Robin guitar tone

[Jim Bob]

Does anyone know how Robin makes his guitar sound the way it does in these clips?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz-m4oZLfYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLE0B2tIuWM

kinda similar to what he does in better after Buckethead's solo and before his solo, that industrial sound. 

[AdZ]

Sounds pretty compressed..

[Robman?]

I'm pretty sure he's using the same Les Paul Custom he used in some songs at Rock In Rio in 2001. It is a little copressed, yet very distorted and crunchy. Almost like he has a fuzz box or something.

[Smoking Guns]

Sounds like it could be fuzz.. Or the fix wah and fuzz.  He may be rolling back the treble some.  Okay, I have no clue.

[gueli]

I also think Robin's using a Fuzz pedal

[Jim Bob]

fuzz pedal eh?   i would love it if Robin put up some details on his rig on his website when he relaunches it.

[JimBobTTD]

The first clip doesn't sound like a fuzz pedal at all to me. It sounds like he is going straight to an amp on full blast, so the amp has natural compression and its own distortion. He may have a compressor on too, and certainly some kind of noise gate to get it sounding so clean. Yeah, he might have a fuzz pedal, but if so, most likely with the gain on low enough that it is acting more like an overdrive; I don't hear that classic "fuzz" in it - it sounds like what I can get from Les Paul, cranked Marshall with a Treble Booster in there. But it depends also on how the whole thing was mixed, and what was added there (like compression, eq etc).

[w.axl.rose]

fuzz pedal eh?   i would love it if Robin put up some details on his rig on his website when he relaunches it.

 he had some pics of his rig before and you were able to see most of his pedals.

[deadtotheworld]

I read an article years ago about how NIN get their distinctive guitar tones....  They used distortion stomp boxes and found that they loved the sound when the batteries where running low. They discovered a power pack that could run the pedals and that you can reduce the amount of power going to the pedals so they could kind of re-create that sound anytime, without having to run down battery power to get the sound.   I will try and find out what it was.

[Voodoochild]

Yeah, he might have a fuzz pedal, but if so, most likely with the gain on low enough that it is acting more like an overdrive; I don't hear that classic "fuzz" in it - it sounds like what I can get from Les Paul, cranked Marshall with a Treble Booster in there.

That's how I get a similar sound. I'm using a Danelectro T Bone distortion, tho.

[don_vercetti]

It sounds to me like a solid state amp with the gain turned up high, really.  It has that digital distortion sound about it, like a Line6 Spider III. 

[Voodoochild]

I don't think it sounds lke digital distortion...

[axl2]

That's definitely tube. Sounds like a Fuzz pedal.

Man.. off topic but Robin is really wasting his ability sloppy these riffs down all song (I know he's doing what he's told). I know it's the style of the music but come on man, show some integrity, your better then that.

[izzbo]

From my understanding, in GNR Robin uses a Marshall JMP-1 preamp (it is tube, not SS) for his main sound (not sure what power amp he uses but the preamp is what colors the sound the most). For effects he uses a TC Electronic effects G-Force and RockTron Voodu Valve, but the G-Force is his main effects box (mainly for delays, reverb, etc... not for distortion).

 -= iZzBo =-

[GNR4L]

From my understanding, in GNR Robin uses a Marshall JMP-1 preamp (it is tube, not SS) for his main sound (not sure what power amp he uses but the preamp is what colors the sound the most). For effects he uses a TC Electronic effects G-Force and RockTron Voodu Valve, but the G-Force is his main effects box (mainly for delays, reverb, etc... not for distortion).

 -= iZzBo =-

So for the intro to WTTJ he's uses the G-Force ? what about for SCOM intro ?

[izzbo]

So for the intro to WTTJ he's uses the G-Force ? what about for SCOM intro ?

I really couldn't tell you for sure, but for effects I would imagine he adds a bit of reverb, nothing too crazy. Most likely from the G-Force.

 -= IzzBo =-