What is it About the Eric Clapton Woman Tone?
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» 1:18 What Are We Looking at Today?
» 2:30 What is the Clapton Woman Tone?
» 5:50 Let's Listen to the SG into the Marshall
» 8:00 Let's Take a Look at the Pedal
» 12:03 Sunshine Of Your Love Jam!
» 13:15 The Darker Woman Tone
» 15:34 How Much Gain Do You Need?
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“Clapton would have had no attenuation…but we didn’t want to die.” 😂
As a metal artist and sound engineer I wholeheartedly agree with Pete: turn up the gain to where you think it has to be - than take off a good amount of it. Especially when recording, waaaay less gain is the way to go. Maybe add a tiny bit of compression separately. Often people add gain when what they want is EQ or comp.
Yup, we're too focused on trying to get recorded tones from old tapes instead of the original sound. Most of what sounds like gain is the insane volumes they used!
I add tremendous amounts of gain because I like the sound of it... The EQuing is hard though ^^
This video reminds me of a time when Chappers would play and Captain would spin knobs with this look of amazement. However now Cap is up front and playing like a pro with the amazing Pete. Kudos to your journey as a musician and guitar player. It is amazing how you have helmed your family business into a world stage. Well done!! Ohh btw when will Pete morph into an internationally known full fledged rock star in a band of renoun? Best to you guys ! You keep me hacking on year after year and loving music
For a band that was only around for 2 years Cream put out some of the most amazing stuff ever! PS finally giving some love to the SG , my favorite guitar. I have 3 of them and they're one of the most versatile guitars around , from metal to blue's!
Congratulations Cappy, you are definitely getting better. It's nice to see someone who's way too serious, like myself. Just letting loose & having some fun & watching you enjoy it, was just really cool
Pete's absolutely right about dialing back the pre-amp gain for Sunshine of Your Love and Classic Rock tones in general - our brains perceive the guitar as gainier in the full mix than it actually is on most of those old tunes. A big part of the magic in their tones came not only from the cranked power amp side of those 100w Marshalls, but also from the recording console, compressor/limiter, and (of course) the tape machine being slammed with a hot signal.
I mean yes, absolutely. But if we don’t have a tape machine to slam with signal, we have to do something to imitate that effect…
Like AC/DC, they have not a lot of gain, just driving the amps as hard as they would go except for Malcolm who had his dialed back a bit so it would mix better with Angus. And Angus controls his with the volume knob on his SG. Also he had that extra drive boost on the wireless unit of his. Not a lot of extra gain from it, but a bit. It's noticeable without it as Angus figured out when he went to the studio to record and was wired direct and became frustrated with the gain and tone he had and couldn't figure out why. What a great story too. I have practiced alone and not been happy with tone and gain, but then the same settings live with a bunch of musicians I ended up having to dial back some of the gain and tweak the eq a slight bit and whammo! I was in love baby! The response was way better. I felt the amp and the guitar respond to each other, literally, I could feel it in my fingers. It made playing way more fun, and easier. It seemed as though the notes were playing themselves. I had no issues with sustain and I had a crap ton of headroom. Roll the volume back for less gain for slightly broke up, or a bit more for sparkling cleans. Man I love playing the guitar. I never go anywhere without one.
@@neilsnow7973 I have the Solo Dallas pedal version of Angus' wireless drive/limiter - it's one of the best boost pedals I have ever owned. I was watching a rig rundown with Angus' tech not too long ago and IIRC he said that Angus normally keeps his guitar's volume around 7; and higher than that and it starts to get out of control.
Sure - if you're talking about home recording, there are tons of relatively inexpensive solutions to this today that sound fantastic, if you know what you're doing.
@@ChristopherGwinn I was playing without an Amp for a while. I started it just to get a quieter practice due to my drummer's wife having a baby and we practiced at his place. We defeated the speakers of the guitar and bass amps and plugged them direct to the sonsole from the Amp, and I finally convinced my drummer to go electric on at least his heads. Cymbals we kept acoustic but they are not the loudest part anyway with short spikes and peaks. Built our own IEM system and boom! Silent practice. Yeah it worked great. But man teardown time and set up is terrible and so many wires. I used to just plug straight into my Amp with the exception of my wah.
The EVH Brown Sound is what Aclam should do next. One of the greatest guitar tones ever!
