I love the guitar tone in this song, I think its a Strat single coil-ey type sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihoNRc8GDQ Thing is I can't full figure out if its played on a clean or a dirty sound with a lot of gain backed off. Or there's some sort of overdrive pedal to break up the amp.
Have tried a Strat and a Tele and I think the Strat matches it best but I'm in the middle of two pickup sections, neck/middle and bridge but coil tapped. Its got that grit you get from a bridge single coil pickup but then there's that bluesy/neck type sound.
I'm using a tube amp (Marshall DSL5 combo).
Any pointers gents?
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The guitar could have been as clean as it can get but the engineer decided to turn the mic preamp up to get some distortion from that.
Especially now with plugins available that emulate the various different ways sound gets distorted from all the best gear, it's very common for a mixer to add distortion to signals in a way that isn't possible to do with guitar gear (e.g. a plugin could be emulating the distortion from a specific vintage tape machine's preamp then separately also emulating the distortion from the tape itself.
Then it will often also be EQ'd and compressed etc.
Totally get the urge to find out what gear was used when there's great tone on a record - I still do it all the time but often there's more to it than just the guitar and amp even when you do find out those.
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I use neck pickup on Strat, Soulfood into HRD and can get pretty close. Took a bit of listening to get the mutes right though
Song brings back many memories! Loved Reed back in the day.
Edit: oops, right video this time!
Place Your Hands, from second album Glow, was adopted by TV show TFI Friday as the theme to the It’s Your Letters segment.
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We play this in the wedding band and I get close enough with either a strat or tele on the neck pickup with drive from a tube screamer and a bit of boost from a Klone.
try tuning the whole guitar down a step and playing in what would be E...
thatll get you closer!