Tom Morello Gear Guide - How To Get His Signature Raw, Hard-Hitting Tone! + Whammy & DJ Awesomeness!

Dagan shows us how to sound like Tom Morello! The modern day guitar hero known for his unique and creative approach to guitar playing, from signature riffs to making his guitar sound like DJ decks, Tom's setup is actually simpler than it sounds, and here's all the gear you need to achieve it!
Tom Morello's tone is instantly recognisable, whether it be with Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchmen, Prophets Of Rage or any of his amazing solo Atlas Underground records, this is thanks to the unique way Tom utilises his guitar and effects to make them sound and react not in the way you'd traditionally see!
We show you what guitars and pedals Tom Morello uses and what amps he uses to get his signature sound!
Check out our FULL review of the MXR Tom Morello Signature 'Power 50' Overdrive here - bit.ly/3pQlyCd
Get the whole setup at PMT Online here:
Fender Tom Morello 'Soul Power' Signature Stratocaster - bit.ly/3zqUm01
MXR Tom Morello 'Power 50" Overdrive' - bit.ly/3sUy3yI
Dunlop Tom Morello Signature Wah - bit.ly/3qFaGqc
MXR Phase 90 - bit.ly/3EWWuOm
Boss TR-2 Tremolo - bit.ly/3zqvmq4
EXH Pitchfork - bit.ly/3EWi31s
Dunlop Volume Junior Expression Pedal - bit.ly/3sXtAvc
Boss DD-8 Delay - bit.ly/3zowOsS
Fender Player Telecaster - bit.ly/3r56BvR
Marshall Studio Classic JCM800 - bit.ly/3mWJjXI
Two Notes Torpedo Captor X - bit.ly/3G95MIJ
Tourtech Cables - bit.ly/3EP0GzD
00:00 Intro
01:12 Tom Morello - his many and varied musical endeavours
01:52 Tom's three main guitars
02:14 'Soul Power' Fender Tom Morello Signature Stratocaster
04:04 'Arm The Homeless' Guitar History & Specs
05:18 'Sendero Luminoso' Fender Telecaster
06:07 Tom's signature Dunlop wah
06:25 EHX Pitch Fork
08:22 MXR Phase 90
08:30 Boss TR-2 Tremolo
09:06 Boss DD-8 Delay
11:21 MXR Power 50 / Marshall JCM 800
13:53 Telecaster sound demos
15:19 DJ noises!
16:32 MXR Power 50 sound demos
19:30 Final thoughts & outro
#TomMorello #RageAgainstTheMachine #Audioslave
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[@jestercabrieto6526]

Tom morello puts his wah in the fx loop of his jcm 800 so the wah sound is more pronounced

[@BenAck912]

Tom Morello appears in Guitar Hero 3 along with his Arm The Homeless guitar. He recorded a Guitar Battle song for the game.

[@thseed7]

This was a very well done video. Always entertaining but you did an excellent job on this gear rundown. Hope to see more of these.

[@JG-pe7qo]

thanks for the news!! another gear on my wishlist

[@lawndart188s]

I just learned more about his tone that’s ever! Thanx Dagen

[@whybell7239]

I noticed this a while ago and I wonder if anybody else has as well, but Dagan wears the guitar strap at the height of the artist he’s talking about in these videos. For example, in the Slash gear guide he wore the strap pretty low like Slash does and in this video, he wears the guitar high just like Tom Morello does.

[@PMTVUK]

Haha good spot! He usually has it pretty low anyways. But it was hard to do all the kill switch stuff with it down there, so it he had to raise it up for his video!

[@whybell7239]

@@PMTVUK Haha yea Tom’s stuff is pretty difficult to play down low. But I didn’t know if that was a coincidence or something you guys just threw in there for fun. You guys are awesome! If I ever go to Europe, I’m for sure stopping by one of your stores!

[@thornwivans]

Does anyone on earth love their job as much as Dagan?

[@tomfuchsmusic]

I really like and appreciate your 'Gear Guide' videos. They are really entertaining. If you're looking for a suggestion for the next 'Gear Guide', maybe you can do 'Foo Fighters'. One of my favourite bands. You're doing a great job. Keep on rockig. Greetings from Germany.

