What effects does Green Day use? What Pedal Effects Do Green Day Use? Billie Joe Armstrong is not known for using a lot of pedal effects however Green Day have been known to use a
Tremolo pedal (Boss TR-2), Flanger pedal (Ibanez CF-7) and Overdrive Pedals (Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-9 and Boss BD-2 Blues Driver)
.
What is Dookie mod?
EDIT: I read up on the dookie mod. It's
a variation on John Suhrs crunch mod, done by Martin that used to work at CAE
. It's basically a preamp that is halfway between a plexi and a JCM800, and a pre phase inverter master volume added. It's not a high gain mod like the SE mod. Try the CAE 3+ rhythm channel.
What gauge strings does Green Day use?
Armstrong uses Blue on primarily Green Day's earlier stuff like “Basket Case,” “Longview,” “Brain Stew,” and “Hitching' a Ride,” so the guitar is tuned to Eb and is strung with Ernie Ball Slinky
. 010–. 046
strings (the rest of Armstrong's guitars are tuned to E standard with . 010s, too).
What amp does Dookie use?
Bryan Kehoe: The Dookie Drive Pedal is based on Billie Joe's two trusty amplifiers, which he's christened
Pete and Meat
. They're both Marshall 100 Watt Super Lead heads, and each has been heavily modified to have its own voice.
What amp did Green Day use on Dookie?
Now, the Green Day frontman himself has revealed the amp that inspired Dookie's guitar tone. In a video for MXR – itself a follow-up to a clip of Armstrong demoing the pedal – the guitarist said it was a
Marshall 100-watt Plexi
Super Lead that producer Rob Cavallo had provided the band during the album's recording.
Rob is shown with a
Taylor guitar that had been dubbed “Excalibur” by Billie Joe
. This wasn't necessarily because of anything that Billie Joe used it for, but due to the sheer number of hit songs the guitar had appeared on.
And like most of Gibson's Les Paul Junior guitars, this one comes with one classic P90 single-coil pickup in the bridge position. However, Billie Joe Armstrong uses
Seymour Duncan's Antiquity P90
instead of Gibson's stock one. It's also accompanied by volume and tone knobs.
To sound like The Beatles on an electric guitar
use either a tube amp which is cranked to the point where it starts to break up or use a solid state amp and set the gain to around 2-3
. The EQ should favour mids and treble frequencies as opposed to bass frequencies.
It was designed to generate
26 watts
at an 8 ohm impedance load, and offered a cathode-based bias. From 1952 through the spring of 1954, Fender produced approximately 660 model 5B6 Bassman amplifiers (serial numbers #0001–0660).
Green Day, American rock band that infused the raw power of punk with a melodic pop sensibility and lyrics that captured the angst-ridden restlessness of American teenagers at the end of the 20th century and into the 21st. The principal members were Billie Joe Armstrong (b.
INSTRUMENTS :
Guitar, harmonica, mandolin, drums, piano
, and most recently, the saxophone. RECORD COMPANY : Billie and Adrienne have co-ownership of Adeline Records. OTHER BANDS : Billie still plays with Pinhead Gunpowder.
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Billie is not a vegetarian
, contrary to popular belief. In an interview for the Idiot Club on Green Day's website, he answered a question from a fan stating that he wasn't a vegetarian.
