Any pedal to get Ron Wood tone of The Faces days??

I´m looking to get the tone he got on I´m Losing You for example http://youtu.be/UrOPJXrUWII and the other classic Faces tunes (Judy´s Farm,Stay with me,You´re my girl, I want to be loved...)

I think i might use a fuzz pedal but what kind?I watched demos of the EH Double Muff that seems to be this kind of OD/Fuzz tone

Did you know any pedal on a budget of 60-70€ that could help me? :?:

My current equipment is Classic 50 Esquire w/ Duncan Broadcaster and the amp is VHT Special 6 Ultra with 12ax7 and 6V6 tubes.

Thank you very much friends!

There wasn't much in the way of options back then. Most guitar players just turned their amps all the way up and used the volume knob on the guitar. But I think either an overdrive like the Les Luis or Formula 5 will get you in the ball park.

I like a Tonebender style pedal to get into that range. I use a Devi Ever Ruby. Her playing is not very good here, but you get a good idea of what a good Tonebender style fuzz can do.

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Catalinbread SFT. The Stones and Ronnie (still with the Faces) were using a lot of Ampeg amps around that period. The SFT will cop those tones better than most. As far as I know, Ronnie didn't use a Tone Bender (or any pedals) while with the Faces. He used amps and lots of volume!

Stay With Me always sounded like there was some fuzz going on to me.

A class A amp cranked beyond manageable levels and a humbucker can get fuzzy. The live version is just the amp and it seems even more fuzzy than the studio version.

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Stay With Me always sounded like there was some fuzz going on to me.

Did you hear Neil Young recordings? :)

I get my BFPR past 6 on the volume and it's Good and Fuzzy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JtqF0qBqzZoRod is such a cool guy.

Rod is such a cool guy.

Every time I see your avatar, I feel the need to duck or jump over it. :grin:

If you just look behind Ron Wood at the start of the clip, This is nothing but a silver-
face Champ. miked and send through the PA. So with your amp you are as close as you can get, no pedals needed. But what is needed seems to be a Zemaitis, expensive stuff!
No just kidding, I think any guitar with a relativly weak Humbucker will do. The rest
should be hours and hours of playing, just workout on your strings. Have fun.

Sorry, I forgot, Ron Wood like Keith Richards played open tunings eearlyon

I bet the Catalina Bread pedals can get you right there. Either the Formula 5 or the SFT.

I believe that in one of interview that he said he did not use any effect pedals

I believe it. His tone sounds like an amp on the verge of explosion!

I love the Faces. I play a few songs by them and one of them happens to be "I'm Losing You." I get a pretty good tone using a Keeley modded Boss SD-1. I actualy use a Tele for that song. It has Seymour Duncan Hot Rails though, so it's more of a Les Paul with a tweed Bassman tone. I usaly have the tone and drive of the SD-1 about halfway, but I have the tone on the Tele just over halfway. I'd reccomend the Keeley SD-1 for the Ron Wood tone, but everything makes a difference. The SD-1 might not sound the same with your Esquire and your amp. You'll just have to experiment and see what drive pedal you like best.

Every time I see your avatar, I feel the need to duck or jump over it. :grin:
I like to keep people on the edge. :wink:

I love the Faces. I play a few songs by them and one of them happens to be "I'm Losing You." I get a pretty good tone using a Keeley modded Boss SD-1. I actualy use a Tele for that song. It has Seymour Duncan Hot Rails though, so it's more of a Les Paul with a tweed Bassman tone. I usaly have the tone and drive of the SD-1 about halfway, but I have the tone on the Tele just over halfway. I'd reccomend the Keeley SD-1 for the Ron Wood tone, but everything makes a difference. The SD-1 might not sound the same with your Esquire and your amp. You'll just have to experiment and see what drive pedal you like best.

You are the coolest 14 year old on the web. :shock:

Glad to see that the younger generation still has some hope! :lol:

I use a Blackstone OD and a Scarab Deluxe stacked to get the Faces and Stones sound. Ron Wood with the Faces and Mick Taylor w/ the Stones, very similar sounds back in the day, the Blackstone after the Scarab Deluxe is spot on. The Blackstone is great by itself, and so is the Scarab Deluxe. I can cop a lot of sounds w/ those two by themselves or stacked together.

I have found that the Hardwire SC-2 Valve Distortion in crunch mode nails that overdriven Fender/Ampeg V-4 sound from the 70s that Keith and Woody both used at the time.

You are the coolest 14 year old on the web. :shock:

Glad to see that the younger generation still has some hope! :lol:

Thanks, lol. There's still some good bands out there, but I know how you feel. I can't stand most of today's music. My biggest influence is Eric Clapton. He's not a realy a Tele guy but he sure can make a Strat sing.

You'd better tell me how to make my voice sound like Rod Stewart's...

You'd better tell me how to make my voice sound like Rod Stewart's...

Haha that´s right..it´s a better question:grin:

I forgot to mention i have a Les Lius pedal but i can´t get it right eeven with the higest settings of any of 3 modes...i´ll keep on trying on it for a while

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If you just look behind Ron Wood at the start of the clip, This is nothing but a silver-
face Champ. miked and send through the PA.

It's a phenomenon called "blocking distortion" when you use a little SE amp like that and the pickups are just hot enough to exacerbate it some. I'd seen him perform Stay With Me with a single PAF Armstrong plexi guitar - same sound as on the studio cut.

A gritty OD will get the same effect with a bigger amp that isn't prone to pooching out with the blocking distortion (or a little 8" alnico speaker going all to crap). I tweak a Tube Sound Fuzz/Red Llama to get pretty close to what you hear on that particular cut.

But yeah - it's a pretty generic "small amp farting out" kind of sound when you whack the strings that hard with the little bugger dimed. Classic Ronnie from yesteryear...