Amp settings from the ‘Ernie Ball: String Theory featuring Mick Mars’ video
Having a closer look at the Mick Mars amp settings from the ‘Ernie Ball: String Theory’ video below.
Mick uses mostly preamp distortion & almost no mids on his Soldano SLO100 amps; this creates a very wide, distorted but warm sound with none of the bite normally associated with ‘Marshall style’ amps.
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Originally posted by UCN-2VxtHeP3bidUfxu6JM6A at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYxjyS-0MuA
Those settings sound terrible on my SLO lol
What kind of Power tubes does he use?
Awesome thanks
I think the most interesting thing about these settings are the normal channel settings, both gain and MV are zero.
Its not just that he doesn't bother to use it, he completely eliminates it.
That would completely remove any effect or artifacts (although I always felt it was subtle anyway) of the original SLOs crosstalk.
Or he just used the normal channel as a mute.
To play Motley Crue you need a few guitarist cause they have different tunings…
there is a lot to say for vintage pickups. the magnets arent as powerful and the pickups arent as hot, so you get more highs and less compression. the verse palm mute picking is much more dynamic on less hot pickups.
Looking at the video you reference frame by frame from left to right: I can clearly make out the presence at 4.5, yours is set too low. The master overdrive the right side edge of the groove just right of the indicator line is on 5. The treble is set just slightly above the bass setting with the second groove to the left of the indicator on 4 what ever that would give you (just shy of 7?).The mid is even slightly lower than what you have, he has it completely parallel to the case bottom or at 9 o'clock or you could reference the right side of the second grove right of the indicator on 5. The grove on the bass knob just left of the indicator line is directly on the 5, yours is just shy of that. Hard to see on your video but on Micks overdrive knob the groove exactly opposite to the indicator line is on 2.75, looks like yours is at 2.25. Having said all that potentiometer of the same value don't give Exactly the same resistance when turned to the same spot. So these settings are a great starting point but may have to be slightly adjusted by ear.
Mick has multiple heads slaved/chained together. Marshall jcm, soldano and rivera. Plus a mountain of racks lol.
I got his tone with a fender g Dec and a boss me 80 you need to have a chorus pedal or have it built in to your amp and make sure it's kind of like a rectifier sound almost forgot use a turbo od
That was a pic of his amp turned off on the shelf…. knobs probably at random. Fuck sakes.
I think Mick runs 3 to 4 diffrent amps together to get his tone. I know he uses a rivera, soldano and a marshall chained together in studio i swear he also used orange amps at one point but i think to nail his tone you need a marshall and soldano at-least to get anywhere near his tone. But the clip at the end when you played a riff/lick the tone from the soldano resembled Micks tone pretty well i just think its the chain of amps Mick has that gets his tone as big and full as it sounds
that was prob not even the amp he was using in the vid. also if he was it was prob d.i thru the board.
may the mids are out so much because he is using a eq pedal or somethin like that ,so he pushes the mids through the pedal..just a guess
Cool vid! BTW, I don't believe the bright switch has any effect on the dirty channel…