Secret80'sMan
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Those of you that know me know that I am obsessed with replicating iconic 80's guitar tones as part of what I do in my 80's tribute band The Reflex. For a long time John Spinks legendary tone for the song "Your Love" elluded me but with the advent of Tone Matching I am finally able to approximate this tone and even impress some concertgoers with how close it sounds to the original.
When tone matching first came on the scene I put this tone together and was getting ready to upload it to share but it got corrupted and I thought I didn't have a backup but when I did a recent firmware upgrade I restored sounds from onboard and there was my patch. The TM info was corrupted so I redid that and presto here it is.
A little background first: We know that The Outfield's Play Deep record was recorded at AIR in London. We also know that The desks were Neves which I'm sure imparted some of the legendary tone as well. William Wittman (Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborne, The Fixx) recorded the record and IMHO captured some of the most legendary pop trio sounds ever created on this album. Amps were Marshall JCM 800's for most things and mic'ed the cabs with a Neuman u87. I believe the guitar was a Telecaster.
They made stereo rhythm guitars by double tracking and panning left and right and sometimes using an Ibanez Dual Chorus pedal and feeding it's 2 outputs to two Marshalls side by side. Since we don't know exactly which of the two methods was employed for this particular song I chose to use delay on each side and do a chorus up the middle which sounded the closest to me to the record.
I then looped a piece of the intro before the vocals several times to be able to capture enough isolated track to accurately tone match it. I also inserted an intelligent pitch shifter so it can be kicked in during the bridge for those harmonized lines. On record it is two guitars but this sounds pretty good if you're the only guy on stage with a guitar as I am most of the time. I am using a Strat with a Lace Sensor Hot Dually Humbucker split into true single coil mode. If your pickup isn't a single coil or doesn't actually split to single (most don't in the true sense of the word) the patch won't sound as good.
I am no Chef, Groovenut, Java, or Simeon when it comes to tone cloning, matching, patch tweaking or creation but I'm kinda proud of this one so wanted to share it with everyone. Here is a sample of it in action at a gig. Enjoy!
When tone matching first came on the scene I put this tone together and was getting ready to upload it to share but it got corrupted and I thought I didn't have a backup but when I did a recent firmware upgrade I restored sounds from onboard and there was my patch. The TM info was corrupted so I redid that and presto here it is.
A little background first: We know that The Outfield's Play Deep record was recorded at AIR in London. We also know that The desks were Neves which I'm sure imparted some of the legendary tone as well. William Wittman (Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborne, The Fixx) recorded the record and IMHO captured some of the most legendary pop trio sounds ever created on this album. Amps were Marshall JCM 800's for most things and mic'ed the cabs with a Neuman u87. I believe the guitar was a Telecaster.
They made stereo rhythm guitars by double tracking and panning left and right and sometimes using an Ibanez Dual Chorus pedal and feeding it's 2 outputs to two Marshalls side by side. Since we don't know exactly which of the two methods was employed for this particular song I chose to use delay on each side and do a chorus up the middle which sounded the closest to me to the record.
I then looped a piece of the intro before the vocals several times to be able to capture enough isolated track to accurately tone match it. I also inserted an intelligent pitch shifter so it can be kicked in during the bridge for those harmonized lines. On record it is two guitars but this sounds pretty good if you're the only guy on stage with a guitar as I am most of the time. I am using a Strat with a Lace Sensor Hot Dually Humbucker split into true single coil mode. If your pickup isn't a single coil or doesn't actually split to single (most don't in the true sense of the word) the patch won't sound as good.
I am no Chef, Groovenut, Java, or Simeon when it comes to tone cloning, matching, patch tweaking or creation but I'm kinda proud of this one so wanted to share it with everyone. Here is a sample of it in action at a gig. Enjoy!
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