Green Day Gear Guide - Billie Joe Armstrong Guitar & Sound Guide and Mike Dirnt Bass Guitar Guide

Dagan shows us how to sound like Green Day, specifically how to get the Billie Joe Armstrong Guitar Sound and how to sound like Mike Dirnt using gear readily available today.
If you're a fan of Green Day, you'll know that the Green Day sound is instantly recognisable thanks to Billie Joe Armstrong's signature rig and the Mike Dirnt bass tone that really stands out on all the records.
We show you what guitars and pedals Billie Joe Armstrong uses, what amps he uses to get his signature sound and what style of bass guitars and amps Mike Dirnt uses.
00:00 - Intro
01:57 - Marshall Origin 50
03:33 - Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer
06:27 - Boss TR-2 - The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Sound
07:05 - Boss BD-2
08:24 - Gibson Les Paul Junior
10:14 - Epiphone Les Paul Junior
12:22 - Fender Player Series Stratocaster
15:29 - MXR Dookie Drive
18:25 - Gibson J45
20:21 - Tanglewood TW40
22:18 - Mike Dirnt's rig
24:58 - Outro
In this video, Dagan shows you how to sound like Green day and rounds up all the essential pedals, amps and guitars you need to get the Billie Joe Armstrong guitar tone. It's actually a lot easier than you think and all the gear is readily available today. You can recreate classic tones from Dookie, get the Time of Your life guitar sound and even replicate the sound of Boulevard Of Broken Dreams plus many more classic Green Day songs! Dagan even shows you how to get some classic tones from the American Idiot album too!
If you're a fan of Green Day or Billie Joe Armstrong, or Mike Dirnt, this is the video for you!
Gear Used in this video:
Marshall Origin 50 - bit.ly/2JJU9zI
Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer - bit.ly/3hJUejy
Boss TR-2 Tremolo - bit.ly/3s69DzA
Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Overdrive Pedal - bit.ly/2MAjr4y
Gibson Les Paul Junior, Vintage Tobacco Burst - bit.ly/2X9NKkw
Epiphone Les Paul Junior Tobacco Burst - bit.ly/38gh3rZ
Fender Player Series Stratocaster - bit.ly/2JMLMnd
MXR Dookie Drive - bit.ly/3okXBji
Gibson J45 - bit.ly/3ne7vSx
Tanglewood TW40 SD VSE Dreadnought Electro-Acoustic Guitar Sunburst - bit.ly/2L1jcyQ
Squier Classic Vibe Bass - bit.ly/2MEqiKp
Fender Rumble 40 V3 Bass Guitar Combo - bit.ly/38eGtGh
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[@matthewlima4029]

Fun fact when Billy Joe was demoing his Dookie Drive he described the blend as sounding like the tone from Dookie vs the tone from Insomniac

[@trockeneiscreme7713]

@@GlossyKarma Source?

[@LEEONDAHUB]

@@trockeneiscreme7713 Trust me bro

[@ricardog.s2505]

@@trockeneiscreme7713 that is in the "MXR Dookie Drive Pedal (Pt. 1)" around 1:20

[@xNimrod97x]

The best live show I’ve ever been at. Sound was amazing, instruments sounded huge, and Billie was Billie. Played around 30 songs and I could’ve stayed for 30 more.

[@zackakai5173]

Any chance of getting a Ray Toro/Frank Iero guide in the near future? . 3 .

[@jayvenmonreal1190]

HELL YEAH

[@IanMcGarr]

Frank Iero, MCR days, Les Paul Studio and Orange Amp.

[@CrystalRecords]

Omg yessss

[@tamasbende9399]

Definetly need that

[@imbadatguitar9288]

Frank iero during each era 3 cheers: Orange amps, and Epiphone LP studio Same for The black parade Danger days: Orange amps, Frank iero signature guitar

[@andrewpappas9311]

Green Day was one of the first modern rock bands I got into and they also inspired me to start a band with my friends, and we always included at least one Green Day cover in our sets. I've always liked Billie's guitar tone and it definitely helped give Green Day the sound they've come to be known for

[@SketchEtcher]

Our band played several GD songs. At the time I was the drummer, but I always wanted to do more GD-to the point where the guys complained about people thinking we were a GD cover band (I would’ve been okay with that lol, especially if I got to play guitar).