I agree with the brown sound being one of the best tones but there are several pedals in the market that already replicate that. They should stick to more unique tones.
Go watch Rick beatos video on that
@@NintenDub +10 for referencing Rick!
It will probably be John Mayer tone next.
I think they already have half the circuit they need for the brown sound in this pedal because they’re both created with classic marshall amps. Just add a bit off sag (from the lower voltage), gain and treble to the circuit and your getting there.
This seemed like the dumbest scam ever but it's actually one of the best Marshall sounds I've heard in a pedal, regardless of the woman tone gimmick.
In case it was not clear, regardless of who’s playing the Gibson SG is always going through the Marshall Amp, and the Fender Stratocaster is through the Aclam Woman Tone Pedal and into a clean Victory Amp.
What I like about this pedals series is that it's a collection of sounds, which is usually what someone that writes and records music is looking for.
I think the next tone they should go after is Leslie West's Mountain tone
It’s easier than you think. As a Leslie West nerd myself I have found that his tone comes from an overdriven preamp section (apart from his talent and fingers). You don’t need much to get there actually. Just a P90 and a small amp will get you very close.
But then if we want to go really deep geek there is the question of which era of LW we are talking about.
The Woodstock tone is quite different from the later 70’s live recordings which is much harsher. Probably due to him later bypassing the tone pot of the LP Junior or Flying V.
And to get the Woodstock tone you want to have almost constant bass frequency feedback and a huge outdoor delay around the overall sound.
I suggest low output P90 -> Feedback pedal -> 20 Watt tube amp -> Ox simulating a large cab with a mild slap back large room delay.
But what do I know..?
@@davedeville6540 You have a good point about eras, for me I loved his tone on the Live in the 70s album, specifically dreams of milk and honey live on New Years. I think a pedal that could capture his Sunn PA head tone would be amazing.
Yes
Totally agree. And early Humble Pie
I remember seeing that very same Cream/Clapton video on late night TV back in the 1980's. At the time, I had a tube amp and an dual-humbucking pickup guitar. I tried out what Clapton talked about with my setup and it worked, I had an Ibanez Les Paul style guitar, a Maestro Fuzz pedal and an old 1960's Fender Vibro-Champ tube amplifier. I just rolled off the tone on the guitar and turned up the bass a little on the amp - instant woman tone.
Great demo guys! I'm a big fan of all four Aclam pedals. I'm happy to see that your shop is giving them some terrific exposure. "It's like they've discovered a new species of animal in the jungle" (I think I remember that correctly). Haha, nice one Pete!
The phrase “Woman tone” comes from the Cream song Outside Woman Blues. Now you know. ☝️😲
I was in my teens during the Clapton, Hendricks, etc era you refer to. I did have an Teisco by Del Rey guitar, Fender Bassman (30 watt & 2 15" speakers) and a Bosstone distortion unit that picked up the local AM radio stations. (The Bosstone later became very popular with Nashville pedal steel players to imitate a string section.)
Thanks for the memories.
Randy California of Spirit used a Bosstone. Danelectro > Bosstone > Silvertone amp. You can hear it on all of the Spirit records. "I Got A Line On You" has it.
Great tone and ART! thanks for the Vid! An SRV pedal like the Vertex would be way cool .
I was alive and playing in a band in the 60's and it was amazing , amazing new tones and sounds always coming out .
Very Cool Demo/Review, Thankyou. Interesting Pedal, and just as interesting The Amazing sound of the SG into Marshall, one of my Favorite sounds I can produce at home. Nice Work Guys. Cheers
Whilst this is THE tone of THE era and certainly the first sound i ever searched for in about 83 as a ten year old with my first guitar a wine red japanese LP custom clone by Hondo 2, which i recall having DiMarzio's in as stock! I remember my dad twiddling the controls on the amp until we discovered the volume full, bass full, master down and then neck pup with tone rolled back and him going "Yes !" That sounds brill! I felt that tingle for the first time that day and ive followed that tingle ever since. As for the next most iconic tone, well, i suppose the Little Wing sound, maybe the Money For Nothing sound. Its hard to say. After the Woman tone everything else is quite a lot less, well,.. "iconic" i guess.
Yep, we enjoyed that era!
Great guy's, Cream is my all time favorite trio...
Great vid brothers!!!
WOW< Love the JAM at 12:00 minutes - great sounding pedal - YES ! ! ! A video how to manage Gain would be great - hope to see it soon . . .
