I love the fuzz sound he has in the song no quarter its almost like a saxophone
@gibsonfan159
4 жыл бұрын
Probably achieved the same way.
@juliemanarin4127
3 жыл бұрын
Yes!! Jimmy is amazing...they all are!
@cactus-mcjacktus
2 жыл бұрын
@@gibsonfan159 it is, yes
@Hentarded
2 жыл бұрын
Been playing it on loop after only recently discovering it, it just sounds so cool. Led Zeppelin had a knack for creating downright badass riffs, and the tone was essential.
@markmilner842
4 жыл бұрын
I saw an interview with John Paul Jones where he said he wrote that main riff. Great job emulating the guitar tone.
@flashy5150
2 жыл бұрын
Along time ago, about 1987, my buddy just got his first electric guitar, he didn’t have an amp to plug it into, so we plugged it into his classic Pioneer stereo receiver and the mic input. You’re technically not supposed to plug an instrument into a stereo system, but we did. Let me tell you, we turned it up to get the speakers saturating and it sounded almost identical to “Blackdog”. I really think Jimmy Page did this to get that tone back then. The stereo receiver we had was from the early 1970’s, with a wooden case around it, as opposed to the metal ones that stereo companies started using later. I played “Blackdog” on it and it was spot on. A really terrible tone for anything else, but for that song, it was epic.
@AdrianFarrell
4 жыл бұрын
You mean uniquely JPJ, he wrote the riff!
@briandavis1307
4 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! :)
@MilesTippett
4 жыл бұрын
Beat me to it!
@markmilner842
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, he did.
@TripleShotSanDiego
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Adrian for the much needed props to John Paul Jones!!
@musikus7092
4 жыл бұрын
Ah, interesting!
@t-boog2173
4 жыл бұрын
The reaaon you fall off of time when playimg along with the track is not all your fault. Page, Bonham & Jones were not perfect and besides, they weren't shooting for perfect timing. They were shooting for feel and emotion. After all, they were hugely inspired by early Blues music. That's one of the reasons Zep shows were so inconsistent(which the band members have admitted). Sometimes they were tight and sometimes not so much. But that was the beauty of it. It was real & honest. That's one of the big reasons today's music sucks. People think "Perfect = Better". They consider things like quantizing, autotune, cut and paste, etc. as "Progress" when those are the very things destroying what is beautiful about music. The raw human element with it's endless variations and subleties. (I pity the youth. They're on their way to becoming robots).
@TylerLL2112
4 жыл бұрын
YES... the human character is what’s missing. Being slightly off is good. Obviously if you are singing F# when it’s supposed to be a G that may be an issue. But, being a few cents off on things gives it such character. It has to be why I prefer older music despite being born in ‘94. Damn near anyone with a good ear finds themselves preferring this era of music too. I hope it makes a comeback when people realize we have lost our way.
@CoffeeRising
4 жыл бұрын
@@TylerLL2112 I'm 15 and I created a band called Mojo. I want MORE like our band. It shocks me how few bands there are that actually play good music. I'm not trying to sound egotistic, my apologies if I do. I appreciate great music, and I so wish people of this generation do too. There are few that do, but not enough. For this music to make a comeback would be an absolute dream, no doubt.
@TylerLL2112
4 жыл бұрын
Pedro Is My Real Name Hey, keep it up bud. All it takes sometimes is one band to inspire a generation and get us back to good music.
@t-boog2173
4 жыл бұрын
@@TylerLL2112 Well said bro. One spark can start a fire. Light em up!
@fireball0971
4 жыл бұрын
Faxxx
@paulhoughton5431
4 жыл бұрын
Saw Page and Zeppelin play this at Earls Court 1975 it was phenomenal, John Paul Jones is an incredible musician just listen to Them Crooked Vultures!
@gilibertopaparauchas5959
4 жыл бұрын
DO ONE ON THE GUITAR SOLO TONE OF GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES!!!!! To me, its probably the best guitar tone ever.
