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The secrets behind Jeff Beck’s guitar tone on Freeway Jam
By Chris Gill published
Beck’s 1975 jazz-rock fusion breakthough album, Blow by Blow, is a tour de force of his playing, but how did he get that overdriven Strat magic on Freeway Jam?
The secrets behind Jan Akkerman's guitar tone on Hocus Pocus by Focus
By Chris Gill published
How an unpopular solid-state Fender amp gave the 1971 prog classic the grit and clarity it needed
The secrets behind Kurt Cobain‘s guitar tone on Nirvana‘s Smells Like Teen Spirit
By Chris Gill published
How Cobain changed popular music forever with a modded Strat, a Mesa/Boogie and a couple of everyday stompboxes
The secrets behind Eddie Van Halen's guitar tone on Tattoo
By Chris Gill published
Returning from a long studio hiatus, Eddie's "whomping" 50-watt EVH 5150III heads brought the crunch
The secrets behind Pete Anderson's tone on Dwight Yoakam's Guitars, Cadillacs
By Chris Gill published
We investigate a bona-fide classic of '80s twang, with a modded Deluxe assuming a starring role
The secrets behind Elliot Easton's tone on The Cars' Touch and Go
By Chris Gill published
This highlight from the Boston new wave heroes' 1980 album Panorama is all about the magic in the midrange
The secrets behind Eddie Van Halen's guitar tone on Everybody Wants Some!!
By Chris Gill published
Everything was on 10 for EVH on this feelgood hit from Women and Children First
The secrets behind Buddy Guy's tone on Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
By Chris Gill published
Guy's comeback was the sound of a blues master making the most of a minimalist rig
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