![]() In those days (early 50’s) Fender and Gibson guitars were not available in the UK. Where I grew up there was an old black guy jazz guitar player in the town who specialized in ‘Jango’ style guitar and he would often take down the cheapest guitar in the music shop and dazzle us youngsters. This playability also applies to acoustic guitars but not to pure acoustic tone and volume of course but once amplification is introduced then all of the above holds true. Guitar sales men will hate me saying this but as long as there is no obvious fundamental faults with a guitar (bent or twisted neck) and the frets are in the right place then a cheap guitar will play or can be made to play as well as an expensive one. Trust me your ears will tell you when it sounds right. Its just a matter of sweeping the wah in the middle position till you find the sweet spot… How to use a wah pedal and at aprox 2:34 shows you how to adjust the Interestingly enough Griff actually made a video demonstrating ![]() ![]() Then use a wah pedal for a sound called a “cocked wah sound” Use your bridge pickup…have your amp set for a distorted sound all you need is a distorted amp sound and a wah pedal. So say you don’t have a strat or treble booster … so you use the middle/neck pickup combinationĪlong with the treble booster to get that sound. His guitar is similar to a strat… it has 3 pickups If you watch from the start his sound is really clean… is no distortion or overdrive… as he rolls what looks like a volumeĬontrol is basically rolling up the volume of the treble boosterĬircuit… not the volume on his guitar… the volume on the guitarĪlso another bonus to the video is how he achieves the boheimian The pedal itself is a one knob boost type pedal.īut in the video he has the pedal built right into the guitar. But I can definitely help you withįirst go on youtube and search “Brian May on Vox AC 30’s”Ī very big part of his sound is the treble booster pedal.
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