Ronny Woods Sound - just guitar'n'amp or?

[nosuch]

I've been enjoying Ron Woods Sound lately. To me it sounds basic, like a strat or his zemaitis into a wide open tube amp. Or are there some hidden secrets, mystic ingredients?

 

[MileHiMojo]

Check out this interview:

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2010/Nov/Ron_Wood_The_Can_Do_Man.aspx?Page=1

On page three, he starts talking about how he gets his sound.

 

[jh45gun]

Bottom line is Ron Wood You can take a 100 guitar players and a hundred amps and guitars and they will all sound some what different it is how the guitar player plays that makes the difference. Wanna see set up an amp and guitar and let several different guitar players pay you rig with out changing anything. They will all sound some what different.

 

[canucklehead]

Ron's "Mystic ingredients"?? - cocktails and nicotine.

 

[blue metalflake]

I think he'd sound like Ronnie no matter what the guitar & amp.

 

[nosuch]

Check out this interview:

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2010/Nov/Ron_Wood_The_Can_Do_Man.aspx?Page=1

On page three, he starts talking about how he gets his sound.

Yeah that's what I thought, just rough energy and an amp on 10.

 

[spook69]

Thanks for posting! You live & learn.

Yeah, they’re cool. As far as different amps, I used an old Fenton Weill on the solo for “Maggie May.” It was like, more or less, a converted radio—it’s a bit like the Champ amp is. There’s a bit of distortion already built in, just because of the old valves and stuff.

He is the first person I have known to play through a Fenton Weill amp. It was my first amp that came with my first electric when I was 17!

It had a great tone, but I gave it away in my twenties as it had developed a fault. Never throught to get it repaired. Doh!

 

[nosuch]

Fenton Weill – never heard of that brand before. i assume it's british?

 

[valiant]

Fenton Weill......originally there was Burns Weill....they made a guitar named Fenton....Weill left and started Fenton Weill and Burns Weill became just Burns.
The reason for leaving was said to be over the quality of the instruments....Weill did the pickups....and is perhaps therefore responsible for the excellent "Tri-Sonic" single coil still seen on Burns guitars today.
Infact an exact copy of the original fat Fenton Weill tri-sonic is available in the UK.....it even has the original Fenton Weill logo etched in the top.
Fenton Weill made some far out guitar shapes and had distinctive headstocks but did also make amplifiers.....Mr Weill was an electronics man after all.....not only Ronnie Wood but also Peter Green used a Fenton Weill amp before that famous Matamp 2000 rig.
Somewhere on the interweb there is an excellent site dedicated to all things Fenton Weill and it is truly a great site full of the wonderfull and wacky world of Fenton Weill.

 

[4 Strings]

A bit OT and not exactly Ronnie either, but interesting just the same: http://www.sabellastudios.com/tips_krichards.php

Since Ronnie talks about his Champ in the Premier Guitar interview, perhaps the article in the above link may hold some relevance.

 

[spook69]

Somewhere on the interweb there is an excellent site dedicated to all things Fenton Weill and it is truly a great site full of the wonderfull and wacky world of Fenton Weill.

Press here

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