A spectacularly good gig by Andy Timmons.
As I am on my way up the learning curve with this, especially high gain stuff, can anyone here cast some light on the guitar sounds Andy creates.
I am particularly thinking about the thick, congested almost choking distortion, which would not be a "go to" sound for me if experimenting in isolation, but sounds fantastic in this context. Any other insights into his "sound" would be appreciated too.
What a fantastic player he is, just amazing technique.
Thanks for your help
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edited Dec 2016 with working link for YT video ~ enjoy...
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Darkish highish gain tube amp and/or darkish bridge humbucker should get you most of the way there, assuming you can play like him. A tubescreamer (or similar) od boost might help a bit with the smoothness, too.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
He used to have 2 DMM's, but I think the latest rig has a Timeline instead. Which does do DMM very well I have to say
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
And an octaver/ POG here and there.
@littlegreenman got any more info on the two delay thing? Sounds interesting.
Short-400ms
Long-600-650ms
3-4 repeats
Gives a great cascading sound.
What's your current rig? As I said above, if you can play like him you should be able to get fairly close with fairly standard gear- superstrat, medium (or even medium high) output bridge humbucker (neck and middle single coils for the lighter tones, probably), reasonably high gain tube amp with a warmish distortion channel and decent fenderish clean channel, something tubescreamer-ish as a boost. That'll get you 90% of the way there, maybe 95%. Delays and stuff like that won't hurt, but the base tone can be got without them, I think.