I needed to make a few guide tracks for my drummer to use, so decided to share them there. I found a shelf where I could set my iPhone and get the full guitar. Pardon the dad bod.
This is a home-built Tele through a Blackstone MOSFET Overdrive through a Tweed Deluxe replica tube amp. I have an attenuator on it so it didn’t blow my iPhone and it is dialed down to 50% power or about 9 watts. Any changes in tone from clip to clip are due to knob twiddling and change in my attack.
Here are a couple where I don’t use a pick and you can tell I am taking advantage of the heavy gauge strings to get a thick tone:
Problem Child (AC/DC) Problem Child guide track - YouTube can you hear how much the strings are in the tone? That ripping upstroke I do is all about getting that string tone.
Meat & Potatoes - Meat & Potatoes groove - guide track - YouTube this is my groove that I have jammed on for year. When I say I am a “meat and potatoes rhythm guitarist” I think of this groove.
And a last guide track for a Funk groove, where the tone is hugely influenced by my using heavy-gauge strings: [url]Funk groove guide track - YouTube
scabpicker, as a bassist, hear anything you can work with?
Well… that was tasty, crunchy, no weedly weedly:eek:
I guess when the Straight Dope house band plays our first arena gigs, I’ll have to play second fiddle. You’re pretty good man.
Just leave me a few lightly used groupies.
Ah, remember they are guide tracks for my drummer. No need for wheedlies for what I am doing. But I tend to focus on the groove first, but yeah, I put a lot of fills in normally ;). And thanks. I like my rig.
My God Magnum, blind as a bat and deaf as a lead guitarist.
Bruno is some good stuff. I used to see him at the Greater SW Guitar show in Dallas every year (80’s-90’s) I always wanted a cowtipper.
But I had a serious Gibson/vintage Marshall addiction back then. God what I would have given for a good attenuator, or the brains to buy a smaller amp.
Will someone please answer that phone!?!?! It’s been ringing for like 25 years!
Yeah, I know. I sure as heck have been talking for years. Hope it was in line with your expectations.
ETA: yeah, Cowtippers are wonderful amps. I got this amp for easy portability and enough volume over drums. And tone I love a big amp but can’t abide by them on a practical basis.
That was a lot of fun, WordMan, thanks for sharing those - it made me go pick up my guitar for the first time in a while. I like your sound and confidence, particularly going fingerstyle on the .012s!
I was gigging a 80’ 4x12 top cab
1968 4x12 bottom cab
71 Marshall 1959 (100watt non master volume head)
ampeg 50 watt 501
Dsp128 for reverb, delay,chorus ( all gone now)
Not smart
Not practical
Probably lost gigs because I HAD to turn it up to get my sound.
I’ve got an import Paul copy and a bulgera 5 watt amp. Hey at least it has tubes.
Oh, and I still have a nice stash of vintage tubes:eek:
12ax7, ay7 and a few el84’s:D
Was running, and yeah, It’ll make yet pants flap in the breeze.:eek:
It will also run off all the ladies in the bar, piss off the dart tournament and cause your soundman to make voodoo doll of you that he sticks pins in at night.
Great clip Wordman. I appreciate the work you’ve done to dial in your rig and get that wonderful tone.
That’s hard to teach. I’ve seen local musicians that had good technique and had studied guitar seriously. They’re better than me. But the tone just didn’t grab my attention. Nothing stands out.
Thanks for sharing Wordman. It’s a good reminder that I need to keep experimenting and learning.
I was thinking about this statement. Yes, Teles are less used for hard rock, but Jimmy Page recorded Zep 1 and parts of Zep II on a Tele. I’m going for more of a Malcolm Young off Powerage tone, but it’s doable.