@andriealinsangao613
4 жыл бұрын
I read somewhere (ahem, Wikipedia) that the tone in the solo was achieved by plugging a Tele in a Leslie speaker.
@dogsquadindia
Жыл бұрын
@@andriealinsangao613 that's also quoted in (I think) the book "LZ: the story behind every song" 2018
@andriealinsangao613
Жыл бұрын
@@dogsquadindia Sweet! Looks like I've found a new book to read!
@musikus7092
4 жыл бұрын
The off-rythmic of this lick drives me crazy
@clarencejanjimenez8397
4 жыл бұрын
It's magical, really. You're thrown off from the already irregular pattern, and then is brilliantly resolved by an unfinished run just before the riff starts over
@musikus7092
4 жыл бұрын
@@clarencejanjimenez8397 Exactly. Everytime I hear this riff I think "there's anything wrong in the middle" but in the end it's in time again with the drums. Crazy. Maybe he was "high" when recorded it🤣
@UriahBennett
4 жыл бұрын
It’s not off-rhythm. Bonham merely backs band’s 5/4 riff with a straight up 4/4 beat.
@kdbwiz
4 жыл бұрын
Uriah Bennett, so after four 5/4 and five 4/4 riffs they converge?
@UriahBennett
4 жыл бұрын
J Paul if memory serves yes. It’s just that initial riff that’s 5/4. Bonham just stays 4/4 when the rest of the band switches and because it’s a 4 bar loop he plays 5 bars and it all equals out. But I’m sure there are better explanations than that on KZitem, lol
@CraigHollabaugh
4 жыл бұрын
Chris, I love these Friday Fretworks videos: the research, background, attention to detail, and the playing could not be better. Thanks for all Friday effort.
@ChrisBuckGuitar
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Craig, that's very kind of you :)
@letitiarydjeski2320
4 жыл бұрын
He always knew what he was doing, no matter what his influences were at the time.
@ix-Xafra
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, you've cleared an unresolved psychological issue I've had since 1977. I was trying to get the sound with an SG, a Fuzzder fuzz and a SF Fender Super Reverb amp back then. Reckon you've nailed it on this video. Cheers Butty
@thebreakfastmenu
4 жыл бұрын
I always thought his guitar tone was very glam-rock sounding. It'd be right at home on a T Rex or 70s Bowie album
@yjmsrv
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing how, honestly, shitty it sounds in isolation. But I've found that's true about a LOT more naked guitar tones from the past then you would think. Even some of EVH isolated tones were not at all what I would have expected.
@clarencejanjimenez8397
4 жыл бұрын
For me, the trebleness of Bonzo's drum sound hides the "lackluster" tone of Page's guitar
@juliemanarin4127
3 жыл бұрын
@@clarencejanjimenez8397 nothing lackluster about Page
@simonwilliams9916
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing how fuzzy it is in isolation and how much gets lost in mixing. One of my greatest musical experiences is being taught this by John Paul Jones at my parents house. Great series Chris 🤘🏻🎸👍🤘🏻🎸👍🤘🏻🎸👍🤘🏻🎸👍
@tonymcaloon6894
4 жыл бұрын
Simon Williams wow!
@Steaminlidz
4 жыл бұрын
That needs more detail! What’s the story?
@simonwilliams9916
4 жыл бұрын
@@Steaminlidz It was in the Autumn of 1985 my dad, the composer Edward Williams, had been invited to the Huddersfield Music Festival with his electronic performance group Uncle Jambo's Pendular Vibrations.It was a rolling cast of musicians which for this 2 weeks included John Paul Jones and Tony Robinson (Baldrickini Blackadder). As part of the preparations there were meetingsat my parents house.It was atone fo these that he showed me how to play Black Dog. Regards Simon
@johncapaldi2771
4 жыл бұрын
Great job. Thanks for the time and work to post this. I've been playing this riff for 35 years and the tone and multi-guitar tracking are very important. Also playing it together in a band with a groove is what's so special and irreplaceable about Led Zeppelin.
