pups for Gary Moore Still Got the Blues tone?
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Funkfingers
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Re: pups for Gary Moore Still Got the Blues tone?
The Gibson GM signature LP model features Gibson Burstbuckers.
Your existing Duncans should be fine just as long as they have metal covers.
The Gibson GM signature LP model features Gibson Burstbuckers.
Your existing Duncans should be fine just as long as they have metal covers.
claytonc
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Re: pups for Gary Moore Still Got the Blues tone?
I am pretty sure that he recorded that with Greenies LP. I don't remember the amp??????????
A2 PAF-ish pickups should get you in the right direction. The Triamp should get you close as well as long as you can turn it up loud enough.
Volume and vibrato!
I am pretty sure that he recorded that with Greenies LP. I don't remember the amp??????????
A2 PAF-ish pickups should get you in the right direction. The Triamp should get you close as well as long as you can turn it up loud enough.
Volume and vibrato!
sonnyblu
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I believe it was recorded with a Marshall JTM45 head and cabinet or a Bluesbreaker combo and a Bluesbreaker overdrive pedal.
I think the amp might be more important than the pickups... a Marshall Plexi 50 watt would do it too...
I believe it was recorded with a Marshall JTM45 head and cabinet or a Bluesbreaker combo and a Bluesbreaker overdrive pedal.
I think the amp might be more important than the pickups... a Marshall Plexi 50 watt would do it too...
kgarvey@hotmail
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I met a colleague of Mr Moore who said that he recorded that song with a heritage les paul and a 59 nickel covered duncan which would have had an a5 mag. I think putting an alnico 5 mag in your current les paul would do it. Also make sure that your les paul has a 500k volume and tone control.
I met a colleague of Mr Moore who said that he recorded that song with a heritage les paul and a 59 nickel covered duncan which would have had an a5 mag. I think putting an alnico 5 mag in your current les paul would do it. Also make sure that your les paul has a 500k volume and tone control.
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Lewguitar
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Interesting. I thought it was the Peter Green Les Paul. If it was, then the Duncan Custom Shop Peter Green pickup set might be the ticket. I'd get them with the pickups in phase though. Not out of phase the way Peter used them.
Lew
Interesting. I thought it was the Peter Green Les Paul. If it was, then the Duncan Custom Shop Peter Green pickup set might be the ticket. I'd get them with the pickups in phase though. Not out of phase the way Peter used them.
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Funkfingers
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It is highly unlikely that Gary Moore used just one guitar and one amplifier set-up for an entire album. He owns (or could hire in) a wide range of LP Std, Jnr, Special and ES Thinline style instruments. Similarly, he has access to a wide range of amplification.
Since the ethos of the Still Got The Blues album was to recapture a mid-Sixties British blues boom vibe, we can reasonably assume that period-style amplification was used. Obvious candidates include the Marshall JTM45 (and its smaller cousins), assorted Selmers and small Fenders. I would not be surprised if there was a little bit of Marshall Plexi in there too. On the other hand, it would have been just as historically valid to run a fuzz pedal through a Pignose.
Even assuming that you replicate the Gary Moore guitar and amp collection, you still need to put them in the right room and point the right microphones at them. It is possible that Moore went so far as to use the old-fashioned methods of generating reverb. (i. e. A loudspeaker and a microphone at opposite ends of a corridor or a basement.)
Finally, as Aceman points out, to get really close to the SGTB tone, you need the touch of Mr. Moore. Since it is possible to tell Moore and his inspirations, Clapton and Green apart, it is reasonable to conclude that none of us is ever going to sound exactly like the next player, no matter how many decades we put into the attempt.
It is highly unlikely that Gary Moore used just one guitar and one amplifier set-up for an entire album. He owns (or could hire in) a wide range of LP Std, Jnr, Special and ES Thinline style instruments. Similarly, he has access to a wide range of amplification.
Since the ethos of the Still Got The Blues album was to recapture a mid-Sixties British blues boom vibe, we can reasonably assume that period-style amplification was used. Obvious candidates include the Marshall JTM45 (and its smaller cousins), assorted Selmers and small Fenders. I would not be surprised if there was a little bit of Marshall Plexi in there too. On the other hand, it would have been just as historically valid to run a fuzz pedal through a Pignose.
Even assuming that you replicate the Gary Moore guitar and amp collection, you still need to put them in the right room and point the right microphones at them. It is possible that Moore went so far as to use the old-fashioned methods of generating reverb. (i. e. A loudspeaker and a microphone at opposite ends of a corridor or a basement.)
Finally, as Aceman points out, to get really close to the SGTB tone, you need the touch of Mr. Moore. Since it is possible to tell Moore and his inspirations, Clapton and Green apart, it is reasonable to conclude that none of us is ever going to sound exactly like the next player, no matter how many decades we put into the attempt.
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MonkeyDungologist
Re: pups for Gary Moore Still Got the Blues tone?
SFW, i'm not an expert on gary moore
but having considered your opinion before and that you currently have an A259n/PGb set in an LP, i wonder if you'd enjoy a set of 59n/jazz and 59b/custom hybrids, or even a FSn/demon set (nickel covers would look hawt)
i've played a set of said hybrids in crusty philtrum's LP; very sweet, and the covers keep them quiet
SFW, i'm not an expert on gary moore
but having considered your opinion before and that you currently have an A259n/PGb set in an LP, i wonder if you'd enjoy a set of 59n/jazz and 59b/custom hybrids, or even a FSn/demon set (nickel covers would look hawt)
i've played a set of said hybrids in crusty philtrum's LP; very sweet, and the covers keep them quiet
Petrovsk Mizinski
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Re: pups for Gary Moore Still Got the Blues tone?
Most of the vintagey PAF-y Duncans would do Moore great I reckon. I used to listen to that album all the time, I don't reckon you'd need the Antiquities.
Most of the vintagey PAF-y Duncans would do Moore great I reckon. I used to listen to that album all the time, I don't reckon you'd need the Antiquities.
kgarvey@hotmail
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Re: pups for Gary Moore Still Got the Blues tone?
I meant he used that heritage on the song still got the blues according to my source. When I play that song with my heritage and a 59 nickel covered neck pick-up it nails the tone (obviously with the right amp). But I doubt he used this guitar for the whole album. I imagine he used a number of his les pauls all over the album. I hear these days he uses Gibson Burstbuckers 1 and 2 but thats not anything I've heard from my 'source,' I almost sound like a spy saying that
I meant he used that heritage on the song still got the blues according to my source. When I play that song with my heritage and a 59 nickel covered neck pick-up it nails the tone (obviously with the right amp). But I doubt he used this guitar for the whole album. I imagine he used a number of his les pauls all over the album. I hear these days he uses Gibson Burstbuckers 1 and 2 but thats not anything I've heard from my 'source,' I almost sound like a spy saying that
