![]() It just seems strange why I find myself nitpicking at it when listening along during driving. I wonder if Chrissie used a Boss chorus with her Fender Twins and Telecaster guitar for the chords in Mystery Achievement? On the other hands I really like the big loud chorused chords in Private Life near the end. Sometimes I get a little annoyed at how it fades and mushes out so quick, other times it seems quite cool. In Lovers of Today it seems to vary from a rather scooped-midrange vicious sound, to a more cocked-wah honky sound. I think sometimes the tones would have seemed really piercing and harsh in person, but got slightly softened during recording. I don't think it's the bass guitar, as that comes in later and is a more 'solid' separate sound. The start of The Phone Call seems to have a low octave effect that is distorting to the point of a low fart sound. It's this tinny buzz flickering and flickering. I'm not sure if that's a mixing issue, scooping the mids too much, or how they blended the different amp sounds.Īt other times some of the tones seem to fizz out as if they have no bottom end to them all, particularly if they use a flanger on them. I find some of the strummed rhythm guitar sounds so "painfully frustratingly quiet", I'm literally straining my ear to hear them. Were they using different dirt pedals? Scooping midrange a lot? Phase cancelling? Little tinny amps with 8" speakers? On the other hand though, I find myself getting a bit annoyed at how thin they seem. On one hand I really like how innovative they were with the different textures and timbres. I've been listening to their first album a lot lately, and while overall I really like it I have to admit I have some mixed feelings about the guitar tones. Jimmy used Marshall 100-watt amplifiers and BOSS chorus, overdrive, and compressor effects pedals. Honeyman-Scott owned several acoustic guitars including a Gibson Dove, Martin D-28, and a Guild 12-string. ![]() Honeyman-Scott recorded most of his guitar parts for the Pretenders debut album using a Gibson ES-335 or Gibson Les Paul. Just before joining the Pretenders, Honeyman-Scott used an Ibanez Gibson-Explorer style with a Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory pedal and Marshall amplifier in an attempt to emulate the Rickenbacker 12-string sound on songs by Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe (Guitar Player, 1981).
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