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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:25 pm
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Tone Schmone. I can't listen to Hendrix or Clapton, it's not my thing. Gilmour I can listen to all day long. Or Gallagher or SRV or Angus and Mal.

I'm more interested in what they play, rather than the inherent sound they get.


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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:40 pm
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Donny I too am a bigger fan of Gilmour's earlier tones. Meddle up to Animals. I did however like the tones he was getting on the "On an Island" tour. the "Remember That Night" show was quite excellent.
Some of Gilmour's earlier Floyd work was also done on a tele.
Some pretty cool tone on Atom Heart Mother as well.

Derek and the Dominoes was quite "Stratty" indeed.



Yeah he was playing Sid's Tele and he had one also.
Sid came a repossessed it during the recording of I cant remember which.
That's when he went to Manchester Music I think it was called and bought his first black Strat.
It had a Rosewood board and it was stolen the whole truck was.
So he went back bought the other black one they had with a Maple.
That's the one you see in Live in Pompeii.
It hangs in the Hard Rock Café in Rome now.
He also had a sunburst as a backup.

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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:49 pm
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Tone Schmone. I can't listen to Hendrix or Clapton, it's not my thing. Gilmour I can listen to all day long. Or Gallagher or SRV or Angus and Mal.

I'm more interested in what they play, rather than the inherent sound they get.




You cant Listen to Hendrix? Or Clapton? Wow! Im sorry because what your missing out on especially the Hendrix is indescribable with written language.

This is how much Hendrix I own

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Jimi was the Messiah ;)

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:58 pm
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donnycraven wrote:
Drubbing wrote:
Tone Schmone. I can't listen to Hendrix or Clapton, it's not my thing. Gilmour I can listen to all day long. Or Gallagher or SRV or Angus and Mal.

I'm more interested in what they play, rather than the inherent sound they get.


You cant Listen to Hendrix? Or Clapton? Wow! Im sorry because what your missing out on especially the Hendrix is indescribable with written language.



I've given both plenty of my time as a kid, and many revisits over the years. I'm not missing anything, because they just don't do anything for me.


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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:34 pm
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There are many different Strat tones. In the SRV vein, have you guys heard Chris Anderson or Vince Converse? Or the guitarists in Buddah Head and Indigenous?

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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:31 am
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Drubbing wrote:
donnycraven wrote:
Drubbing wrote:
Tone Schmone. I can't listen to Hendrix or Clapton, it's not my thing. Gilmour I can listen to all day long. Or Gallagher or SRV or Angus and Mal.

I'm more interested in what they play, rather than the inherent sound they get.


You cant Listen to Hendrix? Or Clapton? Wow! Im sorry because what your missing out on especially the Hendrix is indescribable with written language.



I've given both plenty of my time as a kid, and many revisits over the years. I'm not missing anything, because they just don't do anything for me.


OK well everyone is different and got different tastes. Nothing wrong with that.

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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:33 am
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Mark Knopfler got some great sounds out of a '61 strat on the first two Dire Straits records.


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Ha! Nice thread. Got nothing but support for anyone admiring Dave Gilmour's guitar sound - tonewise, and especially the music he plays with it. Meddle is probably my personal fave: wish I could take that down with me scuba diving - haha! :D


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The folks that should be compared for Strat tone are those that use no effects with the possible exception of a bit of reverb. Those are the true tone masters. They include Mark Knopfler...

Knopfler's early Straits sound is one of the all time fine and distinctive Strat tones, no doubt about that. But to be fair, it's also a highly processed sound. There's a heck of a lot more than just reverb going on with those tracks...


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There are many different Strat tones. In the SRV vein, have you guys heard Chris Anderson or Vince Converse?

I'm neither a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan nor hater. So from the side lines I'd have thought it an objective truth that there are not many players who have had a bigger influence when it comes to the specific topic of Strat tone. The last 20 years seem to have been packed full of young guys and girls trying their damnedest to get the Stevie sound, which in itself is no bad thing, I'd say.

