How To Sound Like Nuno Bettencourt (Exteme)

Guitars
- Homemade guitar with Schecter body and Warmoth neck (used during first Extreme album)
- Takamine acoustic guitar (first Extreme album)
- Washburn N4 electric guitar (A Duncan '59 and a Lawrence L-500 in the bridge)

 

- Washburn N5 electric guitar
- Washburn N6 electric guitar
- Washburn N8 electric guitar
- Washburn P4 electric guitar
- WASHBURN EA-45 acoustic guitar
- WASHBURN EA20 acoustic guitar

 

- WASHBURN EA22 acoustic guitar
- Mouradian Custom Guitar

Guitar Amplifiers

- Custom made Nuno Bettencourt Randall amps and cabinets (what he has been using as of 2008 along with Marshalls):

- Randall NBKing100 amp head

 

- Randall NB412 cabinets

 

- ADA MP-1 Preamp
- ADA Power amp
- Fender Vibroverb

 

- Fender Twin Reverb

 

- Marshall TSL amp heads (3 channel)

- 69' Marshall cabinets

   

- Hughes and Kettner TriAmp heads

 

- Marshall JMP head
- Marshall JCM head

- Soldano amps (various stories floating around - Soldano Series II Super Lead 60, SLO100....)

Guitar Effects
- Boss ME-5 Multi Effects and more currently, Boss GT-8

 

- Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

 

- Boss LS-2 Line Selector

 

- Boss MC-1
- MXR Phase 90

 

- MXR Phase 100

 

- Heil Talkbox

 

- Hughes & Kettner Tubeman

 

- Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay

 

- Digitech XP-100

 

- Boss GE-7 Equalizer

 

- Boss OC-3 Octave

 

- Demeter Amplification THE TREMULATOR
- Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere

 

- Damage Control Womanizer Pure Class A Distortion (he's sponsored)

 

- Rat pedals

 

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How To Sound Like Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Malmsteen

Bass 5-7
Mid 2-5
Treble 6-8
Presence 4-6
Volume 10

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How to Make Your Own Glass Bottle Neck Guitar Slide

There is quite a lot of methods to make a bottle neck guitar slide. Some using a rope blow torch and a hammer.  Knowing me Id probably end up hurting myself or burning the house down.

Saw this video on Youtube

In short you need

1. Wine Bottle
2. Wine Bottle Cutter
3. Hot and Cold Water

Sounds pretty safe.

Score the bottle with your cutter. Heat up with hot water run under cold tap. Repeat that and the score line should crack leaving you with a smooth cut needing sanding.

Im going to try this tomorrow.

Ive tried using 2 beer bottles and a wine bottle.

Glass Cutter for £2.99 to score beer bottles then just used hot water and then cold water.

Needed a pipe cutter for the wine bottle which was a lot thicker.

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How Does IK Multimedia Amplitube Compare To Guitar Rig 5?

How Does IK Multimedia Amplitube Compare to Guitar Rig5?

It’s quite a contentious issue to compare both Guitar Rig and Amplitube products. There seems to be two camps those who think Guitar Rig is by far more user friendly and thos who feel Amplitube has the feel of using real amps.

Are using it in a live setting or for recording?

This is an important question as the Amplitube Stomp box boasts being able to programme software without having to look at computer screen unlike the Guitar Rig Kontrol stomp box. This could be a definite advantage in a live setting.

Editing Sounds

Guitar Rig has a drag and drop feature which makes things very easy for selecting amps effects and so on.

Selecting features on Amplitube wasn’t as visual and you’ve got to flick through everything to get what you want.

With Guitar Rig you see your entire rig on the screen whereas with Amplitube you have to flick through everything.

Easy To Install?

Amplitube has many different versions which can be bought as part of the package. They include:

·         Amplitube 3

·         Hendrix (Includes complete Hendrix Discography of Sounds)

·         Metal

·         Ampeg (Bass)

·         X- gear

·         Fender (Includes Every Fender Amp and Effect Pedal Imaginable)

·         Live

All these need a separate installation. But all sounds from each application can be accessed from Amplitube 3.

Guitar Rig is one Installation (see my other blog post for more details) click

Which Sounds The Best?

A lot has been discussed on this subject with many opinions. In my opinion Amplitube has the feel of a real amp coming out of my pc speakers. But I tend to lean towards Guitar Rig as my first choice.

If you can afford both have the best of both worlds.

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How To Sound Like The Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl and Chris Shiflett)

Dave Grohl

• Distortion:8
• Treble:7
• Middle:5
• Bass:3
• Reverb:3 (room)

Chris Shiflett works with quite a collection of Gibsons

• ·         57 Les Paul Goldtop,
• ·         Les Paul Junior,
• ·         Les Paul Custom
• ·         ES-335 
• ·         Firebird.

When it comes time to amps Shiflett uses

Marshall and Mesa Boogie

Guitar Rig 3 Settings below

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