This is Getting SERIOUS - Alex Lifeson Legacy Tones for TONEX

[@sigsfast]

Lifeson is so underrated. Just try playing some of his parts. Much more sophisticated than they may seem at first.

[@Thrive-Off-Grid]

second half of working man for sure. I love playinjg the solo for Limelight that whole song is a blast to play and it never gets old

[@Cherub-d9b]

He had it all.

[@agirotto1]

My favorite Rush song is still the first one I fell in love with, 2112. As a prog fan, it's hands down one of the best songs of all time. Epic, powerful, legendary with moments of intimacy. Amazing work.

[@Double_0_7_Strings]

This is so cool to see Alex still keeping up with the modern times, and making his tones accessible to the masses. Rush went through a lot of stylistic changes, and always managed to keep their ear to the ground with what was hip, and what they could add to their musical gumbo, so it’s nice to see the tradition continuing.

[@rowbags3017]

Jeez! Those runs in the intro! Superb! 😎 I'm showing my age, but the two classic rock guitarists current when I began learning were Robin Trower and Alex Lifeson. It's great to see this collection of capture's from Alex's rigs.

[@TrunkEight-g9n]

'Distant Early Warning' and 'Red Sector A' and 'Kid Gloves' from the album 'Grace Under Pressure' His ambient splashes are legendary.. Also, Middletown Dreams from 'Power Windows', 'Show Don't Tell' from 'Presto' - The high end jangles and opening riff are so brilliantly inventive.. 'Time Stand Still' from the album 'Hold Your Fire' is a master work of guitar tone... sooooo many examples..

[@prestomattwine]

The Marshall Club & Country was Marshall’s take on a Fender Twin amp. He used 2 of these amps on the “Moving Pictures,” “Signals” and “Grace Under Pressure” albums.

[@tossedpenny]

The solo from Limelight is always a treat.

[@jerrymckenzie1858]

My fave!

[@eddiejr540]

If I had to pick one Rush song as my fav it’d have to be Camera Eye👍

[@collinstarling3034]

the solo goes WILD

[@rogergraves5467]

So hard to choose a favorite. The Garden is probably it, however. It’s lyrically and musically one of the best. The solo is simple, but incredible.

[@daveharris4032]

So pleased that someone else feels the same way about The Garden. It’s perfect

[@renmusical]

Counterparts has great guitar parts from Alex. One of my top 5 Rush albums

[@findingtheFOOT]

La Villa Strangiato's solo, dynamics are unreal, over 7/8. YYZ's solo, has a little Asian flair to it. Rush is the best, Alex is always overlooked because of Geddy and Neil.

[@eddiejr540]

Hell yea…La Villa👍

[@billsimpson1085]

YYZ’s is in E harmonic minor.

[@mattc1176]

Sounds absolutely stellar! And lovely playing too as always

[@Cherub-d9b]

Best video you have done for my tastes.

[@meljohnson5579]

Wow.....even thru my phone they sound amazing 😊

[@JasonT-xp3kh]

Meh, it's pretty easy to get most of Alex's epic tones on your own. It's more fun, too. It's all pretty basic stuff, the magic is in the playing. Early stuff is honky marshall with some reverb and delays. Later 70's added some chorus/flanger/phaser type sounds. Some of the early '80's stuff was solid state believe it or not. All culminating in my favorite Alex Lifeson tone, Power Windows. Hate me if you want but I love that mid 1980's guitar sound.

[@philf4086]

I'm with you Jason. The magic is indeed in the playing. I'm not really itching to buy any Tonex patches.

[@yblanco]

Do you have or can point to any tutorial videos? Interesting to see that ;)

[@ZaneQuebec]

La Villa Strangiato, anything on the "Moving Pictures" album, especially the "LimeLight" solo. For a mix of Cleans, Crush and High Gain, i suggest 2112.

[@andyharrison1320]

You should check out these albums if you’re not familiar with Rush and Alex’s tones in general: Hemispheres Permanent Waves Moving Pictures Signals Grace Under Pressure Power Windows

[@johnplaystheguitar123]

Sounds good. IK Multimedia please give JNC more money. He deserves it. He isn't going so well after being fired as Mike Tyson's boxing coach.

