Ritchie Blackmore's tone, but noiseless?

[Mincer]

Re: Ritchie Blackmore's tone, but noiseless?

In the mid '70s, I was at Dawk's shop, outside Cortland, NY, as he was doing some amp work for me and a friend. I had the chance to crank one of Ritchie's scalloped fingerboard Strats through one of his "Dawked" Marshall Major stacks! Ungodly loud and I thought the walls of that single wide trailer were going to explode, but what a magnificent, harmonically rich tone! Dawk was a real, card carrying, maniacal lunatic, but he sure knew how to "squeeze" every drop of energy out of an amp that it could muster! Still, the most key ingredient of Blackmore's sound is Ritchie!
Just Sayin'
Gene

This sounds like a great memory. Ritchie had a lot of great tones over the years. I am not so keen on his modern tone, though. It started going a little south back in the late 80s.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Ritchie Blackmore's tone, but noiseless?

I was also gonna say Gold Lace Sensors - but already covered.

Malmsteen used Stacked DiMarzio's, and for a cool move - try splitting a stacked single. Cuts the noise considerable, but retains single tone. Not silent, but way quieter.

 

[Whammy]

Re: Ritchie Blackmore's tone, but noiseless?

This is a great resource for equipment that Ritchie Blackmore has used.
http://www.treblebooster.net/blackmore.html

 

[Ayrton]

Re: Ritchie Blackmore's tone, but noiseless?

I always liked the early Rainbow tone with the ‘70’s staggered pickups.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Ritchie Blackmore's tone, but noiseless?

In the mid '70s, I was at Dawk's shop, outside Cortland, NY, as he was doing some amp work for me and a friend. I had the chance to crank one of Ritchie's scalloped fingerboard Strats through one of his "Dawked" Marshall Major stacks! Ungodly loud and I thought the walls of that single wide trailer were going to explode, but what a magnificent, harmonically rich tone! Dawk was a real, card carrying, maniacal lunatic, but he sure knew how to "squeeze" every drop of energy out of an amp that it could muster! Still, the most key ingredient of Blackmore's sound is Ritchie!
Just Sayin'
Gene

Do you think there is any hope to recover circuit diagrams and the like now that he has passed? Do you have contact with anybody we might be able to talk to?