How to Create a 90s Alternative Rock Guitar Tone

[@spookymulder945]

Damn I miss the 90s. The Breeders, Veruca Salt, Nirvana, Sugar, Superchunk etc. Good effin' times...

[@Los_Santos1985]

Gin blossons Screaming trees Soul Asylum Live Rem Candlebox Puddle of Mudd Bush Entre outras....

[@friedrudibega6384]

Early 90s was my day. I used silvertones and ampeg cranked but only used a wah as far as in-line effects but used the trem and reverbs on the amps. It was a magical time. That Friedman pedal nailed those tones. Great job, Jason. Some great tones for sure. My fav 90s cocked wah song: Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage.

[@jessehiatt9225]

Lots of nostalgia!!!!! Great playing. And the 90's was essentially the revival for those effects pedals and now I think they are more popular than they initally were in the 60's 70's and 80's and it is all because of their use in the 90's. Keep up the good work on the vids!!!

[@AlbertoLezamaGarcia]

because musicians would find them in second hand shops, or earlier bands would let them borrow their gear for studio sessions. even in the seattle scene they borrowed full on musicians like sharing drummers, it was all in the music, now instead of collaboration it feels like modern music (mainstream) is more on competition, true neo liberals wet dream

[@timhopkins3810]

So many songs from my youth! A big nostalgia trip! Very formative years for me and still love Rage, Tool, Soundgarden and so many more. Whenever I think of 90’s wah I always think of Kirk Hammett - obviously started before that but things like the lead lines in Until It Sleeps stick in my head!

[@FullMetalDMZ]

Dude you nailed all those tones! I knew the BE-OD sounded great but never thought it could do the Rectifier crunch with the guitar volume rolled down! Also, 311, nice!

[@Courtneyryanbuck]

At 7:42 the distorted Smashing Pumpkin sounded great!!

[@reganovich]

Great! thanks mate..now I need to buy even more pedals..thanks a lot! ;)

[@cdclaxton]

Greetings from England. It's always good to see when you put out a new video as they're always interesting and informative. I could watch your videos all day :-)

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Thanks mate, I really appreciate your kind words.

[@OrenZar]

Thank you so much for this video, these are my fav tones!

[@guerrafael]

great!

[@thislisa]

Great vid, brother.

[@MrAlison0806]

Thx for posting. I'd also recommend checking out the Boss DS-1w that came out recently for a versatile 90's pure distortion. It helps get the high mids just right.

[@bigwavedave8492]

Good stuff man nice to see someone speak the truth about the pawn shop thing I grew up here in Seattle and your absolutely dead on I am still a pawnshop guy to this day

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

I love the Seattle bands!

[@Los_Santos1985]

Amazing

[@BigMuff75]

The flannel is very appropiate. :D

[@nostro1001]

Totally agree with the wah...seems they get pigeonholed by many...I've always been a sucker for it and it's never grown old right across the spectrum of genres. Very much a J Mascis fan from back then till today. I guess Dinosaur never reached the dizzy heights of a Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins etc. But look who's still around (& making excellent albums) from that era and who's not (for one reason or another). Gotta say I've not known about that Friedman pedal, I still use a Hot Cake for most things until fuzz. It is now gonna be on my radar thanks to you. 😒 lol And on that note, Verlie is sending me a chorus ensemble tomorrow. And I blame you for that also. 😂 Really enjoying your presentation and down to earth style Justin, ever since I recently stumbled across your channel. 😎 The fact is most people realise that with post processing, crazy good playing and so on...just about anything will sound good. But that's just not realistic & I reckon many get lost in the fact& caught up in the hype. Great job man. 👍🎸

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

I appreciate you taking the time to give me the positive feedback. I hope you enjoy the Chorus pedal 🎸

[@hughwphamill]

Great video, I feel like you covered some ds1 territory with the be-od

[@ultravirez]

Right about the phaser. It was used a lot. Should have dug out the Big Muff for Cherub Rock :)

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Yeah, I was torn about adding another pedal, if I did it would have been a Big Muff

[@ultravirez]

@@JasonAyalaSpareNever hesitate on the Muff!

[@nimbinpedaler6981]

Great job

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Thanks

[@LicksoftheLegend]

Great video man. Had to drop a sub.

[@timspare80]

Good stuff 🤙

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Cheers 🤟

[@thepatrioticwoodsman]

Amazing!! Hey do you think the Boss DS1 would do the same distortion type tones you got out of your pedal?

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

I've found that the DS-1 works better through a dirty amp, I don't really like it through my clean Fender amp, it sounds too shrill for me. The reason I used the Friedman BE-OD is that it's super flexible.

[@darklight4815]

Im still trying to figure out how the 80s dudes afforded their gear...they didnt work

[@jdmhbeats]

It wasn't "classic" gear then. It was just gear

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

Yeah we did. Then once we had enough to buy an amp we quit. Lol.

[@alucard9912]

Can someone tell me what's the first song 0:01? Sounds so familiar, can't remember.

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Everlong

[@alucard9912]

@@JasonAyalaSpare thanks mate. Knew it's smth familiar.

[@Twhistle]

What’s the riff starting at around 13:25?

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Temptation by Tea Party

[@salskavrah_SKVR]

maybe need some Big Muff Review, in my opinion

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

I'd probably agree

[@othman3192]

what's the song at 0:27 s?

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Betterman by Pearl Jam

[@othman3192]

thank u so much@@JasonAyalaSpare

[@jasonrowe4258]

Boss turbo distortion could be thrown in there somewhere

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Yeah, the DS-1, or 2 and the Big Muff were hard to leave off.

[@paulyC]

Definitely essential for those John Frusciante guitar solos.

[@jasonrowe4258]

@@paulyC cant get mine to sound even close haha or my playing

[@paulyC]

@@jasonrowe4258 have you checked out Dave Simpson? He has some great John Frusciante videos on tone and playing.

[@Sw4ySc0p3z]

What song is 0:11?

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

That would be Lightning Crashes

[@crownefarious8436]

What song is the second example from? I can't for the life of me remember it.

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Betterman

[@crownefarious8436]

@@JasonAyalaSpare Knew it was familiar! Thanks!

[@crownefarious8436]

@@JasonAyalaSpare Nevermind, it wasn’t this.

[@aimansyahmiaimanharyadi6386]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁

[@ultramanagulspiritoftheoce2658]

Is that Single Or Double Rectifier ?

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

Dual Rectifier 2 channel revision G.

[@JJ-ze6vb]

4:28 Lightning crashes… an old mother dies…

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

🎵 her intentions fall to the floor 🎵

[@clfnole]

No Silverchair?

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

True, I have played some Silverchair in some of my other videos.

[@clfnole]

@@JasonAyalaSpare I recently got back into listening to them again. When I was much younger I never really paid attention to how good a guitar player Daniel actually is. Underrated in my opinion.

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

@@clfnole I agree

[@Blude]

Shoutout to the lovely Ayrton Senna's helmet sticker on the wall!