JOHN LENNON'S RICKENBACKER 325 GUITARS: Tone Demo [Part 3 of 3]
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PART 1: JOHN LENNON'S RICKENBACKER 325 GUITAR...
PART 2: JOHN LENNON'S RICKENBACKER 325 GUITAR...
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Well, here it is....the long awaited tone demo. Sorry if it's not as flashy as you'd hoped! A lot of guitar demo videos on YouTube seem to make every instrument sound flawless, so I wanted to do a realistic video showcasing what this guitar ACTUALLY sounds like. I wish I could play more Beatles tunes, but YouTube will block this video otherwise. :(
TONE: My guitar is a 1999 Rickenbacker 325V63. This was played through my Vox AC-15. I'm at 25% on the top boost volume knob (going too high creates distortion), bass at 50%, treble at 75%. Reverb is analog from the amp. It may sound a bit heavy, but this is how I would record it (keep in mind, Abbey Road would have had nice acoustics). I had it around 60%, but I probably could have gone a bit lower (I'm sure someone will comments on this!).
Plugins are Waves' Abbey Road RS124 compressor and REDD-37 console (as The Beatles would have used). Microphone is my Audio Technica AT2035 condenser - normally for guitars we'd use dynamic mics, but I think The Beatles used Neumann condensers for everything at Abbey Road.
The strings are D'Addario Chromes 13-52, but 13-56 will also work. As long as they are 13s - I switch off with Thomastik-Infeld and Pyramid Gold strings as well, but I like the D'Addarios because they are less expensive. I can't stress this enough - this is a 20.75" scale guitar and it needs heavy strings.
Rickenbacker pickups are microphonic, and the percussive attack they put out is quite apparent.
I also use handmade guitar cables because they will outlast me. Vintage-spec German-made Neutrik tips are the only way to go, and I prefer Canare GS-6 cable for instruments.
I didn't bother doing tone knob adjustments because there's just too many variations. I also labeled these clips by "position" because I'm honestly not 100% sure what the pickups are wired to. I believe the neck position includes both the NECK AND MIDDLE, and the middle position is ALL THREE. As for the bridge position, I'm not entirely sure if it's the bridge pickup alone or the bridge with the middle.
I use the bridge on my recordings mostly - and BY THE WAY - if John really did disconnect his middle pickup on his first 325 [V81] (on accident or otherwise), he may have had a VERY different tone in the middle position! Who knows?
Well, this ends my series on John Lennon's Rickenbackers! Now stop making fun of me for saying "Ricken-BACH-er" ;)
PART 2: JOHN LENNON'S RICKENBACKER 325 GUITAR...
DONATE: https://nickmartellaro.com/#donate :)
Well, here it is....the long awaited tone demo. Sorry if it's not as flashy as you'd hoped! A lot of guitar demo videos on YouTube seem to make every instrument sound flawless, so I wanted to do a realistic video showcasing what this guitar ACTUALLY sounds like. I wish I could play more Beatles tunes, but YouTube will block this video otherwise. :(
TONE: My guitar is a 1999 Rickenbacker 325V63. This was played through my Vox AC-15. I'm at 25% on the top boost volume knob (going too high creates distortion), bass at 50%, treble at 75%. Reverb is analog from the amp. It may sound a bit heavy, but this is how I would record it (keep in mind, Abbey Road would have had nice acoustics). I had it around 60%, but I probably could have gone a bit lower (I'm sure someone will comments on this!).
Plugins are Waves' Abbey Road RS124 compressor and REDD-37 console (as The Beatles would have used). Microphone is my Audio Technica AT2035 condenser - normally for guitars we'd use dynamic mics, but I think The Beatles used Neumann condensers for everything at Abbey Road.
The strings are D'Addario Chromes 13-52, but 13-56 will also work. As long as they are 13s - I switch off with Thomastik-Infeld and Pyramid Gold strings as well, but I like the D'Addarios because they are less expensive. I can't stress this enough - this is a 20.75" scale guitar and it needs heavy strings.
Rickenbacker pickups are microphonic, and the percussive attack they put out is quite apparent.
I also use handmade guitar cables because they will outlast me. Vintage-spec German-made Neutrik tips are the only way to go, and I prefer Canare GS-6 cable for instruments.
I didn't bother doing tone knob adjustments because there's just too many variations. I also labeled these clips by "position" because I'm honestly not 100% sure what the pickups are wired to. I believe the neck position includes both the NECK AND MIDDLE, and the middle position is ALL THREE. As for the bridge position, I'm not entirely sure if it's the bridge pickup alone or the bridge with the middle.
I use the bridge on my recordings mostly - and BY THE WAY - if John really did disconnect his middle pickup on his first 325 [V81] (on accident or otherwise), he may have had a VERY different tone in the middle position! Who knows?
Well, this ends my series on John Lennon's Rickenbackers! Now stop making fun of me for saying "Ricken-BACH-er" ;)
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