@livingabovethe12th
4 жыл бұрын
The jhs colour box does this sorta thing really well.
@mattgilbert7347
4 жыл бұрын
Benson preamp or Hudson Broadcast might do the trick too.
@davidweaver4702
4 жыл бұрын
What amazed me, was his er, nasaly it sounded before being triple tracked and backed by the rest of the band. Anything Zep is heartfelt to me, as my college days were filled with this music, as they originated just up the road from us. Thanks for the work you put into these Chris. Best wishes, Dave W
@Deliquescentinsight
4 жыл бұрын
The digital compressor over drive sounds a bit like a fuzz
@perrypellerin8317
4 жыл бұрын
Jimmy didn’t use any kind of verb or echo on the track? Your analysis is great !
@s10belowu
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome video and research on this one brother. Just realized after watching this that my Ibanez overdrive (the orange one which is really like a fuzz) gets amazingly similar tones.
@Tolbiny
4 жыл бұрын
Could turn the drums down a bit, sounds like the ghost of Bonzo's in the house 😂
@ChrisBuckGuitar
4 жыл бұрын
Speak up! I can't hear you over Bonzo 😆
@CradleRawk
4 жыл бұрын
You could, but then again why would you? The drums are terrific on this vid Chris - are they real acoustic drums recorded specially for this vid? Of course it goes without saying that the guitar playing is spot on too 😀
@rangerdoc1029
4 жыл бұрын
"Can I get a little more drums in my monitor?" - said no guitarist ever.
@paultwiselton1996
4 жыл бұрын
WTF?? NEVER turn the drums down man!
@evmanbutts
4 жыл бұрын
You don't turn the drums up, you turn your amp up! The neighbour's like music too lmao
@thereallbking
4 жыл бұрын
Crazy how you nail these tones so well
@drvee1983
4 жыл бұрын
Yes. John Paul Jones wrote the riff. But it has Page's production all over it. Difficult to learn if you don't already know as a guitarist, as camera angle is not straight ahead , but angled from head stock to make it " easier to learn ". It's not. But great job on reproduction of the riffs. Reproducing the sound, ambient room miking of a Marshall at Headley Grange, and sound delay going all the way outside to the Stones mobile studio truck and back is impossible. But admirable! Thanks for posting.
@Silveradoman61
4 жыл бұрын
Jimmy said in a interview that the solo at the end of the song was used with compressors.
@gastondeveaux3783
Жыл бұрын
I understood none of what you said, but the guitar spoke to me LOUD AND CLEAR. That sounded awesome !
@bobdillon1138
4 жыл бұрын
The key to pages live tone is a cranked 100 watt Marshall with KT88 power tubes so it stayed relatively clean and the T Top pickup in the bridge and of course the fingers of the Devil.
@Teachering
4 жыл бұрын
Always interesting to discover how a particular piece of music was originally recorded. I recall when this music was released in 1971. I've always thought Black Dog to be quirky. A difficult rhythm.
@BentTom
4 жыл бұрын
OH HELL YEAH!!!
@larryb3946
5 ай бұрын
Sounds pretty cool! Thanks for your investigative work! It's great that a software program can emulate outboard gear so closely...
@bryanclarke1927
4 жыл бұрын
A lot of Page's guitar sounds were surprisingly clean. Obviously not this one though. Nice job!
@Pead929
2 жыл бұрын
Also a fair amount of telecasters, Supro, and Vox!
@RicardoLopez-ce9cj
3 жыл бұрын
Great job. Fuzz is one of my favorite effects ever.! Keep rockin man!
@anmolatwal
4 жыл бұрын
Yaayyyyy..!!@ the macon is out and killing it. Great playing and tone as always!!
@shreddykrueger2408
4 жыл бұрын
I cant believe all the hate comments you did an excellent job thanks dude !!!
@LennyJohnson5
4 жыл бұрын
I agree George; there are so many inadequates out there who probably know five chords and the first ten notes of Smoke on the Water, who really think their opinion counts.
