How to get the STONES Mesa/Tele START ME UP Guitar Tone!

[@thenameless3271]

The true secret to the Start Me Up tone is the little shoulder moves he does in the music video. If you don't do that, you'll never nail it 100% Wonderful video, as always, beautiful amps and tone

[@JohanSegeborn]

😂 Thanks! Keith is priceless in that video!

[@counterbalancelife4305]

I agree with you on the Squier Affinity Telecaster. Great guitar. I have that same butterscotch like you and just got a competition orange version. So comfortable to play. I have Gibsons and Fenders, yet reach for this more often.

[@jameshill5248]

This is awesome. Literally maybe a day or two ago i was listening to Start Me Up and wondered how he got that kind of sound. Keep up the great work you make some of the best guitar videos on youtube.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks! Great to hear that!

[@stevenrich824]

(continued) and front mounting the speakers vs. Rear mounting, as well as open backed vs. closed back cab. These are options that Fender and Marshall chose to do differently, and contribute to the differences in their sounds...plus they're really easy ways to change your sound , provided one " gets" the wiring right...thanks again and rock on.

[@thechannelforeverything2170]

Plugged these settings into my Mark III and pulled out my Tele, and needless to say. It sounded fantastic. Great video Johan.

[@JohanSegeborn]

That makes my day! Cheers!

[@trippy_nation5300]

The mesa/tele sound is nice. Prince also used a telecaster with the mark 2b.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Prince was a killer guitar player too!

[@marcelbelanger4424]

Great tones, and it was good to hear your riff at 3:07 again.

[@stevelark9840]

Here's some info from the Mark III manual. Your amp treble shift probably works just fine: The TREBLE SHIFT is one of the programmable controls. When pulled out, the effect becomes linked to the footswitch control buss and automatically increases the upper-midrange drive in the Lead Mode only Treble Shift has no effect in either of the rhythm modes

[@JohanSegeborn]

Ah! Interesting, thanks!

[@Starch1b2c3d4a]

😵‍💫

[@davidgordon7673]

What an incredibly beautiful room to make music in!

[@64north20west]

Humbucker Macawber or not, this is as close to the start me up tone as I have ever heard outside of Keef himself. Excellent effort to get all this gear assembled and replicating the sound.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks! Makes my day to hear that!

[@keithwilkes308]

John---so good! Luv the tone anad the playing as usual!

[@ziotomasi4597]

I close my eyes and hear a beautiful sound. Honest! With this setup and the Afinnity Telecaster you can make good studio recordings. Your videos are always amazing. Big cinema

[@MrBluesilverred]

Absolutely glorious tone Johan! Thanks, and Cheers!

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks man! Glad to hear it. Cheers!

[@keithwilkes308]

I learn something everytime I watch your videos!

[@ProSimex84]

That is a beautiful room my friend. Great big room sound!

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks my friend! Cheers

[@alejandrojerezrico3007]

I would by an Impulse Response capturing that nice Room sound. Eyes closed!

[@bb_lz9790]

I had a Mark IV combo with an EVM that I wish I had kept. The clean sound was beyond beautiful!

[@jonnybeck6723]

That wuz cool Johan... and geeze, I never realized that mdl of Boogie had pull switches on every single knob 😵‍💫...what A trip (!) ...and BTW that's some great Tele plunking/licks Thanx matey and Cheerios

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks man! Yeah they have an endless number of tweaking combinations! Cheers!

[@LandoW]

Nice video Johan! Being a Mark IIc (no +) user myself, I'm happy to see you enjoy a Mesa Mark series too! I find that the Presence knob on the back is one of the most powerful tone-shifting tools on these amps, and most people don't even mention it. Most people run it quite low (0-3), but I typically run mine a little higher (5'ish) to get some sparkle at the bedroom volume I'm playing at. Not too high because then it becomes harsh. Besides the EQ, maybe you too can get some more sparkle with the Presence a little higher?

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Lando! It was set to 7-8. I forgot to include it in the video. Strange to put it at the back!

