How To Sound Like Marty Friedman Megadeth (South Shields Guitar Lessons)

2003 Intreview Marty Friedman was asked how he got his tone

Would you share your EQ setting for your amplifier? What are the positions of the bass, mid, treble etc. These are what interest the young guitarists here and all over the world I guess.( just an approximate setting )
I have no idea! Tone comes strictly from the hands, so at whatever setting I may be set at, I sound pretty much the same. Even on other people's gear, I wind up sounding the same. I can tell you that I like to play loud because you get a lot of good sustain and tone that way. 

Guitars

- Paul Reed Smith guitars (listed as an artist on PRS)

- In his Cacophony days, Carvin guitars, mainly a V220M model. Also used Carvin on his first solo recording, Dragon Kiss.
- Jackson Guitars (stopped using them in 2000 when Fender bought Jackson)
- Jackson Kelly (he made this model famous and had his own signature KE1 guitar model)

 

- more recently using Ibanez Guitars (has a singature model available in Japan)
- Ibanez Marty Friedman Model ( Ibanez MFM-1 signature guitar, which is basically an SZ model with stars on the frets and body)
- Gretsch Chet
- Fender Stratocaster

 

- Dean guitar

 

- Ibanez Iceman
- Ovation (various models) acoustic guitars
- Seymour Duncan/Ibanez pickups
- Fender Precision bass
 

Amps and Cabinets
- Bogner amps during Megadeth days (this is debated which model exactly)
- CAE 3+ Preamps and VHT 2150 power amps (older days)
- Crate Blue Voodoo tube amplifiers (BV120HB)

 

- Crate 4x12 cabinets (BV412RV)
- ENGL amplifiers Special Edition heads (recent)

 

- ENGL Vintage cabinets from ENGL

 

- Ampeg SVT Bass amp

 

- Various Marshall amps
 

Effects and more
- Samson Concert Series Wireless
- Planet Waves Cords

 

- Future Sonics ear monitors
- Boss GS-10 (has been discontinued)
- Boss GT-6
- Boss GT-8

 

- MAXON AF-9 Auto Filter

 

- Boss DD-5

 

- Sansamp GT2

 

- Sansamp Acoustic DI
- E/H Zipper envelope filter
- Roland VG 88 (VG99 pictured below)

 

- Fractal Audio Axe-FX Ultra



Strings and Picks
- D'Addario 010-.046  and .10 - .52 gauge strings

 

- Pickboy Picks

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How To Sound Like Richie Sambora (South Shields Guitar Lessons)

Amp Settings

gain10,

bass7,

contour9,

treble10.

Guitars

- The new ESP Richie Sambora SA-2 guitar (Thankfully pointed out by user Thebiz)

- A large variety of Fender stratocasters
- Fender Telecaster doubleneck guitar
- custom "Sambora" guitars built by Richie Sambora's guitar tech Chris "Lumpy" Hofschneider
- Zemaitis Guitars
- Floyd Rose guitars
- vintage and custom shop Gibson guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Standard sunburst

 

- Gibson Les Paul goldtop

 

- Gibson Flying V (appears to be Korina, in "Everyday" video)

- Gibson ES-335

- '51 Fender Telecaster

 

- Fender Custom Shop Eric Clapton Stratocaster

 

- Fender "NoCaster"

 

- Fender Telecaster Thinline Custom

 

- Charvel Stratocaster
- Ovation acoustics (various models, including a double and triple neck)

 

- Gretsch guitars

 

- Taylor RSSM Sambora model acoustic
- Taylor doubleneck acoustic
- Martin Sambora 6 and 12 strings (click below to checkout the 6 string)

 

- Martin 000-42

 

- Guild F-50 12-string

- Gibson SG Junior (white)

Amplifiers and Cabinets
- Marshall JCM2000 DSL series amps

 

- Marshall JCM800 2203 heads

 

- Marshall 4x12" speaker cabinets

 

- Fender ToneMaster amps

 

- Fender ToneMaster 4x12" speaker cabinets
- Fender Bassman 4x10" combo

 

- Fender SuperTwin (pictured below is a regular Twin)

 

- Vox AC30

 

- VHT Pitbull

 

- Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier
- Hughes & Kettner amp

 

- Diezel Herbert amps
- Divided by 13 amplification (they make custom amps)
- Matchless amps
- Bogner Ecstasy
- Custom made 4x12 cabinets

Effects and more
- MIDI floor controller
- Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive

 

- Talk Box

 

- Fulltone Choral Flange
- Dunlop Crybaby

 

- Vox wah pedal

 

- A/B switcher (try the ART switcher below for a low-cost switcher)

 

- Dunlop Rack-Wah

 

- T.C. Electronics 1210 Spatial Expander/Stereo-Chorus Flanger
- Eventide H-3000 Harmonizer

 

- Shure SM-57 Microphones

 

MXR Dynacomp (modified?)

 

- Klon Centaur pedal

In 2010 Richie had a guitar rack made for him. The following gear appeared to be in it.

This rack may be mainly used for studio recording (and another rack for live):

- 2 RJM Effect Gizmo's
- Custom Suhr amp switcher
- BAE mic pre
- VHT Power Amp
- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power AC and 2 Plus

- Furman Power Rack unit
- Lexicon PCM42 (x2)
- Eventide Eclipse V4 Rack unit

- Empirical Labs Distressor

- A Designs 500HR Rack with two modules
- Tone Freak Effects Abunai 2 pedal
- Tone Freak Effects Naked OD
- Tone Freak Effects Mello Tremo
- BBE Soul Vibe pedal

- Analog Man Octron pedal
- Hermida Zendrive pedal
- Boss OD-1 Overdrive pedal
- Hartman Compressor pedal
- Retro-sonic Vintage Vibes Chorus pedal
- Maxon AF-9 Auto Filter

- MXR Phase 90 Script logo pedal

- MXR EVH Flanger pedal

- Electro-Harmonix Micro POG

- Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man pedal

- Axess Electronics Midi Controller board
- Ernie Ball pedal
- Moollon Wah pedal (Korean made pedal)
- Boss Chromatic Tuner pedal

Strings and picks

- D'Addario Strings: EXP15, EXP38, EXL110, EXL115, EPS510, EPS540  (Sambora is listed on their site)

- GHS Strings (Sambora is listed on their site) .009 strings in the studio and gauge .010 strings live

- D'Andrea 351 .71mm Black Celluloid picks

 

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