@valueofnothing2487
4 жыл бұрын
I think the actual amps turned up sound less harsh and tinny.
@perrypellerin8317
4 жыл бұрын
I would think he could have gotten a better tone than that with a Princeton Reverb or Champ at full throttle.
@andrewgarcia3136
3 жыл бұрын
well yeah that's the idea. he plugged the guitar straight into the recording desk because it sounded nasty. that's what he was going for
@zakkwyldesdmf13
2 жыл бұрын
Don't forget bending the 4th fret of the low E string at the end of the riff! Very important for the right feel.
@bryanwilliams3665
2 жыл бұрын
Of course Live, Pagey played Black Dog in the "Middle Pickup" position, as he did Rock and Roll and Whole Lotta Love riffs .. If one is attempting to create the the tone which emanates from JPs Guitar, then the live Album/Film " The Song Remains The Same" is the definitive source, as we know the signal chain there in detail.. In the Studio, there was so much going on production wise, there was no definitive Jimmy Page tone as such. I replicate the 1973 Live Madison Square Garden tone on my channel. It's basically all in a very UNCONVENTIONAL pickup set.
@josephvoorhees9353
3 жыл бұрын
It is truly more complex in phrasing and timing than one would think. Try playing it with your mates! You will find it takes about 20 or 30 repetitions, with and without vocals, before you come up with something close that gains approval from all involved.
@zardportugal
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.
@RambleTone
4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you could approximate the sound with a fuzz pedal, or obviously with one of those direct box preamp pedals like a Binson or the JHS.
@Jameskeith1972
2 жыл бұрын
Do you think one of the guitars might have gotten slightly out of tune? That’s one of those things that creates more spatial effects when you’re doubling tracks. I listened to the original track after this and really that’s the only thing I’m hearing. Great job!
@stipeur
4 жыл бұрын
This is amazingly close...great job!
@OlesMusic
4 жыл бұрын
Actually it was John Paul Jones who wrote the black dog riff.
@wgbearden7776
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Chris you think you could post a picture of your current pedal board? I’m really lovin the tone you’re getting with Buck & Evans. Thanks for all the great videos as well!
@mattgilbert7347
4 жыл бұрын
I just use an MI Effects Neo Fuzz with the bias rolled back, into mild compression and an EQ, then my 5W Champ. SG, P90s.
@therollband1290
3 жыл бұрын
It sounds great! How did you record the drums. Sounds really close to the album
@ORION2180
4 жыл бұрын
Odd that Page never captured studio tone in live shows.
@ronaldsyme8737
4 жыл бұрын
Probably because he had such large diversity of tones, it would be difficult to capture them all.
@jonathanclarke281
4 жыл бұрын
That was the point and that's why when Zepp were on, they were unrivalled.
@ericlitts9917
4 жыл бұрын
He still sounds like page live. Theres no way an arena can sound like a perfectly tuned studio room. He was a master of the studio. And a god on stage(most of the time). He was able to get a lot of sounds out of the les paul though. A few toggle switches, playing with the tone knobs and wiring in parellell and series got what he needed. Honestly, the guys that i know who saw them live were too fucked up to actually pay attention to the tone. All they remember is the goddamn laser show and how killer the grass was.
@user-yk3yk7sq4o
3 ай бұрын
Great job Chris!!! Love the results!
@leftymike5625
4 жыл бұрын
Love Page. Great vid.🤘
@juliensibille3377
4 жыл бұрын
Hi great video, could you explain how you manage to not be clipping the master bus on your DAW ? I tryed your method, which is amazing by the way, though I'm clipping by almost 24db above level
@coolmacatrain9434
4 жыл бұрын
Kettle's on, Chris!... (Who's got the Hobnobs? )
@innocentoctave
4 жыл бұрын
That's an heroic effort, and well worth doing as an exercise. My main concern was 'where's the top end gone?' On the original, there is a distinct sizzle to the guitar parts as well as the mid-range grunt. It also sounds to me as though the two tracks that are panned hard left and right on the original were EQ'd slightly differently, whether from the guitar or from the desk.
