Ed's Touring Band Tone

paulhealey

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I would like to know a good way to get Ed's touring band tone, like on Long Road, Cordouroy, & Greivance. I know he plays the tele, (Scheter maybe?) and I assumed it was a Hiwatt amp. Any way, I have a Les Paul copy, and fender princeton chorus, and a behringer v-amp, I am planning a buying an disortion pedal the summer if that helps. Any ideas how I can get a similar tone?
Thanks

enharmonic

paulhealey wrote:

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I would like to know a good way to get Ed's touring band tone, like on Long Road, Cordouroy, & Greivance. I know he plays the tele, (Scheter maybe?) and I assumed it was a Hiwatt amp. Any way, I have a Les Paul copy, and fender princeton chorus, and a behringer v-amp, I am planning a buying an disortion pedal the summer if that helps. Any ideas how I can get a similar tone?
Thanks

Yep...Schecter Tele into a Hiwatt, or SG into a Hiwatt. A Les Paul is too fat for his tone, and a princeton chorus...though a nice amp...cannot get anywhere near close to Ed's Hiwatt tone.

The good news is that used Hiwatts are still relatively cheap considering the prices of Marshalls from the same time period...and they are built a lot better.

Good luck

FNYNKEZ

He uses (over the last few years) a SG Classic with P-90s. THat gets you most of the way there (the twang on the G string like a tele, but a much warmer tone), But I read somewhere, he doesn't use distortion. He mid-sets the Gain on the clean channel and makes up for the rest by cranking the amp up really high.

gimmesometruth27

i think i read that the hiwatt he uses is a single channel head. he sets it with higher gain and then backs his guitar volume down a bit to clean it up. my buddy has a jcm 800 and does the same thing. if you back the guitar volume down it will clean up nicely when lightly strumming chords, when you hit it hard it will get kinda crunchy. turn the guitar vol up and there is your heavier distortion.