eric clapton didn't exactly invent the distortiongibson tone, chuck berry and the three kings had done it before him but it was his playingstyle fused to the use of the marshall combo that created that uniquely british sound.we're going to look at a few of these gibson tones and see how to achieve them. with theamp up full, the way it needs to be, the volume would just be too much for this room, so we'reusing an attenuator to bring the output tone down, while leaving the blue breaker crankedflat out. here's what it sounds like on the treble pickup with the tone full up. [music] as you can see i've got a 335 here and nota les paul but it's to show you can get in
the ballpark with any humbucking guitar.when eric used a bridge pickup, he usually backs some tone off like this. let's see howthat sounds. that's the kind of sound you'd hear on doublecrossing time and hideaway from the beano album, backing guitars volume off and turning thetone up gives you more of a rounding on the sound. moving on a couple of years to cream and eric'smarshalls had got much better, but we can get pretty close here. i'm going to switchto both pickups, knock back the neck one to about a 7 and trim both tone pots back as well.this is the crossraods setting. eric said he used his 335 for that and you can hearthat nice clack in the tone.
and now here's that other famous cream sound,womantone, you can use either or both pickups as long as you take the tone control or controlsright down. most guitars have a pickup that lends itself better to this sound, so experiement.i'm using my 335's neck pickup. so there you have some of ec's signature gibsonsounds. any humbucking guitar and any amp that's not set too gain-y will get you inthe ballpacrk, like i say, experiement and have fun.
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