@chedhead3278
4 жыл бұрын
Cheers Chris, intriguing stuff, mucho appreciado. The solo has an odd tone to it too, any idea what's going on there?
@normjones6916
4 жыл бұрын
Great feel you got. Keep it up with some of your own amazing riffs :)
@aquilarossa5191
4 жыл бұрын
If having to do this with just an amp and pedal, I'd guess a spluttery fuzz would get near enough. One day I will get around to building my first pedal. it will be a Tone bender. Not sure what version though. Just replaced my dead monitors with Eris E8XTs. Can't enjoy them though because my neighbour in this apartment building is an arse. No problem watching KZitem, but as soon as i started playing guitar at the same volume the helmet started banging on my wall. Today he called the building manager on me. She knocked on the door looking embarrassed after admitting she could not really hear the speakers and it was not loud at all. He has a headache apparently. Oh for a cottage in Wales like Led Zep had to record in.
@McDoinky
4 жыл бұрын
The backing track is missing a beat
@LennyJohnson5
4 жыл бұрын
Spot on. As ever...
@Dan-zq5wt
Жыл бұрын
My favorite Jimmy Page tone is the main riff on that heavy slab of riffage, Heartbreaker
@JJMewett
3 жыл бұрын
My god it sounds perfect
@andreweasombentley4703
4 жыл бұрын
To me this sounds super close. Nice work
@anthonyglennmollicasr.425
Жыл бұрын
It was actually John Paul Jones that came up with the tricky riffs😊
@anthonyglennmollicasr.425
Жыл бұрын
Great video by the way🤘
@Chasetenny
11 ай бұрын
It's amazing how things sound without the mix. If I had this tone by itseld people would say it's crap.
@t-boog2173
4 жыл бұрын
Btw, Great job finding the Black Dog tone. It's more than "in the ballpark", it sounds just like the track. IMO, it sounds very much like a busted speaker(in a good way). Rock On!
@legslewis783
4 жыл бұрын
Very cool, thanks!
@abronxdude
4 жыл бұрын
I remember reading a Joe Walsh interview regarding his top ten guitar solos, of which Stairway was one of them, and Joe said Jimmy told him that the Zep 4 album was recorded using his old telecaster. Anyone else recall this?
@andrewgarcia3136
3 жыл бұрын
it was only on the stairway solo. most of the album was cut with the les paul, aside from the 12 string parts obviously
@pappyodanial
4 жыл бұрын
Plugging into a desk that you can never aquire. I have both the jhs colour box and the Hudson broadcast. Both good pedals, neither close to the real thing. Your sound is closer to the colour box though a little less harsh. Well done.
@Flare4roach
4 жыл бұрын
You did an amazing job emulating that actual tone. Well done!
@rhydermike
4 жыл бұрын
It's a good job. It's interesting that it's a sound that most players might reject if they came up with it in isolation.
@Chasetenny
11 ай бұрын
100% people would say your gear sucks etc
@wsmithSav
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Good work.
@jurepog
4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to hear a review of your vintage 60s pickups. I can't find a decent video on that and I'm trying to buy some great replacements for my squire 60s classic vibe. Could you do a quick review/playtrough? It would help a bunch! Thanks!
@knottsscary
4 жыл бұрын
Such a great song, if y'all can let me know what you think of the cover I did of the solo would mean a lot!
@robertcass9671
2 жыл бұрын
Nice, but I came for the tone in the solo. Maybe do that one???
@gatorshd
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@GeoZeppelin1979
4 жыл бұрын
Oh Yea!!!
@keithagnew5934
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks🙂
@kevindaniels676
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Chris, I have seen that you are in the Yamaha THR 30 2. I just Pre-ordered mine from Sweetwater. How do you Like the New Yamaha THR’s ? Please can you do a demo ? I don’t get my until the end of the month of October. Love your playing !!!! I am getting a Yamaha RS502 !!!