Amazing jam guys. Just amazing.
I've always just pushed the gain up on the amp to around 6 or 7, pickup position 2, and tone knob down to just above 0. Woman tone. Lol. I guess I'm not a cool guy. Love this video. Love this channel! Never stop, fellas!. Cheers.
Thanks for the settings.
Holy crap! That pedal is cool. I watch many pedal-demos here. But this time I was blown away right away...
That thing is SAWEEEEET.
That would be a great pedal for the 800.000 subs giveaway. Or the 900.000.
Keep the Klon, I prefer winning the Woman Tone.
The key ingredient that they have missed is having the tuning pegs which can hold the cigarette properly.
They say "if you can remember the sixties you weren't there."
Had to hit the like just for the intro jam!
Born in ‘57 I remember seeing the woman tone interview when I was playing my £25 Zenta around 74. I thought that was the ONLY tone for lead playing!!! And doodled like that for several years. 🎸
Then I head January by Pilot and thought how the heck do you get that lead guitar sound? Then Steve Hillage confused me with his tone .. 🤯👍🏼
I have a custom woman tone pedal: switches between 3 vintage bumblebee capacitors. Made it for fun. All you need is a good guitar and an overdriven amp.
Although I don't live in the UK I am a regular viewer of your demos.. I really love and appreciate the relevance of your comments and enjoyment you seem to take doing those videos.. If you fake your enjoyment, at least you have the merit of faking it well.. For this demo, it seems that the iconic ''Women tone'' can be achieved quite reliably with a really saturated old school distortion pedal like Big Muff, Grand Magnus (TC electronics), or even a Mad professor pedal.. Don't get me wrong this pedal is really cool. Because it was designed to sound really close, even when played with different type of guitar configurations like single coils. However, If you follow the guidelines and play those other old school disto pedals on the neck HB pickup, with the tone rolled off, along with the volume heightened, you can get pretty close to the Clapton magic.
Almost said wizard's sleeve! 🤣 Kanye Magic Stick vibes. Awesome work as usual ❤
Hell’s Bells, Captain!!! That’s one filthy tone at the start. 👍👍👍
all hail the power one tune has over two chaps and all of us listening ! Music is magical
lol you guys are awesome. cool stuff and good humor Rock n Roll gents
I have a Stone Deaf Q Boost pedal and you can get close with that. Vintage boost with the Frequency set just after 12 o'clock.
That intro ❤️🔥👌🏼
Pete: "I was talking about me being in stock!" 😆
Hate to dissapoint but Clapton is keeping his hands. 😂😂👍🥃Respect to you fellas.
Have a read of the book "17 Watts" by Mo Foster it details the first twenty years of amplifier and guitar in the UK. The authors band bought a Watkins Dominator between them and wondered if they would need all that power as it might frighten the audience lol.
That sounds great
Very interesting episode fellas. Let’s continue this woman tone discussion in another video shall we. Please.
To my ears there is a big difference between just rolling off the tone on any guitar vs doing it on a guitar that has a particularly harmonic rich interplay with your amp. I think it’s hard to nail a really good woman tone. If it’s just muddy tone 👎🏻 If it cries in a rich fashion so you don’t notice mud then it can be magic as Eric demos 👍
It’s hard to tell over CZcams but the tone didn’t come across successfully on this occasion to my ears. It’s not about expensive gear either, just about getting that lucky combination between a guitar and gain staging to make it sound and feel right with your amp.
Speaking of the distortion sound, as I worked on several amps of that era, They didn't have anywhere the gain in the first stages as today's amps do. I believe it was more from just cranking up the volume until the output transformers where saturated, all stages where in sever clipping and the speakers where seriously over driven.
..... and your ears were blistering, I'm sure. 🙂
@@chriscampbell9191 Yeh, no master volume control on most and no power reduction between amp and speaker. Most amps where 30 to 60 watts but large stacks made up for that.
That pedal is awesome!It really captures That Clapton tone.🍺😎🤘🏿
I know Catalinbread has the Sabbra Cadabra pedal, but I'd always be down for more Iommi tone pedals!
Check out the Does It Doom Walpurgis!
