How to get the "womantone"

who's_pearljam?

Sister Rosetta Tharpe rocks out! I've got her complete recordings on CD and they're great!
Eric Clapton must have watched this one before he went guitar shopping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOmRm0-acJw

Pacomc79

http://www.pedalgeek.com/cgi-bin/new_shop.cgi?config=&uid=DLIGgwAA1150393689&command=link--rgwt


and here I am trying to decipher Clapton, boy was I wrong

who's_pearljam?

Pacomc79 wrote:

http://www.pedalgeek.com/cgi-bin/new_shop.cgi?config=&uid=DLIGgwAA1150393689&command=link--rgwt


and here I am trying to decipher Clapton, boy was I wrong

I have that pedal. It looks better than it sounds!

Did you check her solo out towards the end through that old Gibson amp? 8)

moster78

That was pretty amazing. Nice SG, but a weird way to wear the strap. I was afraid she'd drop it at the end.

On a side note, I remember reading that to achieve the "womantone", all that was involved, besides the amazing Marshall amps, was to crank up the gain, bass, mids and treble, switch to your neck pickup and just roll the tone all the way down.

moemoe6434

moster78 wrote:

That was pretty amazing. Nice SG, but a weird way to wear the strap. I was afraid she'd drop it at the end.

On a side note, I remember reading that to achieve the "womantone", all that was involved, besides the amazing Marshall amps, was to crank up the gain, bass, mids and treble, switch to your neck pickup and just roll the tone all the way down.

basically that is the recipe but two changes:
-you want to LOWER your mids on the amp
-and you want NO gain, you want the amp to distort in the preamp using by turning your VOLUME waaay up.

moster78

moemoe6434 wrote:

basically that is the recipe but two changes:
-you want to LOWER your mids on the amp
-and you want NO gain, you want the amp to distort in the preamp using by turning your VOLUME waaay up.

Thats kind of what I meant. I don't really have a gain knob on my amp, just a master volume and a pre-amp volume. Cranking the pre-amp and the EQ knobs kind of gets that "Sunshine of Your Love" sound.

who's_pearljam?

I'm so old I SAW Cream!

I guess when you have 2 100 watt Marshall stacks turned up you have a little more flexibility, too. He also use a wah wah set back towards the bass end to get that tone, and some heavier strings.
There are sweet spots on the wah where when you have enough power and volume coming out of your amp, and you get your wah to the right spot, it seems like your guitar starts playing itself!

Zappa used that same method, too, to get his honking tone.

But Sister Rosetta?

Ha! Just an SG and an amp!

casper leblanc

who's_pearljam? wrote:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe rocks out! I've got her complete recordings on CD and they're great!

Me thinks I need to get me some Sister Rosetta. I love that old black blues and gospel stuff. I saw a great documentary on Howlin' Wolf the other day. Amazing stuff.