Roe wrote:here is monsterwalley's typed version the article in guitar edge:
Angus's Guitars:
Angus's three gibson are a black late-60's custom with two pickups, a black '64 standard, and
a transparent cherry red '68 with the lightning bolt inlays. The pickups are replaced regularly. All guitars are tuned down one half step and strung with gibson 9-42's. He uses one guitar and one pick for each show, if he drops the pick he picks it up
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Malcolms Guitars:
A 59 stereo white falcon model 6137 which is wired so only the bridge pickup is on. The other three are '63-64 era. the main one is a jet fire bird model 6131 that was routed for a middle pickup. the second is a duo-jet retrofitted with a tune-o-matic bridge and stop tailpiece. the third is a duo-jet with the same basic specs as his main guitar. each have no finish on tops and only the stock filtertron bridge pickups and single volume remain. they are sgrung with gibson l-5 pure nickle 12-56 with the wound g tuned down one half step.
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i'm quiet surprised to read they are both tune down a half step (especialy when they say angus uses 009-042 gauge).
i have been learning many ac/dc guitar parts/ songs and what i noticed is that up until back in black most of teh songs are tuned like -35 cent or -45 cent or -10 cent ...etc
there are very few songs that are really tuned down one half step ( it's a long way and gimme a bullet if i remember well, maybe a few others).
also, i read in teh past an interview with angus where he was saying he mostly used10-46 strings except for a few solos that are harder to play , where he uses 009-042.
i'm quiet surprised they used amplitube in the last LP !
i haven't heard it for a while but from what i heard with all these simulators in teh past (amplitube and all teh other ones , including external gears like POD pro , VOX tone lab...etc), i think they really don't come close to teh amps they are said to emulate...
neither for teh tone nor teh touch response/ dynamic !
especialy when you know that the guys/ companies that built the original amps back in the 50's ,60's, and 70's, are unable to make their reissue sound exactly or very close to the original ones and they don't really/ totaly know precisely why .
one of the best examples are the speakers... but the metal parts like transformers (for example, the way carbon is removed from the metal if i remember well) or capacitors as well...
so, do you really think the guys that develop amplitube and other similar softwares, will know how to do it better than the ones that created them in a first place ?!
so, from what i understood, Malcolm is having is bridge pu connected to the volume pot abd that's all , like when the middle position is selected on the tone switch of the regular/ stock G6128T-1962, isn't it ?
i'm not surprised he adds much treble on, his amp setting as those gretsch are quiet dark sounding.
when you use the 0,015 cap position, it's quiet dark, with heavy mids ; with the "no cap" position it's less mid heavy, with more top end but you can still add some treble without the tone becoming really hear piercing.
i use a jtm45 i built (with nos mullard caps and marstran 103 OT ) and i have a 2005' G6128T-1962 double cut on which i installed some original 63' filtertron pu's (they have more top end than teh ri's and also a looser / more vintage sounding, type of attack).
i wonder how it would sound with a 0,010 or 0,005 uf cap.
0,015 is too dark for me and teh no cap position takes much mids away and adds some extreme/ very high frequency top end (sort of hifi , going higher than the "useful/nice" guitar freq response) .
i use the jtm45 with bass on 3- ,pr5 , mids4 , tr 7 and volume about 8 whereas with a gibson , i don't really go past 5 on the treble pot (i use mostly t-tops in my gibson guitars).
the duojet tone is quiet scooped compared to angus tone (that says in an interview he needs a guitar with good mids to compliment Mal's tone).
i have also a 66 jtm45/100 with kt66 and a 72 superbass and i suppose i woud need to add some treble on these ones as well , with this guitar (as it's already the case with my gibson guitars, partly to overdrive more)