Beatles tone. Need some starting point ideas.

mwd

mwd

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Going to track a medley that contains Come Together. Of course John and George each had their own tones and even those evolved over time but I'm looking to get close to that old classic tone. I'll be using a Godin with humbuckers in double drop D tuning.

Was wondering what others used as to amps, cabs, particular reverbs or amp settings.
 
I think you'd need the right guitars, that will be harder than getting the amp tone. There's also the production tech of that era to consider. Maybe put a tape drive at the end of the chain to simulate the old recordings.
 
I don't have settings but would suggest you try matching what was used in the recording. I would have expected John to have played Come Together's rhythm guitar on the neck pup of his Casino through the 'rooftop' silverface Twin quite loud with the guitar tone rolled back quite a bit. The recorded tone is not far away from his Let It Be album recordings tone and the sessions for Let It Be album and Abbey Road kind of ran into each other so it's not hard to imagine that John used his Rooftop gear to record Abbey Road.

No guitar reverb on that track either.

Try the Twin, not sure you'll get the feel with double dropped D though as John played mostly standard tuning, roll your neck pup tone back, more that you probably feel comfortable with, to the point of sounding 'farty'...should get you in the ballpark
 
Ya, I would love to nail the 'I Feel fine' (beatles 65) tone... There is something so extremely 'that tone' about whatever that tone is... I know the guitar choice is important for that tone, but there's a lot more to it. Might be possible to get those old Beatles tones with the Axe-FXII. Maybe Fremen or somebody can figure out how to dot...
 
GazzaBloom said:
Try the Twin, not sure you'll get the feel with double dropped D though as John played mostly standard tuning...
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I said medely but it's more of a blending of two old classics. The other is a CSNY song in double drop D. We stumbled onto the blend accidentally and you would be surprised at Come Together in DDD. It actually feels and sounds more authentic to me.
 
mwd said:
Going to track a medley that contains Come Together. Of course John and George each had their own tones and even those evolved over time but I'm looking to get close to that old classic tone. I'll be using a Godin with humbuckers in double drop D tuning.

Was wondering what others used as to amps, cabs, particular reverbs or amp settings.
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I figure this would be a good place to start. les Paul (Drop D) into Twin using Factory Double Twin Cab panned left. Neck pickup for first half, then bridge pickup.


Straight forward patch for the most part

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Very nice! Maybe throw in a bit of speaker drive to give it a touch of vintage nastiness. Set high it works awesome for that blown speaker sound on Revolution.
 
Mr.X here on the forum works sound for the Beatles tribute band "Rain" and would know some good tones as the guys playing John and George both use the Axe-FX II.
 
I am in a 60s band and we do literally 20 Beatles songs. I know this won't go over well, but I use the clean and rhythm channels of 5150 blocks in stereo. I use a Tom Anderson drop top neck pup split. I know, I know, couldn't possibly work. But it works for me and my needs:encouragement:
 
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