Amp for Gary Moore Tone?

[oilpit]

I LOVE Gary Moore's lead tone, so amazing, I am in the market for a new head and I want to get a tone like his. I am thinking about an Orange 50 watt head of some kind or a Marshall JCM800, I'm open to other suggestions as well.
Thanks!

[Braciola]

Re: Amp for Gary Moore Tone?

Gary mainly uses a Soldano SLO or Bluesbreaker set for mild breakup, then hits the front end with an older Marshall Guv`nor pedal for solos.

Doesn't mean you'll get his tone though........it's all in the hands

[James Rock]

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Gary mainly uses a Soldano SLO or Bluesbreaker set for mild breakup, then hits the front end with an older Marshall Guv`nor pedal for solos.

Anyone know what he used in his Thin Lizzy days?

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Marshall....

[Bludave]

Re: Amp for Gary Moore Tone?

I would strongly consider a Marshall 900 50W head. This amps get a bad rap but they have the Gary Moore sound in them. Check one out. They are pretty reasonable too.

[the guy who invented fire]

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The old Marshall Guv'nor pedal is the Gary Moore tone if used into a Marshall however barefoot Dave is spot on...several JCM900's will get SCARRY close to that sound...

[JeffB]

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Which Gary Moore tone?

Gary is one of those guys who has mostly used "current" amps- yet his tone has not changed all that much over the years.

early 70s he used Plexis/Metalfaces and then onto JMPs for the late 70s- for studio stuff he often used a distortion box plugged directly into the board ( "My Sarah" is an example from Black Rose)

Solo stuff throughout the 80s was JMP/800s goosed with DS1s or Tubescreamers (so yeah a good 900 like a MKIII super lead would be real close)

His early Blues albums were the Soldano goosed with a Guv'nor.

In recent years he's been using DSLs, and VMs and there is a pretty current clip of him on youtube at the Marshall factory playing- you can check out his current rig there, IIRC it's a JVM but not positive.

[tone?]

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Good call JeffB.....


Gary Moore has an awesome tone mainly cause his playing is so darn aggressive and awesome.
Check out a few vids and practice your NARDS off!!!!!!!!!!!

[JohnnyGuitar]

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The Marshall Guv'nor was bought during the Still Got the Blues recording sessions (GM claims that he had recorded the title track solo with it in one take on the day he bought the pedal).

Not sure he kept using it for that long afterwards...

But yeah... a Marshall with a simple overdrive/distortion should do the trick for you.

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

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I know he was using a DSL JCM 2000 on the "Live At Monsters of Rock" DVD that was filmed in 2003, and the tone was absolutely incredible.

[YHWH]

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Anyone know what he used in his Thin Lizzy days?

... dunno about TL... but his early solo work (Victims of the Future- era) was done w/ a 100w plexi Super Bass head and a Boss DS-1.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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It really is more of an attitude thing....Gary goes for it, just use some British sounding amp and be somewhat aggressive about it (what ever dirt pedal or the amp itself)
And some Celestions the gives that old middy tone.

[Karn Evil 9]

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i love the tone he has on corridors of power; it sounds like a strat and a marshall turned right up with nothing fancy added; so raw and powerful! you can hear him fighting the guitar to get that sound out!
something marshall-ish with either a LP or a Strat (depending on what era you're aiming for) set up with just enough preamp gain to tip the amp over the edge and plenty of volume! you need to get that classic power amp distortion happening...and as some other guys said, just dig in and attack the guitar like Gary!

[Archer_of_Fish]

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His early Blues albums were the Soldano goosed with a Guv'nor.

He only toured with the Soldanos. In the studio he used Marshalls and the Guv'nor pedal. He took the Soldanos on the road because he felt they were more roadworthy than his old Marshall amps.

[WhoFan]

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back in 1984/85-ish there was a video set called Rock School... it was sopposed to let rock stars explain how they get their sounds and so on... Gary Moore's Victims Of The Future era band was in the video a lot... Ian Paice and Gary had a lot of clips in it...

the one thing that stood out in my mind was when Gary was explaining his Boss Pedal Board set up... he turned them all off and then put each pedal on one at a time... he had a double stack of 800's behind him and they were set pretty flat with hardly any dirt to them... and he kicked on his DS1 and bam!!! it sounded great...