One of the things I liked here is that every aspect of Angus sound is detailed, right down to the amp settings (which are not what you might think), strings and pots on the guitar. The fact of the matter is that his sound in some ways is dead simple, with just a guitar and amp and no pedals, and in another way pretty complex, as you’ll see in this video. “Back In Black” is still looked upon as an iconic record and sound, and guitar players, engineers and producers have been using a variety of methods to reproduce it every since.
If you were to place one electric guitar sound up on a pedestal as the one to copy, it would probably be the one from AC/DC’s Angus Young. Leave the monitors for the vocals.The Real Scoop On AC/DC’s Angus Young’s Guitar Sound I need my own amps blasting cabs from behind me to feel the rock n roll mojo. Even adding people to an empty room, regardless of the room size, effects perceivable volume.Īnother thing that is used with great effect is "in ear monitors" which a lot of people swear by. Something that is also seldom acknowledged is just how much perceivable volume is lost from a 100 watt amp when you take it out of a small club and put it in a stadium or outdoor environment. As a result, more than one cab sounds better with more than one amp to drive all the speakers trying to fill the stage sound. And if you need that sound to be consistent when you start walking around you need more than one cab to fill the stage with sound. Some players prefer the sound of the amp coming through the speakers of guitar cabs behind them. While monitors and sidewash scenarios work great it is a completely different vibe with wedge monitors pushing re-amped sound up at your face from below or having multiple high powered and efficient PA speakers reproducing your one greenback from a sidewash. But that is one speaker from your cab "miced", re-amped through outboard power and subsequently reproduced through monitor or sidewash speakers. Use the "miced" speaker on a cab (that's one speaker from your 4x12 cabs audio output mind you) and reproduce it through monitors and/or a stage "side wash" (like a mini pa facing you from the stage sides). Sure you have choices.you can duplicate the method being used for the FOH audience experience which has the PA facing them. Now you are left being a guy with a guitar on a stage in a giant stadium who has to hear himself everywhere he walks. The FOH PA is usually made up of bottom bins, mid range speakers, sub woofers and horns or tweeters. "micing" and "PA" equals FOH or "Front of House" which is the audience experiencing whatever guitar cab speaker is "miced", re-amped through outboard power amps and ultimately "mixed" in with other elements being "miced" IE: vocals, drums, bass etc through the PA system facing them. "micing" and "PA" do not equal "stage sound". When I listened back to the show, the guitar tone was OK but just nothing like what I had just experienced live. Just had to wait around a bit for them to be made.
When we were exiting that Frampton show, they were selling CD's from the actual show we just had seen. I was floored at the tone from that amp, and again I was hearing quite a bit of stage volume. But his tone went up anther level when he started kicking on some type of hot rodded Marshall. After he did the entire Comes Alive album, they took an intermission and he came back and did another concert worth of material of his later career. Seen that show in a cozy venue and his tone that night was amazing. The another one is when I seen Peter Frampton on his Comes Alive 35th Anniversary tour. When they did Immigrant Song and the part of the song just before each verse where the guitar hits the A to E and the E chord rings out, that amp would bloom inside out with rich harmonic midrange overtones. I was just off center on his floor tom side where that guitarist was using a JCM800 2203 or 2204 half stack. But that night in the club, I was seated at the dinner table that is butted up against the stage, almost directly in front of Jason Bonham. It was the same lead guitarist that night in the club that also went on the Experience tour with him, which I also seen a show from that. I seen Jason Bonham doing a Zep type tribute show in a small club just before he started the Zeppelin Experience tour.
And the guitar tone that night form Cantrell and Slash was the best I have ever heard. 2007 if my memory is correct, I seen Alice in Chains and Velvet Revolver together in a somewhat smaller indoor venue. Regarding stage volume and guitar tone, three experiences (besides all my own of course LOL) stand out in my memory.
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