Walker Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 I'm not in a band at the moment, so I'm taking some time to learn blues guitar, just riffing around m pentatonic with some jam tracks after a couple of beers. It's very therapeutic! I'm obviously listening to loads of blues too, but one tone I keep coming back to is Clapton on From the Cradle, especially 'Five Long Years'. It's hard to explain, but 'honkey'with a 'back of the room' reverb sort of describe it to my ears anyway. Does anyone know where I should start to try and recreate that basic amp tone? I have a Fender Blues Junior and a Kemper with a bunch of Michael Britt vintage profiles. Is there reverb or is that just mic' placement when recorded? Cheers! Quote
skankdelvar Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 Approach #1 Sell the BJ and the Kemper. Buy a Clapton Signature EC Vibrochamp or Tremolux. Crank it up and maybe roll a bit of treble off your guitar. Approach #2 Stick a bog-standard Boss EQ pedal between your guitar and your BJ. Roll off some of the bass end, crank the 1.6k fader. Turn your BJ up. See below: In either instance, craft your lead tone first with the guitar volume set to full. Then turn the guitar volume pot down for rhythm passages. If everything sounds a bit muddy when turned down fit a treble-bleed cap / resistor across your volume pot(s). In any event, it still won't sound much like it does on the recording because you won't be hearing it through a high-end mike and desk with studio compression and EQ. 1 Quote
Walker Posted March 12, 2018 Author Posted March 12, 2018 Hmmmm, I've spent so many years cutting the mids. Thanks for the vid. Very useful. Quote
skankdelvar Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 1 minute ago, Walker said: Hmmmm, I've spent so many years cutting the mids. Thanks for the vid. Very useful. He's a great player, isn't he? Has his own YT channel - Texas Blues Alley Quote
Walker Posted March 12, 2018 Author Posted March 12, 2018 That mids trick was pure gold. Much closer than I was. Dialled in a lovely little 65 Champ on the Kemper and couldn’t put it down. Cheers👍🏻 1 Quote
peteb Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 3 hours ago, skankdelvar said: He's a great player, isn't he? Has his own YT channel - Texas Blues Alley Just been checking out his YT channel - all good stuff... Quote
skankdelvar Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 42 minutes ago, peteb said: Just been checking out his YT channel - all good stuff... His little tutorials are fantastically useful, partic the 'boxes'. Top chap. Quote
Walker Posted March 13, 2018 Author Posted March 13, 2018 His site is excellent too. Thanks again. Quote
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