I bought the Kyuss amp: This is THE sound!

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My Tube Works RT-2100 Kemper profile pack here: www.livingroomgearshop.com
I bought a Tube Works MosValve RT-2100! THE Kyuss amp. Josh Homme has also used it on the first Queens of the Stone Age albums, and it's quite an interesting amp. Let's check it out.
0:00 Coming up
0:19 Intro
0:42 The Kyuss amp
1:40 Thee Ol' Boozeroo
2:57 Green Machine
4:07 Demon Cleaner
4:46 Hurricane
5:19 Thumb
6:26 Gardenia
7:11 Conclusion
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@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

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@EasyHeat Жыл бұрын

Just now revisited this video. Yep! I'm still freakin jealous! Haha!

@HomoChomsky 2 жыл бұрын

Even if Josh uses a huge pedalboard nowadays (which is normal when you have a discography as varied as QOTSA), it's great to hear you prove every time that his sound is primarily amp-based.

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

🤟🏻💪🏻

@BorisBidjanSaberi11 2 жыл бұрын

Peavey Decade

@badguacamole3709 2 жыл бұрын

@@BorisBidjanSaberi11 lol

@johnstoner666 2 жыл бұрын

Secrets of the sound!

@brianaaland5263 2 жыл бұрын

@@BorisBidjanSaberi11 For Bass...

@el_kammeroni 2 жыл бұрын

I do not listen to Kyuss that much anymore but this tone has a special place in my heart! Puts me right back in my dope-loaded late teens. Peace!

@screambluemurder101 2 жыл бұрын

Same here!! Good times 😎

@H3LLE Жыл бұрын

You almost stopped listening to Kyuss.. i think i have a cream for that, man

@emmettyoung7603 6 ай бұрын

i’m a dope loaded late teen, as soon as i started doing bong rips welcome to sky valley just showed up on my record player. kyuss, sleep and fu manchu are the holy trinity for me

@Lumpygroovy 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like you should listen to some kyuss

@neve4020 2 жыл бұрын

And he nails it again!

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

🤟🏻

@jamesquirk8656 2 жыл бұрын

Dude your dedication to unraveling the Kyuss tone mysteries is unrivaled, cheers!

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@abnerpgonz 2 жыл бұрын

only person on youtube getting these tones.... fucking love kyuss and mad respect for you delving into this ... do stage 3

@vonjunzt4130 2 жыл бұрын

This guy went to the trouble of actually getting the amp AND the guitar Josh used, so that should get pretty close.

@Nazereth666 2 жыл бұрын

My father gave me his mosvalve rt-2100 combo amp back on 2011. Been cranking it up ever since. They have such a unique sound.

@LieLikesMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely sounds close. Would love to see more experimentation tho. Liked!

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

more experimentation in a different video coming up ;)

@amadeobuccinioni 2 жыл бұрын

It was about time you got this amp and made this video. Literally, it’s the only one on youtube explaining how to get this tone so we can finally understand it. You’re a genius

@robomalo 2 ай бұрын

Perfect timing. I’m in Joshua Tree+Palm Springs today and feeling extra queeny.

@who-asked613 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, the amp tone is spot on, but what’s most impressive to me is your fingers move like Josh’s. The guitar moves episode you can really see how he moves his fingers for vibrato and stuff like that. You nailed that. Super duper impressive.

@RexVergstrong 2 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the exact same thing while watching the video.

@MarkJohnsonJams 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds killer. You always nail the Homme tones.

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@Olgam_ 2 жыл бұрын

Dude this sounds spot on! Such a satisfying chunky tone, one of my favourites of the 90's 🤘

@LordofDiamondsMetal 2 жыл бұрын

It really gives you that "cranked tube power amp" sound without actually having a tube power amp

@mattheweastel129 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing tones from that amp, such a balls out fuzz sound. Great playing man, you’ve nailed it

@TomTaucher 2 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Omg, come on now, you got all the pieces for like a triple rig with this, the Ampeg and the little peavey bandit or what it was. We need to hear it!

@realledbetter5015 2 жыл бұрын

The Peavey that Josh used wasn’t anywhere as good as a bandit. Supposedly a much cheaper, smaller watt decade is Josh’s secret weapon. Since then the price of what used be a $40 used amp costs about 10x’s more. I feel bad for someone who buys at the inflated price because not too good an amp. Actually the price that this amp commands is the problem. I mean solid state Peavey amps do not sound radically different, just that wattage differs & size of speaker differs for the most part. Saying comparing apples to apples, I mean Peavey with digital effects built in or a twin speaker model will sound different.

@johanneskulesza6841 2 жыл бұрын

That was really really fuzzy and I like it, the tone was spot on, gotta go listen to some kyuss now as i haven't done that in ages!