[@andrewpappas9311]

@@SketchEtcher Yeah, my friend (who was our drummer) and I were both big Green Day fans so we usually wanted to play one song of their during our shows. They're just such fun to play and the energy is great

[@charliep123]

Mad respect for when he played When I Come Around on the LPJ then corrected himself. Diehard fans know.

[@mauricioocegueda3621]

This dude can play the F out of a guitar . By far the most comprehensive and entertaining KZbin Gear Reviewer on youtube..

[@bayleyaustin2202]

I’ve always loved this video over every other Green Day “sounds like” video. Every other video that tries copying this tone always either does JUST the Dookie sound or if they do the newer sound it’s always too trebly and WAY off! Billie’s sound doesn’t have a lot of high tones. It’s actually deeper than you realize at first listen, with the exception of a few songs! Even the Andertons sounds like videos get it way off and they’re usually good at capturing sounds. Dagan actually gets it pretty close!! Billie Joe has a killer tone, and a very underrated one!! It’s hard to get right but this definitely gets super close!! And it’s just a great guide for a good P-90 tone overall if anything else!!

[@benfitzgerald7384]

Awesome! Keep on rocking Dagan!

[@paulhibbert]

This is GREAT info. More detail than I've seen in any other video and really close to the sound you were aiming for! Well done man

[@0721nash]

Best Green Day sound , gear video out there. Really enjoy watching and recommending it to my kid who’s getting into rock / punk music. Green Day is one of his favorite bands.

[@dkalyan1605]

You are really helpful thanks for letting me know about Eddies. Gear guide and Mike Mars and Many more

[@mholden020]

Fantastic! Thanks for this video

[@GuyDeclerck]

This is great! Absolutely love their punchy tone!

[@davesmith469]

Dagan, never change, ever!

[@theburn966]

So happy to see this I love Green Day so much I built a copy of his blue Fernandez strat

[@binks4372]

Brilliant video!!

[@stargrooves9893]

Really great video. Thank you so much!!!

[@PMTVUK]

Glad you enjoyed it! ⚡

[@eljefeguapobarbon]

Nicely done!

[@stefanreisinger8972]

Thanks for this video!

[@adamhaven8528]

Please do something like this for the Foo Fighters too!

[@seonadpereira7012]

Amazingly explained!

[@marco-vn8si]

Good stuff mate!

[@Plunkcown]

13:31 i think the best way to get the slanted humbucker is by getting a standard SSS stratocaster pickguard and widening up the hole for the bridge pickup to fit a humbucker while keeping the screw holes at the same place. Blue was also originally standard SSS

[@heyitsharry]

did this with my SX strat knockoff, replaced the tilted bridge single coil with a Seymour Duncan SH-4 and it plays like a dream

[@Proutt]

Wow finally someone who gets it! Great video

[@SketchEtcher]

I learned to play guitar by just trying to figure out every Green Day song by playing through American Idiot, and every album after. I love how easy their parts are to figure out, and how easy they are to memorize (because they have a great feel). Anyways, as a beginner, all I had was a 8” cheapo practice amp, and I used a Metal Zone pedal I to it to get an acceptable tone. GD really does have a fairly metal distortion sound, which is why I like them. Any metal distortion pedal should get a beginner in the ballpark for fun. I really need to run through all those albums on my Katana and see if I remember anything.

[@tamasbende9399]

I love this guy

[@jdstewart9689]

awesome!!!!!!

[@GarryWan666]

15:18 yes they are awesome. They come in three colors, sonic blue, ebony, and maraschino cherry. I have the blue one and it’s awesome:)

[@GarryWan666]

I’ve owned a origin 50 head, but switched to a Plexi 20 Watt aka SV20. It sounds much much better, more aggressive and fuller tone. It always want more, and it wants to go up to 11. I also have both the regular Les Paul junior from 2020, and the 2018 Billie Joe Armstrong Signature Les Paul Junior. And that’s the furthest “GreenDay tone” we can achieve at home these days... However, just a little reminder, the GreenDay tone is about attitude and Billie Joe’s playing style. Even though with the same equipments, we still can’t sound like that awesome guy

[@Baranicus]

You just added a ton of gear to my wish list lol

[@Actually_A_Biscuit]

Oh, darn, now I get to hear When I Come Around twice. *snaps*

[@karlsmith7016]

live the tremolo is on tape. Billie did try to use the TR2 in the studio but it didn't match up the correct timing so Butch actually manually tremoloed the track

[@LouisMoorhouseMusic]

Great video. Any chance of a Feeder gear guide? Hugely underrated band.

