I think the "distortion" we hear is from volume, tube drive in outboard tanks or pres in tape echoes, the degradation of the echo signals and verb, lo fi gear and recording equipment, driving the console, saturating the tape, and so on.īut if you want to do "Pipeline", a good "drip" on the Reverb is essential to getting that sound (on the rhythm guitar - there's a lead guitar part that doesn't have that same kind of verb on it (or not as much and may have trem actually), and Electric Piano).īut for The Shadows tunes, it's about that delay. There are a lot of modern recordings that pay homage to the genre, and they'll have levels of drive that just weren't really around then. string clicking out of the bridge saddle and being popped back in by Hank. It's funny, but our mind's ear tends to associate a certain sound with the genre to the point where people are hearing fuzz pedals where there never were any. Buddy Holly played a Fender Stratocaster and Hank Marvin of The Shadows soon.
Back then it was AC15, Meazzi, Strat with heavy roundwound, roundcore nickel strings, hit hard with a heavy pick for that 'spank'. The The Shadows recordings are a bit different than Dick Dale and aficionados are all about hitting the right delay settings for Hank Marvin, and having the right tube in the outboard fender reverb for Dick Dale. My favourite Hank sound, the one that 'rang my bell' and made me want to start playing guitar is the Apache/Man of Mystery/The Stranger sound. I mean, really, it's clean guitar, loud, with reverb (or tape echo.) and then "tropes" of the style like trem picking and glissando. Here is a video of GB playing solo listen to his low strings and you should hear how low the action is.Honestly, if you really get into Surf/Instro guitar (and classic "first wave" of the 60s and not all the later incarnations) you'll find the guitar tones vary pretty widely - as do the techniques.
Maybe in the first months of owning the strat with the supplied flat wounds, Hank had dropped the action successfully with the flat wounds and then when he few sets of supplied strings he had with the guitar ran out and he switched strings to roundwound that was when the rattles came ? Possibly. So yes flat wounds do help in respect of low action. When I put the flat wounds on the Ibanez Artcore I had, I immediately found the rattles from the strings had reduced a lot and I could get the action down much lower. There was a noticeable buzzing coming from the low strings when he was playing and I concluded that he must have the neck quite straight and the action set low. I tried to get some ideas on what George Benson had as a setup by watching some UTube videos of him playing solo so I could hear his guitar sound clearly. I did not like the strings at all as they rattled lots when I dropped the action down.
It was fitted with roundwound strings of a fairly light gauge which I considered to be 10s. I bought an Ibanez Jazz guitar (Artcore) a few months back at a really good price. Who knows what available strings he may have used when the Fender strings were gone- Cathedral, Hofner etc?
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Who knows what available strings he may have used when the Fender strings were gone- Cathedral, Hofner etc? cockroach Posts: 1459 Joined: Sun 10:33 am Location: Australia Full Real Name: john cochraneĬockroach wrote:Well, back then, the two most important things to players were the lowest, easiest action (heaven after the cheap things we had to learn on) and as much treble as possible! Sooner or later, he would have used up the OE strings and the spare sets which were ordered and presumably supplied with the guitar.Īlso, back then he was young, energetic, and as video clips show, he played pretty hard and used the vibrato arm a lot- he was likely to have broken a few strings! Not really knowing exactly what type of strings he used doesn't help- apart from the original strings on 34346, which were probably Fender flatwounds about 13-56, who knows what strings he used as time went by? He must have broken a few strings and restrung with new sets sometime. Using roundwounds after flats might give rise to some buzzes etc - maybe that's why Hank had a problem which he fixed as best as he could. Well, back then, the two most important things to players were the lowest, easiest action (heaven after the cheap things we had to learn on) and as much treble as possible!įlatwounds don't tend to rattle and buzz as much as roundwounds- I played a three hour gig last night using only a Strat copy with 12-52 Monopole flatwounds with a reasonably low action.no buzzes etc but they are pretty dead sounding however (got another gig tomorrow night too, will be using the same guitar)
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