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spottydog10 · Sep 22nd 2015

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I already have a fairly close one that I tweaked and call Ronson after Mick (Mesa Dual Recto by whole-tone music)
but always open to suggestions. It sounds like somebody making alterations to a house...great.

HELL-G · Sep 22nd 2015

Love that one. When i was four years old i ruined my dad's record player by playing the single over and over again. Don't have a rig recommendation though.

Ingolf · Sep 22nd 2015

Andy Scott was all JCM 800 I think! I saw The Sweet live once (without Brian Conolly).

waraba · Sep 22nd 2015

cool stuff ! I hear a Les Paul in this one and a vintage marshall driven with a distortion box, it sounds a bit boxy a compressed , but what a dark and fat tone. Not that much gain , and maybe a rolled off tone pot on the LP. the right channel is more fuzzy. Regarding playing there is lots of Palm muting.

paults · Sep 22nd 2015

"Wig Wam" was 1972 or so. So, OLD Marshalls, boosted

spottydog10 · Sep 23rd 2015

Paul when you say boosted, as in a booster, overdrive or overdriven on the amp?
Any suggestions on an old Marshall?
Thanks everyone.

spottydog10 · Sep 23rd 2015

This aint bad, I just added a slight touch of low mid (could have gone further)
I cunningly called it WIGWAMARSHALL800, it's now on the Rig exchange.

paults · Sep 23rd 2015

Quote from spottydog10

Paul when you say boosted, as in a booster, overdrive or overdriven on the amp?
Any suggestions on an old Marshall?
Thanks everyone.

Like Waraba said, a distortion box. There were not that many choices in 1972 - mostly fuzzes, or boost boxes like the EH LPB-1.

They might have even used a mic preamp in the studio to do it, for that matter.

Ingolf · Sep 23rd 2015

Quote from paults

"Wig Wam" was 1972 or so. So, OLD Marshalls, boosted

Haha, right of course, JCM 800 would have been a decade later. So it MUST be a Plexi here.

waraba · Sep 23rd 2015

There is a strong emphasis on the mids, I was playing with some driven profiles yesterday evening and came across a very similar tone while boosting the mids of the stack; so crank the mids up ! It might have been done at mixing stage on this recording.

spottydog10 · Sep 23rd 2015

waraba, do you remember the profile name?

HELL-G your dad had good taste if he had that record, or was it yours?

Eltzejupp · Sep 23rd 2015

Hi, googel for Andy Scotts gear. Vintageamps.com

spottydog10 · Sep 24th 2015

Eltzejupp I had a look at that forum and somebody wrote:
"He has said in interviews that he used a strat and a Hornby Skewes treble booster"
"Most of the "Prime"era ('72-77) he used H/H amps ( dont know which models, but they where there) and Vox & WEM and even Davoli,
So he had some weirdo stuff for sure."

Sounds like a Gibson to me but what do I know.
I messaged Andy on Facebook about it, whether he'll get back to me or not who knows.

I had a treble booster meself back in the day it was so cheap and sounded great.
I also had a HH combo , it had a killer distortion and vibrato onboard.

HELL-G · Sep 25th 2015

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HELL-G your dad had good taste if he had that record, or was it yours?

It was my dads record, i think it still lives in a box in the basement.

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