How To Get A Rock Guitar Sound | Licklibrary Guitar Lessons | Free Friday Tips

In this free lesson, Danny Gill will be helping you dial in a great rock guitar tone!

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In this performance video, Danny Gill explains how to get a rock guitar sound from your guitar and amp.

Using AC/DC style rock tones as a benchmark, you will learn how to get your gain levels, and choose the right pickup setting on your guitar to get a great rock sound.

⏰ Timestamps ⏰

0:00 What is a Rock Guitar Tone?
0:35 Choosing a Pickup and How It Affects Tone
1:08 The Amount of Gain
2:40 Demo of a Rock Guitar Tone

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[Eastsiderock]

As soon as he mentioned AC/DC, I was on board.

[rau]

My guitar just sounds like an acoustic but loud

[EagleStormfficial]

hahaha. Acdc doesnt use any distortion. They just turn the volume so high it distorts naturally

[GordonHeaney]

Some good advice here. I think it also depends on whether you're playing in the bedroom at low volume or whether you're playing live at high volume - you're settings will change. I find the louder the amp is, the more you need to back off the distortion.

[mikestipstricksreviews]

I can't believe that in all of these "How to get this sound" videos NO ONE mentions the EQ section of the amp! How MUCH OD/Distortion may be determined by the gain/volume controls but the KIND of OD/Distortion is determined by the EQ....

[FDguy]

You are my hero, bruh. *THANK YOU*


🤘🏼 🎸 🎶

[koudarose]

You somehow managed to make the entire video without mentioning the settings your amp is set to💀💀

[mr.nobody]

There are 5 secrets to Angus Young's tone

1 Gibson SG loaded with custom Seymour Duncan pickups (widely suspected to be of a tweaked PAF type)

2 A cranked lower wattage Marshall stack. And kids, I do mean fucking *C R A N K E D*

3 Lower pre-amp gain. I wanna say it was mid 2018 that an interview with long time engineer Mike Fraser surfaced where he talked about Angus' Back In Black tone. He said the gain knob was set at 2. This goes back to the previous secret. When the amp has a lower wattage, what's really happening if that you have less "clean head room" the power amp tubes will break up sooner. I think this is a really big part of Angus' secret to getting his tone. While he employs the vintage Marshall 1959 SLP (Super Lead Plexi) 100 watt heads on stage, he's known to use things like the JTM45 (Jim and Terry Marshall, 45 watt) in the studio.

The 4th secret to Angus' tone is in his hands. His touch, his feel, the way he frets each note, the subtlety of his picking technique, etc.

5 Hit the motherfucker!
Grab the Powerage record, and turn on Sin City. During the intro and chorus, Angus beats the living hell out of his strings with an aggressive pick attack. He hits them really hard. Then, during the verse, his tone gets a little bit cleaner because he's "tickling" his strings.
Listen to Hell's Bells from the aforementioned Back In Black record. The intro has some mild Distortion but, when the full band kicks in and there's that slight tempo increase he plays harder, and you can hear it just gives it that little bit extra on the top of it.


The real secret to getting a variety of great distorted guitar tones is to vary the way you drive the front of the amp. If you have hotter pickups and a heavier right hand, you're going to punch the front end of the amp a little bit harder, causing those tubes to work more. Same thing with a boost or overdrive pedal.


Angus is also known to use the old 70s trick of riding his guitar's tone knob around 7-8, and then kick it up to 10 for his solos. They didn't have pedals back in those days. Or if they did, they weren't reliable. Guitarists in those days mostly had to rely on their hands and the knobs on the instrument to get a little bit more or less from their tone.


Last tip I'll give is that if you have a distorted tone and you back off of your guitar's volume knob, it'll clean it right up because there tubes in your amp aren't seeing that same high output signal

[dannyd]

this is how it should be...sounds great...how is this being recorded?

[gabriellehouser]

this was very very helpful!! thank you so much

[wheelinate]

Awesome video, very professional. Well presented, not the typical "too much talk too little info". A job well done! I will be subscribing and checking out more. 👍

[angusorvid]

I always go for what I call a big rock guitar sound, something like Tom Scholz of Boston or that late 70s through mid 80s Scorpions or Def Leppard sound. These sounds cross into metal territory, but don't have the same level of gain. I like a sound where the harder you strum the more it distorts, then I used a boost for leads, not necessarily more distortion, but a volume boost and perhaps a touch of delay. I don't like the extreme compression of extreme metal as it cancels out too many of the frequencies I like to play with, and the subtle harmonic overtones. Gain has to be dialed in very carefully. Don't just crank it all to ten. Think of what you are trying to say in your music and shape your tone accordingly.

[stevendavies]

very helpful advice for a novice like me thanks

[ziajunaidi]

I have Yamaha Pacifica 012 and blackstar fly 3 and it doesn't sound like rock or metal. I hear a very distorted sound like noise and I tried different settings but the output in overdrive channel sounds like shit. I tried in another blackstar core 10 amp too but the sound is not rockish. When I bought the guitar from shop it was tested and it sounded ok in the shop. I don't think it's amp issue because I tried 2 amps and it sounds same. What could be the issue?

[fishamanshadow]

Great video, love old school rock.
I'm just starting out and that's the sound I want, ,a bit like status quo .
How would I get that on a VOX v1 practice modeling amp.
Thanks mark

[chrisdaviesguitar]

Ooh Blackstar, I have the HT Stage 100, love it.

[RusliLPSoldier]

I want that amp to make my guitar with distortion unless I need nu metal sound.

[pacvend]

Do guitar strings make a difference?, my guitar has 8g and can't get any good rock found, should
I go with 10s'?

[Celtic-Warrior]

HSS = Humbucker at the Bridge then two gets the awesome tones your looking for....along with a good modeling amp.
My Strat is a HSS, most Les pauls have Seymour Duncan Antiquity Humbuckers.

[UncleHeatBand]

Because everyone is using the same pickups... Nothing bout the EQ either. And what about compression? And who plays a crunchy rock solo on the neck single coil? That was 3:11 of mainly... Nothing?