[@doublehalfling7676]

I wouldn't say Lifeson is in my all time Pantheon of Tone (will always love Rush though) but this all sounds pretty spot on to me! I would imagine these captures would slot in really well with most Rush tracks with Alex removed. I think these collections are just bursting people's bubbles about their hero's actual amp tones and preferences. The Satch collection sounds quite dark in general, but that absolutely makes sense in the context of his music. When I hear those captures in context, they work just as intended.

[@gffg387]

Exactly. Nobody cares about Lifeson. More like Boreson, am I right? I completely agree with you.

[@eddiejr540]

@@gffg387…it’s so funny how we all have our differences of opinions…I’m exactly 180 degrees from you😎

[@gffg387]

@@eddiejr540 Not my opinion. it's @doublehalfling7676 opinion.

[@meljohnson5579]

I saw a Satch interview where he said his tone was set not for screaming high sounding solos due to that basically his show was an hour and a half guitar solo. A tone that is easier on the ears. I found that concept interesting.

[@doublehalfling7676]

@patrickdenny-pk5ko I've grown to love that sound a lot since making a similar discovery. Same thing with Aerosmith on Rocks. I think it was an Ampeg V40, or at least an Ampeg combo amp. Sounds quite ratty in isolation, but it's just got mojo all up in there. I used an SVT amp model on my Pod Go for that sound, and it's one of my go to sounds ever since.

[@dave64k]

That Marshall 4140 is really nice. I think he may have used a couple (one clean , one driven) and maybe even with a HiWatt as he played them around that time. Check out the Anarchist as a recent-ish release

[@IamMusicNerd]

Pretty close to the real thing. Crazy that you can get these rare amps captured in such an affordable small pedal.

[@GuitarsOK]

Just recently, I purchased a Tonex One. Built a small board: Xotic Soul Driven, Boss Space Echo Re-202, into a Tonex One (using a clean Fender Super Reverb tone). $540 for the whole rig (Xotic and Boss were used). Guitar: Fender Custom Shop ‘59 Strat reissue Sounds killer! 🤘🏻 🎸 🎶

[@roofkorean6948]

One of my favorite songs from Alex Lifeson is Strip and Go Naked (from his solo album). Very simple instrumental song but his tone and playing on the lead parts are classic Lifeson.

[@DarthPreamp]

The Fountain of Lamneth - one of Rush’ greatest accomplishments, musically.

[@lagoonschool]

At the time signature of 2:14; which song is that riff from ? Love it :-)

[@adamdes0t0]

Man I could go on and on about Alex Lifeson... Listen to the guitar work on 'Natural Science' from Permanent Waves. Really cool stuff he's doing on there. I am obsessed with his tone from their 90s 'grunge' record Counterparts. I think he used 5150s on that record? Not totally sure but sounds so good to my ears.

[@tonystartup3817]

Favourite solo - the live version of train to Bangkok from the exit stage left album

[@canyondepths]

Limelight is Lifeson's favourite solo, according to past interviews. I love his rhythm and lead tones on Hemispheres. Permanent Waves has some great solos, where his style started getting more avant garde. Xanadu has an epic solo and some really cool guitar parts.

[@Brooksberg]

Thank you for the demo John. I picked up this collection the day after it was released. I'm finding it absolutely outstanding. These amps sound beautiful in my DAW. My fist experience w ToneX. *Tech Q: On the topic of interface/preamp gain, did you find you needed to gain up on the front end with these plugins? Cheers

[@Cherub-d9b]

I think I may have to finally pair the Tonex pedal with my Helix as HQ.

[@stevesteve1965.]

The particular Rush tones I'd look for would be A fair well to kings, Permanent waves and Signals.

[@eoinjennings519]

Have been practicing Camera Eye and Natural Science this week both great to showcase use of textures and sounds

[@jackprice7828]

I have updated my ToneX One and the update seemed to go well. However even though the effects buttons show up they don't seem to work through any of the amp models. Anxious to experiment. Not sure what's going on. Your ToneX sounds fantastic!

[@Furtheronmusic]

Listening suggestions. Whole of Moving Pictures. That's just the definition of RUSH. Side 1 of Hemispheres. The Garden from Clockwork Angels has one of his best solos imho.

