the bass tone on dookie is still one of the best ive ever heard

More mids and highs would do it. Believe it or not a JB pickup can get you REALLY close without much effort.

Hey Fluff, I think it would be a difficult tone to replicate but it would be cool if you did a Songs For the Deaf guitar tone episode.

Sounds like a metal version of Dookie. The tone is too scooped.

Had no clue he used a Bill Lawerence. That bass on the album is so prominent. I always loved that about Green Day. The vocal harmonies were so good.

Dookie got me into punk. …And Out Come The Wolves solidified it. That’s crazy there’s that crossover.

Great effort man! And excellent video

Such an iconic guitar sound, I mean everything in that album was just perfect. Thanks for doing your take on it, sounded great.

dude i randomly remembered this series existed yesterday and coincidentally saw this in my notifs just now i’m so excited

Dookie saved the 90's for me, after the death of Kurt Cobain and disbandment of Nirvana they came up saving the whole ass decade.

A lot of people know about the Bradshaw/dookie mod, but I’m looking for info on the mod he had on his other 1959, referred to as “SE lead mod” from La sound design in their rig rundowns.

Idk, that sounds not close to me :( Maybe playing around with the cab could get it to sound a bit more like the original.

I'm literally releasing a video today of a Dookie album medley. Don't think I got anywhere as close to you tone-wise, I just thought it was crazy you putting this out today haha. Great work as always! 🤘

Jerry Finn was the man. He was involved with so many great albums from during his career. And the bands that he worked with seem to have had been very grateful for what he did for them.

Needs more upper mids/low highs but yea you got the basics. Playing was really great.

I live in the Bay Area and used to frequent a vintage guitar shop in the 90s called UniVibe in Berkeley. I bought several cool pieces from there and struck up a decent relationship at the time with the store manager. One day, I was interested in a mid-70s Marshall cab that was loaded with original G12M25 “blackbacks”. I had brought my Les Paul and picked out a Marshall amp to try out the cab while at the store, and ended up buying the Marshall cab. By the time the purchase was wrapping up, it was close to closing time and the store manager asked me if I’s be interested in hanging around for a bit while he wrapped things up after the store was closed and that he had something special to share with me. I agreed to hang, and he brought out a Marshall 1959 SLP that looked like it was modded. He plugged it into my cabinet, and I played through it with my Les Paul, and HOLY SHIT!!! At the time, it was THE MOST glorious sounding Marshall tone I had EVER experienced. When I asked him about this amp and IF I could buy it from him, he politely laughed and told me that it wasn’t for sale because it wasn’t his. I asked him who’s it was and he laughed and looked at me kind of surprised and calmly said “You really don’t know who I am, do you?”, to which I replied “Yeah- you’re Bill, the manager of UniVibe who I’ve gotten to know and who’s sold me some cool gear.” He laughed again and told me that it was Billie Joe Armstrong’s Marshall, modded by Bob Bradshaw. It turned out that this guy Bill, was none other than Bill Schneider. Boy did I feel stupid AND privileged at the same time- embarrassing and exciting, all at once. Seriously- true story. That Marshall was BAD ASS and that tone stuck in my head for years. Now I own two modded Marshall Plexis- one by Dave Friedman and the other by Jeremy at Ground Zero. Both get that tone VERY close, the Friedman sounding a bit more “vintage” and the Ground Zero and bit more “modern”. Thanks for this vid, Fluff- pretty cool.👍🏻🤘🏻

Not a bad effort. I heard that BJA used two amps in parallel. One with higher gain than the other. So you get the grind from the high gain amp but also hear the notes from the lower gain amp. Not talking clean. But crunch + gain.

I still listen to that album at least once a week! It's definitely nostalgia for me where I was in highschool at the time it was released. I got to see Green day live when they toured for Dookie. I was beginning my career in the audio industry back then and I was so very impressed with their extremely simple backline and stage setup. They had one marshall full stack, a regular Ampeg SVT 8x10 and a drum kit a couple of wedges each and they were good to go. That tone sounds right on to me. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks so much for a good shot of nostalgia 😎

YES!! I have this entire album memorized Lol First gig I ever played, first song I ever played was Basket Case. I was only 15 years old and loving it!

Love this album so much, first album I bought myself.. You absolutely nailed the tone Fluff!

These videos are by far my favorite series of yours. I love getting into the nitty-gritty of the nerdy side of things

Never disappointed fluff 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻all the videos you’ve done like this actually sounds like the songs. Well done.

Almost 100% spot-on, except I think you may have used too much gain on the Friedman to begin with. Yes, Rob’s Dookie amp had the Bradshaw gain mod which added an extra gain stage, but if you listen to the isolated guitar track from any Dookie song, the gain is actually lower than you think; a lot of the saturation and gain you’re hearing came from Jerry’s mixing techniques.

