Interesting article on Jimi Hendrix, guitars, tone etc.

cmatthes said:
I still believe it's in the hands, head and heart.

The gear is such a small component in that equation, otherwise, there'd be a LOT more great guitarists out there!
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couldnt agree more,that is the one part I could never find to buy. and then the assembly instructions..was it shaken or stirred.

 
Jimi+Eddie Kramer (Engineer)+Roger Mayer (Octavia)+Arbiter Fuzz Face+Vox Wah

Jimi had the sounds in his head, the vision and creativity, and both Eddie and Roger were able to make it happen on 2" tape & live.

It was a great collaboration.

 
I think his tone was more straight than anybody wants to be acknowledged. I think he took to many drugs to dial in anything special. A certain volume setting on a regular amp with a certain pickup varying in quality at the times created something unique very easily. Then comes his playing into play combined with a ton of drugs. That's hard to recreate.

 
MCChris said:
My takeaway is: thank God for Buzz Feiten tuning systems and effects loops. Until those things came along, electric guitar music sounded like pure crap and wasn't influential in the slightest.
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i missed that memo..lol.

 
Thanks for the post!

I found the part about swapping out the G string to be rather interesting!

"Hendrix very consciously used a .015 gauge G string rather than a .017, in order to keep the G from leaping out volume-wise".

 
I've always been amazed by what a basic rig (say .... a Stratocaster and a Marshall) sounds like in different Hands - take Hendrix , Blackmore , Jeff Beck (Beck Ola album), Paul Kossoff (Time away), Uli Roth on In Trance , Gary Moore in the early-1980's , Robin Trower ..... all sound totally individual .

D.~

 
One of the only things about my playing I am proud of is that I pretty much sound like me through whatever I play through. I'm certainly no virtuoso, so that isn't bragging. But for better or worse, I sound like me when I play. I think far too many people chasing others' tone kind of miss that whole thing. Even if you can't play every lick in the world, it's comforting knowing you have something that is yours. Conversely, guys like Hendrix... I'm willing to bet a whole lot of us here can play anything he did note for note if we wanted, and I'd be willing to guarantee it still wouldn't have that "it," even if we were playing it note for note through his rig.

ETA: Frigin' doctorate, and I still can't proofread worth a damn.

 
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Always thought the Tele deal on the classics was funny. Argued that with cats for years, always had the "no way, that's a fuckin' Strat, man, nothing sounds like that but a Strat" comment lobbed at me. Dumbassery at it's finest.

Soul's in the digits, and that's where the tone lives...

 
cmatthes said:
I still believe it's in the hands, head and heart.

The gear is such a small component in that equation, otherwise, there'd be a LOT more great guitarists out there!
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gear is always cool but this is the reallity^^^

MCChris said:
My takeaway is: thank God for Buzz Feiten tuning systems and effects loops. Until those things came along, electric guitar music sounded like pure crap and wasn't influential in the slightest.
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Disturber said:
Tone is not in your fingers, it's in your wallet. You want to sound like Hendrix, you must have this one. It's 50s tone after all:

http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/topic/65203-psa-nik-huber-rietbergen/
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I spent that wallet twice...I can say first hand money can't buy you love...as in love of a tone..Been There Done That. I would give $500,000 if you can set me up a rig that I can play and sound painstakingly jimi as I part your hair with the volume and gets me revered for cracking the code /emoticons/default_laugh.png/emoticons/default_cool.png/emoticons/default_ph34r.png ........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz oh oh it was a dream /emoticons/default_wacko.png darn /emoticons/default_mellow.png

and the oh other bitter reality if it only cost $500,000..I would be way back in the line because someone with deeper pockets would have been there first. /emoticons/default_blink.png/emoticons/default_sleep.png/emoticons/default_rolleyes.gif/emoticons/default_huh.png/emoticons/default_happy.png

 
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