Eric Valentine's Electric Guitars — Queens Of The Stone Age

Nice, I just picked up a 1974 no distortion/master volume V40 for $350! It really gets that sound cranked with particular settings I find. Treble booster also helps to bring that sound home as well. But the EQ pedal boost is wild on top of the amps already 300hz boost.

I still haven’t been able to make the mids at full on the amp work in a pleasing way. Maybe it’s the EQ pedal boost with that, that’s making it work here.

But to be honest for a live scenario… just a treble booster, and amp settings sound like it to me. Then optional Foxxy Tone I use for octave up fuzz is cool. I could also see using a TS808 at 0 gain and set tone to cut bottoms on the way in…then let the amp boost at 300hz.

Seems like a lot of cutting stuff out, and a puzzle to put other frequencies in from 250-1khz here. Then there’s the Boss drive at 0 gain, volume and tone all the way up to emulate a treble booster people have used. It seems secretive but not so secretive 6 years later, if you piece together others findings and if you own the gear. May not be spot on for recording, but getting the live sound not too hard.

These amps bass is not easy to pick up, I find mic the back of my V40 has to be done, and front mic backed off 12in or off axis from the cone to work. 2 mic kinda setup

Can we get this on lt25?

I can't stand this guy los angeles hipster

There's only two amplifiers as far as I'm concerned: Marshall and Fender. Everything else is a knock-off of those two sounds. For the style of music Josh Homme writes, I'm always amazed he chooses amps that are modeled after the Fender sound as oppose to Marshall. It explains the numerous equalizers in the chain. What confuses me is that on one hand you have Homme wanting to have a secret/unique guitar tone and on the other is Eric Valentine, compressing and equalizing the "unique" right out of it.

I know its been 6 years but please make a video on how to get the bass sound from the 1st qotsa album

This dude is freaking brilliant

i knew there was something weird going on with the guitar sound on songs for the deaf. josh homme always had really cool but unusual tone

So the RCA mic is how they got those almost faded out tones in places the the very start of Millionaire, after the radio intro? This vid is so cool, kinda inspires me to become a sound engineer.

Josh Homme don't like this video 😅

Very interesting and well explained, easy to follow.

Was just about to mention a few Qotsa articles in SOS coming up to 20 years back that discuss equipment and recording methods when I realised this was an SOS video

All the scooped mids go here

All the guitars need more mids on this album

Anyone know what the salt shaker mic is? Altec 633A?

What if full range spk is used in guitar amp then

I used to use a peavey bandit 112.... scorpion equipped.

And a Gibson voodoo sg.... I could get every tone from rated r to songs for the deaf... then after that it started getting what I'd call brighter

I think studios blow a lot of smoke up your ass to make you think they are doing something special.

I've never understood why they want to be so secretive about what gear they use. Like, what's the big deal?

What’s the point of going in depth if you’re not going to reveal what it was %100? Being secretive over tone is kind of dumb, anyone with an ear can replicate a tone.

Interesting! Thank you.

Wow , 😻 mmhh

This is how ridiculous you need to be to be original.

Eric is an amazing human!

I thought Josh ALWAYS used his neck pickup though, why does Eric use the bridge pickup?..

My favorite Queens record. The guitar (and drum) sounds are just STELLAR. So, so good.

Wish the band would go back to their heavier sound.

What Song in beginning?

Way too much blabbing he could have said what he used and did a better demo of the sound. But instead we got to hear about his EQ and midrange obsession. I dozed off mid way.

This is a dope video! I love studio setup info, thank you!

Taking Back Sunday Logo on the bass amp?!

We call it mid scoop poop and I was the mid scoop poop scooper.

Copyrighting rigs, I never understood. I've shared so many gear setups...playing through oddball shit is the best stories.

awesome!

That consoles wack

that camp can piss off

What a waste of time for the end result...go back to your garage

Me gusta el sonido chicano

Sounds like shit

Yo much talking

What is it with all these older guitar dudes wanting to be so secretive about their guitar chain? Usually Eric goes into quite a bit of detail about chains so the Stone Age guitarist must be super particular about keeping those secrets. It’s just so silly to me lol.

thats why u get an aluminium neck guitar if u tune low buddy ;)

I have a boss eq pedal but it's for bass and I tried it on a bass thru a small marshall keyboard amp but it adds room much noise to the signal so I prefer to boost the mids using the desk. Funny that Valentine didn't seem to have a problem with noise and I wonder if it's there but masked by the distortion?

This Ampeg amp isn’t a B15 amp, that Ampeg is a V-4B for sure I have 4 of them and that amp is an unmistakable amp!

sennheiser 441 behind the speaker with no eq sounds bad ass.

Anybody notice that the Boss Parametric EQ was boosting the HIGHS 100%? He didn’t mention it tho.

mid range

That sound has more middle girth than a redditor

Somebody, PLEASE count the number of times he says "mid-range" in this video... Or I will, lol...

I'm beginning to think that maybe the "secret" to the sound of that album was boosting the mids... MAYBE...

I love the "mid-range" especially with my big block Chryslers.