100% yes.

After watching this video I became so clean I havent taken a shower since the 80s.

Rush - Time Stands Still!!! Whenever this conversation comes up Rush is always overlooked. I would argue that as a band, Rush, perhaps more then anyone else during this period, utilized this tonal approach in the most musical and progressive way possible. Required album listening: Power Windows, Grace Under Pressure and of course, Hold Your Fire.

80s were the best of times..

Dann Huff revealed his clean sound as being a Tri stereo Chorus and a Dimension D being used at the same time.

That flesh for fantasy clip at the beginning is perfect for this because its exactly the song i think of whenever people mention 80s clean tones

Jamie West-Oram of The Fixx. The very epitome of 80s “clean.” Awesome clean tones, and they’re still making great music today.

200 likes, wow! Thank you for watching everyone.🥰

I feel that chorus used in series rather than parallel integrates more naturally with the guitar tone and sounds thicker. Reverb is always used in parallel.

some nice clean/chorus on "Principle of moments" too

Live, you can use a 10 band eq into a clean guitar amp and boost 2k, 4k, 8k and dip the mids. The Katana can also get you there by employing the flat acoustic model.

Dude I've been chasing this tone for years, thank you so much!

Great Video! Chorus was such a huge component of the 80s clean sound

Kyle you are a wealth of amazing information! I love these videos.

Trying different things is always fun. Nice tone dude

DUDE!!! So well executed!!!

Fantastic!

Truly awesome man!! That clean tone actually bring tears to my eyes

I’m digging this so hard! Outstanding job, Kyle.

Amazing, love this tone. Great for sounding massive when you are outlining chords, always a place for this tone in my library. Thank you for the tutorials.

Clicked for the guitar, stayed for the good clean tips. Actually really needed this rn

Thank you so much for doing this, you have no idea how valuable this is for me!

I came here from a link on a TGP thread on ‘80s Tri Stereo Chorus. Did not disappoint!

Those cleans sound awesome !!!!!

Great video! The compressor pre and post is something I’ve not seen other people do and it was the secret ingredient I have been missing! Thanks! Looking forward to more videos

this video changed my life

Congratulations, hands down the best video on KZfaq and the whole internet about this topic ! Enjoyed all the tones you got, but the one you get in Flesh For Fantasy is absolutely perfect, all the ingredients are there and it sounds glorious, I like it even more than the original, Stevens would be proud. You have a subscriber ( and a lot of my 80s-obsessed-freaks friends I sent this to ) . Can't wait to see more from you. My hat off, sir !!!

Dude... it’s perfect. I love the way that guitar looks so much, and from what I can tell, everyone loves those things

Bro why have I been crazing these tones?!? They're addictive to play.

Super helpful. I love these tones! Thanks, man!

Great video! Nice explanation and great sounding examples. 🎸😀🙏

Thank-you Kyle! Your JT is rad!!

Great video - and such an AMAZING tone! (*sigh* The 80s were SO awesome.)

dude, so cool and in depth explanation! Loved this!

you nailed the tones! Great video

Dropping gems, thanks bro 🙌🙌

Thanks. Some great advice.

Congratulations. Not only did you sound exactly like the Eighties, you looked just like them, too. I know, I was there and I remember.

This is a great video! (That Tyler finish is beautiful)

Thx for throwing it back, many has forgotten and are hooked too much of the plugins. ...Like the jammin of Flesh 4....

Wicked tones man!

Liked, commented, subscribed, watched the whole video

Sup Kyle. You rock bro: thank you for this tone video

Subscribed. I'm scratching my head as to why your channel doesn't have more subscribers, but I hope you get many more as you got a good thing going here.

