Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

[TwilightOdyssey]

I'm going to be working on my rack this weekend, and the goal is to try to get my guitar sound as close as possible to my recorded sound.

To do this on the album, we used a vintage Pultec EQ.
What I want to do is thicken my tone just a bit. I was looking into the Avalon Design U5 and essentially using that as a tone buffer.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what else will do the trick?
No mid-fi crap, please!!!!!!

 

[shred-dog]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

hey twilight how about a BBE

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

I have an old BBE ... that works quite well, but it has a very solid state kind of sound to it ... I don't necessarily want more bottom end; just to thicken the tone I already have.

Thanx for the suggestion, tho!!

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Does anyone think that a Fullonte Tube Tape Echo, if set for virtually no delay and zero repeats will do the trick as well?

 

[proxy]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Does anyone think that a Fullonte Tube Tape Echo, if set for virtually no delay and zero repeats will do the trick as well?

Hmm my guitar teacher bought one. He is more into hendrix esk stuff. If you used it for the feature itd basically be functioning as a simple preamp. What about one of those guitar exciters?

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Thx, Proxy, but I'm trying to stay away from exciters and such. I'm looking for something closer to an analog EQ in terms of tone.

 

[proxy]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Thx, Proxy, but I'm trying to stay away from exciters and such. I'm looking for something closer to an analog EQ in terms of tone.

Those Tube Echo's though. They are ****ing badass, I would pick one up anyways. They blow away any echo everymade including the old tape echos, i'm pulling a blank on the name, gah... They are made beautifully, great units.

 

[aleclee]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Why not just get a parametric EQ?

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Why not just get a parametric EQ?

I was looking into that, actually. But the one I like costs $4,000!!!

 

[shred-dog]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

hey twilight when i saw LYNCH the last time that is what he was using . how about an older rackmounted analog delay set for doubling almost no delay eary 80's type thing roland/ibanez/korg or something or how about a chandler tube delay they are rack mount kinda hard to find but great tone

 

[induktor]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

It's would seem to me that if you're after a thick studio recorded sound or tone you would want to use some type of doubling effect since in the studio guitar tracks are often layered and panned to present a thick rich wide sound. I agree that a little parametric eq would help tweak things a bit as well. If you have any insight into how the mixing of your material was done, you could use that as a basis for how you might duplicate that sound in your live rig.

 

[some_dude]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

I was looking into that, actually. But the one I like costs $4,000!!!

I'm using an old (all analog) Furman PQ-3. It works great, but it might qualify as "mid-fi crap".

 

[nuntius]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Block your floyd, and raise the wuss action you have on that JEM :fing25:

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

The two routes I've had the best luck with are...In an FX loop, use a good 31 band graphic EQ, running mainly flat but with certain frequencies dialed up. When you make a guitar pop out of the mix on tape, you're just basically boosting the frequencies that cut through the mix the best. Do it with your live rig, too.

Some of the new boutique OD companies are making very linear clean boost pedals like the Klon, Banzai Coldfusion, Fulltone OCD etc. I've made a halfstack sound monsterous, just by leaving one of those on with a slight boost. Then use channel switchers or other OD units as your lead tones. Both those ideas are within a $200 solution to your question.

 

[Forbes]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Pickup booster perhaps?

 

[Pandemonium]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Two amps stereo?

 

[y2stevo]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Block your floyd, and raise the wuss action you have on that JEM :fing25:

Lol :laugh2:

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

hey twilight when i saw LYNCH the last time that is what he was using . how about an older rackmounted analog delay set for doubling almost no delay eary 80's type thing roland/ibanez/korg or something or how about a chandler tube delay they are rack mount kinda hard to find but great tone

I think you're on to something there ...

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

It's would seem to me that if you're after a thick studio recorded sound or tone you would want to use some type of doubling effect since in the studio guitar tracks are often layered and panned to present a thick rich wide sound. I agree that a little parametric eq would help tweak things a bit as well. If you have any insight into how the mixing of your material was done, you could use that as a basis for how you might duplicate that sound in your live rig.

Hey Induktor ... welcome to the forum!
I know exactly how my album was mixed, I was there for the whole thing. I'm not trying to mimic the multitracked sound. What I'm refering to is the beefiness that it took on once we ran it through the Pultec EQ: that's what I'm trying to capture a bit more of.
I have a BOSS PS-5, and using the Detune setting I'm able to get a much thicker sound, but because you're messing with the phase, it loses the focus that just using the vintage EQ has.
Great advice otherwise, bro. And well stated.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Want to THICKEN my guitar tone?!

Block your floyd, and raise the wuss action you have on that JEM :fing25:

Why I oughta .... :evil:
I'm gonna have Brow come round your house and give you a kick in the teeth for me!