Recreating Tom Delonge's Guitar Tone (Recent Years)

[@littleredguitars2]

fair warning. i talk a lot, trying to break down how to get this tone as much as i can. skip to 12:30 for some tone samples or check out my latest cover, link in description.

[@eldyko]

littleredguitars2 yeah you’re terrible but great! I went with the same choice years ago when looking for a delonge tone. Grabbed the fd2 mosfet he has and use a tech 21 Oxford pedal. I used to do basically the same on my laptop with a guitar rig plugin back in 2010. Still a great tone. Cool to find you enjoy it as well! Cheers

[@judgeshred9872]

littleredguitars2 dude I’m so glad you talked a lot it made me appreciate what you’re doing and just you in general more and just the fact you explain so much more than people usually and yeah keep up the amazing work man you’re awesome!!

[@johnaldbrillten8930]

What do you think would be the best way to get Tom's live sound from the untitled era? The Pepsi Smash show and the Letter to Elise cover still blow me the fuck away. Part of it is the way the distortion, feedback, and flanger all meld together

[@leafdude81]

Man you're on fire with the vids lately, were in a golden era

[@littleredguitars2]

how long til i self destruct

[@johnpickk7526]

Sounds great! Would be cool to see this for the untitled era live show tone. Always stood out as being one of Tom's best in my opinion

[@Slicknick.]

I liked this tone. It sounds really good with the 335. Id really like to see if you could toms tone from TOYPAJ or BCR. Around those times. It’s one of my favorites

[@johnaldbrillten8930]

@@waylon4749 Duncan Invader, high mids, high treble, play with distortion

[@TVCColin]

Its really awesome knowing there is some one that is as interested in Blink, Angels Airwaves and just Toms sound in general.

[@lukebogartmix]

Tom's new Blink tone was a bit misunderstood. People blamed it on the 335, and the VOX/Fenders. Which made ZERO sense, considering that his best tone IMO was like 2004. The part that blew my mind was that they just took the sound out of the power amp, didn't mic up the amps, and went straight through DIs into the PA. No cab or even cabinet emulation. I have zero idea why they thought that was a good idea, but ya know, whatever.

[@emmanuelmartinez100]

In the rig rundown his guitar tech says thet use cab simulators into DIs

[@eldyko]

Pretty sure they drove the amps power sections pretty hard and they just used cab simulators which take a speaker load rather than micing cabs. It does make sense because they wanted to avoid having the vocal mic’s pick up the guitar sounds. I agree it’s misunderstood and in a lot of cases I preferred his Mesa/Marshall tones as well. I just felt like his vox/fender tones often weren’t loud or thick enough for big live shows.

[@Andy-cz4xw]

he used Marshall and Mesa in 2004, but i still see your point

[@lukebogartmix]

@@Andy-cz4xw Yeah, I meant moreso the use of the 335 with those amps. Cheers

[@Bls-of1ld]

​@@lukebogartmixNot in 2004

[@ryanjackson7115]

This was awesome, I've been trying to nail Tom's tone for quite a while now and this video was super useful. Could you show us the I Miss You tone live in Pepsi Smash and the earlier blink sounds like the Enema and TOYPAJ albums? This would be a really cool series to do.

[@mariushurley-paul9618]

Great vid, it's nice to hear the guitar tone without the drums, bass or vocals

[@fromayla]

Cool seeing a methodology vid on Tom’s guitar tone. From what I’ve read from some old Jerry Finn interviews, they’d primarily use Marshalls layered for top end and Mesa Boogies for low end (Enema/Toypaj) At least on high gain stuff. AvA stuff seemed to be all over the place. The War definitely sounds like an Orange layered with a Marshall. Clean AvA stuff is possibly Vox, as well as some of the medium gain stuff (Shove, Everything’s Magic, Moon as My Witness). Also, anyone not using an axefx, I think Finn mentioned recording the toypaj stuff with a condenser and a ribbon mic on each cab. For highs and lows again. Anyhow, just my 2 cents. Awesome vid dude 😎