[@cavemanzach9475]

Glad it's not just me who struggles with the "Know Your Enemy" riff. I can kind of pick it, but I can't get the rhythm down well enough to play it with my toggle switch

[@monstruonegro05]

As a big RATM fan myself, I really enjoyed this video! 👍🏽😎

[@jg6658]

Is that guitar not carved like a regular Strat? It looks like it has hard edges like a Tele. I really like it, the coolest Strat Fender has made recently

[@armp1287]

It's an aerodyne strat, they got binding so yeah this guitar is not contoured. I love this style of strats as well and this guitar really is very cool

[@superfuzzbigmuff594]

It does actually have binding, like a gibson. I heard its a guitar center exclusive

[@wesleyzimmerman94]

@@superfuzzbigmuff594 The Aerodyne Strat he uses, the Soul Power guitar, was

[@OliWo1i]

one of my favorite guitarists

[@akalia_07]

Wow you nailed it!

[@LucasR-xl4sl]

Great vid, love RATM, Tom Morello is such an innovative guitarist, thanks D! =)

[@Scotty_Russell_Music]

Tiny fact to add, the original whammy pedals are monophonic in their pitch tracking and will produce "garbling" artifacts if more than one note is played. The EHX pitch fork is a polyphonic tracker. The Whammy 5 has a "classic/chords" setting to switch between mono/poly modes. I have an old 90's mono whammy and it's still the fastest response and most fun to play but the whammy 5's poly tracking is more useful overall. The EHXs add a tiny bit of latency to the effected signal too.

[@alexanderlumberjack]

You really think so? I think the pitchfork tracks better

[@immutablecantrip]

Damn I've never wanted a strat before but that one is HOT

[@denverrandy7143]

Very cool my man

[@BridgetParkGuitar]

8:55 he also uses it for the intro of guerilla radio

[@batonpup6511]

Awesome guitar, awesome you BUT your shoes are gold😂🤯

[@mitchellmak]

Did he use a flanger for 'wake up'? Or was that phase 90?

[@skylineXpert]

I remember the aol session your time has come. It sounds better than the cd.

[@diomasyo461]

Can you do mark tremonti gear guide?

[@stijndelang3250]

Can you try to get the yngwie malmsteen tone?

[@charlie_sin_mag]

I kind of wanna hear the power 50 through jcm. See if give you more...JCM...with some extra eq

[@cenaboyle]

What was the setting on the delay. I have a dB 3

[@MrGul]

I'm not familiar with anything known as "dB 3" (except for decibel levels) so unfortunately I can't help you with the appropriate settings for that particular pedal, but the settings on Morello's two Boss DD-3 pedals are as follows: Long delay: everything at 12 o'clock (straight up) Short delay: Level at maximum, Feedback at zero, Delay Time at about 10 or 11 o'clock, Mode set to 200 ms.

[@cenaboyle]

@@MrGul sorry I meant the dd8

[@MrGul]

@@cenaboyle The DD-3 settings should be very close to the settings on your DD-8, but I'd suggest trying either the "Standard" or "Analog" Mode setting for the long delay, and for the short delay I'd suggest experimenting with the Time knob to find the best position.

[@user-hk4kd2md5h]

Also Tom uses the phaser for wake up

[@brandoncohen3606]

your missing his new OD pedal, the dunlop power 50!!! edit: nvm you got it!!!

[@danialrohaili7630]

Will we ever get a George Lynch gear guide?

[@MrNeurotix]

the tremolo is also used on 'bulls on parade'

[@MrGul]

What...? On which part? Intro riff is whammy set to octave down, main riff is wah, verse riff is also wah (in cocked position), the chorus is whammy set to octave down, transposed main riff is wah, solo is wah (in toe position) and killswitch. I can't hear any tremolo on any of those parts?

[@MrNeurotix]

@@MrGul sorry, meant guerilla radio ... my mistake

[@stefanodallolmo7335]

@@MrGul there's no whammy in Bulls On Parade lol

[@MrGul]

@@stefanodallolmo7335 Yes, there is. There are two guitar tracks for the opening/ending riff, one of which uses the octave down setting on the whammy. It's easily confused with being the bass since they're effectively in the same octave, so I won't fault you for not knowing that.