I dig your taste in 'Guitar Tonal Palette' Brotha! That sound WAS "ALL OVER THE PLACE" in the 80s. Your rendition of Steve Stevens' work on Idol's "Flesh For Fantasy" was REALLY good! The 'Strat-Nasal' tone, also called 'Strat'-Quack is important in recreating a LOT of those 80s 'clean' tones. Excellent example is Robert Plant's 'Big Log', Jamie West Oram's guitar work on The FIXX's 'Red Skies', 'Saved By Zero', and 'One Thing Leads To Another'. Ty Tabor of KING'S X really took the 'Strat'-Bridge/Middle' tone to new heights, by overdriving a Lab Series amp with a Fender Strat Elite (his was a red one), but he used clean tones with it as well. The Strat was and is a workhorse, but the Tele was used for clean tones as well as rock tones back then also. Billy Squier used one, on 'Don't Say No'. Anyway, great video. And you're definitely 'digging' in the right place for 'guitar tone'-pioneering possibilities, IMHO. And I grew up in that era. And I STILL play, on a MIM Charvel Pro Mod San Dimas HH/FR Black Purple Burst Quilt Top Strat, through two Peavey 1st Gen. VYPYR amps (30 W/ 12", and 75 W/ 12" respectively), and use an MXR M234 Analog Chorus (buffered), an MXR 117 Flanger (for limited 'Jet Plane'-swooshes of colouring), and all that with the amp's reverb and a touch of slap-back echo. It gets me in the neighborhood of those 80s 'clean' tones with the 'Fender Twin' -amp model (Mesa Boogie Rectifier & Peavey 6505 amp models for high gain tones). Building for a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier or another EVH 5150 III 6L6 50W mini-setup, in the near future.

That Tyler is freakin Awesome dude , that is such a special guitar man

I am all about the schmo. For my setup the Keeley 30ms brings the 80s studio pixie dust. Love your Tyler and those Anderson’s. You are fully committed.

Dude I had the biggest grin when you started playing "Girls". I love the way Adam Hann uses these kinda tones. Great vid man.

You had me at Nile Rodgers and Prince.. do more. Talk about gated drums and how 80's groups used reverb. Anyway came across you randomly.. I hope you grow

Very interesting! I'm gonna have to try that out! Cheers!

Thank you so much for this video - I've been wanting to know how to get that clean 80's tone for years! I noticed the Nembrini ADA MP1 actually has a Clean Chorus preset which gets you halfway there immediately, but your additional tips really add that secret sauce. The only comment I would make, as rockin' as your backing music is, it sometimes overpowers your voiceover (or maybe it's just my old ears) 😁keep up the good work!

Love to hear the details behind your HSH tones with all those push-button options and all the extra tone goodies.

Nice

Great video. I also dig that Tyler you got there. I’ve been obsessed with this guitar sound for half a decade now. Of course me being obsessed with 80s pop has to do with it as well. But also some of the studio players like Lukather/Landau/Huff etc are the guys that made me fall in love with this tone in the first place. I always thought to myself if I ever get a guitar in the future this is one of the tones that I’m going to be chasing after. But anyways, Keep up the good work.

That was great. I'm an 80's musician so this hit home.

Thank you

Thank you for the video, you've got some beautiful tones going on! I don't use these sounds myself but I do love them. Until now I didn't know how they came to be but I always suspected a combination of amp and direct sound because of the high end. Turns out I wasn't that wrong ;)

bro...just found your channel today but I gotta' subscribe...multiple Rush songs!!! gotta' love it!

Sick

Great video. Love those 80s clean tones. I use Th-U with the Rockguy (rockman simulator) and it does them pretty well

That Tyler is fantastic! Nailed Time Stand Still.

Rad!!! Subbed

Great stuff man! Another magic pickup combo - especially on Tyler, Tom Anderson, and other super-strat type guitars with more switching options is ALL 3 pickups on.

cool vid

Todd Rundgren's tones on "Nearly Human"!

Love these videos Kyle! As I no longer have much actual gear and record mainly into my DAW these days would it be possible to get a video from you showing how to get this sound in a DAW? Mainly the compression settings and tweaks to really make it pop. I have got close a few times but not quite as good as this! Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

Awesome video! I don't really play this style, but I listened to this growing up. I think I want to incorporate some of this 80s sound into my band though.

Man that Tyler is the coolest.. My 80s cleans are my Warmoth strat with a piezo bridge going stereo into a Roland JC 120 with the piezo getting the dry side and the magnetic pups getting the chorus side, but mainly for recording I've been going direct using a 90s fender rockman style bass amp with boss effects , I think the main "80s" thing is some amount of chorus in the mix.

I've been wondering how to get those gnarly synth era rush tones... this is awesome!

