Lateralus Would be a cool guitar tone to re-create.

"Hey adam which of these expensive amps do you want to use?" ..Adam: "yes"

The lateralus tone is easily his best and in my opinion is the heaviest guitar tone ever

Adam Jones has to be one of the most underrated guitar players of our time. For legit Tool fans, we all know his skill level and attention to detail, but for the rest of the world, super underrated. Great job also dude. Your knowledge of the tech is awesome.

I've never really gotten into Tool but that song sounded killer. I think I'm gonna give them another shot.

deftones' around the fur tone would bee coolo

Tool is the perfect band for this segment all across their discography. Imo their career as musicians is as unique as it gets. Awesome video!

You saw Tool during the Aenema tour? So lucky.

Dirt from AIC would be sick, since Jerry's tone is impeccable

Finding tone for Songs for the deaf by queens of the Stone Age would be a cool video

Aenima is the pinnicle for both tone and overall production. I love the shades of that evil sounding chorus-type flavor, the chirpy break up of the distortion, the razor sounding crunch of the rhythm tone, even the big delay of the pick scrapes. The ambiance of the album is just artistically spot on, like the whole album was recorded on Halloween under a full moon.

I love his tone on the song Pushit. Its got an intangible quality to it i can't describe so well. Good stuff

Fluff you are a really incredible musician. I love to here people, like yourself, get into the nuts and bolts of creating sounds. You have such an incredible ear and are truly gifted. Thank you for everything you do. Merry Xmas.

Thank you for this. I always watch your channel because you have so much knowledge about the PC stuff, (amongst many other music related and music technology topics). I will continue to watch your channel, even about stuff that doesn't make sense to me. I write those things down in case I need to know about it at a later point in my learning process.

Kirk Windsteins tone from Sonic Excess in its Purest Form would be incredible. There is not a single video on his tone on KZfaq!

Excellent breakdown. The interweb needs more fluff, Uncle Ben, and Axe in the same videos!

I have waited for a video like this! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Man, you really nail the subtleties in a player’s tone. 😎

The Jerry Cantrell legacy, especially on Dirt, is remarkable! But, can you recreate it?

Merry Christmas, FLUFF!!!!

Please do the Mastodon's Crack The Skye guitar tone

Thanks so much for making this mate! Just referenced this video in my 15min Adam Jones Tone challenge. You're a legend. Cheers!

Mastodons blood mountain tone recreation!

Christmas present for the viewers! THANKS FLUFF!

I had the honor of visiting Peter Diezel in Germany before the pandemic. He had been meeting with Adam to do some service to his VH-4. Peter showed me a schematic of the amp that he had been sketching on a napkin. Priceless.

I love Adams rythems mixed into the riffs, it's not super technical stuff but getting it right by including the dead/pick scraped sticatto rythem notes can be tricky but just makes it sound so alive. Love his playing style, big influence for lots of us.

Fantastic really well done enjoyed it a lot.

I thought Adam was slapping the fretboard with his left hand and only using one pick attack on the intro riff. I certainly could be wrong.

It’s a Christmas miracle! Thanks for this.🙏

Merry Christmas!!

This is amazing. Thank you!

Aenima is my favorite rock/metal production ever. The drums (and the room they were recorded in which is clearly present), the glorious bass, and that amazing guitar tone. What a perfect sounding album in my opinion.

I don't know how you do it Fluff. Adjusting little increments of different settings over a number of plugins and sound tools, just to hear the microscopic nuances that _actually_ adds more authenticity to the original tone.😳 I would pull my hair out at that stage... But this was absolutely immaculate. Looking super forward to seeing your recreations of Lateralus and 10,000 Days!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Love how you used the Burny man.... It's my absolute favorite LP ever! I'm playing in a Tool Tribute band and have a Diezel VH4 thru Mesa 4x12 and a Hughes Kettner Grandmeister Deluxe (great for the midi options and getting several different AJ-souds) thru an Orange 2x12 (gonna get another Boogie for this one - the Orange Closed back is a tad too dark) and this is a dream setup.

Can't help but notice that your rockin' The Bunns shirt! You must be stoked!

Would really love to get a similar video on the 10,000 days tone. Its my personal favorite of all time and I have been forever struggling to get it close. I hope you make a video on it someday!

