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The Beatles Guitar Tone.

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Topic: The Beatles Guitar Tone.

Posted By: Beckham
Subject: The Beatles Guitar Tone.
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 12:46

Does anyone know how the Beatles got the distortion sound on Happiness Is A Warm Gun. There is a song called Yes It Is by the Beatles, is that song using volume swells on guitar or is it another instrument. A lot of there songs use some interesting guitar tones.

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Posted By: Sydwaters
Date Posted: November 05 2007 at 01:04

Yes It Is uses a volume pedal, something like a wah wah.. They used it on the Help album. George Harrison would play his guitar through a leslie speaker a lot to create an organ sounding guitar. George Harrison also used drones a lot on Rubber Soul, backward guitar on Revolver and extreme distortion on Revolution. Which I think the later is how they got the guitar sound on Happiness Is A Warm Gun. Don't forget about the sitar, intentional feedback and the 12 string guitar. They were not the greatest technical players but they did a lot for the guitar in rock music.

Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 05 2007 at 17:35

"Yes It Is" is a volume pedal. Which bit of "Happiness" are you referring to - there is some fuzz guitar there.