"Ricky Martin" Tone ... lol...

[petemoore]

Or Fastway's 'the Way'...
 The lead tone on that song, or Livin' 'la Vida Loca'...'ThaT TonE'...
 Any ideas how to get close to that ?

[MartyMart]

Ha ! can't believe you're asking that Pete  :lol:
Still, its a GREAT sound, perhaps just "booster" nice valve amp and is there a bit of trem... ?
Its like the tone from "Just wanna dance the night away" - Mavericks
WHICH IS ALSO BEAUTIFULLY PLAYED I MIGHT ADD !!

Marty.

[Mark Hammer]

Don't know the first song, but are we talking about a baritone guitar in the second?

I tried a baritone guitar for the first time yesterday.  Absolutely whack.  Came in the form of a LONG Mosrite-looking job made by a company called Eastwood (http://www.myrareguitars.com/sidejackbaritone.html).  They also seem to make National-looking repros/clones, and some Teisco copies at prices which are a bit above Jay Turser but still cheaper than vintage shops or ads in Vintage Guitar.

[petemoore]

The actual name of the band that does 'The Way' is 'FastBall".
 Who know who arranged LLVL [R Martin]..great job IMO, but about that guitar tone...I always think of those old 'Ray' guitars with a multitude of chromey parts all over the body...lotsa doodads and switches, even a mute bar...a nice light mute bar action, now that I'm thinking may have been employed on guitar parts of old spaghetti Western movies [Clint E. movies for example]..that super 'retro, 'double spy guitar', 'Tonka Tone', sounds like a big body guitar and a big tone little tube amp or something...a littel reverb and echo doesn't hurt...
 But I'd like to try for something in a stompbox type deal that could at least close in a bit targetting that tone.
 Closest I've gotten, using transistors like Jfet and Ge Rangemaster...actually I need to work with these, and do more and dialing, trying a mute method on the strings.

[petemoore]

The reason I chose R Martin for an example is because it is represents that tone very clearly, and is recognized these days.

[AL]

Ah Ha!! That makes a little more sense. I was racking my brain trying to figure out what Motorhead and Ricky Martin had in common. And... I can't help you with the guitar sound but I do like that solo - don't tell anyone. :lol:

AL

[petemoore]

Don't know the first song, but are we talking about a baritone guitar in the second?

I tried a baritone guitar for the first time yesterday.  Absolutely whack.  Came in the form of a LONG Mosrite-looking job made by a company called Eastwood (http://www.myrareguitars.com/sidejackbaritone.html).  They also seem to make National-looking repros/clones, and some Teisco copies at prices which are a bit above Jay Turser but still cheaper than vintage shops or ads in Vintage Guitar.

>>>All this makes sense, Baritone guitar...I eyed one of those over carefully, haven't 'bit on one yet though...nice addition to a stringed inst. collection for sure.
 Round wound Strings
 Big Body Guild type thing
 Mute bar [possibly]
 Rectifier tube  amp with reverb [educated guess]
 Tremolo
 Echo
 Rangemaster or Jfet might help...things to try for hitting near that target !!!
 ...lol...The Digital 'Loca' setting
 The Loca Solo is the Bdazz...I admit freely to watching that video repeatedly...I get a buzz off the one point in it that video..it consistantly caused me to want to 'purge'.

[octafish]

That "spagetti western" tone is one I have been chasing for ever. A 5watt valve amp with tremolo is not the answer for the heavier fuzz guitar in stuff like "Franks Theme" in Once Upon A Time In The West. There is something infinitely more dangerous about the fuzz guitar used by Morricone, I suspect razored speakers or somesort of italio-fuzz mojo box.

Even more OT, the opening scene of OUATITW changed the way I look at music and even changed my idea of what is music.