Guitar Lessons: How To Sound Like Marty Friedman Megadeth

Friday, September 30, 2011

How To Sound Like Marty Friedman Megadeth

2003 Intreview Marty Friedman was asked how he got his tone

Would you share your EQ setting for your amplifier? What are the positions of the bass, mid, treble etc. These are what interest the young guitarists here and all over the world I guess.( just an approximate setting )
I have no idea! Tone comes strictly from the hands, so at whatever setting I may be set at, I sound pretty much the same. Even on other people's gear, I wind up sounding the same. I can tell you that I like to play loud because you get a lot of good sustain and tone that way.

Guitars

- Paul Reed Smith guitars (listed as an artist on PRS)

- In his Cacophony days, Carvin guitars, mainly a V220M model. Also used Carvin on his first solo recording, Dragon Kiss.
- Jackson Guitars (stopped using them in 2000 when Fender bought Jackson)
- Jackson Kelly (he made this model famous and had his own signature KE1 guitar model)

Jackson KE2 Kelly USA Electric Guitar Black

- more recently using Ibanez Guitars (has a singature model available in Japan)
- Ibanez Marty Friedman Model ( Ibanez MFM-1 signature guitar, which is basically an SZ model with stars on the frets and body)
- Gretsch Chet
- Fender Stratocaster

Fender American Vintage 57 Stratocaster Electric Guitar 2-Tone Sunburst

- Dean guitar

- Ibanez Iceman
- Ovation (various models) acoustic guitars
- Seymour Duncan/Ibanez pickups
- Fender Precision bass

Fender American Precision Bass Butterscotch Blonde Rosewood Fretboard

Amps and Cabinets
- Bogner amps during Megadeth days (this is debated which model exactly)
- CAE 3+ Preamps and VHT 2150 power amps (older days)
- Crate Blue Voodoo tube amplifiers (BV120HB)