Great tone aside, that is easily the best drum sound I've ever heard on your channel, Fluff. Keep up the great work!

Love your videos, Fluff. Guitar tone was really close, but the bass was missing a lot of top end in the mix. The bass tone was crucial for shaping and complimenting the guitar tone.

Good lord, i recall digging Fluffs' vids since 2015 or stuff, i remember there were rather few good channels on metal guitar back in the day. Take care Fluff

Great video Fluff, this is probably one of my favorite series you have done, and this one is amazing so keep them coming!

30 years of Dookie recording!

I have a Tele with a Seymour Duncan Hot stack in the bridge, a mark 1 Dookie drive pedal, and I run that through a Marshall DSL 15w 12” combo on the clean channel. The tone is spot on.

It's so hard to recreate the actual sound of the original recordings without the original equipment but I think you did a wonderful job brother brings back so many childhood memories of BMXing and listening to Green Day and Stone Temple Pilots Soundgarden Pearl Jam Even Flow wonderful job brother man I miss the nineties

I have a 1959SLP from 1993 with a generic master volume mod, I want to get it Dookie modded so badly.

It’s still Green Day but please do an “American Idiot” one!! That album is probably my favourite guitar tone ever. The powerchords at the beginning of Jesus Of Suburbia melt your face off.

According to a discussion on a recording forum, the band rented a lot of gear from a local guitar center. Mike had a Pbass for rental and Billie got an American Standard Telecaster that was used with blue. There is an interview with the employee that setup the guitars for Rob Cavallo!

This is awesome. Love your tone recreation videos!

Would be extremely curious to see you tackle some of the Critter era Angels & Airwaves tones! So crisp and tastyyyyyy. You da best Fluff!

Spot on

You got closer than I would have. Awesome job, Fluff.

Not trying to be a citric, but Billie plays the B5 on the root of the A string, and plays a open A power Chord and plays the C5 on the root of the A string.

Would love to see an Offspring Smash era recreation

What I find funny, I literally did this over the weekend to play the entire album. lol

Anthrax among the living, probably my favorite thrash album of the 80s

A tone recreation of a Mark Tremonti album (Creed or Tremonti) would be sick!

Bro you got an ewok roaming your house.

Top 3 guitar tone of all time was on this album.

yes! finally someone acknowledges the bill lawrence. i just loaded my strat with an angled one and it sounds amazing. great video! more mids and high end and this will be perfect

Lee malia sempiternal album tone recreation would be sick!!!

Great deep dive !!!!

Tom Morello's tone on Evil Empire, Steph Carpenter's on Around the Fur and Gavin Rossdale's on Everything Zen would be my votes! Love this series.

Fluff, PLEASE do a pantera or deftones tone video !

Holy shit, you nailed it!!!

Holy... This sounds *so* good!

Hey Fluff it’s My Bday, thanks for posting this today lol

love your guitar Fluff!!!!

Such a great tone! Definitely some motivation for me to learn a bit more about Logic plug-ins.

I was kind of hoping you would've used the Green Day pedal too. Close enough for rock n roll. Sounded great.

the one thing that surprised me hearing the stems is that most of the low end came from the guitar tone, the bass was more in the hi mid harmonic spectrum and yeah, giving some fundamental root note below, but mostly a blown up muddy guitar, one thing that might had been counterproductive in this demo is the overal cleanliness of the drum tone, the lo-fi bleedy characteristics of the snare (yet fully sampled kick drum) and honky bass tones could make a major difference

Yes sir!!! Thx for that vid!!!

Isn't the dookie pedal supposed to do this on it's own? 🤪🎸🎶

I need a full cover on this song with that tone

Dookie was what got me into punk in the 90's. For a long time I wouldn't admit it, but I'm old enough now that I really don't care who knows

I love these tone re-creation videos. Not a fan of Green Day at all, but this was a very cool insight of one the greatest selling albums of all time.

L500XL was the higher output version, L500 was more 'vintage'

Agree about the previous comments regarding the mids/highs. Will also add after A/B'ing with the original is that this version has a bit more gain and compression than the original track.

Should've not forgotten to approximate Mike Dirnt's bass tone, because it's such a key part of Dookie's sound. This sounded great nonetheless.

Welcome to paradise is my favorite, but also very challenging rythem. 🤘

This is so close it’s insane

Would love to see you try to recreate the guitar tones from Godsmack's Faceless album. That might be the best recorded hard rock tone I've ever heard.

So cool Bruce!

Too much gain?

I think it’s got a little too much gain. Any of that stuff I’ve tried to recreate seems to be perfect when you’re at the spot you think you need more gain. Stop there, you’re good. Nonetheless…you do more shit that me, so what do I know 🤷‍♂️

I get my green day tone by basically having a set up of metallica's mop tone with a tv special with the vol rolled down to 5ish and tone to 7. P90s rule and understand why billie pretty much uses them now.

