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Gibson Basses / Re: Modified Jack Casady Signature recording
« on: January 15, 2008, 12:43:49 PM »I was curious what is you guitarist playing? Great tone.No, it.s not a Strat. It's a handbuilt Aspe. Aspe is a Dutch luthier who until recently had his shop in Arnhem where we live.
The Aspe Superfrankrocker is a strange hybrid mixture between a Strat (pickup configuration), A Les Paul (scale length and bridge/tailstop) and a Gretsch (large and extra thick body).
Frank experimented with a few different kinds of pickups, but he now uses Kinman pickups. The bridge pickup is a minihumbucker.
He use a special gauge 013 strings to get that fat SRV tone.
His amp is a Marshall Super Tremelo (basicly a super lead with a tremelo unit). He bought it from Brian "Robbo" Robertson a few years ago.
I was also curious what is providing that rotary/phaser effect at ~4:00.
I'm not sure what Frank used on this song exactly. I think it's a combination of a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face with a Fender Vibratone. Or maybe a Univibe.
I'll ask our producer. I'm sure he remembers, since it was his idea