Sound Like Tool (Adam Jones) | BY Busting The Bank

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👆 In today's episode of Sound Like, Rabea & Matt try to recreate the drop-tuned riffs of Adam Jones from Tool! Combining a Gibson Les Paul Custom, three amps and a mixture of BOSS, MXR and DOD pedals. The result? A thick, textured, stadium-filling tone. This one will be tough to replicate!

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RABEA'S RIG: (Adam Jones)

MATT'S RIG: (Justin Chancellor)

↪️ Episode Guide ↩️
» 0:00 What Gear To Use?
» 5:24 To The Video Room
» 6:16 Rig Run-down & Demo

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[Todesnuss]

Almost more interested in that bass tone to be honest.

[fransisbahan]

but can you do maynard's voice without busting the bank?

[tommeakin]

Tool's one of those bands that I love partly for how significant the bass is in the sound of the band

[tsargoyle]

Parabol at 12:55 floored me.. You were so close everywhere else but THAT tone was perfect.

[ProgressiveMetalist]

It drives my ear insane when he plays the Lateralus chorus at half speed gah

[malcolmboyd]

Sounds like Rabea and Matt
Hosted by Chappers and The Captain

[usernamesolomon]

Damn its expensive to be a professional musician (cries with ibanez gio)

[SergeantZaf]

Do a "how to sound like tool on a budget bass edition". All his gear is expensive af

[RegularSean]

You can't fake the sound of a Wal bass.

[justmint]

Parabol and Lateralus were the only ones that sounded close to me.

[alexd]

Y'all missed a golden chance to bring the bass players in on this one. Jones is respected on guitar, but Chancellor is legend status on the bass.

[LoreAccurateHusky]

To anyone that likes Tool I want to let you in on a little secret.


The band itself has multiple albums and not just Lateralus. I even hear they might have released an album called Undertow but I think it was a secret release judging how not many know of it.

[hangingwithmatty]

...steal a mans wallet, and hes poor for a week...
....teach a man to play musik and how to buy instruments, and he'll be poor for life🤔🍺

[youknowhuwitis]

We're sounding like TOOL without a budget....

except we didn't learn the songs we're demonstrating!

[SophiaAphrodite]

It doesn't sound "dirty" enough. It almost sounds like Adam has managed to clean up a Metal Zone. I think people know what I mean. Maybe it's missing some mids?

[JackFou]

Guitar tone: meh.
Bass tone: holy shit, that's spot on!

[thedankswordsmantm]

You guys should add a voting poll to the video for how close you guys got.

[ryandougherty]

These "sounds like..." videos are very hard to gauge. The mics and EQing have an enormous influence on the tone. Could be spot on in the room, but very scooped once it gets to YouTube ears. Regardless, fun as always!

[flynn_]

Yes rabea and Matt thank you this is so good I'm in hospital so I'm watching it and have been watching all of them again

[phantomechelon]

Damn thats some very tasty bass playing by Matt. Almost ignored Rabea's playing it was so good.

Great job as usual guys!