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Srbphoto
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Technical expertise for you
I especially like his color choice of nail polish.
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TRo
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Thanks for this long overdue post--all great stuff. The Beck music, Buckethead...where the hell was I for the last 40 years?
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Srbphoto
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Kennewick wa
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Edwardmw - it is amazing how fluidly he can go from picking to tapping and back. Plus he has nice bluesy (not to be confused with Bluey) licks.
The version of this song that made everyone get a les paul and a marshall amp
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Edwardmw
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That is true, even Jeff beck played a Les Paul back then.
Here is another one, Daniel Gottardo- a very good, basically unknown guitarist. You can hear the Jeff Beck influence.
http://youtu.be/wOlLzVK3pCA
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lostinshanghai
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someplace
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Apr 10, 2012 - 05:35pm PT
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Exactly fifty years to the date.
But you need to start here:
Distortion can be produced by effects pedals, rackmounts, pre-amplifiers, power amplifiers, speakers and more recently, digital amplifier modeling devices and software.
In the beginning, distortion was accidentally discovered by many amplifier owners simultaneously usually because of damage to valves or speakers. Of course the sound was undesirable to some, but surprising and appealing to others. Some guitarists loved the sound enough to deliberately poke holes in their speakers.
When Marty Robbins’s was recording his 1961 hit "Don't Worry", session guitarist Grady Martin accidentally created the electric guitar "fuzz" effect -- his guitar was run through a faulty channel in a mixing console. Marty decided to keep it in the final version. The song reached No. 1 on the country chart, and No. 3 on the pop chart.
Although it was a mistake, the sound changed the course of musical history. If you hit Robbins “Don’t Worry” in 1:18 is where the faulty channel comes in and you have to see Robbins’s reaction when he hears it and as well as the video camera man running to shoot it.
Now the fun starts:
1962 CMI Maestro Fuzz-toner: This is a FZ-1; they then changed it to a FZ-1a with only one AAA battery.
[I Can’t Get No] “Satisfaction” with Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Jimi Hendrix probably the best but short lived were just a few who used them. Hendrix used a Univibe pedal in “Machine Gun” in the beginning also used a wah-wah pedal, Arbeiter Fuzz Face and an Octavia.
Then just a few dozen of Maestros to follow, another example:
Tom Oberheim created this plus a few others for CMI [Gibson]
Then the explosion.
Synthesizers:
This is Freeman’s Cordovox CCS CMI
All of the above was thoughtfully sought out for musicians especially guitar artists to tweak there sounds that they were trying to communicate. The new generation of ROCK & ROLL of the middle and late ‘60”s took it to a whole new level following the political times or just making music.
Gibson was CMI [Chicago Musical Instrument Co.] at the time. That lasted for a few years until Norlin took control finally back to Gibson as we know it now today.
Oberheim, Moog, Ovation and Roland were mainly the first to start now there are a good dozen or more that do or distort the sounds.
So what do we have now from all this past technology?
That Cordovox CCS weighed 70# plus you also had to haul or carry a few amplifiers to plug it in. Now you can create the same and thousands of sounds and effects by putting it your pocket.
This unit is the size of a cell phone to create just about any distortion, vibration and sounds achievable?
I hear there are some bugs in this system but sure they will be worked out soon.
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1964 Fender Deluxe Reverb
1965 Fender Blackface Twin Reverb
1959 Fender Bassman
1960 Vox AC15
1967 Vox AC30
1995 Matchless Chieftain
1996 Marshall (with Vintage 30s)
1978 Marshall (with stock 70s)
1968 Marshall Basketweave (with Greenbacks)
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jfailing
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Lone Pine
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Apr 10, 2012 - 05:58pm PT
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Nice post Lostinshanghai - it's pretty interesting to see where guitar technology is going. I'm a big fan of Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5:
Pretty limitless options as far as effects go, and it sounds pretty damn good for a completely digital processor...
Nothing beats the tone created by vintage and analog gear though. I played through a mid 60's Fender Princeton amp at Old Town music in Portland once - it made me want to cry, it sounded so good.
I've always been partial to delay pedals. Here's Brian May doing his delay thing - make sure you watch all of it:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Here's another great delay clip with Yngwie:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
And finally, Cosmic - that clip of Jeff Beck doing How We've ended as Lovers - SO GOOD!!
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