JohnnyGuitar
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Anyone knows how he sets his Bassman? I played a Strat through a Bassman yesterday and I've tried to get his tone (I didn't play it for too long) I didn't get close though... :blackeye:
Buddy Guy's amp settings
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JohnnyGuitar
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Re: Buddy Guy's amp settings
Weird, I actually read he mostly uses Bassmans (if I'm wrong it might explain a few things).
I do know he uses a Marshall JCM 800 too.
Weird, I actually read he mostly uses Bassmans (if I'm wrong it might explain a few things).
I do know he uses a Marshall JCM 800 too.
kmcguitars
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Re: Buddy Guy's amp settings
He was endorsing Victoria (Tweed Bassman style) Amps. I don't know if he uses them?
He was endorsing Victoria (Tweed Bassman style) Amps. I don't know if he uses them?
frankfalbo
In Fluence Y'all
Re: Buddy Guy's amp settings
You know how sometimes these types of threads digress to "his tone is in his fingers" etc? I'm all about using different gear for different sounds. I'm also never the guy to make the "tone in the fingers" comment in a thread. If anything I'm on the opposite end, realizing that a 5150 won't sound like a Bassman, and a Crate S.S. won't sound like a Recto. But in this particular case, I suggest not trying to get his tone from gear alone. He's one of my favorites of ALL TIME. ANY half-grit Fender style overdriven preamp will get you where you need to be, and the hands/guitar will take you the rest of the way.
He's played and recorded through so many different setups over the years, that I don't see his "tone" as one you'd try to replicate. I see it more as a "feel" that you'd want to channel into whatever decent tube pre you're working with. I've gotten his sound from Boogies, Hughes & Kettners, even a Crate Tube Preamp that I worked on. The clean channel in the old Crate TDP breaks up like a Fender, and it's great. Although somewhat dry and processed, the older solid state Roland "Blues Cubes" did a pretty smart job of getting his type of overdrive. Mainly if you have enough top end going into the preamp to generate a harsh square wave crackle on your pick attack, you're half way there. But if you don't have the dynamic attack on the strings, you can't get it with any gear. At the right times he's really snapping the pick off the strings to an almost pitch altering degree. That's also affecting the warble over the strat's pole pieces.
So if you have a decent Bassman, the settings are almost irrelevant. You can push the tone stack here and there, and you'll have various sounds Buddy has gotten over the years. There's no magic setting, even if you had one of his Bassmans. Especially because the tone stack on a Bassman is less responsive than an active shelving circuit on a more modern amp.
You know how sometimes these types of threads digress to "his tone is in his fingers" etc? I'm all about using different gear for different sounds. I'm also never the guy to make the "tone in the fingers" comment in a thread. If anything I'm on the opposite end, realizing that a 5150 won't sound like a Bassman, and a Crate S.S. won't sound like a Recto. But in this particular case, I suggest not trying to get his tone from gear alone. He's one of my favorites of ALL TIME. ANY half-grit Fender style overdriven preamp will get you where you need to be, and the hands/guitar will take you the rest of the way.
He's played and recorded through so many different setups over the years, that I don't see his "tone" as one you'd try to replicate. I see it more as a "feel" that you'd want to channel into whatever decent tube pre you're working with. I've gotten his sound from Boogies, Hughes & Kettners, even a Crate Tube Preamp that I worked on. The clean channel in the old Crate TDP breaks up like a Fender, and it's great. Although somewhat dry and processed, the older solid state Roland "Blues Cubes" did a pretty smart job of getting his type of overdrive. Mainly if you have enough top end going into the preamp to generate a harsh square wave crackle on your pick attack, you're half way there. But if you don't have the dynamic attack on the strings, you can't get it with any gear. At the right times he's really snapping the pick off the strings to an almost pitch altering degree. That's also affecting the warble over the strat's pole pieces.
So if you have a decent Bassman, the settings are almost irrelevant. You can push the tone stack here and there, and you'll have various sounds Buddy has gotten over the years. There's no magic setting, even if you had one of his Bassmans. Especially because the tone stack on a Bassman is less responsive than an active shelving circuit on a more modern amp.
frankfalbo
In Fluence Y'all
Re: Buddy Guy's amp settings
Ha! :laugh2: If you think you can make the 5150 sound like a 61 Tweed then it IS all in your liver. The alcohol that is...because you're drunk.:alcoholic
Ha! :laugh2: If you think you can make the 5150 sound like a 61 Tweed then it IS all in your liver. The alcohol that is...because you're drunk.:alcoholic
Re: Buddy Guy's amp settings
Yeah---Buddy has a way of squeezing and overbending that lends itself to a certain off-kilter sound, nevermind what amps or guitars. I used to see him with Jr. Wells pretty often and a lot of it was in the attack and sense of phrasing---whether he had a Twin and a Strat or the Starfire and the Bassman or whatever...
Yeah---Buddy has a way of squeezing and overbending that lends itself to a certain off-kilter sound, nevermind what amps or guitars. I used to see him with Jr. Wells pretty often and a lot of it was in the attack and sense of phrasing---whether he had a Twin and a Strat or the Starfire and the Bassman or whatever...
Gunny47
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Re: Buddy Guy's amp settings
Sorry, totally missed that one. Its hard to get sarcasm on the internet though, i mean, next time put a smiley or something. No hard feelings btw.
Sorry, totally missed that one. Its hard to get sarcasm on the internet though, i mean, next time put a smiley or something. No hard feelings btw.