[@michael1]

Rush is one of those bands where, in spite of me being a big fan at one time, I look and see they've released more albums that I haven't heard than ones I have. Iron Maiden and Jethro Tull being 2 others. What surprises me is when I do the usual trick of looking on Spotify to see what people are streaming from an artist 2112 isn't featured at all? I'm not saying they're wrong but they're wrong. That was *the* Rush album. For me that is Rush. So I don't really recognise all this YYZ stuff or particularly like it if I'm honest. They were this mid/late 70s band with riffs, acoustic guitar parts that impressed us no end and what we thought as teenagers were deep conceptual lyrics. During the 80s even though they were releasing albums and mentioned in Kerrang we weren't listening to them much at all. Nor going to see them play. Maiden (who took the 'write songs about Samuel Taylor Coleridge poems and stuff' from Rush and ran with it) and Ozzy, Van Halen were more our wheelhouse by that point. I guess it's telling that they didn't feature in Monsters of rock. By 1985 half the bands were wearing makeup and dresses and the other half were metallica et al and fans followed suit. We went down the metallica route (although we did go to see Wasp for some reason) A couple of years later we'd seen Vai, Satriani et al play and largely stopped listening to or trying to play stuff from your average band guitarist. I'm trying to gauge here whether Lifeson has a following today guitarists or if these 'Brian May' and 'Lifeson' collections are mostly aimed at people my age? If so, IK Multimedia should note I'm trying to play Ted Greene chord progressions more than sounding like 70s guitar players - although I do play along with isolated EVH guitar tracks occasionally. Yes, if they'd existed back in the day, along with computer software that could make your guitar sound like Rush we'd have snapped their hand off. Back in the day we spent most of our time with Rush trying to figure out and playing all the pseudo-classical stuff, intro to Farewell to kings, Discovery, The trees, LVS et al than we did his lead playing. Riffs like Passage to Bangkok were popular too. I guess that was similar with Randy Rhoads, if a rock guitarist played something vaguely classical sounding or an acoustic intro we thought we were John Williams if we played it (and yes we got tabs for Cavatina too) which made us think Alex and Randy were not just rock guitarist but brilliant classical musicians even though with hindsight I guess these pieces probably wouldn't be classed as more than grade 3 or 4.

[@steved1099]

This is the way John... Tonex should approach artists. Pay them £50k to spend the day capturing all thier gear and then sell it to all of us for £50 per pack- Win for tonex, win for artist, win for us.

[@ultimatescalerc7151]

Thats bad ass! When re-taught myself to play lefty, Alex Lifeson is who I turned to learn his solos and technique. I was a rythm player righty but left hand Ive totally flipped Im a lead player on lefty. So I even went and bought a left handed single cut with a floyd just to play lime light. ( Not the A-L Epi though, it has gold hardware LOL ) Now its a good thing I dont live with any body. Because I LOVE playing Limelight especially the solo. I play it over and over and over again, if I had a mate she would bust that guitar over my head!! Well time to get that dam tone x one working becuase I must have these clones. Thanks John!!

[@mikkelclausen831]

Im an all tube guy and i just bought Tonex one to try at home. So offcourse the damn thing wont connect to my mac. Read tons of forums, and many have this issue. IK is holding my off with bad suggestions, and testing my patience. So now im stock with some ok clean tones and some bad overdrive sound from the stock presets. But I will say that the feel is way better than the helix im using for late night practice. Cant put my finger on it, but it just feels better.

[@kensmith5108]

The old saying about tone is in the hands. Many had played EVH’s rig and say they still sound like themselves. As much as I would love to sound like Alex, even with his rig, I would still sound like me. Can’t pull the trigger on these. As much as I would love to.

[@StevenRoby]

I don't see that the Lifeson pack is available yet from their official website. Is it a Beta release for you, John?

[@em-dashman4404]

I’m a Rush/Lifeson fan. I have a Tonex One. I have the collection. But the software is nuts, and defeats me constantly.

[@mr.bluenotedoobop]

I love the graphics of the neural DSP stuff but Dino’s are where it’s at.

[@serpensnovus9869]

Every wonderful sounding guitarist has experimented and evolved over their career. With MODELLING we all have the opportunity to follow our own path to the amplification that fits our needs perfectly . . . and can evolve with us. Why settle for a snapshot of someone else's sound when you can be working on your own ?

[@gdawgs101]

You gonna do a video on the new Tone Master Pro update? Fender just added scenes which is kinda huge

[@jasonkucharski7411]

If they did a Brent Mason pack I would rebuild my entire rig around it. This has me on the fence as it is.

