Your Jimmy Page recipe

lex666

lex666

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Hey guys,

just for fun, if you were gonna build a Jimmy Page guitar to nail that Jimmy Page/LZ tone, what would you use? LP classic? LP standard? Tele? What kind of pups? PAF's? Antiquities? Burstbuckers? What about pots and amps?

It would be interesting to see if we all came up with the same or different answers...

1 rule tho - it has to be a working man's guitar. It must be somewhat affordable and definetaly useable. No $7,000 Jimmy Page replica closet queens or $10,000 1959 LP's...
 
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Edwards makes a Jimmy Page model - standard is usually around $700 (?) on Ebay and they have a relic version for $100 or so more... Probably could do it with an Agile, a couple "selected" Duncans, and a wiring kit as well... :smokin:

Now you got me thinkin' - a JP Tele and a JP LP, very cool combo!

Dano
 
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a 1959 you would have to add atleast a 0 and maybe x3 lol... last one i saw sold for 369 000


For Zep II and the rest, if i wanted to build a JP and nail that zep sound id probably either go...

Affordable: LP Standard/classic, Light Burst, alum tail piece, groover tuners, '59 set (or PG but i think 59 would be better), bumble bee caps or as good as i can find.. 500k pots

Less afforbable but closer: LP 1958 Historic Reissue, CS Duncan Jimmy Page bridge 'bucker, antiquity neck with a full strenght mag (or a seth lol), groover tuners.

If i wanted the Zep 1 or tele sound LZ.. id get a tele obviously :P
Amp has to be a plexi or similar, 1959 SLP or 1987x tho i can come up with some pretty close tones with my JTM-45... closer than ih ave with a 1987x for some reason...
 
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you're really gonna wanna go after his live tone. it may be a bold statement but
NO ONE WILL EVER ACHEIVE THE TONE PAGE GOT IN THE STUDIO!!!
i really think its next to imposible, cuz i cant think of any zep songs where page sounds the same. please some one correct me if im wrong.

you could really get by with an epi LP with 59's in both positions. or a fat strat really. im a big fat strat guy cuz you can get a wider variety of sound with one than a LP.

Those guitars and a tube amp, Id say a Crate V50 or 30 (im looking into the 15). Or maybe even a fender hot rod. Lots of mids and trebble. and of course a wah.

Id say any vintage voiced wah will do. Im completely in love with Snarling Dogs.

of course he also used an orig. MXR phaser. But when jim used it in the studio he layered it so many times it sounded like a flanger, so id recomend one of those (case in point: nobody's fault but mine). And a delay pedal.

cool thread, im a page fan
 
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I'd get a decent Tokai or Gibson LP Classic, then load it with Bareknuckle Black Dog pickups - that should nail it pretty well.
 
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If I was after some page tone, I'd really go for a tele more than the Les Paul. I personally do not like Zeppelin live, I think Page's playing is too sloppy live and I do not like Plant either like with him twirling his hair and screaming into the mic during a guitar solo, "PUSH, PUSH, PUSH!!!" :wall:

However, in the studio, I think they were amazing geniuses. That said, I'd go for a 60s style tele with antiquities and a small gibson amp and some sort of reverb/echoplex type pedal/unit.
 
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I use my '94 LP Classic Premium Plus with Alnico II Pro set. Total Jimmy Page tone.
 
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Most of the electrics on the first Zep album was done with his Dragon Tele that Jeff Beck gave him. He also used that Tele on the solo for Stairway. He got into Les Pauls for most Zep two, and stuck with that till later on where he used some Strats and Teles.


big_black said:
Didn't he use a Tele for most of the Zep albums?
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Page like to take a lot of chances which sometimes ended in a crash and burn situation. If you check out their DVD and watch them perform Achilles Last Stand somewhere in the late seventies, I think you might gain some new appreciation for that band live, cause it almost seems like they are connected to each other with esp or something.


Gunny47 said:
If I was after some page tone, I'd really go for a tele more than the Les Paul. I personally do not like Zeppelin live, I think Page's playing is too sloppy live and I do not like Plant either like with him twirling his hair and screaming into the mic during a guitar solo, "PUSH, PUSH, PUSH!!!" :wall:

However, in the studio, I think they were amazing geniuses. That said, I'd go for a 60s style tele with antiquities and a small gibson amp and some sort of reverb/echoplex type pedal/unit.
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yeah, watch the Unledded concert from 91', GREAT perfomance, no more drunkness on stage or being high, this is true musicianship. Page used to be my idol, but on live he's too drunk or high and he's having alot weird mistakes which really bums me out when i see how few the live perfomances are, hard to capture them on great moments, except for since i've been loving you on how the west and all of unledded.
 
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between my various Strats, Teles and my LP i can get close enough tones to play Zep.... My Tele is a stock 99 MIM Standard.... my LP is a 76 Deluxe with a full sized Duncan humbucker in the bridge-(note the mini PU slot was not routed out... oddly a trembucker just fit in place)

for amps i'd use my Classic 30 and my Fender Deluxe and my JCM 800....

close enough for me...
 
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i can pretty close with the UK 70's model on my vox and my agile LP with the Air Classics...

crank the amp model and dime back the power level and use your guitars volume control to put enough bite into it...

i can get that 1970 royal albert hall tone close...

but if i was on a more free budget...

cheap=epi LP plain top $400...
new wire, cts pots and switchcraft switch and jack and prob some sheilding paint in the cavities $40?
A bone nut cut correctly and a fret level, crown and polish too $??.
A Vintage Blues Humbucker 59' set $125,
Maybe a gotoh aluminum tailpiece and Gotoh Bridge $60?
Strap Locks $15

$600-$750ish depending on how much of the work you can do yourself. (soldering and cutting a nut and fretwork)

should make a cool player that some belt rash and stage time wouldnt scare to many people...

I kinda wanyed to buy that pickup less epi LP in the classafieds here...but i have to many projects going on as it is.

-Brian
 
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his lp had a very thin neck for a 59 and I think a gibson classic would play a lot like his lp. Good set of PAF type pickups and you are pretty close the amp though was a killer. get something that pushes a 15' speaker and you will get a lot closer than most to pages live tones.

Personally I think a tele with a rosewood board and some vintage spec pickups does a wonderful job. My MIM classic with ants gets you real close
 
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I usually just play Jimmy stuff using my strat, does it sound like Jimmy....no it sounds like me playing Jimmy's stuff, which is what I was going for. But if your looking for Jimmy's exact sound I'd go with the Edwards Jimmy Page model very inexpensive considering the alternative.
 
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