Jet city woman! Thank you!!!

Agreed! ☝️ Everything about this.. 100% Yes. 😆

Seem cool. Gotta new sub.

Yeah dude. This channel is pretty cool.👍

Amplitube 5 with the Fulltone Pack...OCD plus Tri Chorus...KILLER!

Kyle, I know enough about plug-ins to be dangerous! Would like to see exactly how you set it up-do a deep dive into it, I think it would be cool to a lot of people that don’t know enough about the technique or are just getting into recording using daw and plug-ins. Subscribed and liked👍🏻

Great vid and tones. The bit of unexpected Jet City Woman in there was a happy surprise, as I always felt Queensryche had a real distinctive clean sound, which is usually not what people think about most in their music.

He didn't mention the one and only Lukather...

Great sounds! Ya i try to play mostly hsh type guitars so i can use the middle and bridge combo into a compressor , some modulation, reverb and delay.....i also discovered the Valhalla Supermassive which gives me these insane pitched delays that i like to use to make it sound like i have synth pads playing along to my arpeggios....but ya i actually like not using any type of cab impulses for my clean guitar and bass

Thanks Dude. Not into the "studio scene", but this tone is iconic for the times (if you're old enough to remember them).

Freedom!!

The algor got me here!! Hey, just realized the line 6 pod has the a preamp setting sounds like the ADA and rockman when you add chorus. ( i also plug my guitar straight into boss chorus and OD3 straight into mixer) Cheers and thank you!!

Great stuff - pretty sure The War On Drugs use those tricks today

Schmo is love. Schmo is life... I see another worthy member enter our small community of overly processed guitar tone enjoyers. Welcome. You seem to fit right in. (Also, I want that Tyler, now. That finish is AWESOME!)

Lets goooo

Dude that is flat out the sickest clean 80s tone ever!!!

That Steve Stevens intro lick, Billy Idol, ... auto sub!

Love this shit

It's mind blowing how good this plugin is. I have just about every Amp Sim, and have had a real one of these for a bit. The MP1 sounds and feels like the real one, and once I dialed in the Nuno settings, I couldn't out the guitar down for 5 hours. Highly recommend anyone, especially 80s fans to purchase this. One warning, just like the real deal, you will know just how good your pickups are after playing through it. :)

Very good video, mate. Keep going! If possible, put some effort in having “good enough” video. Though I can’t say I really care, it’ll make more people stick around. Cheers, from Brazil

I would love to hear more about the Def Leppard/Hysteria tone story. That is always one tone that I think is totally unachievable !

Makes me wish Dunlop would just reissue the OG Rockman X100 and market it to young players. So many up and coming artists are going for those 80’s tones (Mac DeMarco, The Weeknd, Joji, etc.).

My favorite sound is robert plant's now and Zen from 1988 i think? Wide open depthfull compressors that feed the eventide air on the way in and the back door then pops out the most lush wide harmonicly rich tone you can get. And you're right about the monitors. You can use any frfr but remember that there's no point in mono with this sound. The micro pitch needs a stereo field to build a waterfall of phase modulation. The magic is in the individual predilays that give presence to the sound. Like tristerio chorus but no linier modulation. Great stuff and this sound is so worth it to try! In the late 80's it was Verry expensive! Now it's almost free. Winning!!!

This video is exactly 15 minutes. Nice.

Actually it’s more that Beautiful guitar that gives this sound. 🤘😎

Awesome job!

This is great Kyle! Do you have a Fractal IR up anywhere? Nicely done...

New subscribe here. Keep it goin' bro!

Hey bro SICK video!!!! Do you have a Helix or HX patch available? Or how did your signal flow go? Help me out! Pleaseeeeee 🙏🙏🙏🙏😅😅🖤

Very nice tone man! Is this guitar have option to turn on all 3 pickups simultaneously? And what is that option called on the tyler spec sheet?

there's a misconception, a conflict, between what is accepted as a 'good' tone and what is a tone that 'fits' in a mix, song, etc. isolated tracks have let us peek behind the curtains at what is REALLY heard and not what we imagined we heard. out-of-phase tones baffle certain players as to who would use them? even split-coil humbucker tones that are disappointing at first listen are very useable. context is everything