Re-Creating The Green Day Dookie Guitar Tone!

Crank your tone knob up more

The biggest problem is that if I'm not mistaken, there are two guitars in Dookie for the songs

If you want a cheaper way get an older style Marshall mg100dfx I used to get spot on tones with that, maybe add a blues driver and an eq for extra tweaks

His 1st plug ruined the sound he had

Fun Fact: Billie Joe Armstrong used a modded Marshall amplifier which is why the tone is so hard to get.

30 years of Dookie recording!

Good lord, i recall digging Fluffs' vids since 2015 or stuff, i remember there were rather few good channels on metal guitar back in the day. Take care Fluff

it sounds like the power rangers theme being played out of a sega

how tf do you strum like that and not have the other strings make noise

Sounds like I'm about the same age.
It sounded good but I don't think it was very close. Sounded like you needed more pre volume and less gain.
Dookie sounds like it a lot of crunch and not too much distortion? Basically plenty of pre volume and not much gain. Like it's from the tubes and not all knob.

Dunno, sounds like too much gain and no sag

I also think you had too much gain, it sounds too compressed in comparison.

Too fizzy.

nice one, how about recreating Tools "Vicarious"?

Well no! Just take a sdjb put it into a 500 bucks fender strat and you are closer than this ever will be no matter what amp or plugin or wetf you use. Though the guitar playing is pretty accurate.

Too much drive. You have no pick attack. Very fake sounding. Just being honest.

can you do warning please!

I need a full cover on this song with that tone

Spot on

Didn’t Billie record with two amps and mixed the signals?

It's so hard to recreate the actual sound of the original recordings without the original equipment but I think you did a wonderful job brother brings back so many childhood memories of BMXing and listening to Green Day and Stone Temple Pilots Soundgarden Pearl Jam Even Flow wonderful job brother man I miss the nineties

You made one of the most common mistakes when trying to emulate BJAs guitar tone which is too much gain. That particular amp ( Marshall Dookie mod) sounds huge. But there really isn't as much gain as most people think in his tone.

I thought he used a JCM 900 dual reverb?

since i can’t afford or find a 1959SLP plexi, i wanna try a mesa dual rec - do you think i can get a similar crisp crunchy OD tone using that and a JB SH-4 bridge pickup in my strat?

I think he did pretty good all things considered...

Not trying to be a citric, but Billie plays the B5 on the root of the A string, and plays a open A power Chord and plays the C5 on the root of the A string.

You lost me at Bare Knuckle Aftermath pickup

how'd you know jerry would use a pultec and la2a? theres not much info about him out there?

He seems like the kinda guy I'd like to work at the same grocery store as me so we could be casual friends, like I'd see him and say hey! This job really sucks eh?

jvm210 + 2x12 v30s do it well with a strat/ lp

This sounds way off to me. I actually recreated it on my own yesterday using the dsp nameless amp sim. Pretty much copied Billy's amp settings, used a v30 IR and a ts808 and it sounds pretty dang close

Listen to the first album of "betzefer" really good sound 👌

Sounds to digital and muddy.

Too much gain on the guitar, the dookie tone has more mids and sound more open.

I think it started off with too much gain and not enough highs and mids. Had to listen to them back to back, sounds great though, good Vid 👍

yes! finally someone acknowledges the bill lawrence. i just loaded my strat with an angled one and it sounds amazing. great video! more mids and high end and this will be perfect

You should try and do the guitar tone from Underoath’s Define The Great Line album. That would be sick!

I think it would have been better to not mix the drums like modern pop punk/metal. Way overprocessed for a 90's punk sound.

Woulda been almost perfect if you didn’t scoop out so much of the low end. And too much gain on the amp

This makes me want a friedman more than anything

*pop-punk

Great tone but that sounded to clean . Dookie has that raunchy raw sound , maybe if you use a real cabinet? Anyways great video

Blues driver you forgot the blues driver that's what it's missing

Sounds almost synth-y after adding those plugins, not in a digital synthetic way but almost like there’s a quiet synth pad under the chords very very cool tone definitely stealing all these ideas

Dude! Recreate the Steph Carpenter tone! From either ATF or White Pony!

love your guitar Fluff!!!!

I think it sounded great without anything added.

Have you tried the “dookie” pedal they put out a few years ago? I think they sound great but I couldn’t make myself buy one they were just too much money for me

Pretty close, but maybe back off the gain and add a little bit more mids.

Nah you gotta use the right kind of guitar and pickup. A Musicman is way to fancy and prestine, you want a grindy sound from the pickups BJ used at the time. The gain was set way too high on the friedman. I'd say it's a cool idea for a video, but if you're going to recreate it, you've gotta use the same pickups, head and cab. I don't think you were even sure on the type of cabinet used. Needs more research and more attention to detail to get the dookie sound.