Interesting pedal. Have to laugh because when Pete said the extra/ darker woman tone dip switch added bass and didn’t decrease treble, I was saying out loud, exactly what Lee then said: “I think just the opposite.” 😅
I want one, but they are a little on the expensive side of effect pedals, especially for someone on a budget. It was nice that you played it through a Marshall, but it would have been a more effective demo if you had also used a Fender amp (like a Deluxe) or maybe a Vox amp (like an AC-15) to see if the pedal could achieve the same tone as it does through a Marshall amp. Also, maybe for a future video, you could do a how-to achieve The Woman Tone using other O/D pedals and amps. It seems most guitars try for the SRV or Angus tones, they are good, but I've always loved that early Clapton tone.
every time i see somebody speaking sense in the comments section here, there are no likes and no comments. almost like the average audience are truly dumbasses. good comment, good points, it makes a lot of sense. surely that is one of the main points of the pedal, you dont need a plexi amp to get the sound. maybe the guitar world is just full of narcissists? would not surprise me. 😁
Randy Rhoads tone or Zakk wylde No more tears tone would be a great candidate for Aclam for their next pedal.
S/N 003- I'll take that one! lol. Sounds great, guys.
For a cheaper option I run my RAT into a GE7 EQ pedal and put both into a Marshall Origin 20 head. Sounds awesome
Interesting stuff. I'm 75 and Clapton wasn't around when I first heard it so I learnt how from BB King. So my vibrato is faster and I never hook my thumb around the neck. I also learnt to NEVER hold a note and let it ring out even on a quarter note without vibrato or if the tempo is fast. It's just built in to my playing.
It’s £300.. when you can just use your tone knob..and a cheap fuzz or of OD pedal if you only have a clean sounding amp. Madness i tells ya. Sounds good though but still too pricey.
yeah for 300 just get an attenuator if you already have a tube amp, you'd probably have more fun.
True but its not just a tone knob- its 50s wiring which is a specific tone knob/capacitor relationship. Outside gibson custom shop 50s wiring isnt the norm.
If you search online to get a 50s wiring harness to throw in your guitar theyll be 150…. The reason its different from just rolling your tone is 50s wiring actually maintains a specific midrange frequency so it actually still cuts through, almost like a cocked wah, youd be hard pressed to achieve that with your run of the mill setup. So, tldr; upgrade your wiring harness so your tone/volume is more useable
@@justinguitarcia didn’t Gibson stop “50’s wiring” before 1964 (when Clapton’s SG was made)? “Modern wiring” was around in the late 50’s. Some of the original bursts are “modern wired”?
@@justinguitarcia I actually just upgraded my gib sg special with 50s wiring for only £40 from Montys guitars. Not that much difference intone control tbh.
@@justinguitarcia you literally just flip the wire from the first lug to the second lug between the volume and tone control. But without 50s wiring you can just roll the tone off on the neck and play in the middle position. I wire all my guitars without the tone control affecting the bridge(or middle) pickup because it automatically gives you that characteristic mid hump in any position.
There is more than one way to skin a cat 🐈⬛
That can take you a long time to learn. There is hope for us all.
I agree with Pete on the too much gain thing..... its nice to hear the guitar with gain rather than full saturation.
People mistake gain for sustain, they assume for a not to ring out they need more gain or to get squealing harmonics. A vid on gain use and using a strat, tele, les Paul for the different pickup configurations would be really good 👍🏻
When I play my Cobain Jaguar, this is the natural tone of that guitar... I need to brighten mine up a bit though for more dynamics in the high end. It doesn't matter what you do; adjust the amp EQ circuit, presence, etc because it's always in this range naturally. I do like it, but want a smidge more highs for other things. I call it *sax tone.*
Play this riff in the shop on a Saturday morning 🎸🫣
How about the Steve Jones "Anarchy" tone or the Mick Ronson "Suffragette" tone. None of my (many) pedals captures these accurately.
When I win the 800K subs giveaway you guys were talking about doing, do I get to pick that Marshall as my prize?
That 66-69 Sound
66 Fender Dual Showman
Marshall cabs
66 sg with p90s
And a vox 846
Talk about an iconic tone. This one is definitely on the shopping list. Eric is the reason I love the guitar and Stratocasters. I know he's played other models, but the Strat for me is the greatest guitar, ever created.
Ohh Dear... When I started playing guitar, an SG would have cost £325! My first decent Valve amp was £315.....it was a Fender Twin Reverb with channel boost. Good God......
