Mesa Tone Sessions, with Devin Townsend!

[MESA Boogie]

Enjoy!

 

[Mprinsje]

This is pretty cool, his tone is much better here than on the EMG videos.

 

[TauSigmaNova]

Enjoy? I did enjoy!

 

[Cnev]

I love Devin's attitude toward technical playing. Whether subconsciously or not he always seems to implement that element with no ego whatsoever, and almost makes a mockery of the "Hey, guys look at me! I'm such a badass!" types. Love it.

 

[Korbain]

Amazing :O

He's such a ....ing bad ass lol

 

[TheShreddinHand]

Hurray! Love it!

 

[Dead-Pan]

Fun.

 

[Esp Griffyn]

I might get some flak for this, but I doubt that will be going down as one of Devin's more memborable compositions.

 

[Zalbu]

I might get some flak for this, but I doubt that will be going down as one of Devin's more memborable compositions.

It's just a bunch of his songs linked together with some jerking, he probably put it together just to take the piss.

 

[ihunda]

It says a lot about those EMGs still sounding metal on a hollow body

 

[stevexc]

It's just a bunch of his songs linked together with some jerking, he probably put it together just to take the piss.

Well, it's called Willy WANKa... I wouldn't expect it to be anything but

 

[lemeker]

This put a smile on my face. We need moar!!!!!

 

[Webmaestro]

This makes me happy

 

[drmosh]

It says a lot about those EMGs still sounding metal on a hollow body

those might just be fake f-holes

 

[stevexc]

those might just be fake f-holes

They're actually real, you can see in through them here:

 

[Samark]

Devin for president

 

[axxessdenied]

It says a lot about those EMGs still sounding metal on a hollow body

Don't get why people think hollowbodies/semihollows can't do metal ? lol

 

[AngstRiddenDreams]

It's essentially my least favorite parts of any Devin songs strung together in one go. Funny how that works.
Nonetheless Devin is a baller, that guitar is hot and his tone is ridiculous.

 

[Slunk Dragon]

This completely gives me faith that maybe EMGs can get some good tone. Holy shit that sounded great!

 

[Andromalia]

Don't get why people think hollowbodies/semihollows can't do metal ? lol

Well, historically with very loud stage volume those guitars were prone to feeedback and borderline incontrollable. With modern equipment and people using in ears and stuff, PA progress, high gain amps and overall stage volume being much lower, they become usable again. Just don't try to play one withing 5 meters of a plexi full stack at full volume, which was the standard in the 70es - early 80es.