How Can I Get This tone?

How can I get the tone at 1:33 in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-6kdzTtAUs

For the tone in the video, Matt is using an EVH/Peavey Wolfgang and a Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 100. I'm gonna be making an EVH/Peavey Wolfgang replica (with EVH Wolfgang pickups, and I will use it in the middle position like Matt did) and I have a Vox AC30. I've also got an MXR EQ pedal. Since I haven't made the Wolfgang yet, right now I'm using my Fender USA Pro Tele (with a humbucker in the bridge and a single coil in the neck, I'm using the middle position like Matt did) as my main guitar. Without buying any new pedals, amps, etc, how close can I get to this tone, and how do I get there?

I would argue, for now, to keep messing with the gear you have until your able to get it. Considering it's not the heaviest of tones, the Tele and the AC30 should be more than adequate.

I see a soldano back there too, god knows, guy has a billion amps and a huge pedalboard.... muse has been discussed ad nauseum on this messageboard lately

wait, was it with you?

word of advice? find your own signature guitar sound

if you haven't watch sounds like by Andertons they build rigs to sound like artists for under 1500 quid

https://youtu.be/XuWGTgpbY6I

this is by far my favorite series on youtube and after the first season they really started to nail the tones of a lot of artists. this is general tone also so you could tweak it a lot but i feel the key to his tone is octave and hum buckers with a perfect amount of distortion

I've seen every sounds like there is ;)

Thanks for all the help, I'll keep messing around and see what I can come up with.

your gear gear on your page seems like it can handle that tone its just a matter of time to get it down

an ac30 can do a little bit of everything

thats why i want one but for now I'm trying to get my own drri so i don't have to barrow one, but i want a hand wired ac30 with greenbacks

Yeah, an AC30 can do anything, even American tones. I'll experiment and see what tones I can come up with :)

remember, to get fender blackface EQ start with the treble and bass maxed and a smidge of cut knob and tweak from there

Good to know :)

I am Mr AC30, own like 5 of them counting my matchless! just stacked up like stale bread. but the thing is the top boost channel is flat mids (or close to it) with both tone controls down and scooped mids with both tone controls maxed

Remember that he uses zvex fuzz factories and has them built into some guitars. It stands to reason that this could be his go to fuzz because he knows it backwards.

It's definitely not the fuzz factory. That video is from early 2000 (showbiz era) and he only started using the fuzz factory till the origin of symmetry era (really late 2000-2002)

ah ha, it was this thread http://equipboard.com/forums/guitarists-bassists/topics/jcm-800-vs-jcm-900?page=2#post-11133

where you were looking at 800s or 900s for Matchless tones when your AC30 was fine.... you're really obsessed with muse

I'm not obsessed, I just love his tone! :P

Muse were my first good rock band, and they will always be my favorite.

for me it was the Spiders from Mars, but I don't play with a cocked wah thru a marshall major... though I do sometimes put on makeup and platform boots

lol, I bet that would sound good :P

thats why i want one but for now I'm trying to get my own drri so i don't have to barrow one, but i want a hand wired ac30 with greenbacks

I really like the fawn handwired I have, mine has a Blue and an H30 which splits the difference between the greenback sound and the alnico sound but also provides punchier cleans than either... firmer bass response too... I think I use it more than any other ac30 I own and even more than the DC30... I mean, its also very replaceable so I tend to lean on it because you can turn around and buy another one used for around a grand... but it sounds really good and holds its own with every other amp I own and I've never ah a problem with it. Still on the tubes that were in it in the secondhand store when I bought her. I think I would play her every day if I didn't sometimes like to play my pro or a 50 watter. The 50 watters have been getting a lot of love lately, loud though they are.

that said I am kinda excited about the new 4 input reissues with the smooth black tolex and might let go of my 90s RI or 70s arbiter to fund one of those. Maybe the ac15 with the proper EF86 channel since I already have the DC30 which pushes close to 40 watts when used in anger and also has an EF86 channel, though a more modern version of it.... I'm thinking the 90s RI will go, its a PCB amp, it was actually built under contract by marshall with marshall's drake transformers, and its character is pretty much just like the HW2 but with a vib/trem channel. People go gaga for those reissues too. I might be able to dead swap her to a store for that new handwired ac15 reissue. It might be nice to have a 1x12 again, all my combo amps are huge now and I find myself asking to borrow cabs at jam sessions and then just toting a head...

oh man, I am off on a vox tangent