I play in an oasis cover group and im trying to nail down noel gallaghers jcm900 dual reverb settings. This is difficult as live he almost always played through more than one amp...i did find a youtube clip (sorry i dont know how to attach a link) where he just used the jcm900. Its "oasis mtv 1994" and its 12 mins long. To me that sounds like alot of gain. To back that up in the youtube clip of their knebworth gig in 1996 the camera sweeps past his amp and seems to show the clean channel at full gain and lead channel at 3/4 gain. There are people who say however that they used very little gain and lots of volume.
If anyone wants to help out that would be great. Please, no point saying oasis is rubbish or that tone sucks etc. It may not be the best tone ever but its a good teference point for me with my jcm900.
Thanks.
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Tim pierce describes this in one of his videos as it’s a big part of his technique. Tim pierce and Noel Gallagher are worlds apart as guitarists but the theory is the same I think.
Id personally go straight into the amp to start with then add delay and overdrive. Forget his settings.
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I think he would turn his Marshall stacks up to full on pretty much everything, as long as you have a Les Paul of some sort or a 335 through a cranked Marshall you'll get thereabouts. His early sound he didn't really use many effects, maybe a delay of some sort.
I personally think they sounded miles better live later with Gem on guitar and Andy Bell on Bass.
For that early tone I read they used a clean boost pushing a breaking up amp and then a distortion pedal for solo's with Boss Space Echo or Line 6 dl4 for delay and the odd Wah.
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The issue with using the jcm900 at pretty much full gain and volume if i am attenuating down is it gets compressed too much and tone gets sucked. I had a gig last year with volume on 7 where there is a noticeable jump in volume and gain at 2pm and although it sounded good i wouldnt say it was any better than master volume low and no attenuator....in fact it sounded weak next to the other guitarists non attenuated amp. It will be a continuous balancing act of how much attenuation i can use in the band context.
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In my opinion after 2000 when he ditched the jcm900 and started using stuff like the blues junior the sound got softer and lost its edge for me. For those wanting a good oasis gig iv always liked the vancouver 1995 gig. The amps sound like they are going to explode.
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