How To Sound Like The Cure | Potent Pairings
The Cure, and frontman Robert Smith, have cornered the market on delicate, melancholy tones and hummable guitar leads. In this video, Joe looks at some of the key ingredients to The Cure’s signature sound and how to apply them to your own playing.
Read more about The Cure’s gear at https://bit.ly/4iikQGe.
0:00 – Intro
1:18 – Boys Don’t Cry/Guitars
4:25 – A Forest/Modulation
8:06 – In Between Days/Fender Bass VI
10:33 – Lullaby
11:35 – Just Like Heaven
13:35 – Friday, I’m In Love
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Recorded at Narwhal Studios in Chicago.
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Originally posted by UCHP-KQAJgXu4Wo2Xq4-eNow at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsdfT1kudHY
The rick 12 and piano combo caused me to have an eargasm
Really cool sounds effects. You can almost eat some of those melodies – and all the angles on the different guitars and pedals at once are so helpful
When it comes to the Cure's catalog, I know people tend to turn up their noses at "Friday I'm In Love", but the interplay between those parts is nothing short of sublime.
Awesome video! I am so happy to see you reproduce these great songs with “common” gear. As a long-time Cure fan I am really excited to retry these songs on my small collection of equipment. Thank-you for the inspiration! ????❤️????????✌️
Great job! I'm in the 80s repertoire, wrinting soongs in this vibe and this video actually gave a lot of useful insights.
What Taylor 12 string is that?
Nice presentation. Actually, still have the original Deluxe Memory Man. Great classic vintage effect.
Great stuff happy to see this series back!
Amazing class! ????????????
Cool make note Robert Smith used Roland Cube a trio in 1970s 1980s still now. Theses are lighter in weight plus still has this sound and few others.
I havent seen photos of Robert smith with a jazz chorus only roland cube.
Could you do
Puscifer
A perfect Circle
Tool next.
All three is kinda similar in sound.
Been a fan of the The Cure since 1990 and I have seen them live several times. The Fender Bass VI is what makes the cure The Cure(+Robert Smith of course;)
Reverb taking a HUGE chunk of your money is all this corporation thinks is awesome!
Best series ever
I love The Cure. I hope I get to see them again before Robert Smith says he'll stop touring in 2028. Cool vid thanks.
No mames VOLVIERON LOS POTENT PARINGS ????????????????????????
5:00 "Robert Smith used a Boss board through the 80's and still uses a lot of Boss pedals today"
There's an interview with him from when The Cure was touring the Wish album where he half joked that he preferred Boss pedals because he was attracted to the colours 🙂
Those are some great tone approximations.????
Robert used a jc160 (410) on recording in the early days and a jc120 live
This made my day. Thank you!
I’m so glad the series is back.
This is soo good. Keep
‘Em coming lads
Best of the series. Great job with this…sounds, playing and production
This was a very nice video. Relaxed yet very informative. Would love to see other bands receive the same treatment.
Please continue with this series guys!! Great job!
I can't help but notice your piano sounds quite a bit like a harpsichord.
Thanks a lot for the review ????
This video is making my whole day!! ❤❤❤
Great representation of the Cure's sound! I appreciated the mention regarding the fact that not every piece of gear or exact setting would be mentioned, but that the video would focus on the overall picture of the Cure sound over the years. Great job again! Thanks!
I really appreciate that you even telling the reverb that you're using on mixing
One of the best recreations of Robert’s tone on A Forest I’ve ever seen. Especially since there’s a million covers of it so that was pretty impressive. I’m still waiting for someone to do a video for the In Orange version of the song which arguably beats the studio version in terms of guitar tone.
awesome!!!
it's great ! but, hum … no VIBRATO on "boys don't cry" 😉 sorry i had to say it ????
Anyone knows what kind of pickguard is on that jazzmaster? Would like to get one for my sienna sunburst strat
More layers than a cake and just as sweet!
Really well explained! Thanks so much!!!
Some lovely tones, especially the info to A Forest, cheers ????????????
What a great and informative video, thank you!
I hope this series is officially back and that there will be more videos in it.
Great breakdowns man, but Friday I'm In Love sounds weird with the bass so low in the mix.
Fantastic video, more of this series would be excellent. Joe's delivery, as well as his playing, makes it super cool to follow and it's great to see the settings up close! Love The Cure, this has made my day. PS also echo the comments on the Cocteau Twins, a limited series on shoegazers would be amazing Reverb!
Been a Cure fan almost all my life and it's great to see young people respecting and paying homage to Robert Smith's guitar genious. Thank you.
Love that the Bass VI featured so heavily. I know this isn’t meant to be a strictly accurate attempt to replicate that classic Cure sound, but that instrument is such a key part of it.