“I have a feeling that’s the guitar on the record too, but I wouldn’t swear to it,” May told MusicRadar.“It has that lovely mellow, gut string sound. When we came across that guitar it was quite a revelation as trying to mic up acoustic guitars on stage is a nightmare, and ...
An electro-acousticis an acoustic guitar that you can plug into an amplifier if you need more volume or want to use some effects. It looks just like a steel-stringed acoustic guitar, but it has a jack input, like this: A semi-acoustic guitar(AKA ‘hollow-body’ electric) is a type ...
And electric guitar pickups. At its simplest, an electric guitar pickup consists of a permanent magnet wrapped in coils of wire, so it stands to reason that high-quality magnets such as those containing alnico would make for high-quality guitar pickups. And that they did — alnico-magnet pic...
I think this record influenced many, many guitarists. Check it out, it’s a party!” So too is this Jimmy Reid cover. Check it out above. And read MusicRadar’s review of the Vintera II ‘60s Telecaster that Sweeney is playing in the video. Billy F Gibbons: 10 guita...
Playing a Fender Telecaster that was alternately DI'd or fed through a Vox amp and Fender Champ miked with a combination of Shure SM57 and SM58 and AKG C12A mics, Terry Britten tracked quite a few guitar parts for 'What's Love' — varying the style, content and tuning — before choosi...
I don't remember if it was Telecaster or Stratocaster But I do remember that it wasn't at all easy It required the perfect combination of the right powerchords And the precise angle from which to strike! The guitar bled for about a week afterwards And the blood was, ooh, dark and...
Everything. His rapport with the audience was fantastic. His guitar playing was great. I was lucky to catch him when he was really on top of his game. He was very funny, too. If you can find it, there’s a tape from Detroit, I think, where Chuck Berry does stand-up comedy for ...
the statement that an instrument finish makes. They care about how it affects an instrument’s tone, feel, look and value over time. They care about how it helps projects personality. For novice, pro and collector alike, there is no visual element of a guitar more important than its ...
Amazing/Wow is just two dudes, bangin’ it out, but they elevate the whole venture to such epic proportions that a whole army of guitarists (a “guitarmy,” if you will) couldn’t show them up on stage. Fellow Ampeater writer Nick Kelly saw Amazing/Wow a while back, and wrote, “...
could be seen as bloated but, according to Spot, that’s the conclusion Watt came to during its construction. “Paranoid TimeandThe Punch Linewere done on a 16-track machine,” he toldPremier Guitar. “What Makes a Man Start Fires?was 24-track. But somewhere in that whole thing, Mike ...