As an official old fart who WAS playing guitar (or trying to) at that time, can I add this?
At the time I had moved from the "Little Giant" by Selmer to the quite amazing (for the time - and you have always to discuss this in context) WEM Clubman, in that it was as loud as any custom 15 watt amp nowadays. Playing in Pubs or Youth Clubs (where this kind of music was very new, Ha! "Turn yer guitar down!") I was now too loud... I went to see the electric guru at my old school (who was a proto skinhead and a nice guy) and explained the problem. He said "I may have the answer! It's called attenuation. You want the same pre-amp settings driving your power amp section but with the overall loudness reduced, leave it to me" (thanks, Mick)!
A couple of weeks later he turned up with this thing which contained a knob, a rather large coil ( obviously wound on his kitchen table) more wire, and a Mason Jar with a bottle of cooking oil!
Connecting everything up (no box for anything) the power of the amp at the speakers went through the coil to dissipate within the mason jar which was 3/4 filled with the cooking oil... Yes, it worked in a way but it was frightening. He said if you ever get a 100 watt Marshall it would probably need two large saucepans of oil bubbling away on top of the Stack!
Needless to say I thanked him but never used the contraption at any gigs. The thought of it spewing out burning, boiling oil was just too much..
Btw, if you listen to Eric playing the main solo to Sunshine of you Love on "Disraeli Gears" he (and everyone covering it on stage also should) starts of with a couple of bars of the song "Blue Moon" - it's quite clever because the song is about travelling thru the night to give your significant other a "dawn surprise" - I bet Pete's actually done that too!
I'm a fund of trivia of the years 1966 - 1972. Being in the Biz then in London was like being at the centre of the universe...
Cheers, Pete.
PS I called someone to verify this, which was confirmed BUT was told that my memory is slightly at fault because we did this just after "Fresh Cream" came out and it was the song "Sweet Wine" and IT'S solo. Otherwise it the same thing -, Mick probably started it then and finished it by the time Disraeli Gears came out out.
Cream was only in existence for about 18 months yert they cast a very, very long shadow.... P
I bought it it’s a good thing a work of art to but pricey tho but I will use it often
Ooft. 300 bucks. It's off the shopping list 😕. Crazy price for a wee cast metal box and 15 quids worth of components in.
Clapton gets credit for the tone on record,even giving complete instructions on his sg in1968 on video. To get it wouldnt it be easy to get the sound by listenening to the originater mr, clapton? I have. In a hit parade magazine,there is an article on eqiupment used on disrali gears. According to the article , clapton was using a sg through a twin reverb. The piece has pictures of the recotd while being made in 1968.
They should do Page’s Royal Albert Hall concert tone. Alas, its past time the entire music industry should be working 24/7 to emulate that tone, really
catalinbread makes one rah overdrive pedal check it out.
Randy's Blizzard of Ozz tone would be an interesting pedal.
This tone can be accomplished w/ a THR and a Blues Driver pedal, Gibson SG required though, lol. I didn't feel like powering up the Marshall.
Wait what amp is lee playing the pedal/strat thru?
The SG fits pete well maybe a custom purple SG???
Isn't this pedal just a kind of fuzz, eq-ued/"hardcoded" towards the lows ?
The bathtub full of beans is a reference to a scene from the who's film Tommy with Ann Margret.
The pedal looks amazing and I like their approach, but anyone with a dual humbucker Gibson style guitar and options to bring your amp into overdrive can do this without the pedal, in different nuances.
Yeah, “tone chasing” is pretty silly. Anyone with even borderline gear can get close enough that nobody listening is going to care.
Well yeah, but...
Thing is all's fine and dandy of you fiddle around at home and have all the time in the world to adjust your amp and guitar or you 'll just gonna need one sound and that's that.
However, if your playing in a band and have to keep track in a setlist and maybe even have to have several different tones on tap for that, pedals come in very handy. I tend to substitute sounds tha to actually have amps for with pedals into clean high headroom amps just because of that.
its not marketed toward ppl with a dual humbucker Gibson style guitar and dirty british amp.. lee made that pretty obvious I thought
Why rolling the tone pot to get the "woman tone" if you can spend 299 quid and get "the same" effect?! LOL
As always, nice video and demo!
Play Authentic ®️
12:05,Pete: let’s lean back and play some Clapton style solo
I was alive and playing guitar at that time
Compared to the Crossroads pedal Boss put out several years ago?
