How can i get this tone: Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream

Well actually, I think a lot of his sound is down to the pick ups and the guitar. I have a JS1000 and almost any high gain profile gets me right in the ball park of the sound on the clip. The studio version of that track is a little more special, I reckon. It's the sound of a DS1 into a Marshall stack.

- Dimarzio Paf Pro neck and Dimarzio Fred bridge
- The amp in the video is Peavey JSX

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Well actually, I think a lot of his sound is down to the pick ups and the guitar. I have a JS1000 and almost any high gain profile gets me right in the ball park of the sound on the clip. The studio version of that track is a little more special, I reckon. It's the sound of a DS1 into a Marshall stack.

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Shure, the picks and the guitar always makes the difference but i'm not able to get near it.
Just searched in the web and learned that the JS1000 has a Dimarzio PAF.
I believe i have one from the 70's and will give it a try in a Les Paul...

Sambrox is right. But i think it's difficult to get the sound with a Les Paul. I play Ibanez Jems, a music man Petrucci and Les Pauls. Best choice for a Satch sound is my old Ibanez jem fp 77 from 1991. This beauty has the ibanez pafs. It also sounds good with evolution pick ups from Ibanez (i am a fan of Steve Vais sounds).
I have just uploaded a rig for you on the RE. Its called "Blue Dream". It,s made by a free profile of Joes JVM410HJS.
I have heard it live last year in Münster/Germany. There he played the Marshall amps.
Maybe you have to tweak the eq because i fitted it to sound good with my frfr.

Try it and let me hear.....
Have fun

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MacOSatch: When i look at your forum-name, i could imagine that you are a Satriani-Fan.
So what profile do you use?

Yes, I am a fan But I did not chase the tone of other people. I set my Kemper conservative way, clean/crunch/rhythm/lead for my band project. Satriani songs I play only at home and for this I use some Marshall JVM JS or Soldano profiles, not to much gain, delay, that is it.

So here's a clip of me playing the first "verse" of Flying in a Blue Dream using the aforementioned BLUE DREAM Rig from the rig exchange. I haven't played this stuff for years, haha! for what it's worth, I found the Rig to be a bit nasally in the mids, but once I turned the Cabs off, it sounded much closer to Joe's tone (although I didn't record that; the clip is the Rig untouched )

Yeah, sorry, no other means of recording at the moment (my studio is all packed down in storage; I don't even have a pair of xlrs to record via my home sound card).

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What's up? Are you moving?
Oh, XLR'S. What is your opinion to XLR against phone-jacks. Does it really matter in relation to sound?
No, right? I thaught it is only to prevent from noises.

Well, I got rid of my studio space for the time being, as my studio at work I can pretty much use whenever I like anyway (I'm a sound designer/engineer) and the rent was getting pretty steep. I'm hoping to have a new place sometime in the autumn.
As for XLRs v jacks, the question really should be XLR/TRS v TS, or to put it another way, balanced v unbalanced. If you don't know what a balanced cable means, I suggest reading up on it (too much to go into here), but basically it means less noise. So always XLR/TRS, if possible! Actually, I'm not sure if the jack sockets on the KPA accommodate TRS jacks in their balanced function, although I DID just use them to make this :

https://soundcloud.com/sambrox…dream-kemper-test/s-KiL9s

Hope that's easier to get an impression of the profile from!

Disclaimer : I never learned the tab, so my attempt at the solo is me just blagging it!

Hello Harald,

Andy from The Amp Factory did very good profiles of Joe Satrianis Signature Marshall (a modded 800) amp. You can buy it as a single amp, it´s in Bundle 3 (click here) , it´s named "UKGold Satriani Signature" and sound like killer! You can listen to some samples at Andys website.

I´ve bought these profiles some time ago and they belong since then to my main lead sounds (they are working way better for me than the MBritt sounds) - with my Ibanez RG (modded DiMarzios) it´s the nearest possible sound to Joe.

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sam:
Thank you so much. You never learned the tab? So you are a natural talent. This was a very good one...

Haha thanks

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I wish you all the best for your studio future. I listened to your demo reel and i was impressed.
You are doing great jobs.

Thanks again! It's not often that I actually get to play my guitar on the kind of stuff that people book me for, and the budgets are getting smaller and smaller while the deadlines get ever tighter, but I try my best with what I've got

Does anyone know if the Rig "blue dream" has been taken down? I can't seem to find it on the Rig Exchange

I also can't found the Rig "blue dream". But if you're searching for "Satriani", you can find some great Marshall Profiles from Tony McKenzie.

Or just type "tonymckenzie" into the search bar in Rig Exchange and you find a lot of really cool sounding profiles from Tony.

Maybe you can match the sound with the "JVM410HJS od1 red sh" profile.

It’s actually fairly easy to tweak a Satch-esque sound out of a high gain profile. I recorded this with an MBritt profile that I turned up the treble on :