[@pgj285]

Beautiful tone Johan, I think the room mic makes a big difference to the ambience, you have found a great sound there.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks! Yeah the natural ambience of this room works great for this tone

[@stevenrich824]

Aloha, Johan... Thanks for sharing the research and the riffage. Your opinions and comparisons are very important information, but I'll say it's hard to find a bad sound at all with you playing! I 'll offer a suggestion for a future video: compare series- parallel wiring vs. Parallel-Series in a 4×12"

[@diaosuarez1748]

omg, beautiful harmonics tone

[@davidyelland908]

Hopefully good news for you. The pull shift on the treble pot is not broken. It only works on the lead channel.

[@darrellminx5459]

Nailed it! Nice job Johan!

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Darrell, glad you like it!

[@Emplexador]

one of my fav tones. Thank you

[@vincenzoerriquenz2356]

Perfect late Seventies Keef tones, you nailed them Johan! I would say that are also great tones used by a wonderful band called Big Star in the seventies!👌🏼✨ Cheers!

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Vincenzo! I’m gonna check them out!

[@vincenzoerriquenz2356]

@@JohanSegeborn yes, great band with beautiful songs, their tone recipe was tele+ clean compressed sound+ Phaser!👌🏼

[@gcruishank9663]

Beautiful tone!

[@ericwarrington6650]

Hi Johan! I have caught a few things from your channel in the past and enjoyed the perspective..I have looked around a bit at your content and looks like a fantastic collection of knowledge and a BOATLOAD OF WORK...I just subbed and look forward to getting to know you and your channel!! Happy father's day if u are a dad! Thanks man 😁🎸🤘

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Eric! I’m really glad to hear it! Cheers

[@ericwarrington6650]

@@JohanSegeborn welcome my friend..great channel

[@ERIC-65]

Keith used his MXR phase 100 alot around that time !

[@robertotoledo107]

Hey, can you please recommend a great attenuator on a budget? I live in an apartment and my neighbors don't like the Marshall sound :'(

[@JohanSegeborn]

Hi! Both the Weber Mass 100 and THD Hot Plates are great down to -12dB. Below that the Weber gets muffled and the Hot plate gets brittle

[@robertotoledo107]

@@JohanSegeborn thank you!

[@mohamedtlass3842]

Best is to save up for the iron man

[@hoboroadie4623]

I worked for a band that had two Boogies, a Mark I combo and a Mark III head and cab. Got an awful lot of mileage out of letting other guitarists (try) lifting them. Maybe they had the EVMs, besides the big transformers. The drummer had Sonor shells that were about ten or so Centimeters thick, and once another drummer tried to lift those but he fell into them instead. 😸

[@JohanSegeborn]

😆 yeah it’s ridiculously heavy.

[@siegfriedwashburn3484]

Hi Johan! Sounds great! Like Jake Smith playing! Have a nice weekend!!! See you! S.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Siegfried! Have a great weekend you too!

[@andreas5153]

Great video! Ithink that I like the tone of your guitar better than KRs. I just wathched Stones official video of the song, and it looks like KR had a special SHS mod configuration in his Tele, which might explain the somewhere-between-single coil- humbucker-quality sound?

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks, glad you like it! Yeah he probably had a Humbucker in neck position

[@avivpinto4013]

The mark 1 is the bomb...many many records were recorded with the mark 1...fun fact...the original Parisian walkways by gary more were recorded with the mark 1. Cheers

[@JohanSegeborn]

Cool! I didn’t know that. I love that tone

[@avivpinto4013]

@@JohanSegeborn yep from the 1978 back on the streets album ...

[@willkupers]

Nice one Johan. Great tone. I play a lot of Keith's songs. Love it, and mainly 'cause and I'm not a shredder. 😉 I'm limited to my VOX AC30 and my (black) Tele micawber version. Thnx for sharing.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Will, glad you like it!

[@atthewhiskey]

Cool video. Thanks for the effort.

