Rockabilly / Psychobilly Guitarsound with pedals
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Hi!
Made this video to show how you can get a decent rockabilly/psychobilly guitarsound, without having to spend a lot on a Gretsch hollowbody, expensive Fender amp and a huge tapemachine for echo. I will reveal a pedal, (that is quite affordable) that will probably make any amp/guitar-setup sound very rockabillyish!
The guitar I used is my Fender Player Series Stratocaster with Floyd Rose, with D'addrio 0.10 - 0.46 Strings. I'l be switching between the bridge humbucker and the neck singelcoil.
The amp I used is my Bugera Vintage V22 Infinium with Turbosound speaker, set at clean channel.
The camera used for the video is my Canon 760D with external RODE-mic.
Cranked clean channel on the amp with a little breakup and some wet slapback echo from any delay pedal will do the job. You don't need a pedalboard for that. Tone can be set on the amps eq. Maybe a compressor pedal can help to make the tone more jangly and even. Guitar really doesn't matter unless you wan't hollow body sound which is kinda different than solid body one.
Yeah thats true. But I live in a flat, and I don't feel like getting in to a feud with my neighbours, hehe.
Beside rockabilly and psychobilly, I play a lot of typical 70's classic rock, 70's progressive, 80s rock, 80's metal. The pedal board kind of compensates for the lack of space that I would need for all the different types of amps I would need for those genres, hehe.
True, I played a Fender Strat in this video, but I do have a semihollow Epiphone Riviera P93 as well, and I like the hollow body sound for a lot of 50's stuff!
Really cool and useful video! Thanks for sharing
Psychobilly is really more HOW YOU PLAY than WHAT YOU PLAY! Its more about attitude.
That said reverb, echo/delay, and overdrive are your main friends. I played a show with Curse of The Pink Hearse (I'm not in their videos) and my setup were my two Ibanez Artcore Hollow Bodies (AK86 with a Vintage Vibrato and Roller bridge and a stock AFS75T) straight into my Vox VT 30. It sounded just fine for Rhythm guitar.
The main reason I went with this amp was built in effects and I could control the wattage so I can get the most out of my Hollow Bodies. I have a few amps that range from 5 watts to 100 watts and there are pros and cons to all of them.
I would really say, find the sound you have in your head and find thw way to get to that sound without having to either buy everything or bust the bank. 😎👍✨
Aha, sounds interesting, I will have to look that band up! Yeah, I think the thing with a hollowbody guitar is more about the style. I Do have a Epiphone Riviera P93, and it does have some sort of snappy midrange thing in its tone though, that gets noticeable with some drive, and I tend to think that tone fits extra well in psycho/rockabilly. Otherwise my Les Paul or strat will work nice too.
The sound that comes into my mind when thinking about the 50's and psycho/rockabilly is some sort of slapback echo. I think the a analogue bucket brigade type delay (like a boss DM-2/DM-3 Delay) does this very well. The echo in that type of delay sounds more vintage " old magnetic tape" tone, compared to digital delays (with echos sounding as crisp/clear as the original sound). According to some sources, the Behringer Vintage Delay is electronically a copy of Boss DM-3, and its really affordable, kind of like a "go back to the 1950's for just 20 dollar"-pedal, hehe. For touring and doing lots of live shows I't would probably better to pay 10 times as much for a Boss DM-2, that has a durable metal casing.
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Nail on the head. Usually the tone is 1950s Rockabilly pulled through 1970s Punk. P-90s definitely can do the aggressive tone. The big difference guitar wise is hard tail vs a Trem. Bigsbys rule here but Wide Swing Tremolos like on Jazzmasters and Jaguars can do the blue note bends too. 😎👍✨