jay
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Post by jay on Feb 22, 2009 18:55:38 GMT
I like this one because of its "edgy" sound. So what is the best way to get close to it?
Would HBM's amp at the time be close to being overdriven by any chance?
Sorry in advance for what is probably an old question but without a thread search facility what can newbies do? (At least I couldn't find any search facility).
Thanks, Jay
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Post by Charlie Hall on Feb 22, 2009 19:58:02 GMT
Hi Jay, Use the Strat bridge pickup. Use little or no bass on the amp. Do not set the treble too high, not that you would want to with a low bass setting. If there is a middle control, don't set it too low, so that you keep the sound as full as possible (one problem is that on many amps increasing middle also increases treble and some bass so there usually has to be a tradeoff setting). Using the correct echo is also a lot of the sound. Some reverb will help too, as I believe that the studio did add some. The amp was probably an AC15 so I would assume it was close to being overdriven. This helps to increase sustain as well as sounding slightly less clean. The site search facility is on the home page, near the top. Using the same button from anywhere else on the site will only search the part of the site you are on at the time. The search facility seems to insist on using at least 4 letter words Regards, Charlie
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Post by jay on Feb 22, 2009 20:07:22 GMT
Thanks v. much Charlie for the advice...... The search button seemed to have hit my blind spot only Good idea to put this stuff in the FAQs Regards, Jay
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Post by franz on Nov 30, 2009 1:44:36 GMT
This is very late but I saw Ian Plant at Cheshire guitar club this saturday playing Man of Mystery on the middle pick up. He said this was deliberate and he is the only other person apart from me who thinks this is right (with due defence to Charlie) The treble strings produce a sound which is richer than is obtainable on the bridge irrespective of settings and the first Am chord followed by the E7 have a slight string buzz that is spot on for the middle. Immediately prior to these chords the phrase starting A to E flat to D has the growl that only the middle can produce. I think that Hank must play this over or just behind the middle PU otherwise the sound gets too mellow and with no bass and hardly any middle(Iknow the amps didn't have that) to give the hollow sound to the wound strings. This seems to follow a pattern and that seems to be that Hank hardly ever used the bridge in early recordings. I am not even certain that he did not use these settings for The Stranger as well moving the hand forward of the middle PU for the sections after the stop. Any thoughts anyone?
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Post by Charlie Hall on Nov 30, 2009 3:50:50 GMT
Hi Franz, It will take a lot to convince me it wasn't the bridge pickup on both tunes but it does make some sense to consider that it could have been the middle pickup as there is a boost at around 200Hz and a cut at around 500Hz with the middle pickup compared with the bridge pickup. Now, if the bass was rolled off, it could sound a lot more like a bridge pickup. I don't know of any live original footage of these tunes being played to enable a study. Regards, Charlie
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