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Thiel Hatt

 

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Post  Posted 6 Dec 2014 8:13 pm    
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No doubt someone on the forum knows what device is used to get the effect used on the break of Marty Robbins "Don't worry about me" I have a Peavey Tube Fex that I have hunted around on but haven"t been able to put it together. If any of you are more adept with the Tube Fex can you offer some help? Or direct me on what device to purchase. This forum is awesome !
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Jim Bates

 

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Post  Posted 6 Dec 2014 8:22 pm    
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I use the original Boss Tone for this effect. Kill most of the treble to get best sound.

The Boss Tones show up the Forum reguary.

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Jim
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Kenny Davis


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Post  Posted 6 Dec 2014 8:38 pm    
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I heard that it was actually an accidental equipment malfunction.
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Post  Posted 6 Dec 2014 8:57 pm    
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I used to simulate it with a Bosstone. Here's a
good article about it by Peter Cooper.
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Craig Baker


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Post  Posted 6 Dec 2014 9:32 pm    
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Equipment failure, as Kenny mentioned. For years, I've always heard that the bass player had a "blown" speaker and it sounded so unique that the folks at Columbia decided to go with it. To me, it really does sound like a bad speaker more than anything else.

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Jeff Mead


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Post  Posted 6 Dec 2014 11:51 pm     Re: Special effect on
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Thiel Hatt wrote:
No doubt someone on the forum knows what device is used to get the effect used on the break of Marty Robbins "Don't worry about me" I have a Peavey Tube Fex that I have hunted around on but haven"t been able to put it together. If any of you are more adept with the Tube Fex can you offer some help? Or direct me on what device to purchase. This forum is awesome !


You know it's not just the fuzz sound but that he's playing a baritone guitar/6 string bass on that solo. You won't replicate it with a regular guitar.
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Lane Gray


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 4:04 am    
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I believe it was the steel running through the blown amp. When played live later, Marty always had his steel player take the ride.
But yeah, it was equipment malfunction, and choosing to make whisky sours when life dealt a lemon.
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Jeff Mead


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 4:53 am    
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Lane Gray wrote:
I believe it was the steel running through the blown amp. When played live later, Mary always had his steel player take the ride.
But yeah, it was equipment malfunction, and choosing to make whisky sours when life dealt a lemon.


It was played by Grady Martin on his six-string bass through a faulty channel in the mixing desk.

He may well have used his steel player to do the solo live as he probably wouldn't have had a six-string bass player in his road band but it isn't steel on the original recording.
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Craig Baker


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 6:14 am    
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Never blown a speaker, but if I do, I'll save it for "Don't Worry".

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Lane Gray


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 6:43 am    
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Stupid aggressive autocorrect has apparently never heard of Mr. Robbins.
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Erv Niehaus


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 6:56 am    
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I was at a steel show and I heard that sound duplicated with a "Rat" effect pedal.
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Craig A Davidson


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 8:44 am    
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Erv Niehaus wrote:
I was at a steel show and I heard that sound duplicated with a "Rat" effect pedal.


Yeah Erv that is what I use for the tune. C6 neck and a Rat.
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Richard Sinkler


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 9:21 am    
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I remember doing it many years ago with a fuzz and the bottom strings of my C6 neck. Never had to play the song since so I don't remember which fuzz pedal I used.
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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 9:24 am    
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On my extended E9th, I had a low E and the F lever lowered it to C#. It was perfect for the first notes of that signature solo, through the Bosstone distortion unit.

It never sounded remotely like a blown speaker to me. It's a clipping effect, almost a square wave. Blown speakers don't do that. They are far less predictable.
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Jack Aldrich

 

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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 11:59 am    
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I remember my friends and I arguing about what the instrument was. The Nashville folks went to Leo Fender and asked him to develop the effect, and "Fuzz tone" was born. Serendipity!
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Craig A Davidson


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 12:04 pm    
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I was told it was a bad pre-amp tube.
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chris ivey


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 12:32 pm    
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i think link wray was the blown speaker innovator.
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Doug Beaumier


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 12:47 pm    
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Yeah, Link would use a razor blade and cut small slits in his speaker! Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Thiel Hatt

 

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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 1:50 pm    
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I appreciate the response and the humor. I watched several videos where Matry is singing this song with several different steel players and each one is using the effect. Which specific Boss Tone pedal do you use ? The distortion pedal? Boss makes quite a few different pedals or combination pedal effects .
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Lane Gray


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 3:23 pm    
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Not made by Boss. Boss Tone, made in the 60s and 70s by Jordan and Sho-Bud.
Now available under the name Mahoney Buzz Tone.
It's what Buddy Cage used with NRPS and Bobby Black used (sparingly) with Commander Cody.
See
www.effectsdatabase.com/model/jordan/bosstone
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Jack Hanson


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 3:34 pm    
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Jack Aldrich wrote:
I remember my friends and I arguing about what the instrument was. The Nashville folks went to Leo Fender and asked him to develop the effect, and "Fuzz tone" was born. Serendipity!

Pretty certain that the first commercial "Fuzz tone" was the Maestro from Gibson. Leo was into "clean," not "dirty" back in the '60s.
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Mark Murphey

 

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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 6:32 pm    
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I have the reissue Lane was talking about the Mahoney Buzz Tone, thru a Session 500 it sounds pretty close...highs at about 3...mids about 5 and lows about 8...
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Mark Murphey

 

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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 6:33 pm    
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I have the reissue Lane was talking about the Mahoney Buzz Tone, thru a Session 500 it sounds pretty close...highs at about 3...mids about 5 and lows about 8...
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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2014 7:19 pm    
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Mine was the original Jordan Bosstone that Lane mentioned above. I also had one of the Maestro fuzz boxes. This was all before I went to work at Mesa/Boogie and discovered how wonderfully musical distortion tones could be. Until then I just thought of distortion as a noisy sound effect.
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Lane Gray


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2014 8:34 am    
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Thiel, check out this from Buddy Cage, starting at 1:41 and going til about 2:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK4r5oPa81Y
This is the Boss Tone. It's not as versatile as most modern overdrives. It pretty much only does this one thing. But if you like this thing (and apparently B0b doesn't), it does it well.
Or in the words of one famous review (and I'm not in the mood to look up the original source), "Those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."
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