@Eli-C- 2 жыл бұрын

This video is valuable alone for being the only good Tubeworks RT-2100 demo KZfaq's ever had. We need to get you a real Ovation Ultra GP next.

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

they are fricking hard to come by, though

@uno99 2 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks for posting this. I had this amp, bought from a pawn shop in the late 90's. Would love to have it back someday.

@jacksonnewman3183 2 жыл бұрын

What an awesome video. Nice brief intro that was still informative, and a ton playing with no talking which proved your point over and over again. Time well spent watching this.

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks

@Synic42 2 жыл бұрын

Aw man, I love that sound! I'll put on Kyuss on my next commute again.

@ryansouthard4929 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the inspiration sir. Just finding it difficult to continue playing and your a welcome influence

@Sheltada 2 жыл бұрын

I actually bought a couple old beat up ones recently for a good price, going to have someone fix them up a bit. They sound fantastic! Not just for a kyuss/qotsa tone but I get a bit of a doomy sleep kind of tone on my high output bridge pickup

@meltedfro 2 жыл бұрын

that was spot on! awesome as always! on a budget you can get the same tone with a hot neck pickup,overdrive,and a bass amp

@AlbertKarhuFilms 2 жыл бұрын

I have a brunetti pleximan, a -62 strat and a rat. Tone is there too 🤟🤝

@VadimZakharchenko 2 жыл бұрын

You caught that very Kyuss sound in this video. 👍🏻

@liame2273 Жыл бұрын

Thee ol’ boozeroony is one of Josh hommes many master pieces and you absolutely rocked it 🤘🏻❤️

@karambaai5619 2 жыл бұрын

its literaly that sound 100% damn i enjoy those riffs and this sound u sick dude

@Ben-rq5re 2 жыл бұрын

Just my favourite tone of all time, so much dirt yet so much groove..

@ludlow555 2 жыл бұрын

What a great tone! I used a Mosvalve power amp with a Marshall 9001 tube preamp back in the day. I should have gotten this!

@78thandSynth 2 жыл бұрын

This is such good work. Thank you for the fun.

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@markn8535 2 жыл бұрын

This is insane, it sounds like we're hearing a album guitar track. AMAZING!

@aaronsg71 2 жыл бұрын

I have the RT-2100 half stack, traded a few cheap pedals for it! My friend just wanted to get rid of it! Love this amp🤘🏻

@3peckeredgoat735 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds amazing! Back to the 90's fer sure!

@remi4412 2 жыл бұрын

nice playing man, really enjoyed it

@punkoso4168 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed the tone man!

@MrBeardsley 2 жыл бұрын

The old Tube Works stuff is great, the amps are damn near indestructible. I’ve got a mid ‘90s TD-752 combo I bought about 20 years ago that’s seen a fair amount of abuse and still works beautifully, other than cleaning the pots and jacks a few times I haven’t had to do a thing to it over the years.

@saddestchord7622 2 жыл бұрын

I had one of those. Don't remember it sounding fuzzy, though.

@MrBeardsley 2 жыл бұрын

@@saddestchord7622 They’re very different amps. The TD-752’s dirt channel is essentially a Tube Driver pedal with a normal solid state power amp, whereas the RT-2100’s is based on the higher-gain Real Tube pedal and has their “MosValve” system that puts a tube (either a 12ax7 or 12au7, I forget) at the power amp’s input stage.

@JayBeBerg 2 жыл бұрын

So cool, would never have guessed. Sounds just like I remember it.

@gargantula3274 2 жыл бұрын

It does have sort of a green Russian vibe to me, so I could see why someone might think Josh used a muff in the Kyuss days. This has something special going on at the front end of the note though, almost like the attack is slightly cleaner or something. I'm sure he has some kind of muff variant now, but in the early days he was super averse to using anything that was already used by so many people.

@fixedguitar47 2 жыл бұрын

Russian? I use a Sovtek Mig100 with a Tube Works 9002 rack set up. Slightly radioactive. Not like radio sound, I mean actually radioactive.

@R3dbudd 2 жыл бұрын

That’s the key I think. The initial attack is bright and percussive and milliseconds after it gets woolly. That’s what ruins most fuzzes for me. They make you sound like you’re always on your neck pickup or get shrill when you try to brighten them up with the tone knob.

@ledgm108 Жыл бұрын

This tone is so welcoming and nostalgic 🤤

@mislavsmusings Жыл бұрын

Incredible man...wtf. that is THE tone !!

