Tone Tuesday How I Replicated SRV’s “The Sky Is Crying” Tone

Here's a complete breakdown of how I went about trying to get a tone that sounds like Stevie Ray Vaughan's on "The Sky Is Crying" (1985 version). This is a long video with lots of explaining, so don't say I didn't warn you.

The final recipe included two different signal paths. The first two stacked Tube Screamers into a Fender Dual Showman Reverb amp. This signal chain was profiled with my Kemper Profiler. That sound was then processed through a mix of 4 different Cabinet IR files hosted in the Cabinetron Software.

The other leg was a direct guitar signal from the Kemper, processed with the Mixwave Two Rock Bloomfield Drive amp/cab plugin.

These two signal chains were mixed, panned slightly left and right, and sent out to a bit of chorus and reverb.

But the secret ingredient was an EQ curve that feels like cheating.