Pedal for Allman Brothers tone?

[Mac-P]

Re: Pedal for Allman Brothers tone?

Howdy!

HUGE Allmans fan here. My cover band plays quite a few Allmans tunes.

The classic Allman Bros guitar sound is a humbucker through a Marshall with not so much gain but played LOUD. Very pure and powerful.

Of course, not everyone can turn up their Marshall to get that natural clean crunch and sustain.

For me, if you use a box it has to be one that alters your guitar tone very little.

I find the Fulldrive 2 set with the gain only 1/4 of the way up to be a GREAT sound. It doesn't even sound like you kicked a pedal on. It just has more balls, sustain and power. Very transparent.

Of course it is a 2 channel box, so I set the other channel with the gain all the way up for when I want it.

The Klon Centaur is the box many people love for this exact reason, but I have not tried one as it is a $300 plus box.

And if you are talking Warren, well, that is a whole other deal as he uses MUCH more distortion than the classic ABB.

 

[rhmcfarland]

Re: Pedal for Allman Brothers tone?

Hi Flank, Lew's got the right idea. Crank the power on a good tube amp, and use your guitar volume. You can set the amp fairly bright, so that you can get a gutsy lead tone when you unwind the volume & tone. Otherwise, keep your volume rolled back to 7 or so, and the tone about midway on the bridge, and maybe more so on the rhythm pickup. Enjoy!

 

[rhmcfarland]

Re: Pedal for Allman Brothers tone?

BTW, if you can't take the volume of a cranked tube amp, check Ebay from time to time to see if they have a kendrick buffalo pfuz for sale. it emulates power tube saturation, and keeps a good clean bite on the high end. i think its a great pedal, one of the ones i would never sell or trade. ebay's had them for about $75.00 before.

 

[Soul Charter]

Re: Pedal for Allman Brothers tone?

BTW, if you can't take the volume of a cranked tube amp, check Ebay from time to time to see if they have a kendrick buffalo pfuz for sale. it emulates power tube saturation, and keeps a good clean bite on the high end. i think its a great pedal, one of the ones i would never sell or trade. ebay's had them for about $75.00 before.

I agree on the Old EL34 type amps Cranked wide open through some high wattage speakers for added headroom. But If I was going to try and replicate that at a lower volume I'd grab one of these:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SALE-BlueLi...id=100033&prg=9059&rk=3&rkt=4&sd=331114066642