[@leonardodirnt2634]

Mike Dirnt my teacher forever y Love Mike, Mike Dirnt used Overdrive cannel.

[@slimkickens]

He used a tr-2 for live performances of Warning, but the boulevard tremolo was done in pro tools and is a track live

[@Jwil_Digital_]

YESS FINALLY!!

[@jpfilms6978]

Yo you did Mike Dirnt dirty. Green Day has been my biggest influence my entire life and as a bass player I was saddened by the bass section. The tele bass used sounds nothing like Mike. You could have used his signature squier bass and actually tired. But hey, who am I. Billie Joe's section was pretty spot on besides the fact that he used 2 JCM 800's for his early tone.

[@Ab.gs3]

He used a jcm 900, until they got a modded plexi modded after rob cavallos. for billies tone I think dagan used too much gain it’s too harsh and has too much high end. But for

[@divcon9710]

@@Ab.gs3 nerds XD nah just playing idk whose right but you both arent nerds lol

[@ploppy9943]

I saw Green Day in Beloit, Wisconsin around '91 or '92 at a place called Charlette's Web. It was before their MTV debut. There were maybe 100 - 150 people there. I'd never heard of them but a lot of others had by word-of-mouth. Kids showed up with green paint on their faces and I thought, "WTF"? I'd seen a lot of bands by that time but they just blew my head off! Me being a guitar player I got right up front because Billie's sound was so raw and gritty, much like Eddie's brown sound, I needed to know what he was using. He was playing "Blue" and his amp was a Marshall 800. No pedals. Between songs I asked him how he got the gain from the amp. He said it had been re-wired and the speakers and tubes were replaced. After they finished and were breaking down I asked Billie about his guitar. He didn't call it "Blue" but did say it wasn't a Fender and that he had been trying out different humbuckers. I don't believe it was the rail type at that time. I think he said it was a Duncan. Edit: If you listen to the guitar in "Brain Stew"... that was his live sound back then before they were famous!

[@charliep123]

This makes me unspeakably happy.

[@DraftZJ]

try a tom delonge one! great video!

[@kalejoe6599]

who modded your Marshall dagan? and Great work on on this gear guilde, my personal favorite is the Mick Mars one.

[@poiny-qb1tr]

AWESOME video Dagan! I would love to know how Billie Joe gets his guitar tone on the song Waiting. Any thoughts?

[@MONTHOFSOBRIETYTX]

I think a lot of that album they layered an almost clean but crunchy guitar tone with an acoustic tbh with u

[@jamezcunningham8906]

Can you do a Tom Scholz(Boston) guide? Would be cool to know how he does that otherworldly guitar tone :)

[@Owen_plays_music1049]

Hi Dagan, could you do the same for James Hetfield and/or Kirk Hammett ?

[@rockthecasbahs]

A Les Paul Junior plugged into a TS9 and a Champion 40 and a P Bass copy plugged into a Ampeg BA-108 gets me close enough to a Green Day tone.

[@memphislouden2180]

Do a gear guide on zakk Wylde in the ozzy days. AMAZING TONE

[@jeeqc25]

Easy: EMG 81-85/Gibson Les Paul Custom/Marshall JCM 800/ MXR Zakk Wylde Chorus, Thats It !

[@reubenmcmenemy982]

so i all ready have the gibson and im planning to buy a blue replica off ebay with the sh-4 but i was thinking to buy all 3 pedals and the origin 50 head would that give me the best tone or should i just get the dookie pedal or the blues driver and the tubescreamer

[@rjgd4626]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

[@pinksunshine8030]

thnx Dagan please do Nirvana gear guide

[@ExposingEvil_]

i loved the video... suggestions for gear guides: thumbs up if you wanna see one of these richie sambora gear guide joe perry/brad whitford gear guide george harrison gear guide angus young gear guide kurt cobain gear guide linkin park gear guide iron maiden gear guide Metallica gear guide rolling stones gear guide

[@WaltersModifications]

He already did one for Angus and Malcolm Young

[@ExposingEvil_]

@@WaltersModifications ah, ic

[@jensonmullen267]

God looked down on me today and game me exactly what I wanted the most

[@arkada]

hi guys, how can i get the sound of that amp on a pedal? because im poor :( any help?

