Ultimate Punk Rock Guitar Tone Challenge | Kris VS Guillaume | Thomann
Who has the best punk rock guitar tone? Leave a comment below!
Also check out our other music genre challenges:
Classic rock: https://youtu.be/EN6uZhdMbww
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Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 What is a punk / punk rock sound exactly?
2:37 Revealing Kris’ rig
5:25 Revealing Guillaume’s rig
9:05 Playing Guillaume’s rig
10:47 Playing Kris’ rig
11:44 Again, what is the punk rock tone?
14:04 Which amps work for punk?
17:30 Outro jam
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My sounds come from fender and a fuzz or rat
Hell yeah! A punk rock video! Great advice in this video too 🙂
I'm in a punk rock band. Here's my advice for equipment to get a killer punk rock tone:
Guitars: pretty much anything as long as it has a nice passive bridge humbucker. Prioritize playability and something that looks cool! Experiment to find something you like. If you have a hole burning in your wallet, consider anything with a Seymour Duncan Invader or DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup. I'm personally not a fan of single coils, but some punk rock bands sound great with them, so it can totally work. Active humbuckers can work too but they always sound too clean and tight for my liking.
Amps: Mesa Boogie Mark iii, iv, v, Orange Rockerverb 50, Supercrush 100, or pretty much anything by Marshall. There are a lot of high gain amps out there that would work just fine. You want lots of gain, but not heavily scooped or fizzy.
Cabs: 4×12 Mesa Boogie with Celestion Vintage 30s is the best imho, but Marshall 4×12 with Creambacks also sounds great. The smaller the speaker the wimpier the tone gets and it just doesn't sound or feel right imho. Go big or go home I say! Try not to upset your neighbours or significant other…
Pedals: tube-screamer or some other green overdrive pedal for that extra special sauce; use your amp for most of the gain rather than the pedal. LPB-1 for clean boost is very useful. Tuner… I'm not a fan of the DS-1…
If you want a preamp pedal… Bax Bangeetar, Fire and Sword, Guitar Butler… probably a million pedals out in the wild that will work for you.
If you're on a very tight budget, consider a preamp pedal going into the FX loop or front of whatever amp you can afford. I got a second hand Bax Bangeetar preamp and it sounded awesome even with a terrible 1×12 combo we had in our rehearsal room.
I use a PC playing a messa amp sim through an interface into a pedal size power amp through a 2×10 cab. I play a Strat with a humbucker. Does this automatically disqualify me from being a punk player?
I play in a punk rock band in Chicago and am "old" i love my bridge humbucker into an Orange Rockerverb 100w MKIII, no pedals (other than tuners pedal), Vintage 30 loaded cabs, and let it rip….
Peavey Bandit linked with whatever rusty old amp your grandpa left… And a guitar with humbucker in the bridge, so fugly and uninspiring you had to cover in stickers… That's the tone!
From the future here…
I'm old school.
Steve Jones had the best sound.
'74 Les Paul Custom through a Fender Twin turned all the way up.
As a guitarist in a punk band my guitar tone is whatever, just crank up the amp????????????
The DS1 won ! ????????????
Im biased lol. Id pick the blink182 side lol
As a guitarist in a punk band, playing all over the country. I will say the move is to use 1 set of cabs for every band, bring your head, guitar, and pedals. Share drum shells, and bring your pedal, throne, snare, and cymbals. Play with Teenage Bottlerocket and Authority Zero in a few days. Playing festivals is kind of the same thing.
Love this! I just did a video making a punk tone with the Two Notes Opus! https://youtu.be/gK15ao7KZPc?si=mx5wH1oKp2WUwrOA
I have this lpj and love it. Simple but so much fun.
Bad Brains!
Tom Delonge TOYPAJ album best punk guitar tone alongside Dookie
Once you add melody and any real music theory, that’s where you’ll lose the punk esthetic. Punk was music for people that didn’t know how to make good music. They made anything sound alright. Me personally I like the germs, gg and the jabbers, black flags and a few other bands.
i just use my boost channel with high reverb drenched in chorus (don't ask)
Bad religion Incomplete!! Yes!!
Thank you for not using extremely expensive guitars.
Each setup sounds very different, but together you guys sound perfect! They complement each other so well..
M.V. Electronics' Shreadhead pedal could have been a better choice… you won't fall short of saturation without having too much teeth. You can go from lagwagon, nofx, whippersnapper to mainstreams like Blink 182 and Green Day without depending on the gain of the amp.
To the point you made later in the video, there's a video on Premier Guitar called "NOFX's Fat Mike on Why Les Pauls and Marshalls Suck for Punk." He talks about how they usually use single coil guitars and low gain amps in order to get clarity. Specifically, they use a Jazzmaster into a Silvertone amp.
NOFX is my favorite punk band. I also love Bad Religion. And I love anything from Fat Wreck Chords. I guess some people call it "skater punk" or "SoCal punk." I love the melody and musicianship those bands brought to the genre.
Those tunes and sounds made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. So good.
Definitely my favorite music style to listen, favorite as well to play.
Funny how G was using the “Dookie” setup and Kris was using the latter setup used by Green Day! Awesome guys
IMO Kris won this. JCM800 and P90 is a great combo.
Für Liveshows ist der Orange Crush super Dankbar! Der ist platzsparend, nach dem Set schnell abgeschaltet und weggeräumt, nicht zu teuer falls mal etwas Bier daneben geht und trotzdem vom Sound her amtlich ????
Nur ein SD1 oder Tubescreamer sollte davor sein, weil Palmmutes sonst etwas "wobbely" werden.
To me 1990s punk and punkrock was about getting drunk, fellin' good with the fellas, headbanging to simple distorted guitar music. We didn't know nothing about fancy equipment like things in this video. Becasue of the simple mindset, I find Guillaume's setup and approach is more authentic. A "whatever amp" with a distortion pedal and a humbucker guitar. That's what we needed that time! Kris' tone is more professional, better for the ears of today, but loses some of the simplicity and maybe primitive way of the '90-s feeling of punk. Nice vid, I grab my axe and play some punk, with power chords only! Keep up the good work guys!
Needs Fuzz, but I'd say that about every video ????
To sort stuff out:
1. To pick this topic You have to be FEARLESS. When I grow up, I want to be like You two.
2. Kris is guilty of having too pretty tone. He can't be punk.
3. Guillaume is quilty of having too pretty face. He most definitely can't be punk.
Nice amps tho 😀
My favourite punk band are The Exploited.
This one goes for my man Guillermo. EASY.
You guys are awesome. As always. FULL FUCKING STOP.