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Topic: Identical Instruments, Different Sound |
Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2006 7:41 am |
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"I think a player like Tony Rice or Norman Blake could take any decent example of any version and still sound like "themselves"."
Absolutely, but they still end up sounding slightly different tonally.
Tony Rice's early recordings with J.D. Crowe demonstrate a totally diferent guitar tone than that of his use of the "ClarenceWhite" prewar D-26; and his SantaCruz model sounds different still - a tighter, more focued response.
It always sounds like Tony Rice because of how he plays - but different. |
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Billy Carr
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Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Dec 2006 7:50 pm
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| Every guitar from a Carter Starter to a 5000.00 MSA has a "Sweet spot". Good players look for it on everything they sit behind. Two identical PSG's may look alike but will play and feel different. Each guitar is different and displays a separate personality. I still believe this is why some players sound good on any brand or set up. They know what to look for. |
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Harry Dietrich
From:
Robesonia, Pennsylvania, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Dec 2006 9:07 pm
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Dave Mudgett
E-Mail me when you get the chance.
Thanks
Harry |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2006 11:09 pm
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I was astonished by how similar Jimmy Page sounded on his early Strat and his later Les Paul. I honestly couldn't hear a difference.
Tone is in the socks!  |
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Henry Nagle
From:
Santa Rosa, California
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Posted 14 Dec 2006 11:46 pm
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| He was playing a Tele early on, wasn't he? |
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2006 6:22 am
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Yep - almost all Page's early studio work and his Yardbird's work...plus the first two Zep albums...were Tele. I don't recall even a picture of a Strat.
I think the Tele sounds totally different from the Les Paul he favored for live work, myself, and far different from the Les Paul studio stuff. And his Dano different still.
People also think he used an ES-175 on "Stairway" - but if you listen it sounds nothing lke a Gibson/humbucker guitar at all.
It was a Fender electric 12. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 15 Dec 2006 6:38 am
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| Jimmy Page and his Tele' doesn't sound anything like Jimmy Messina and his Tele..I wonder why that is ? |
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2006 6:03 pm
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Because they play totally different styles.
They still both sound like Teles. One sounds like a Tele with a compressor and a Twin, played with a chicken picking style; the other sounds like a Tele through a cranked up Supro.
I still have half a doozen Teles - they all sound different, but similar. And different amps change the sound more.
But they all still sound like a Tele - even thrugh a Bogner Uberschall dimed with buzzsaw distortion, it's a Tele tone. |
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