I don't know Vince Converse. Thanks for the recommendation: I'll check him out. :)

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Ceri wrote:
Ha! Nice thread. Got nothing but support for anyone admiring Dave Gilmour's guitar sound - tonewise, and especially the music he plays with it. Meddle is probably my personal fave: wish I could take that down with me scuba diving - haha! :D


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The folks that should be compared for Strat tone are those that use no effects with the possible exception of a bit of reverb. Those are the true tone masters. They include Mark Knopfler...

Knopfler's early Straits sound is one of the all time fine and distinctive Strat tones, no doubt about that. But to be fair, it's also a highly processed sound. There's a heck of a lot more than just reverb going on with those tracks...


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There are many different Strat tones. In the SRV vein, have you guys heard Chris Anderson or Vince Converse?

I'm neither a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan nor hater. So from the side lines I'd have thought it an objective truth that there are not many players who have had a bigger influence when it comes to the specific topic of Strat tone. The last 20 years seem to have been packed full of young guys and girls trying their damnedest to get the Stevie sound, which in itself is no bad thing, I'd say.

I don't know Vince Converse. Thanks for the recommendation: I'll check him out. :)

Cheers - C


Great reply :)
i personally have been going back and rediscovering all my classic music with all the remastered box set releases.
Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, and Jimi Hendrix.
Im a strong modern rock consumer but some of The worked over classics sound now like they were just released yesterday.

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:19 am
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donnycraven wrote:
Great reply :)

Well, it's a good thread! :)

I know it sounds horribly corny, but I have indeed dived through "labyrinths of coral caves" and Echoes pops into my head every time! :lol: Gilmour's playing is the happy side of nitrogen narcosis without the need for nitrogen! (Any divers here will know what that means...)

People of my vintage might remember a surfers' movie of the 1970s called Crystal Voyager. Gotta be one of the dullest films ever: I was nearly crying with boredom in the cinema - until the long section pairing Echoes with spacy footage of waves breaking from underneath. Then it got kinda mellow - and that was without the pharmaceuticals the filmmakers presumably thought the audience would be using to survive their flick.

Here's a bit of that movie, for illustration. I dunno: Pink Floyd and underwater scenes somehow just work together...



Nowadays someone could do so much of a better job of those visuals. Calling Youtube home filmmakers.

BTW, just to keep it on-topic, Gilmour's got to be using middle+bridge on his selector switch for the first seven minutes or so of Echoes, would you say? I hear a little quacky edge to the notes in there somewhere. Anyone feel like watching the relevant bit of Live at Pompeii to check...?

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I don't really 'get' the question. I mean is greatest measured by most versatile or most different than others, or by the riffs that were played or just plain favorite players?

Blackmore's tone is one of my favorites, but not sure if the "greatest" :?:

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I don't really 'get' the question. I mean is greatest measured by most versatile or most different than others, or by the riffs that were played or just plain favorite players?

Blackmore's tone is one of my favorites, but not sure if the "greatest" :?:


Is it a question with no answers? Maybe its answers without questions. ;)

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donnycraven wrote:
Miami Mike wrote:
I don't really 'get' the question. I mean is greatest measured by most versatile or most different than others, or by the riffs that were played or just plain favorite players?

Blackmore's tone is one of my favorites, but not sure if the "greatest" :?:


Is it a question with no answers? Maybe its answers without questions. ;)

Or many answers!

I was just taking it loosely to mean, "Let's have a nice time chatting about Dave Gilmour's sound. And/or nice Strat sounds in general".

Lotta miles to be had out of that! :D

Blackmore: good. 8)

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Ceri wrote:
I'm neither a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan nor hater. So from the side lines I'd have thought it an objective truth that there are not many players who have had a bigger influence when it comes to the specific topic of Strat tone. The last 20 years seem to have been packed full of young guys and girls trying their damnedest to get the Stevie sound.


I'm hard pressed to identify a "young" Strat player that doesn't use the SRV sound.

I think the "SRV sound" is just a certain Hendrix sound mixed with Trower's sound.

I guess I'm guilty of mostly using that sound too, but it's hard to avoid it when one's tools are the Marshall/wah-wah pedal/Stratocaster triumvirate.

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I think the "SRV sound" is just a certain Hendrix sound mixed with Trower's sound.


......With a dash of Rory for "ambience".

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