Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Jonesy on May 25, 2006, 09:00:15 PM
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Ino the guy uses les pauls with soldanos but which pickup would be best for achieving his tone on 'over the hills and far away'?
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I think Gary was using alot of "Super Strats" during that time possibly Jacksons will need to check up on that.
Although a Fairly decent overdrive/distortion would probably give you a good enough sound
As opposed to pickups I wouldn't be able to advise you on that sorry
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I only have his Still Got The Blues album, but if the tone is the same as that one, then Mules should get you really close.
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Ye...his tone seems to have been pretty consistent over time...Mules are sounding good
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I saw him on that tour and I remember he played his fiesta red Fender '61 strat and some charvels - it was before he returned to Les Pauls. But I think Mules are the nearest of BKPS to GM's tone.
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:D Gary`s rock period is great & personaly i prefer it to he`s blues stuff [ even tho he doe`s the blues really well ]
Gary used a pink/red strat, loaded with single coils. he used a Ibanez tube screamer going into a valve amp. Usually a Marshall his models changed as he was allways experimenting. I`ve seen him use both Plexi`s & JCM800`s .
As for what single coils to get i can`t say as i don`t use them. As for a H/B i`d go for VHII`s, Mules, from personal experiance. hope this helps in some way
:D 8)
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Humbuckers: Mules
Single coils: I would guess trilogy may be nearer his 80's tone?
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I reckon Mother's Milks, Irish Tours or slow hands - I remember he was the guitar supremo on BBCs Rock School (an 80s programme on playing in a band ) and he used his 60s strat (as can be seen on the album cover - I think it was originally another Peter Green guitar) with a Boss DS1 pedal.
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for HB's how about emralds
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Ino the guy uses les pauls with soldanos but which pickup would be best for achieving his tone on 'over the hills and far away'?
Stormy Monday or Mules. He had Peter Greens old Les Paul with original PAFs, with the magnet on the neck pickup flipped to create an out of phase sound with both pickups on together. That tone is primarily a combination of a Les Paul with PAFs through an old Marshall, in his case a JTM45.
I read that he usually uses both pickups together and uses the volume controls to get a good balance between them depending on what he's playing.
And he uses a Marshall JTM45, Soldanos may have come and gone but his tone is generally that JTM45. My '69 Major will nail the tone with the Les Paul and even comes pretty close with my Jem too. With the stock LP classic pickups though it wouldn't even come close.
Gary Moore sure has a great tone, doesn't he? Good choice. I put a set of Gibson Burstbuckers in my LP (hadn't heard of BKPs yet!) for the same reason, but they're not potted and that's getting kind of annoying now because I can't turn the gain up without feedback.
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nailbombs do gary moore for sure, one of my fave guitarists and all his rock stuff blows his blues stuff out of the water
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nailbombs do gary moore for sure, one of my fave guitarists and all his rock stuff blows his blues stuff out of the water
I could do Gary Moore's rock stuff with Nailbombs, sure...
His rock stuff was good too but when I think of a "Gary Moore tone," I think of his tone on "The Messiah Will Come Again" which has an amazing tone (and also gets my vote for his best overall piece, guitar and songwise).
Then again on Wild Frontier, I think he was still using a strat for most of it.
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My Stormy Monday loaded LP and my JTM45 clone with KT66s and mullards get pretty close!!
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My Stormy Monday loaded LP and my JTM45 clone with KT66s and mullards get pretty close!!
Lol nice. That's his blues tone alright!
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Gary was using a PRS as well at the time
Live he resorted to an old USA Charvel with an EMG, although he also had his Greeny Les Paul as well.
For classic Gary Moore Les Paul tone I'd agree that a Mule works well.
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My Stormy Monday loaded LP and my JTM45 clone with KT66s and mullards get pretty close!!
Lol nice. That's his blues tone alright!
That's right.... Greenie's LP had low output ( resulting in that sweet, dynamic tone) so SMs is the way to go although many people used to modern humbuckers with 300k pots and regular wiring might find them a tad "fenderish". :roll:
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Gary's brother lives or used to live in Weston Super mare.
I saw him, hes not quite up to Gary's standard!
If I think of the Gary Moore sound, its instantly "Oh Pretty Woman" from Still got the blues.
In the early 80's metal era he mainly used his pink 61 strat with stock pickups, but when he went solo with songs like "Empty rooms" in the mid 80's he used Hamer a lot, Les Pauls, also a light blue flying V.
If its the "Still got the blues" album sound you're after, and I think thats THE classic Gary Moore album, actually a classic album anyway, he used different Les Pauls 58's and 59's into a Marshall Gov'nor distortion pedal (the older type Gov'nor) and then into a Marshall JTM 45, live it was the same except I think he used 100 Marshalls.
In the early 80's playing heavy metal with the pink strat, he used all Boss pedals, mainly DS-1 Distortion and the 0ctave divider.
When he played Red House at the Fender show 2 years ago, he used the pink strat.
I haven't heard his latest album, but I heard a track from an album from a couple of years ago and I really didn't like the sound at all, Have you got the "Blues alive" live album from the time of "Still got the blues"?
Its AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the Mules are a good bet.
I have got a MULE neck "not literally" and an Emerald.
I don't think it matters which ones for this because although the MULES are lower powered like the PAF's, he puts it through the Govnor to drive the amp hard anyway.
Stef.
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For his Monsters of Rock CD/DVD albums he used:
Gibson Explorer white
Gibson GM sig LP standard
Dod Supra Distortion
Dod Death Metal Distortion
Ibanez TS10 Tubescreamer
Dod Mystic Blues Overdrive
Dunlop JH-1 wah
Ibanez Chorus
Ibanez Delay III
Custom switch box
Marshall DSL100 amp
Marshall 2203 reissue amp
3 x Marshall 1960BX 4 x 12" cabs
This is what someone from his website told me when I emailled them :)
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Just goes to show you that if you can really rip, you make a "average" looking rig on paper sound great in reality. Doesn't it? I mean...DOD and Ibanez pedals instead of all this boutique equipment that I hear so much about!
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it's all in the fingers man im telling you, my Strat and my amp in the hands of my mate thom sounds like a totally different animal to when im playing it, he picks 10x lighter than me and picks every note and has one killer vibrato, my friend rowan digs in 30x harder than anyone i know lol but he gets a killer tone from any rig and I mean any rig at all he's such a stunning player and he uses a ESP KH502 w/ EMG 81 in the bridge (No neck pickup he says they're for pussy's who cant pick right lol) into a Laney Tube Fusion combo.
Im not saying good gear doesnt make a difference it does but if someones got that touch, they'll sound good anywhere.