Guitar tone question (Dickinson solo stuff related)

Dick Brucinson

Dick Brucinson

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Maybe someone can help with the following?:


There is a particular type of guitar tone that can be heard on various Bruce Dickinson solo albums, and I would like to try and recreate this sound as close as I can get to the sound from the recordings. I have plenty of high quality gear, and apart from different tube amps I have the Kemper Profiler. So maybe there's even a link for a Kemper preset or tone print to download?


On Shadow Of The Gods it kicks in right at 5:45, and especially for the rhythm guitar it feels like a nice throwback to 1998 IMO. The same type of guitar tone for example can be heard in Jerusalem between 4:22 and 4:31 (and all throughout the CW album of course).


It's definitely not a fully torn up Marshall, it is something completely different. But what is this tone build on & made of? It's obviously very middy, and it's not much overdriven or even high gain distorted. It is full of warmth, and if I'm notmistaken there is a little Phaser in it. You'll know immediately what I mean when you check those sections out.


So, what ingredients needed to build that guitar tone?


Somebody out there to help? Maybe @matic22 who usually has great advice in terms of guitars and gear?


Thanks so much,


D. Brucinson
 
Dick Brucinson said:
Maybe someone can help with the following?:


There is a particular type of guitar tone that can be heard on various Bruce Dickinson solo albums, and I would like to try and recreate this sound as close as I can get to the sound from the recordings. I have plenty of high quality gear, and apart from different tube amps I have the Kemper Profiler. So maybe there's even a link for a Kemper preset or tone print to download?


On Shadow Of The Gods it kicks in right at 5:45, and especially for the rhythm guitar it feels like a nice throwback to 1998 IMO. The same type of guitar tone for example can be heard in Jerusalem between 4:22 and 4:31 (and all throughout the CW album of course).


It's definitely not a fully torn up Marshall, it is something completely different. But what is this tone build on & made of? It's obviously very middy, and it's not much overdriven or even high gain distorted. It is full of warmth, and if I'm notmistaken there is a little Phaser in it. You'll know immediately what I mean when you check those sections out.


So, what ingredients needed to build that guitar tone?


Somebody out there to help? Maybe @matic22 who usually has great advice in terms of guitars and gear?


Thanks so much,


D. Brucinson
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Are you talking about the flanged guitars that happen on Chemical Wedding/The Alchemist etc?

I’m not a gear head or have any insight beyond my untrained ears, but I have always heard a combination of a dry signal with some amp distortion and a second clean signal panned to the opposite side with all the effects giving it a really wide sound while allowing the guitar to retain its clarity and attack.
 
Mosh said:
Are you talking about the flanged guitars that happen on Chemical Wedding/The Alchemist etc?

I’m not a gear head or have any insight beyond my untrained ears, but I have always heard a combination of a dry signal with some amp distortion and a second clean signal panned to the opposite side with all the effects giving it a really wide sound while allowing the guitar to retain its clarity and attack.
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Normally I take the second clean signal and use it for re-amping, then mix both signals (or more) together. No, not the flanged sounds. Check out Shadows Of The Gods at 5 mins 45 sec if you may, that's what I'm trying to go for.
 
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