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Zappa's Black Napkins Tone (Mike Douglas)
Hi there my fellow friends!
This is my first post here at Seymour Duncan Forum, and I hope I posted this in the right place (Tips and Clips).
So I'm a huge Frank Zappa fan, and one day I found this version of Black Napkins:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0nImsfMvE)
I fell in love with the tone, I've never heard a guitar tone that I liked so much, and so I wanted to ask you if you could help me to know how to achieve it (or at least get close). I know that's the Baby Snakes guitar (I think with Gibson classic 57 PUs, through a Pignose amp). I'm a noob at this kind of stuff, so I'm going to ask some questions that might be stupid:
-Is he using the neck or bridge pickup?
-I know that guitar had lots of stuff like series/parallel, out of phase switches, etc., any of those in THAT sound?
-I know amps are almost more important than guitars when it comes to tone, does the Pignose amp have much to do in this case?
-Maybe some preamp or other stuff IN the guitar?
In fact I don't know what else to ask, so any help would be welcome.
Thanks!
This is my first post here at Seymour Duncan Forum, and I hope I posted this in the right place (Tips and Clips).
So I'm a huge Frank Zappa fan, and one day I found this version of Black Napkins:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0nImsfMvE)
I fell in love with the tone, I've never heard a guitar tone that I liked so much, and so I wanted to ask you if you could help me to know how to achieve it (or at least get close). I know that's the Baby Snakes guitar (I think with Gibson classic 57 PUs, through a Pignose amp). I'm a noob at this kind of stuff, so I'm going to ask some questions that might be stupid:
-Is he using the neck or bridge pickup?
-I know that guitar had lots of stuff like series/parallel, out of phase switches, etc., any of those in THAT sound?
-I know amps are almost more important than guitars when it comes to tone, does the Pignose amp have much to do in this case?
-Maybe some preamp or other stuff IN the guitar?
In fact I don't know what else to ask, so any help would be welcome.
Thanks!