@Steven_Grey
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone got a link to the video he mentioned? Can't find it anywhere
@shinjial
4 жыл бұрын
Oh, you kill me, Chris. I've always found the recorded sound for this track super weird, broken and "ugly". Nevertheless, it sounds perfect in context, and completes the vibe of the song, dirty, sleezy. Who knew this is what it was. The magic of tone is worked in mysterious ways...
@dogsquadindia
Жыл бұрын
I love the fkd up broken tone. Esp the weird whiplash timing
@TheChadPad
4 жыл бұрын
Well done. It sounds good, very close
@shauncrissc
4 жыл бұрын
You are doing a great job. Although try sliding up a whole step on the main riff (If you want to try it? I used to play it this way also,until I saw Page play it)
@UncleChillGuitar
4 жыл бұрын
Di multiple tracks mystery solved great work sound authentic.
@ObscuredByCloud
4 жыл бұрын
Page video, subscribed!!!!
@RavenMadd9
4 жыл бұрын
thank you dude
@mattyc.9332
4 жыл бұрын
Super cool! It's funny how it sounds so fuzzy...
@SSRT_JubyDuby8742
4 жыл бұрын
You the man
@Hotitalianman
2 жыл бұрын
What did he set his amps like? treb mid bass?? gain??
@plantagenant
4 жыл бұрын
ah...the famous "wasp in a jam jar" tone....
@fabiocuccu6086
4 жыл бұрын
Do a video about guitar parts on Heart's Barracuda! Lots of subtleties on that one imho
@mineralt
4 жыл бұрын
Great job....sounds just like the record
@markgillespie7591
4 жыл бұрын
So what would we have to do to get close to this tone "live"?🤔
@minasgeorgopoulos7508
4 жыл бұрын
With a Jhs crayon pedal
@markgillespie7591
4 жыл бұрын
@Kash Kustomer the Helix was the 1st. thing I thought of,but I'd have to sell the farm
@mattgilbert7347
4 жыл бұрын
MI Effects Neo Fuzz, if you can find one.
@Simonsays7258
4 жыл бұрын
Damm! You got it! Wow! So Good✊🏼🙏👏✌🏼 Brilliant 👍🏼
@ffs_auggie
3 жыл бұрын
brian may guitar in the back?
@lorcazola
2 жыл бұрын
You forgot one thing; REVERB and possibly an Echorec.
@timbuk1126
3 жыл бұрын
I always thought it was obvious that this was written on bass.
@alb.dersame
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant !!! Really made me want to plug in !!! Liked and subscribed 👊
@gasparepellecchia
4 жыл бұрын
00:07 but what kind of bass string that your guitar is equipped with?
@ChrisBuckGuitar
4 жыл бұрын
.52s. They're Ernie Ball Burly Slinkys :)
@jameshill2015
4 жыл бұрын
Jimmys tone was not that complex.. It was pretty clean.. With some serious break up but overall he got it from an LP, some sweet vintage speakers, some minor gain and serious groove..
@emreemre369
4 жыл бұрын
I would really appreciate a proper 'rock' demo of the Macon...
@LennyJohnson5
4 жыл бұрын
Does it really matter if John Paul Jones wrote this riff? As Chris Buck says above, this is "a look at Jimmy Page's guitar tone".... so would all the inadequate obsessives intent in sharing the only bit of information they seem to know stop repeating what all the other inadequate obsessives have already stated...... Wow!! Are you joking? Did John Paul Jones REALLY write this riff? You don't say.....
@EDUMATI2012
11 ай бұрын
uuuaaauuu no me hacia a Dybala tocando la guitarra, bien ahi cordobes
@MilesTippett
4 жыл бұрын
The JHS Colour Box can really nail this sound too.
@twinreverb87
4 жыл бұрын
unfortunately I think JHS discontinued the colour box. I think the crayon might be an OK alternative. it's a shame these things are going to even more expensive!
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