Messages 1, We are covering a few Boston songs and I need to get a convincing Boston lead guitar tone. Is there a pedal or something that will get me close enough? ES Member. Messages 5, Dave Member. Messages 3, Messages 2, Messages 14, I thought that tone was all studio production Cooper Member.
Messages Messages 7, Do a google search - its out there. MoPo Member. I was gonna say plug the gtr into a transistor radio while miking up your blender making frozen margheritas. I was a horrible employee. But Scholz was responsible, in his leisure time, for crafting a landmark debut album in his basement. It was not as if Scholz was even a studious observer of the rock market.
But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else. In the live hotbed of the early 70s, this was out of the norm. But interest was starting to grow by A deal — notably with songwriters Scholz and Delp only — was struck. But Epic had two regular provisos. The thing is, Tom Scholz fervently disagreed. Some of his demos had been years in the making, perfected in his basement. The newly formed band passed the audition, and signed a deal for 10 albums over the next six years… as if!
More pressingly, Scholz knew a pro studio could not match his own elaborate demos. Part of it was simply practicality. His demos had made use of his own custom gear: he had built his own attenuator he called the Power Soak so he could drive his Marshall head at low volume , the infamous Hyperspace Pedal only two exist , a crude prototype of a chorus unit mounted in a cigar box, and numerous EQ racks that helped achieve his unique analogue sound.
The Rockman has always been my go-to unit. I try to do everything analog as much as possible, not only overdrive but also analog effects like echo and chorus. It's impossible to duplicate these sounds with digital technology. Going from analog to digital or vice versa, phase error angle gets introduced, and it isn't pretty. My favorite is my Space Echo pedal—not a device I ever offered for sale or patented because it's so very hard to build that I've only ever been able to make two.
Using the pedal is like trying to get a finicky old racing car up to peak performance. What do you use for amps, picks, and strings?
It's same amp I've played for more than 30 years. I've always used standard Fender medium picks for guitar. For bass I play about half the time with my fingers and the other half I used a Fender heavy pick. I also use regular Fender electric guitar strings, though a pretty unconventional setup, very thin on top,. While Tom Scholz always composes parts that best serve the song, this performance offers proof that he's also a wild, virtuosic improviser.
Did you have to adjust your technique to use such light treble strings? It requires me to be very cognizant of the pressure I use for vibrato and for bending, and to have a light touch for chord work. The reason I prefer light strings is that I like to tune my guitar slightly flatter than concert tuning because it's easy to bend the strings to come up into a note but pretty much impossible to do the opposite.
I find that by controlling the pressure I put on the neck and strings, sometimes by pulling on the neck to raise the pitch, it's easier to fit in with the overall tuning of the band.
So I usually tune about 10 cents flat live, and you can hear some very subtle differences in pitch when I'm playing in unison with Gary [Pihl].
Also, I sometimes use a device called a gang tuner that allows me to retune all of the strings at the same time, a half step in either direction. To what degree did improvisation factor into the new guitar solos? Everything I do is improvised. I have absolutely no idea in the studio what I'm going to play for any given lead. When I did the first Boston album, I had all the material in demo form, and when making the official album I had to try to go back and play everything exactly like on the demos.
I found that to be agonizing. I was never sure if I was playing something exactly the same. What I like most is to have an idea for a basic melody, but not to have to worry note-for-note what I'll play for some fast part.
I like to do whatever fills or licks my mood dictates in the moment. I'm lucky to have been able to do just that for odd years. Rig Rundowns. Riff Rundowns. The Big 5. Runnin' With The Dweezil. Wong Notes. Rig Rundown Podcast. Bass Gear. Gear Awards. The Encyclopedia of Music Gear. Trending Music Producers. Tim Henson Charlie Puth Aphex Twin Jacob Collier Trent Reznor Daft Punk Martin Garrix Kenny Beats Nick Mira
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