I've always identified that song's tone as a classic Rectifier tone - the signature near-abrasive Presence, for example, reminiscent of a lot of famous uses of that amp around that time (e.g., in Limp Biscuit). Having had some version of a Recto in the stable for 13 years now, I know it can definitely nail to a "T" that particular tone. Side note: the best Adam Jones guitar tone for me is on the track Jambi. Truly one of the greatest modern tones to date and I think the product of a uniquely inspired spark of creative chemistry between Jones and Baresi... Cheers!

I really like the tones on the newest album.

I would love to see you recreate Mastodon: Crack the Skye guitar tones. Just amazing sounds from that record.

thanks for all the info, to me the Adam Jones sound was always about how he plays, he likes to mute and play some staccato style riffs, he is precise and very clean and clear and aggressive or very soft, is a unique style and to me is the signature of the sound more than his actual tones.

Hey Ryan, it would be awesome if you could try and re-create Josh Homme's tone on Kyuss' Welcome to Sky Valley, I can ship you a TubeWorks RT-2100 amp to help you out if you'd like.

Thamk you! Thank you! Thank you Fluff!

Type O Negative Bloody Kisses album next, please. My fav tone.

Wow! That’s amazing!

Very nice, Fluff!

I'd love to see a section in these vids where you do a quick recreation on the helix and Axe fx as well.

Nice t-shirt! Shout out to Bunn and the group! :-)

ZZTop Afterburner tone, Bathory first album tone and maybe the first Deicide album tone. Cool.

Commenting "Do Korn's Self Titled guitar tone" until Fluff does a video on it

I have not watched the guy that plays bass on this but Ben Eller is AweSome...his insights on how to break down hard riffs GREAT!

Could you play the whole song on one of these next time? I was actually hoping to see how you would've approached the middle section (the "learn to swim" part) with the slide and flangey guitar.

I owned a mid 90's Epiphone SG and played it with a BOSS metal Zone 2 through an old Canadian made Garnet Amp from the 80s. And I found I could match Adam's Tone, not even knowing what gear he used. I was only 13 when Undertow was released and was still learning how to play. Thanks to Tool and Helmet, I discovered drop D tuning.

i think you nailed it, and i have listened to that album more than any other album in my life, very very close to the og tone

I love my UA Audio gear and plug-ins. I love using UA's Studer 800 plug-in to tie everything in a mix together. What tape add-on did you use for this production? It makes sense to use in general but especially for Tool, they still to this day use a Studer 800 for tracking, loves me some UA magic!

Nailed it totally man!!

Great vid! Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood tone would be awesome dude.

Do a HELMET guitar tone please i love that band

I saw Tool a couple months ago when they came to Houston. I wasn't expecting much because I saw APC a few months before that and they were a huge letdown. I know totally different band. It ended up being the best show I've ever seen! AJ's tone was so sick. It sounded amazing. The visual show was so cool too and went perfectly with the music.

Awesome video. You should do a Queensryche tone. I’ve been wanting someone to do Degarmo and Wilton for a while

Awesome Video! Throwing another vote in for anything Mastodon

What a xmas gift!

10,000 days has one of the best tones ever.

Also I think an interesting tone to try and redo is anything from Tera Melos. The newer songs I’d say from the last release which is called treasures and trolls with either the title track or “lemon grove”. Or anything from the Patagonian rats album maybe the song trident tail.

I tried this with Amplitube and got really close. One thing that made a HUGE difference was the pick, since I was playing with a 0.88 Tortex, then switched to a 0.73 and got even closer. I will try a nylon 0.5 mm next.

Jerry Cantrell would be wicked! 🙌🏻

Good shout out to Greg. Axe of Creation is a fantastic channel, especially for Tool stuff.

Should've gone with some pre EQ that boosts the high mid and high. The song intro sounds ALMOST like it's been recorded with single coils. I think the Boss EQ does that. Your tone has too much modern tightness and too much mid presence instead of a bit more contour. Also, the Marshall is 100% stock, per his tech (check the dunlop video). This was a tricky one though ;)

You more or less nailed it buddy; well done.

Oh, and btw, you seemed to have nailed this quite well when you added the plugins! Seem to have a good ear!

The Foo Fighters the color and the shape tone recreation please! Merry christmas!

