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It looks like one of the guitarists (Dick Taylor?) is playing a Gibson 335 or similar model in this youtube video.
Is this a Gibson 335 in the video here?
Pretty Things "Midnight To Six Man" 66
Note the jangly trebly sound from the guitar. A long time ago when I was experimenting with a home brew tubed guitar preamp (with spring reverb) plugged into a monoblock tube amp (with a 2 x 10 inch paper cone speakers in an oak open back cabinet) I was able to get a jangly sound similar to the "Midnight To Six Man" sound ). At the time, I believe I had a single coil (probably stacked humbucker) rail type pickup in the middle position and some other regular looking single coil pickups in a Strat style guitar (Ash body).
This might be the same rail type pickup here in the second post:
http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/guitar/acapella-41/1160327-
The magnet was really strong and tended to dampen the strings, too. The preamp I was using had a metal cover which gave a dampened bell-like tone when struck with something. Later on I took out the electronics and rebuilt the preamp into another bigger housing so I'd have more room for more controls. After I started playing it I discovered that something from the sound was lost. I remembered that when using the first preamp close to the speakers it would feedback continuously if the volume was too loud or the preamp was too close to the speakers. I had to move it back to keep it from feeding back too much. Apparently, the metal cover and the microphonic 12ax7 tubes tended to pickup some of the sound from the speakers and feed it back through the amp and gave it a jangly sound in some cases and a fuller sound over all. The sound of the guitar in the video might be altered a lot with feedback and maybe even tube microphonics. The semi-hollow body would tend to pick up sound, too.
Is this a Gibson 335 in the video here?
Pretty Things "Midnight To Six Man" 66
Note the jangly trebly sound from the guitar. A long time ago when I was experimenting with a home brew tubed guitar preamp (with spring reverb) plugged into a monoblock tube amp (with a 2 x 10 inch paper cone speakers in an oak open back cabinet) I was able to get a jangly sound similar to the "Midnight To Six Man" sound ). At the time, I believe I had a single coil (probably stacked humbucker) rail type pickup in the middle position and some other regular looking single coil pickups in a Strat style guitar (Ash body).
This might be the same rail type pickup here in the second post:
http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/guitar/acapella-41/1160327-
The magnet was really strong and tended to dampen the strings, too. The preamp I was using had a metal cover which gave a dampened bell-like tone when struck with something. Later on I took out the electronics and rebuilt the preamp into another bigger housing so I'd have more room for more controls. After I started playing it I discovered that something from the sound was lost. I remembered that when using the first preamp close to the speakers it would feedback continuously if the volume was too loud or the preamp was too close to the speakers. I had to move it back to keep it from feeding back too much. Apparently, the metal cover and the microphonic 12ax7 tubes tended to pickup some of the sound from the speakers and feed it back through the amp and gave it a jangly sound in some cases and a fuller sound over all. The sound of the guitar in the video might be altered a lot with feedback and maybe even tube microphonics. The semi-hollow body would tend to pick up sound, too.
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