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George's guitar sound
5 Aug 2006 08:09:31 -0700
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richardfangnail...
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On My Sweet Lord or Give Me Love, how did George get that ringing lead
guitar sound?
Is it like the Byrds, who used a compressor?
At Concert for George, the two guitarists (Fairweather-Low and Marc
Mann) also got that same sound.
dahldude...
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or the guitar on Badfinger's "Day After Day", for that matter.
ACankersore...
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Or the sound on "No matter what" and the
Danny Caccavo...
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That would be one of the classic "Leslie" guitar sounds...
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sound Cheap trick got on their "In Color" CD, and the sound on the first
three or 4
UFO CD's.
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It's all about the double tracking, baby. (I think)
ACankersore...
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Nope. Double tracking does nothing for a bad sound..although it changes
it.
tom...
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Who was talking about a bad sound? Did I miss something in the thread
here?
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Waldo...
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It might be the twelve-string Rickenbacker he often used in order to create
Waldo...
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Wwaldo
tom...
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Not a 12 string.
You get the sound by double-tracking it. Compression helps, but the
heart of the sound is the double...
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that sound.
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