@nlong4028 2 жыл бұрын

We've gotta stop advertising these older "shitty" amps to the world. They'll be $1000 before you know it. Any Peavey earlier than 1990 for example

@insederec 2 жыл бұрын

their guitars and basses are next, I've been hoarding

@Louzahsol 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve got a few late 70’s peavey combo amps that are my go to for doom

@micahj9828 2 жыл бұрын

Used to be able to get Crate GX-140Cs for $100. Some shitbird did a video about Cannibal Corpse and now the are 750+ if you can even find them.

@fukyu4131 2 жыл бұрын

Thankfully I already have a shitty amp!

@numberneinlarge9965 2 жыл бұрын

@@insederec they already got to the T-40s man don’t let anyone know (seriously why are these basses $1500 now)

@howltrigger7713 2 жыл бұрын

great work man!!

@davids.6693 Жыл бұрын

Sounds really good! You even remind me of Josh in his early days

@erictouw4455 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Absolutely killer!!

@BitsofBusiness 2 жыл бұрын

Im so happy that theres so many Kyuss fans out there, it has a special place in my heart, when I have a a kid, Im naming him Kyuss!

@ModNicGuitars 2 жыл бұрын

Would love you to do a video on Josh’s solo tone focusing on the short delay with a lot of repeats sound he had for like clockwork.

@westwoodmusic604 2 жыл бұрын

MAN THAT GARDENIA TONE

@Clutch3672 2 жыл бұрын

That was killer. I haven’t listened to Kyuss in a long time.

@chrisdoe8192 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely perfect

@TheGoutMan1000 Жыл бұрын

Wow sounds amazing bro 🔥

@stevenrose6120 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it mate, if Kyuss lives again they should give you a call

@peterb7435 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds right Nice work.

@ashleyjackson8538 Жыл бұрын

It’s definitely close , I’m starting to like these rugged sounds more and more .

@samuelveerhuis9144 2 жыл бұрын

AWESOME SOUND!!!!

@bwa_8 2 жыл бұрын

HUGE sounds 👌

@Hardchoere 2 жыл бұрын

I think that sounded pretty great :). Perhaps due to the circuit with the tube preamp overdrive and otherwise the mosfet distortion in the power amp? I thought I could hear the two different distortion working together. I wonder if I was right.. :) regards, great channel!

@martijnschilders1726 2 жыл бұрын

So impressed by this! And it sounds so good.

@dominikignacik9736 2 жыл бұрын

Great work

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@JohnoO_O_ 2 жыл бұрын

your best video, ever 🙌

@purplereigninblood 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this, Thanks - J

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@johnbennett125 2 жыл бұрын

Spot on tone

@p3rcey 2 жыл бұрын

Certainly some transistor clipping going on here - sounds fantastic

@R3TR0R4V3 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds great bro 👍

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks ✌️

@meexiko 2 жыл бұрын

Man... yes! It sounds amazing!

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll answer your email soon! Thanks for the info once again 💪🏻

@Shloopers 2 жыл бұрын

Those half step bends are sooo saucy

@joelanza6360 2 жыл бұрын

awesome. it reminds me of my lm305 chip rat but with a more stable low end. mainly it's that similar warm, about to combust sound.

@kahlrhoam6769 2 жыл бұрын

I wasn’t doing stoner rock in ‘90-‘96, but I had a TubeWorks 100w 12” combo. I’d traded a hopped up JCM800 50w & $200 when I heard it in a local music store. Just ran home & hit the ATM. I just had a Wah out front & a Digitech Multiplay 20/20 in the loop; I strung a TubeWorks 12” wedge > near my drummer & it was a fucking WALL of tone. Their speakers are the earliest Eminence dishes I’m aware of. What gives it that almost gooey pick attack response, is BK isn’t running the preamp tubes at full plate voltage. And he used mostly the old original Groove Tubes. Just gooey awesomeness. Rock on, dude.

@wintermute101 2 жыл бұрын

Man I forgot how awesome that gardenia riff is!!!

@Halis_saygi 2 жыл бұрын

that green machine riff is everythinggg

@bpmore 2 жыл бұрын

This guitar tone is therapy.

@CraigDeubler 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it! 👍

@blacktoothfox677 2 жыл бұрын

Spot on, sonic brother!🍀

@philzyqotsa 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly spot on!!!

@gwoodtones 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed a nice kyuss sound. You even look a bit like josh watching you playng😉. But you can reach the sound very close with a lot of amps ... But the playing style of josh is unique and not to copy... like everybody's own style is unique... so I think more important is to create your own style and sound... and not to try to be the best copy!

@MrMystery666 2 жыл бұрын

Be cool to hear the tube works and the vt-40 as doubled guitars.

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

indeed! Any with my Peavey Standard

@BD-me4nk 2 жыл бұрын

@@LivingroomGearDemos yes please!

