American Woman lead tone??

[ledzepp29]

I think I asked this a long time ago. I just listened to the song and it reminded me how much I love that thick and mesmerizing tone. I'm talking about the guess who version. Anyone know of a pedal that would do that sound to a T? It could be something that I could use with a clean setting on my amp or just stack with my distortion pedal to get that over the top tone.

 

[Tom M]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

My guess is a fuzz, neck pickup, and tone knob rolled down.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

it's called a Herzog...check your PM's

 

[bryvincent]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

http://www.randybachman.com/index.php?choice=2&note=1
it was a LP in the neck position, herzog and a garnet amp

 

[SoCalSteve]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

I remember seeing an ad for a Randy Bachman pedal in one of the magazines for that tone. He's one of my favorites. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_pid/151796/

 

[ledzepp29]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

right on man!!! christian saves the day again!
but one problem, theres no chance I'll be able to get my hands on a Herzog. So can you think of anything that will do the same job?
Hell, I might as well write the randy bachman headquarters a letter just for sh1ts and giggles, maybe if he did get the letter, he'd get a kick out of a 15 year old diggin his sound from the 60's! He says in the article that he still has some that he's willing to part with. No harm in asking if I could buy one off him!

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

I remember seeing an ad for a Randy Bachman pedal in one of the magazines for that tone.

Yep.....The pedal is called "The American Woman" pedal...I saw that SOCALSTEVE already gave you a link....Here's another link.. :dance:



http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--TCHAW1?src=smx

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

right on man!!! christian saves the day again!
but one problem, theres no chance I'll be able to get my hands on a Herzog. So can you think of anything that will do the same job?
Hell, I might as well write the randy bachman headquarters a letter just for sh1ts and giggles, maybe if he did get the letter, he'd get a kick out of a 15 year old diggin his sound from the 60's! He says in the article that he still has some that he's willing to part with. No harm in asking if I could buy one off him!

no clue bro...there was an American woman pedal, John posted a link to it above this post...I have never tried one. Good luck with this one!

 

[ledzepp29]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

oops. I made that last post without seeing the most recent posts. thanks steve for that pedal find!

 

[SoCalSteve]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

oops. I made that last post without seeing the most recent posts. thanks steve for that pedal find!

I think I went off to find the link while John was posting!

 

[Rich_S]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

The idea of the Herzog was a small amp (basically a hot-rodded Champ) driven into output-stage distortion, then with a circuit to allow it to drive the input of a bigger amp rather than its own little speaker. Similar to today's multi-stage gain monsters, except that one of the Hertzog's stages was a fat-sounding single-ended output stage.

If you're of a DIY nature, there's a lot of background information about Hertzog-type amps at AX84.com. A lot of the folks over there build small amps, and then "zog" them. Just search the archieves for "zog". I'm planning a 4-position output-impedance selector on my next amp (a low-powered version of the 18 Watter) 4-8-16-ZOG.

Of course, the pedal is a lot easier.

 

[some_dude]

Re: American Woman lead tone??

From the leaders in analog amp emulation;

http://www.tech21nyc.com/american_woman.html