duhvoodooman
April 17th, 2007, 06:55 PM
Or is it Trower on Chicken Salad? In any case....
You oldsters here who lived the music of the 70's--and you younger Fretters who've listened to it since--might get a kick out of this. As I posted in the "Have You Heard?" forum a couple of days back, I recently picked up a double CD of Robin Trower's classic albums Twice Removed from Yesterday and Bridge of Sighs. If you're familiar with Trower's music, you know that he was known for a heavy Strat neck tone played through a Univibe pedal, an early phase-shifting effect with a characteristic sound originally made famous by Jimi Hendrix. But on his first couple of solo albums, Robin used the Univibe on almost everything!
I was listening to the titular tune from Bridge of Sighs in the car the other day and thought to myself, "I'll bet I could reproduce that sound pretty closely with that Danelectro Chicken Salad vibrato pedal!" So I fooled around some over the weekend, and was amazed at how close to Trower's signature tone I was able to get. Basically, it's just a matter of playing my Strat on the neck p'up through the UK '70s amp model on my AD30VT, adding in a good dose of overdrive a la ZYS and the Chicken Salad with the speed and intensity both set up around 2 o'clock. Check out THIS LINK (http://www.box.net/shared/11zpya1gq6) to a brief clip I recorded to demo this "Trower tone". It may not be exact, but it's not too bad for a $25 pedal, IMO!!
The clip starts out with the clean Strat neck p'up/UK '70s amp model combo, then adds the ZYS distortion (position 5 on the gain/bass boost dial), and then the Chicken Salad over the top of that. It ends with what I hope sounds pretty familiar to Trower listeners....
You oldsters here who lived the music of the 70's--and you younger Fretters who've listened to it since--might get a kick out of this. As I posted in the "Have You Heard?" forum a couple of days back, I recently picked up a double CD of Robin Trower's classic albums Twice Removed from Yesterday and Bridge of Sighs. If you're familiar with Trower's music, you know that he was known for a heavy Strat neck tone played through a Univibe pedal, an early phase-shifting effect with a characteristic sound originally made famous by Jimi Hendrix. But on his first couple of solo albums, Robin used the Univibe on almost everything!
I was listening to the titular tune from Bridge of Sighs in the car the other day and thought to myself, "I'll bet I could reproduce that sound pretty closely with that Danelectro Chicken Salad vibrato pedal!" So I fooled around some over the weekend, and was amazed at how close to Trower's signature tone I was able to get. Basically, it's just a matter of playing my Strat on the neck p'up through the UK '70s amp model on my AD30VT, adding in a good dose of overdrive a la ZYS and the Chicken Salad with the speed and intensity both set up around 2 o'clock. Check out THIS LINK (http://www.box.net/shared/11zpya1gq6) to a brief clip I recorded to demo this "Trower tone". It may not be exact, but it's not too bad for a $25 pedal, IMO!!
The clip starts out with the clean Strat neck p'up/UK '70s amp model combo, then adds the ZYS distortion (position 5 on the gain/bass boost dial), and then the Chicken Salad over the top of that. It ends with what I hope sounds pretty familiar to Trower listeners....