@MonsieurSafari 2 жыл бұрын

love it!

@hepone 2 жыл бұрын

my first Real amp was a Mos Valve 12" combo. it could get heavy as fk. I let one of my friends borrow it and he wouldn't give it back. I had to sell it to him. He was in an Industrial band. He pulled the amp out and put it in a Rack. played it live. He loved that thing

@konradkoeppe2840 2 жыл бұрын

Actually these do lighter drive tones fairly well too. Knew a very talented guitarist that used to use one of these heads back in the day for jam band stuff.

@davidkdanielson 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@EasyHeat 2 жыл бұрын

Dude!! Freakin awesome!!

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@H3LLE Жыл бұрын

Got myself a Tubeworks ProValve, can't wait to get my hands on the MosValve for double damage 😈

@HerbaceousM8 2 жыл бұрын

oh shiiit. love it. maybe i need one

@antoniojosevilacapinheiro1069 2 жыл бұрын

Looks the same 😍😍😍 awesome 🤘

@andyhightides 2 жыл бұрын

When a bad sound is the best sound.

@kozsg 2 жыл бұрын

eargasm, geat video!!

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@LAZERBEAMBAND 2 жыл бұрын

Tubeworks stuff is great. I had a few of these heads when I was try Harding kyuss tone. I also have an ovation GP for sale if you’re interested. I noticed you’re playing an eastwood

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

cool, can you email at the email address in the description?

@MarcoRizzo84 2 жыл бұрын

Very very good sound.

@peterisdead666 2 жыл бұрын

this thing sounds incredible

@zachsmith3376 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice stack feature. I have the same amp. Walter Becker had one

@topher4677 2 жыл бұрын

I imagine he was doing very different things with his lol.

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

haha

@metalhead3ecr 2 жыл бұрын

starts searching reverb and ebay before finishing video ...such a cool tone!

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Good luck finding one! Close to impossible 🙈

@camilomartinezgrez1263 2 жыл бұрын

Pioneer keep the good work

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Jstall7543 2 жыл бұрын

Kyuss was really cool!

@yomuthabyotch 2 жыл бұрын

went to high school with BK butler's son in colorado. didnt know that he was the tube works guy till much later though. back then kid didnt even play guitar; the legacy stopped with his father. sad.

@Sheltada 2 жыл бұрын

Something I suggest trying, cranking the mids on the tubeworks seems to get me somewhere closer to kyuss

@travissexsmith5362 2 жыл бұрын

Keep it up!

@AndyDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Was always curious about what rig allowed all these neck pu sounds to sound both wooly and bright at once! Nice work…I still prefer his Ampeg tones personally.👊🔥

@LivingroomGearDemos 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Ampegs are great. I was surprised to learn that he used the Tube Works a lot on the first records though. For instance, the tone on No-One Knows is mostly the Tube Works.

@AndyDemos 2 жыл бұрын

@@LivingroomGearDemos That's really surprising! Just hunted down that Valentine vid ;)

@charleslandreth3128 2 жыл бұрын

I know that sound, you nailed it.

@coldandugly9251 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it

@troyraywalker 2 жыл бұрын

Since I watched this video I went on the hunt for one. Just picked up a 1x12 combo for 100 bucks this afternoon 🙂

@zerosadness 2 жыл бұрын

Hi man love your videos! I'm not totally sure about if it's the Kyuss amps, can explain: From what I've found and check during years, From start to Blues for Red Sun (1992) he used a single JCM900. Prior to December 92, he used 2 JCM900 rig. In April 93 (Metallica tour) he also used 2 JCM900 Rig (can also be rent gear) In May 93 it's the first time we can see (via youtube) the Mosvalve amps live with JCM900 He mostly use a JCM900/Mosvalve until 1994/95 In 1995 for the last tour, he switched for 2 Mosvalve rig. It appear on the Green Machine video but apparently the video was filmed maybe in 93. Blues for Red Sun is JCM900 So I think skyvalley and circus leave town are certainly a mix of this 2 amps. Also there is a mix of Marshall 4x12 and Ampeg cab (don't know exactly the model) that wen after to a full ampeg cab rig.

@theghosty99 2 жыл бұрын

Just bear in mind, lots of artists play different gear live than what they recorded with. Especially in cases where they're using a rare amp to record, you don't want to risk having it break or be stolen on the road, so you use a more common, road-tested amp to play live and you just try to get a similar sound from it. That way if something goes wrong, you can replace your live amp pretty easily.

@zerosadness 2 жыл бұрын

@@theghosty99 for sure man, I'm à professional guitartech and studio engineer 😉 But I think that Josh was using same rig on studio and live, because he was so on a unique sound and feel in this time.