One of my favorite albums of all time ! 👍🏻

I know this is an older video, but your playing is really great dude

I'm loving this series. I'd dig one of these on Powerman 5000 or Reuben

Stinkfist was the first song I ever learned to play on guitar with sheet music and tab. Then I learned a couple deftones and tool songs and now I cannot escape the influence Adam Jones has on my playing. That isn’t a bad thing to me as he’s my favorite guitarist. Simple riffs to learn that sound so much more complex all the way up to super hard to learn complex mind bending parts. I’d say Robert fripp and Adam Jones share my number one spot and I look up to them both.

Friedman was inside....had his hands on Adams Superbass. He says it’s bone stock...no mods. Maybe changed to “Lead Specs”? but stock none the less. Fun video Fluff........thanks for sharing👍

Great video, and thank you for pronouncing Ænima correctly.

Excellent!!!! Please recreate the tone of the fear inoculum album when you can :) Thanks for sharing

Merry Christmas

Nice work, really good information! Can you make a video with Matt Pike guitar tone?

Merry Christmas :)

At last! Thanks fluff

AWESOME!!!!

Really cool man!! only the last part sound littel werid. happy holiday :)

Would like to see a recreation vid for Jerry Cantrell

Great video! I've been listening to the Aenima album ever since the release. Saw TOOL live on the Aenima tour. And to this day I still listen to like it's my 1st time. Such an amazing album. When I sit down and really listen carefully to this album I can't help but notice that there is much more going on in Adam Jones's guitar tone. I've always known he has used Diezel amps a lot however I'm hearing something else in his tone on this album and it's almost like a broken up low gain Fuzz coming thru rather than an all out high gain crunch amp tone. If I had to suggest something that I feel sounds close I'd say something like a EHX Metal MUFF. UNDERTOW had that real plexi crunch tone and so did opiate. The Albums that followed Aenima all sound different in tone as well. I'm not claiming your tone was wrong however would love to hear your opinion on this as you know the boys from TOOL love to play with our minds so much it makes me think that maybe there is something none of us know about Adams tone. 🤘👍

I got it with an 808, Tri Rec gain low, Bass and Treb half, mid low, Mesa cab with a 441 off center and I added a Phaser on 0. For Fear Inoculum I swapped in a Gold Klon. Thanks Fluff

It would be nice to see a Josh Homme Kyuss-era tone recreation. Maybe 'Blues for the Red Sun' record would be perfect for this

If you said this, I apologize for missing it... I have a guitar mag interview with Adam from the late ‘90s or early ‘00s where he says that (at least part of) the Marshall mod is jumpering the clean and crunch channels so he can dial a bit of clean into the overall tone. I believe that amp has a separate tone stack for the 2 channels. So that may be “not as much gain as I’m using here” aspect comes in. Just an idea. Having said all that, your recreation is right on. A tiny bit of a clean channel might have a subtle effect but you nailed it.

Do Alice In Chains and Queens of the Stone Age too!

Adams guitar sound is based on the Marshall Base head, or vintage Marshall tube amp can get close to recreating that sound. Listen to their 1992 album live which he plays through one amp, and you will see his tone has not changed much, just been added to. The Vh4 blue stereo amp is the perfect add to his sound. And he has hardly changed his live set up from the aenima tour. He switch out the messa for another Vh4 standard. The key with his sound is the stereo setup, playing 3 amps at once. Lastly his Silver burst les Paul has a special sound that he says keeps him playing them. The tone you have created is very dry. And JCM Marshall apps do go very dry. His base head is very hard to get and modify, but trying the vintage tube amps like the Marshall 1974x hardwired 18W tube amp turned right up to vol 10 will get you close with that wet vintage Marshall sound. Then get a Vh4 amp with a quad and play them in stereo you will see what i mean.

Yes!

That is awesome

Enema is my favorite stool song

Ah yes. 5am, on a lovely sunny Christmas morning, and we are already grabbing our guitars! (Ignore the lack of sunlight outside.)

When listening to Aenima with headphones it amazed me at how much mono guitars were on that record. They really only stereod the guitars in really epic parts but it sounded huge

Here’s a tone fluff should recreate: Jason Richardson’s tone from Chelsea Grin’s Evolve EP

Uncle Ben sent me. Happy to be here

I didn't understand anything you said but Pinky is chillin' in the back.

Nice shirt!

I've never heard of a Diezel VH4 plugin amp before this video. That being said I have a large important question. Which amp sim would you choose between the DSP Fortin Nameless Suite or the Universal Audio Diezel VH4 ?? Oh, and the fact Adam was playing a Paul Rivera on a Tool album is cool af.