Beginner wanting to create britpop/shoegaze guitar sound

MrVoracious

Hi, not too sure if i'm in the right forum but I'm a (clueless?) beginner looking for any tips on amp settings for my behringer lx110 and Les Paul special 2 in order to create an Oasis, stone roses, suede, and/or smiths sound? Thanks!

krd

MrVoracious wrote: »

Hi, not too sure if i'm in the right forum but I'm a (clueless?) beginner looking for any tips on amp settings for my behringer lx110 and Les Paul special 2 in order to create an Oasis, stone roses, suede, and/or smiths sound? Thanks!

That's a whole bunch of different sounds. Oasis, lots of distortion and some echo - oasis also used a lot of feedback- that is you need to be in a room with the amp turned up very load to the guitar feedback. Suede, lots of reverb, lots of chorus, flangers, and phaser. Stone roses, lots of reverb, wah wah, loads of chorus.

MrVoracious

krd wrote: »

That's a whole bunch of different sounds.

Ah yeah sorry I knew that.. maybe I just phrased the question wrong but I was mainly hoping that whoever replied would give a list of each band and their respective sounds (kinda like what you did)

krd

MrVoracious wrote: »

Ah yeah sorry I knew that.. maybe I just phrased the question wrong but I was mainly hoping that whoever replied would give a list of each band and their respective sounds (kinda like what you did)

I don't know how Johnny Marr got the sounds he did - I think a lot was in his playing.

The real shoe gazing stuff, would be bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. What they used to do to create their sounds was to connect up a lot of different kinds of guitar pedals in different orders, with different settings, and not in the way they were really designed or intended - eventually you get really interesting walls of sound. But, it gets so complicated, you have to keep staring down at your guitar pedals to keep track of what you're doing (a lot of the changes in the songs would be based on which pedals are on or off). So these bands used to perform staring intently at their pedals - and the audience and journalists thought they were deliberately staring at their shoes, as kind of stylistic thing. Hence the name, shoegazer.

MrVoracious

krd wrote: »

I don't know how Johnny Marr got the sounds he did - I think a lot was in his playing.

The real shoe gazing stuff, would be bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. What they used to do to create their sounds was to connect up a lot of different kinds of guitar pedals in different orders, with different settings, and not in the way they were really designed or intended - eventually you get really interesting walls of sound. But, it gets so complicated, you have to keep staring down at your guitar pedals to keep track of what you're doing (a lot of the changes in the songs would be based on which pedals are on or off). So these bands used to perform staring intently at their pedals - and the audience and journalists thought they were deliberately staring at their shoes, as kind of stylistic thing. Hence the name, shoegazer.

Yeah somehow I don't see any realistic chance of emulating the MBV or TJAMC sound for the simple reason that I wouldn't be able to afford half of the pedals they use
As far as johnny marr goes, I once heard noel gallagher say in an interview that marr's playing style is so unreplicable that marr himself can't even emulate it!

Squidgy Black

Johnny Marr used really old jaguars (which are ridiculously expensive nowadays) and old telecasters. He ran those into two amps, a Roland Jazz chorus and a Blackface twin/Deluxe reverb. He was very fond of the tremolo on his guitars too