[@macblink]

I just clicked the video cuz the thumbnail was awesome

[@littleredguitars2]

Glad it's working

[@jamey9644]

Try get the tones from story of a lonely guy

[@timschannel9467]

That tone is amazing man 👌 you should try to do an alkaline Trip tone like a Matt skiba tone

[@grosfdp3654]

Could you do earlier blink tone like when it sounded super chunky (Cheshire cat/ dude ranch)

[@m.r.pandamic6993]

Distortion and a strat. You're welcome

[@mTwMarco]

+M.R. Pandemic that's not correct. He used a Gibson Les Paul back in that days...

[@gergonagy3679]

I can recreat that easily, i turn up the treble and turn down the mids. That's it.

[@oscar18034]

@@mTwMarco only in 97/98. before then he used a strat

[@mTwMarco]

@@oscar18034 yes u are right

[@wootton900]

He he I actually love your vids dude , you are pretty clued up on gear etc like my self and I value your opinion, you have nailed the tone absolutely crisp, Just one thing for the future do a mock run of the video write down what you want to say and then focus buddy we could of knocked that out in 5 mins 😊

[@Timbiscuit12]

i’d like to see how one might get some of those early (Whisper or I-Empire) tones, clean and dirty. some of the stuff from whisper studios on 7th ave drop sounded really good too

[@alexzemaitis1207]

I think it would be awesome if you installed a Gibson Dirty Fingers pickup in your es 335

[@littleredguitars2]

How original... my 335 already sounds amazing. So its not gonna change

[@alexzemaitis1207]

littleredguitars2 Hey man it was just an idea, It’s okay if you don’t like it.

[@alexzemaitis1207]

@@littleredguitars2 (3 weeks late I know) Do you think Tom ever comes back to blink or start playing more shows when COVID is done he should use an orange amp live?

[@frankhammonds7462]

Nice vid Jon. Not sure if you are familiar with the DiMarzio 36th anniversary paf pups but they sound killer in semi-hollow guitars.

[@johnartem9875]

Even though I know you're not a big fan of early blink, but maybe you would consider to recreate Tom's earlier tone from like Buddha or Cheshire cat? Thanks in advance

[@cody7919]

Hey two questions, one: do u think u could do a cover of bullets in the wind and two: could u do a tutorial for toms clean tone with the fender amps?

[@laneflores9329]

Sounds gewd

[@yosefaaron9343]

dang dude u nailed it

[@davy3889]

I have a little ac 15 vox and id love your opinion on getting a closer sound to Toms. The amp has some presets and it was a gift so I’m not super knowledgeable with it yet. I have a guitar with dirty fingers on it also. Would you start with the clean setting or something else on an amp like that? I have a bunch of hand me down pedals also

[@aj81ds]

Hey Jon, great video. I love the tone. Also I had a question. I was thinking of getting something similar to axe fx like an IK Multimedia iRig Stomp. Since I have most of the software and know how to use it. However, I need to buy studio monitors to use and hear it at home.. Would you recommend 5” or 6” monitors? My room is roughly 14’ long and 10’ wide with no studio treatment. Thanks.

[@littleredguitars2]

i'm not sure which is "better". i'd assume the larger you go, the better bass response you'll probably get. i use 6" and i'm happy with mine.

[@clfnole]

Would this tone work for the non-delay heavy stuff like Surrender, Secret Crowds and The War or would your older tone video apply to that better?

[@littleredguitars2]

This'll work. Just add a bit more gain

[@clfnole]

littleredguitars2 appreciate that. I tried it out and sounds pretty good to me with my modeler. Not nearly as good as yours but OK for me. Now trying to figure out Tom’s use of phaser LOL.

[@xxErmis]

Do you use MAC?

[@littleredguitars2]

No