How to get this guitar sound

One way to get a sound like this:

1) find a guitar sound with no more distortion than the beginning of each solo.

2) add a dark sounding fuzz effect to the guitar sound, but, set it so you can barely hear it when you pick lightly.

It should mainly be heard when you pick very hard. That is when you hear that "trumpet" kind of sound in the video - it is when he is picking harder than the other notes.

3) add a 1/8 note delay, single repeat. Make it quieter than the main guitar sound.

Like it very much, tnx for posting! There is a great future in this genre, I think.

Do you know Tinariwen? Excuse OT

Amp: Fender Deville / Marshall JTM45 (beano)
Axe: Fender Mustang / Stratocaster

I exclude this sound came from the Strat, but who says! The Mustang is visible somewhere in the video, and was listed in a review of a concert in Milan.
I'll give a try tomorrow, using a Tele Thinline '72 (two humbuckers), a Deville profile (if exists) with the guitar tone all way down and the treble/presence all way up + Reverb and short delay.

You're welcome - let us know how you are doing with the sound

In the first solo in between verse 1 and 2, it sounds like he also has a delay - set to only one or two repeats and pretty fast, like a slapback.
I didn't listen past that point so I don't know if he does it again or not.

Cool guitar sound for sure!

Looking at videos, It seems that he doesn't use distorsion pedals. Very little amp full gain and cranked, very small cab and off-axis mic, I think not very close to the cone. Mindblowing!

Frank Zappa's way of life: a guitar, a Pignose, full gain and volume.

Can you see what little amp he is using in live videos?

I can hear him using soft and hard picking strength, and if he uses no pedals, he is turning the guitar down for the cleaner chords.

This is a cool challenge...

Almost sure: bi-amp. There is a little white amp in back of the main combo.

So I tried to make something of similar with the KPA in parallel mode, but this feature is too much limited. Using a POD would be less painful

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.…ombino/bombino_azaman.mp3

Not so accurate, but I think this is the way to obtain this tone.
The rig is set in Parallel mode, a fuzz + eq is bypassing the amp, the amp is a Deville cranked and delayed 1/16 with near zero feedback and near totally wet.
Guitar is a Telecaster Thinline '72 Mex (humbuckers, bridge position) with a capo in F# as Bombino use. Bombino plays usually a strat clone (in this video an original Fender) with humbucker at bridge (in this video single coil).

Sorry for poor execution...

The picking dynamics are really important, I've used a pick, but you need to fingerpick as Bombino does. You can ear at the end of the mp3 the effect of a variation in the picking strenght.
Unfortunately the KPA doesn't allow to panpot the fuzz on right and deville on left.
I'm pretty sure I could replicate this tone on my POD 500X, using biamp and setting up properly the panning and the delays.

Here in Germany the video is blocked because of GEMA (German Performing Right Society).

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That could be a spare amp.

OR, it could be the small amp he is really playing through, to make the video

There is a reflection of the white amp's power lamp in the back of the black amp... It seems ON.

Bombino's mistery