[@brownsound69]

Do Foo Fighters next!

[@nickgames7120]

Can you do this with Tom Delonge of Blink 182? Awesome video!

[@ExposingEvil_]

i dropped a like too

[@willjones8801]

Can you do ryan ross from panic at the disco

[@mrkoodo5953]

Dean DeLeo rig run down, pls & thx!

[@benrosenbaum1899]

Please do Brian May!

[@73prd]

Also uses a boss ge7 equalizer

[@davidpalmer9014]

Please do R.E.M.

[@isaiahgamervw7306]

Dang, you know your Green Day history

[@matt-tomo]

Gojiras tone would be awesome 🤘

[@Aardipt]

nirvana next!! please

[@markgatehouse1482]

How did I not know about the Dookie Drive. I've noticed there's 3 versions. If money isn't an option is there any reason to buy the older ones? Like are they different at all or are they just improved versions?

[@MechanicalMarketer253]

The only difference is the paint job.

[@maxwilson5598]

You should do kurt contains tone

[@chromewolf8432]

You can get a marshall origin to sound like Billie without a tube screamer, just turn the master up.

[@ghjkldss8421]

No wonder it sounds baws before he put the tube screamer on, the power scaling is at the lowest. I’ve got the 20 watt head into my cab and it sound massive with the master full and gain only on 5

[@SCALEBEASTS]

How about Jun Senoue?

[@CrystalRecords]

Would love a My Chemical Romance and 5 Seconds of Summer gear guide

[@lenbones7940]

Hell's yes... green day single handly was the reason me and my drummer buddy polluted our parents neighborhood with punk rock to the point I still get stern looks from boomers when I visit on holidays... except these days I wave back open palm unlike the one finger salute they got back in the day... three friends entry level equipment turned to 11 and presto garage punk band 101

[@erikhagelberg7805]

Please make a Frusciante gear guide

[@billpepper]

We would go broke buying all of those pedals he added

[@erikhagelberg7805]

@@billpepper yup

[@MartinEB72]

The Tanglewood seems like a lot less of the sound. Epiphone Jr sounded very close to the Gibson. But the Tanglewood sounded much weaker.

[@armanbaijan2385]

do early day metallica!

[@kunalsharma2098]

Can I play all green day songs with strats humbucker?

[@vladonutyj]

Yes. many songs are played with a humbucker

[@GarryWan666]

I think he uses Seymour Duncan SH-4 on his Blue, not JB. Also, the older GreenDay stuffs such as Dookie have more than one guitar tracks too. You can hear two separate tracks for example in Basket Case especially at the outro

[@clicheguevara9917]

sh4=jb

[@GarryWan666]

Correct. Looked it up just now

[@kristianjohnsen7995]

Yes the SH4 is the JB. But until 1994 he used a Bill Lawrence 500

[@benjaminanthony5201]

How old is dagan?

[@lathspell87]

If you youtube Good Riddance from Bullet in a Bible... that guitar tone is legendary.

[@kristianjohnsen7995]

That was basically just his 57 junior plugged into his Marshalls, no special about it. Tone is in the hands as they say. Probably my favorite tone on Good riddance was on the 97 sonic Italy show with the Fender strat Blue replica

[@jacksonharvey5791]

Kevin shield tone!!!!! Please !!

[@paulandre3250]

Green Day has had 3 guitarists since 2004

[@paulandre3250]

@@DavidOakesMusic Jason white wasn't part of the recording process until the trilogy and back in the USA single. It's mostly Billie. And yes, its Kevin Preston now. Why did Jason White actually leave Green Day as a member?

[@raymon8044]

@@DavidOakesMusic didn't Jason have troath cancer a while back? Maybe that and Billies 'one minute' meltdown, made him step back from being a full member.