[@memphislouden2180]

Zakk wylde gear guide pleaseee!!

[@KeeperOfPoops]

he did have a signature set of Gibsons and Epiphones as well as his own pairing with Schecter in the form of Wylde Audio all with EMG 81 in the bridge and an 85 in the neck setup so i'd say go for the ESP E-II Arrow NT because it has the right pickups for amps he mainly used Marshall before Schecter also helped make his Wylde Audio amps, so definitley get a Marshall amp (combo or head/cab) it's entirely up to you and for pedals he used to use Boss pedals and then MXR, so i'd say the best bet is a Boss SD-1W, Boss NS-2, MXR Phase 90 (for Crazy Horse), Boss CE-2W, and a Dunlop 535Q Multi Wah because his signature wah is discontinued

[@465marko]

1:00 I came for the tone, but I stayed for the boots. Imagine how spankin good it'd feel walkin' round in those babies!! You could never be too big for them boots. Dayum. I've kicked ass before, but I wasn't wearing boots like that... I can only imagine kickin some ass with my feet all pimpin like that. They'd probly come back for more just to feel that swanky leather up the backroad one more time.

[@zoso2850]

Those boots tho 😅😂😅

[@kaizerwongofficial]

I wonder how many people get RATM's "Know Your Enemy" confused with Green Day's "Know Your Enemy"

[@markpell8979]

Dude, I have to play 'seriously' (which doesn't mean it's not fun) a few hours a week just to stay half-ass and be ready to jam. You just showed me some deep Morello stuff that makes me wonder, WHEN do you find time to work, sleep, or pay attention to your ladyfriend? Ahh, to be young again...

[@mrfacephone]

Man, just look at all that "anti-capitalism" just oozing out of all the corporate signature gear.....

[@GogglesPisano13]

2:15 Nothing says "fight the capitalist system" like expensive branded merchandise. lol

[@Kingsu451]

A little correction here. Sendero Luminoso is not the communist party in Peru. It was a terrorist communist movement in Peru that killed millions of innocent people. Entire families, children and adults. Daily blackouts because of some power plant had been bombed was all I saw while growing up there. Fighting a capitalist society by killing the same people they claim they are trying help. But I'm sure it makes Tom Morello feel cool. Anyway, I'm sorry to ruin a really great guitar video with my sad story. I just couldn't stay quiet.

[@tedmcdoodle8830]

Sellout morelol

[@tedmcdoodle8830]

Sellout marioldo

[@kruse8888]

How do you get the tone of a hypocrite sell-out? Rage on behalf of the machine is just as punk as a bank account.

[@gizmotv9320]

What he sell out of? Guitars?

[@kruse8888]

@@gizmotv9320 I takes a special kind of stupid……🙄

[@gizmotv9320]

@@kruse8888 to make a silly primary school insult rather than have a open discussion to explain their point?

[@kruse8888]

@@gizmotv9320 An open discussion?😂 There’s nothing to discuss. RATM sold out years ago, they support (and are part of) the establishment now.

[@gizmotv9320]

@@kruse8888 how they supposedly "sell out"? Simply saying it dosent mean anything other than spouting meaningless drivel. They've got the same political views they've always had and haven't actually toured since 2012

[@tankdarla637]

yeeeaaah I will just take a pass on this one

[@SenseiKreese]

That power 50 sucked, nothing like Morello and just sounded like fizzy crap, but everything else, spot on.

[@669rd]

Tom morello? Ewwww. Dagan is a better guitarist than that bullshit.

[@MrGul]

This video has nothing to do with how good or bad of a guitarist Tom Morello is. This is video is for those people who like Tom Morello's sound/gear and want to replicate it. You don't like it? All good, just don't listen to it. No-one's forcing you to sit through an entire video about gear and sound from a guitarist you don't like.

[@mattyboy1410]

I absolutely 100% love Dagan and the whole PMT crew. But I'm sorry, Tom Morello is 🗑️