Love this 🙏🏼

Man Id love to hear a recreation of Bush’s album Sixteen Stone.

I love this series. Would be great to see more recreation tone videos. Itd be cool if you showed how you selected the settings for the amp too. I didn't know the same amp was used on out come the wolves.

You made one of the most common mistakes when trying to emulate BJAs guitar tone which is too much gain. That particular amp ( Marshall Dookie mod) sounds huge. But there really isn't as much gain as most people think in his tone.

Friedman Small Box channel 2 is on point for the Dook tone.

Gus trying to get a Topo Chico at 0:37.

Do more of these

That's why it's actually called the dookie mod

This is the first tone I tried to hack when I bought my Helix, Haven't touched that preset in a couple years, Vids got me thinking I should revisit it!

I think the straight Friedman amp sound from the beginning with the tape plug-in is where it’s at.

I really like that outro, it gives the video like a human feel in a way, not really sure how to explain it. Good video though 👍

🎶I’ve heard it said “he looks a lot like Jerry finn “ and sometimes im mistaken for Billy Gibbons ! Look like a wise man ! But I’m an idiot !!”🎶- Joey Cape

quick question, where can i find more info about jerry finn, he was the best recording, mixing all those guitars and as a producer he was amazing too!, but still can´t find more info about his techniques.

fuck yeah!! one of the best ones yet!

To get the tone you should by the MXR Dookie Drive Pedal 🤘

You should try and do the guitar tone from Underoath’s Define The Great Line album. That would be sick!

Anyone else think the tone was nailed straight from the amp and then the other shit just neutered it?

No offense but it sounds almost like a random distortion to me. It sounds great but not specially similar to the one in Dookie, it's just fine.

7:35 Funny you mention the Pul-Tec. Jerry Finn had a Manley Labs Pul-Tec that was (apparently) often used. As for the amps, it's actually a little up in the air. I've heard Rob Cavallo had/has a modded JCM-800 with the SE Lead mod, and Pete (the first of BJ's modded Plexis) was an attempt at recreating that, then he got the other one. I've also just heard it was a Bradshaw/Crunch/Dookie modded Plexi, and that he had both amps and that they would blend between the two depending on how much gain was needed for the song. I could buy this, because Jerry Finn would often blend between two amps: a more crunch and mid-focused amp, and a more scooped and distorted one, just like both respective Plexi mods aim to do. Plus, it's how Green Day run it now. Though, I'm still not 100% as to what would've been on the album. As for the cabs, they appear to be Marshall 1960B straight cabs (there is proof of this, if you dig deep enough on Google), and the mics used were an SM57 and an MD-421, possibly with a U87 as a room mic. There's also a bit of back and forth between whether he used green backs or V30s, but I personally think it was V30s, though it's said that Jerry Finn would like to blend between those two, and sometimes a black back instead of a green back. Having said that, I think Jerry Finn just did the remixes, and Neill King did the engineering and recording. So, it probably wasn't even Jerry Finn's gear used. Either way, tone was excellent, video was good as always. And, no, I haven't spent an excessive amount of time researching pop punk guitar tones, I have no idea what you're talking about...

There is an article on Sound on Sound in which Cavallo explains a bit on the recording of Dookie. The cab used was a Marshall 1960A Vintage (recognizable by the bottom left plate on the cab). Close mics 57 + 421 and a U87 as a room mic. www.soundonsound.com/techniques/green-day-basket-case

I have a Paulownia wood strat copy with a Wilkinson high output humbucker and I play that into my Blackstar HT 100 watt head on OD1 and that sounds VERY Green Day.

To be clear, the Bill Lawrence 500XL that was in BJ’s Fernandez strat IS NOT the same one you can buy from Bill Lawrence USA today. Bill Lawrence at the time was selling his own pickups under his own name, before being bought out by a company and having his name licensed. The pickups were made differently after the buy out So if you are looking for the same pickup as billie joe, you’ll have to find a super old pickup from the 90s that doesn’t have USA in the name.

Fun Fact: Billie Joe Armstrong used a modded Marshall amplifier which is why the tone is so hard to get.

Awesome to see this series come back, loved the vids on Dave Grohl, Billy Corgan and Adam Jones. I know I was asking this from before, but I’d still love to see one of these on Daron Malakian on Toxicity or Josh Homme on Era Vulgara

The guitar tone on the album is more aeee sounding (more punky). Yours is ouhhh (common in the metal world). For the lack of a better word.

Have you tried the “dookie” pedal they put out a few years ago? I think they sound great but I couldn’t make myself buy one they were just too much money for me

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White Pony by Deftones, Betty or Meantime by helmet would be sick 🤙🤙🤙

Awesome video