[@IanH12]

Recently ordered a ToneX and im excited to mess with all this stuff. Seems like IK has been killing it recently

[@philf4086]

After hearing a lot of these collections, and loads of Tonex modeled amps, I'm actually less interested in buying some of them. I don't have the pedal, and only use the software version. With time, I think I could get close to these tones - I been using/creating Amplitube (and now Tonex) patches for about 8 years. Take the second amp that John played through - it's a Marshall, not the Club & Country Marshall, just a Marshall. Could a regular old Tonex Marshall be tweaked to approximate this one? Sure could.

[@ksharpe10]

My Good Friend Sean Ghannam, who plays guitar in the Rushour Tribute show Band, Knows all this stuff in and out. He has many of the vintage effects Alex used. If he heard these he could tell you if they are Correct or not for sure. he could use this to reduce the size of his Rig. maybe. I may Forward him this Video. Sean is also a Big EJ fan, into Bill Connors, Holdsworth too.

[@sjsphotog]

Check out the solo from La Villa Strangiato from the LIVE Exit Stage Left album

[@Scott__C]

I love Lifeson, but I keep wondering if he's blown through a bunch of money that he's now doing all these products now.

[@stephenhaynes603]

mmmm was there a bit le villa there . key similar and moogy pedal sound.mab the mk11 should of been inc for hes cleaner sounds. the presentation of the amps looks really good though. the HK one with dinosaurs excellent .

[@sjsphotog]

Watch Jason Sadites run thru the tones and playing some of Alex's solos playing with the tones here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIjQfXutrbGKbKssi=DxD3kTqx515cBqc1

[@picklesnips3378]

Take a shot every time he says Alex lifeson

[@billsimpson1085]

How can you play guitar and not be familiar with Alex and Rush?

[@yacreader]

I prefer to use Amplitube and I am a little bit worried about its future, I hope they keep adding stuff to Amplitube MAX, I guess I would use TONEX more often if they add something like liquid profile because I like to “own” the amp instead of having a just bunch of “sounds”

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Very nice

[@RobinWestpark]

I think people are missing the point, you don’t get these free with Tonex, you have to buy the Alex Lifeson Signature Tone Collection for £99. Which begs the question, is anybody going to pay when cloned sounds are free in the ToneCloud? Like Lerxt guitars, too much for your average Joe.

[@jamesearl389]

Yes. I’ve now bought two these packages and will buy more. They Hyde street pack was amazing

[@darrinwilson8484]

shit....take my money lol

[@jerrymckenzie1858]

Sounds like Alex!

[@fujijardins]

Return of the Les Paul ???

[@johnnathancordy]

This was filmed a few weeks ago!

[@fujijardins]

@@johnnathancordy Thank you for answer

[@rrdee8138]

La villa strangiato

[@SeanAllocca]

I love RUSH and Alex I am not paying $99 for a digital download of some amps, no way they should be more than $30. There are so many great free captures on Tonenet already.

[@TheOnlyGuitarFather]

They go on sale often.. I’m with you.

[@phillphall]

First 😂

[@steveshadforth8792]

Some of those hk tones sound utterly shite

[@SteveWilliamsworld]

This is not a knock on this channel. That just sounds awful from Tonex.

[@johnnathancordy]

I wouldn't necessarily expect it to sound like legendary albums recorded with a legendary guitarist in a legendary studio through the hands of some knobhead like me in a bedroom. But I'd imagine it was close to whatever the amps sounded like when Alex Lifeson was in the studio with IK multimedia making the captures?

[@matthewduncan9405]

@@johnnathancordy😂 yeah man it’s crazy people forget some of these band’s recorded in multi million dollar studios with seasoned engineers working on crafting the sounds. Like these things are a few hundred dollars. If it’s even orbiting the realm of sounding close it’s good.

[@SteveWilliamsworld]

Incredibly weak. Not only does that sound nothing like his live sound or any record I know by Rush, its completely anemic.

[@lukewilson9763]

ragebait

[@SteveWilliamsworld]

@@lukewilson9763 ok. Just pull up CAMERA EYE or TOM SAWYER and tell us all how that sound is even close to that.

[@johnnathancordy]

What amp did he use on Tom Sawyer?

[@gffg387]

​@@SteveWilliamsworldragebait

[@podxtv]

Seems like the man himself disagrees with you… “Dimension, depth, all that stuff - I’m blown away by TONEX and all of the things that this set of sounds has. Alex Lifeson” Maybe raise your concerns with him.