Opeth lead sound

[HollowmanPL]

I was listening to some Opeth recently and I'm really impressed about how do the leads sound.
I know that the best way to achieve this sound is to put Mikael Akerfeldt with PRS and Laney in front of me but I don't have Mikael at the moment
The same sound is on the last Bloodbath (Mikael did only vocals, solos were recorded by Anders Nyström I believe)
This lead sound is so amazing. It's like a very soft distortion with some HP filter and tons of delay.
I'm trying to get some similar sound with no result so far
Any tips?

cheers

 

[-Noodles-]

A lot of his tone comes from his hands..

 

[Kessler_Audio]

I'd try a nice reverb, and put the mix at around 35% and go from there. Some parallel compression might help as well.

 

[HollowmanPL]

i'll try it

 

[B36arin]

Use a guitar with a good passive neck pickup and play around with reverbs and delays. Apart from that it's all about his playing technique, I talked to Jens Bogren about it and he said that Mikael's playing technique is pretty special. He's one of the best lead guitarists in metal.

 

[sickgod]

I'd say it's the guitar. PRS does have have a very smooth rounded tone.

 

[DanLights]

Use a guitar with a good passive neck pickup and play around with reverbs and delays. Apart from that it's all about his playing technique, I talked to Jens Bogren about it and he said that Mikael's playing technique is pretty special. He's one of the best lead guitarists in metal.

I agree with all of this, the PRS definitely helps on the leads, go passive and hit those reverbs hard until you find just the right one.

 

[Wohma]

By the way, Mikael does not use PRS pickups, I believe he has some Duncans installed. At least on one of his guitars, but I think he has them on most or all of them.

And yeah, the sound comes mainly from his hands.

 

[HollowmanPL]

80% Mikael, 10% Guitar, 10% mix am I right?