Digitech did that but now that you mention it it look a lot like a boss pedal. I’m surprised boss didn’t sue Digitech for that
16:50 I agree about doing a gain show. It’s the same case with modern gain too. Unless you’re doing doom metal or stoner rock, too much gain just ruins the tone and muddies the mix.
Sorry guys the SG Marshall still sounds better.
He didn't always go all the way. Just before completely off, so 1 or between 1 and 0
I think it’s cool but I think you should just use a fuzz with your tone rolled off on the neck pickup.
The secret to getting the D riff down is just playing the first four strings E B G D - / it’s D - D - C - D up the neck - just on the four strings. Not a whole barre chord or single notes. Clapton demonstrated how he plays it on a documentary DVD I have. Try it.
I would like to hear John Sykes 1987 tone with a Mesa mk2 sound.
The 60s and 70s some amazing time less bands, musicians, music and tones of all time.We are so lucky to have the variety of Getcha Pull 🥃-CHEERS 🍻
It kinda sounds like you press a wah pedal but keep it in a low fixed position plus adding fuzz!
I’d say a good Pedal to have.
Don't think i've heard of the neck pickups referred ti as the bass pickup
Hi guys. I started playing guitar in 1960 and by '68 I was playing a Gibson ES-335 through a Marshall 100 watt plexi stack. In those days we played with the treble quite high and the bass rather low and, of course, the volume full on or nearly so. Discovering the Woman tone was inevitable under those circumstances. Remember, with out a overdrive pedal, straight in to an amp like a Marshall stack, the volume and treble must be maxed and the amp bass rolled back, the adjust your guitar tone knob for the optimal Woman Tone Experience. 😎
I started in '78-'79 and things hadn't changed much tbh- I couldn't afford a tube amp even back then but- I had friends who had them, and yes, we had to crank them to get to that "edge of breakup" thing all the tone snobs talk about. We never cranked it past that because it was my friend's dad's amp- he played at the church, and he wouldn't allow us to turn it up past a certain point. Now I'm 50- well, I'm 49 be 50 Oct. 18th- and I'm buying myself an amp for my birthday. I started to buy a Catalyst modeling amp because it has all those effects built in and you can use it to interface with your computer and so forth- but then I thought about something- this is probably the last amp I'll buy. I've always wanted to own a tube amp- so I think I'm fixing to buy one.
I was considering the Blackstar Club 40 MkII- which is an amazing amp but- it's made for playing small to medium sized venues- not playing at home. I'm afraid it would be too loud for home use. I have a feeling that's why we're seeing so many on the market- I think the newbies who came on board during the bug bought them- they found out they have to crank them to get breakup, they're really heavy and hard to move around, and to be quite frank- if you don't know what you're doing a tube amp can be an extremely difficult piece of gear that's not going to be especially forgiving. Tbh it's just more amp than I need.
So- now I'm stuck- the Stage Right Monoprice 15 watt looks interesting- but also a bit boring and I'm worried about the headroom on the clean channel. They say they breakup at really low volumes- like they start breaking up at 2-3 on the volume knob- that's not enough clean headroom imo. I like edge of breakup tones, but I like clean jazz and blues as well. And I've already got a high gain amp- my Peavey does high gain like nobody's business, and I have a tube preamp for it so- sounds great for heavy stuff. Tbh it's not bad playing blues either- but I've had it for over 20 years- I need something new to inspire me.
@@stoneysdead689 considered a marshall class 5? I use mine at home and its clean up to as loud aa i can go in the house but also has a loe power switch to get a great marshall drive you can just about speak over.
Watching this makes me want to listen to the band Mudhoney who have this same sound on their early albums.
3:30 The clip is ridiculous. Turn all the base out? Put the tone on 1? Did he change the wiring? And vibrato? It's not easy? OMG.
I'd like to hear the SG or another humbucker gtr with this pedal.
Brian May / Queen Tone?
the neck pickup of a strat with the tone at 0 does a great woman tone, with a cranked marshall at least
I want and Albert Collins tone pedal.
Before I even clicked on the video I knew it was Aclam. Great sounding pedals, but I really can't justify the cost
A Gilmour pedal would be awesome
Keeley makes one called Dark Side. Get on it!
I had to check twice to make sure I hadn't travelled back to 1967