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"Warrior" by Wishbone Ash guitar sound

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Topic: "Warrior" by Wishbone Ash guitar sound

Posted By: The Runaway
Subject: "Warrior" by Wishbone Ash guitar sound
Date Posted: November 13 2009 at 12:11

I need to know the guitar sound for Ted Turner, who plays rhythm on this track. All I know is that it is a Fender Stratocaster, with a bit of treble boost, distortion, and a whammy bar. The exact specs, like the amp, which treble booster and what the specs on the amp are would be very much appreciated.

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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: November 13 2009 at 12:35

Tone comes as much from your touch on the instrument as the equipment. The biggest thing I would make sure is that you use pretty light distortion, more of an overdrive than anything modern. I don't happen to hear a treble boost but I'm not great at that. There is slight vibrato on many of the chords which probably is very subtle bar use. I'm guessing it's a bridge single coil pickup, it's not monstrously clucky like Strats get.

Good luck. Record yourself and try to identify what's different in tone and then make adjustments.

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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: November 13 2009 at 14:11

I know it's on the Mark Knopfler pickup, and the whole song is slightly trebled, so I'm not sure about a treble booster, but he definitely does not use vibrato, it's all small tinges of the whammy bar.

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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: November 13 2009 at 14:49

Vibrato means rapid alternation of a pitch around a center. It can be done with fingers, bar, grabbing hold of the headstock, and some effects add a kind of vibrato.

And I'm not sure Mark Knopfler even had his own pickup when "Warrior" was recorded.

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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: November 13 2009 at 15:19

I'm not saying he had his own pickup, I'm saying Ted Turner is playing on what would become the Mark Knopfler signature pickup.

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