[@LaszloErdosy]

Brilliant! Pulling the bass knob definitely gives you that warm mellow Keith Sound! Also wondering if you could do these vintage series using vintage style recording as well, to make it in a comparison with modern method ( Tape recorder?) How much do you think the old recording style affects the overall sound?

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Lazslo! We can do that soon actually.

[@marcoquaresimin6904]

Always openmind videos here!!! Everytime I find your approach very detailed. But today I have a question for you Johan: can I trust with my single rectifier to have a a clear sound of a mark III like your?

[@kanikama9579]

De dónde saca tantos equipos este hombre??

[@padgreen]

That sounds great.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Patrick!

[@napomania]

excellent video Johan. i remember Zappa with the Boogie. maybe Mark1. have you ever play the PigNose? lol strange amp wasn't it?

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Silvio! Haven’t tried the Pignose yet

[@Twobarpsi]

Sounds amazing 🤘💯!!

[@davidsparks6146]

The amp was called the Macombo.... truly an iconic amp!

[@DangerAmbrose]

The guitar really needs a neck humbucker to nail that Keith Richards tone.

[@Healcraft]

*fender wide range. I have one of those 70s teles not sure the exact year. Its very microphonic though

[@owensagness43]

Great tones Johan! I had a Mark III for a while - great amp. What colour is the stripe on your amp? Mine was a blue stripe.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Owen! Mine is a Blue stripe too!

[@GunnarLoeb]

Picked up that guitar today. Did you change any of the hardware in yours?

[@JohanSegeborn]

Hi! No it’s all stock

[@andreaskragh9464]

Sounds beautiful, Johan. But the Start Me Up intro sounds LOUD and punchy, besides being clean. I have no idea how Keith g’ets that loud, badass vibe while still playing clean. Brown Sugar is another one, it is actually a very clean tone but so gutsy. Thoughts on this, anyone?

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Andreas! I think he used more gain. I didn’t get Mk3 breakup to sound right, so I used less gain.

[@andreaskragh9464]

Maybe volume is the answer. It sounds to me like Keith has the amp really loud.

[@JanPanCygan]

Cool one !

[@jonnybeck6723]

Love that rhythm ditty @ 3:01 (ish) more yours than Keith IMHO* 🥸 ...and, My Squier CV '50's pine bodied Tele (with brass saddles, BTW) is one of my very best favorites 👀(*that's a good thing 👅Tasty)

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Jonny, great to hear that!

[@the_nondrive_side]

Use a TBX tone pot and a PAF in the neck on any old Tele and your gonna be good to go

[@dazednconfused-r4o]

Do you believe I can get that tone with a Fender Blackface amp?

[@JohanSegeborn]

Yeah I think a BF Twin would come close especially with JBL speakers

[@sollyharr]

I tell you what, I've been playing and buying guitars for nearly 40years and those new Squire Affinity Teles are the absolute shit for the price...i just ordered another one...you can't put them down, amazing..👍

[@JohanSegeborn]

Yeah an insane bang for the buck

[@gearViewmirror]

Absolutely! I changed the wiring to a Mojotone prewired setup, tusq nut and now it is a beast! ( i did have to level the frets first...)🎸🤘🎸

[@DMSProduktions]

You can START me on this 1! \m/

[@Libertarianist2112]

Always believed that tone was surely a Twin Reverb. Cool to know it wasn't!

[@freddycookjr.2164]

TOSS THE FAT E STRING OPEN G TUNE AND YOU CAN REALLY HONK DOWN ON THE LOWER STRINGS FOR SWAG CHECK OUT HIS CUSTOM GAUGE TOO FEELS MORE NATURAL BE WELL AND LETS GO LOL

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Freddy :-)

[@ogrish76]

Ordibork dabork.

[@xplorer3475]

not the same sound at all

[@Starch1b2c3d4a]

Too bright. Nice try

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks, yeah his tone is a bit beefier

[@dezionlion]

Fender tweed woulda gotten you there a lot faster

[@JohanSegeborn]

Wouldn’t that kind of being attempting to get there before Keith?