[@marcarcoria7672]

I was waiting for you to mention the Epiphone Billie Joe signature model that's about as cheap as the Epiphone you showed........

[@TedjeZ]

it would be absolutely splendid if there would be a RAMMSTEIN gear-guide!

[@widowmaker5544]

Richard Zven Kruspe used to use the Metallica Kirk Hammett ESP LTD before he got his signature with ESP LTD and i know that the ESP RZK-600 and other RZK models are discontinued so it'll have to be a Kirk Hammett in this case, he used Mesa Boogie amplifiers, a wah pedal for live performances of Mein Teil, Rammstein and Heirate Mich, and i believe he also used a carl martin chorus and trem o' vibe as well as a TC electronic delay as for Paul Landers his rig is as simple as what used to be a Musicman Axis and now a signature Gibson Les Paul into a Sans Amp

[@vladv5126]

Literally any guitar with emg 81s into a mesa dual rectifier for RZK and any passive humbucker guitar into a sansamp fly rig for Paul Landers. Basically no mids on both sides and stupid amounts of gain.

[@ichi2297]

14:30 what is the name of this song

[@WednesdayAddams5150]

Basket case

[@are-bass59]

Actually mike dirnt is using fender bassman 800

[@nazzasutir9945]

Next jerry cantrell guitar guide

[@jakubpiechowiak9522]

Maybe GnR gear?

[@geoffreydias4960]

The Key for dookie tone : Marshall jtm 45 + Boss Blues driver

[@nazzasutir9945]

Next jerry cantrell gear guide

[@FaustoOMG]

Billie joe uses a Marshall JCM 800

[@ryebread102]

I really need to emphasize that if you want to sound like Mike Dirnt, All you need is a Precision bass pickup, a Fender amp, and some really hard picking.

[@taylorkraus9491]

Ik what guitars I would use to replace the ones in this video but what is the best amp to replace this

[@bassplyr13]

Nooooooooooooo Mike Dirnt uses a split single coil pickup!

[@semuanyasemaunya5553]

Mike Ness from social d gear please

[@johnnymccoy1998]

LP into a Satellite amp. I think that’s pretty much it.

[@semuanyasemaunya5553]

@@johnnymccoy1998 I don't think so, that's sound is more than LP and Amp

[@ithomas5576]

I thought Billie used a JCM 800? Or did I miss that part?

[@yessitsme6884]

Modified 100W Superlead (aka Plexi) actually. The mod cascades the two channel so not unliked a single channel JCM800, except both stages are set up like a "Lead" channel and no voltage divider going into the cathode follower (but adds a 200k grid stopper). You could apply the same mods easily to a JCM800, it results in a lot more gain, no more need for an overdrive pedal.

[@peik5569]

He used 800's at least on the American Idiot tour, but he is mostly known for the modded plexis

[@MorganTC]

Is it weird that I want to see a Nirvana gear guide

[@KeeperOfPoops]

Not really no.

[@MorganTC]

@@KeeperOfPoops Personally, I'm not a fan of grunge but I'm just interested to see what gear could be used to get Kurt Cobain's tone

[@vladv5126]

@@MorganTC humbuckers and a boss DS-2. That's it.

[@patrickkowalski8256]

Dookie drive is THE way to get the tone

[@user-jx8je6ci6d]

Do randy rhoads gear guide

[@widowmaker5544]

Gibson Les Paul Custom or Jackson Rhoads V Marshall Studio Classic or Studio Vintage amp MXR Distortion + MXR Stereo Chorus to get his double tracked sound MXR Flanger for Flying High Again MXR 10 Band EQ and maybe an octave for the solo in flying high again

[@danim5881]

You guys couldn’t get a Jcm 800 or even a dsl???

[@IanMcGarr]

Depdnds on which era you want. I wanted the AI sound and that was gotten with a LP Jr and an Orange Amp. That's what he used on a lot of AI. Watch the doc for proof. There is a video on my channel showing this. Or buy a Vox VT×

[@clfnole]

Did he record with an Orange AD 30 or Rockerverb?

[@jacoblee7575]

I like ur videos but when u say something is cheap its like double the price for me since i live in the U.S. sadly but i love your videos

[@Broguekick101]

Can you do a stone roses gear guide

[@markswarbrick999]

Said no one ever......