Yellow Ledbetter sound?

StickmanJam
StickmanJam Posts: 425
edited February 2007 in Musicians and Gearheads
how do you get that tone on guitar? what effect? or is their a pedal I can buy? I love that Ledbetter tone, Hendrix used it quite a bit too on tunes like Little Wing. Any help would be appreciated, go easy on the beginner.

btw, just to inform everyone, I just started taking lessons three weeks ago and I'm loving it. Going through broken chord progressions right now, working through different variations of the different notes that make up the chords. anyways, enough rambling
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Honestly, there isn't much to it more than a clean channel on the amp and a strat.
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    I believe it's the very much loved position 4 on pickup selector on the strat.

    I always play it on the neck pup and switch to the bridge for the lead.


    There is probably a little reverb and the amps got a decent amount of headroom.

    It is likely a Marshall JCM 8 or 900 on the clean channel given the time period.
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    It's position 4 on a strat. I use a Fender roc-pro 700 and get the EXACT same tone. In Little Wing, a univibe or some type of rotating speaker is used (I use a univibe). Mike uses it a lot during live shows. Def. use the reverb. Use a tube screamer to get the overdrive sound during the chorus and solo.
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    xtremehardy388 wrote:
    It's position 4 on a strat. I use a Fender roc-pro 700 and get the EXACT same tone. In Little Wing, a univibe or some type of rotating speaker is used (I use a univibe). Mike uses it a lot during live shows. Def. use the reverb. Use a tube screamer to get the overdrive sound during the chorus and solo.
    It's called a Leslie speaker. Rotating (of course), made for organs - classicly the hammond b3 :cool:
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Yeah, I know.
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
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  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    amp settings for YLB:
    gain 1: 2
    Gain 2: 2
    treble: 5
    bass: 6
    middle: 6
    reverb: 3.5
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • dont_go_on_me
    dont_go_on_me Posts: 877
    seanw1010 wrote:
    amp settings for YLB:
    gain 1: 2
    Gain 2: 2
    treble: 5
    bass: 6
    middle: 6
    reverb: 3.5
    that's going to depend on the amp
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Very true, for mine, I have the treble and mimd cranked to ten bass at 6 and reverb at ten and it sounds perfect so every amp is different
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  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    don't_go_on_me wrote:
    that's going to depend on the amp
    duh, but that is what mike uses on YLB, so thats what i use for YLB, and it sounds fine
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go

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