem to be rapidly becoming a lost art. Don't listen to all the idiots who are trying to argue with you who think a pedal is the answer to all their tone needs. And to the dumbasses who are all like "uh, their amps only had one channel"...yeah, I'm pretty sure this dude knows that. But most modern amps have an overdrive channel and his point is that you need to use the power amp to distort rather than going with an overdrive channel. Why don't you guys use another lost art called critical thinking 9 years ago
thumbscrews
For those who are wondering how I keep the volume so low when the formula is to crank the amp...the answer is using a power attenuator. I personally use a Marshall Power Brake. There are others you can check out such as the "Hot Plate" as well.9 years ago
James R. Hellmsly
AC/DC Are a Perfect Example of How Working the Output Tubes Yields the Very Best Guitar Tones Without Mudd and Mush Of Over Saturated Pre-Amp Gain Settings....9 years ago
