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Buzzing Fly Guitar Tone
Hey, I want to make my guitar sound like a fly buzzing around. mainly with single notes. I haven't had the time to mess around and attempt creating the effect yet, so I figured I'd ask on here.. for some advice or a starting point.
I was reading an article a while back about George Harrison's lead sound on Savoy Truffle. It mentions how his guitar was pitched to the register of a dentist's drill. Anyone know how this was done? It seems like that technique might work for what I'm attempting. Thanks, Adam Last edited by adam79; 03-11-2018 at 03:04 PM. |
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Re: Buzzing Fly Guitar Tone
The Beatles were the first to go outside the usual usage of console hardware in the studios which really riled the white coats (yes back then the British recording engineers wore white coats) and they had strict rules about what could and couldn't be done. According to this article from 'The Beatles Bible' https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/savoy-truffle/ they overloaded the front end of the console with not just one but two 'high gain' amps to get George's sound.
The Beatles were also one of the first to go outside the 'normal' bounds of eq usage as well. |
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Re: Buzzing Fly Guitar Tone
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That website says the two high gain amps were used to distort the horn section. I'm pretty sure the thing I read about pitching the guitar to a dentist's drill was a quote from one of the session engineers.. My favorite beatles, in the studio, story has to be the one about John wanting his vocals to sound like he was miles away on the peak of a mountian (I forget which song). To get this he asked to be put in a harness and lowered from said mountain. The insanity of the request, along with the liablility of hanging their cash cow off the edge of a peak, gave birth to the idea of recording his voice thru a Leslie cabinet. |
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Love the story behind ST - shows how close George & Eric really were. There was a point where they even referred to each other as husbands-in-law. Both loved the same woman and both found they really couldn't live with her. |
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Re: Buzzing Fly Guitar Tone
Adam:
Darn you - now you've gotten to me with digging out stuff on George's guitar sound on Savoy Truffle. I think I found where you read about 'pitched to the register of a dentist's drill' in this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoy_Truffle which footnotes to this book: Gould, Jonathan (2007). Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. London: Piatkus. ISBN 978-0-7499-2988-6. Then I found a fairly complete article on the recording of ST here: http://www.beatlesebooks.com/savoy-truffle where there's mention that up until this point all recording was done at Trident and there were technical problems with the tapes which were noticed when the tapes were brought to EMI for further recording. See paragraph 7 in the 'recording history' section. Perhaps this is what contributed to the sound of George's guitar. Also you'll read in the article that there were differences between the mono and stereo versions of the tune. Further mentioned was the tune was reworked for cd in later years as well as for the Beatles Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas. |
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Re: Buzzing Fly Guitar Tone
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I listened to ST on YouTube and George's guitar sound is relatively to figure out - Les Paul bridge PAF pickup with a LOT of treble and some overdrive. Does not sound like one of his Gretsches. |
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