Reb Beach's old sound - anybody know how he did it?

tomizm · #1 01-21-2001, 12:22 PM

plain and simple, im wondering if anyone knows how Reb got his old Winger sound. *I know the guitar, duh, but what about his amps. *Marshalls, Mesa?

strat110 · #2 01-21-2001, 01:34 PM

Ask Reb yourself,

goto:

http://www.rebbeach.com

goto the forum, post your Q and Reb normally responds in 48hrs or so.

I am sure it is in that forum somewhere.

Andy

oooo · #3 01-21-2001, 02:15 PM

Tomizm, if you get a responce... keep us posted.

ellsobrien · #4 01-21-2001, 03:53 PM

Let's see...
Well to get his "sound" you would start with his guitar...
http://www.premiumguitars.com/suhr_gallery_gallore.htm

Then you get all the stuff in his rack...
http://www.rebbeach.com/equip.html

:-)

tomizm · #5 01-21-2001, 04:47 PM

Yea, I saw all that stuff. *Rather than asking him a question he's already answered, I searched the Forum material until I found the answer.
Basically his rythm tracks were guitars straight into Marshalls and his lead stuff were Bradshaw heads (as in CAE Bradshaw?). *It was all recorded dry, and effects were studio'd in.
I think there's got to be more to it than that.

ellsobrien · #6 01-21-2001, 05:38 PM

Yeah, you gotta go down to the crossroads.... *:-)

But really, I was just listening to a few of the old Winger stuff and that could be it. I didn't catch any Wah or anything and caught a few doubled tracks but that was really it.

I think the real question is: what gear did he use live on the tours to promote those albums? Cause you would have to guess that the live sound was close to the recorded stuff.

Well, this thread has really re-ignighted my love for 80's metal....I wonder if anyone has a Pod patch of Winger?

Of to seach the net again....

woodshed · #7 01-21-2001, 06:14 PM

Reb used Marshalls but endorsed & posed with KittyHawk gear?
Gasp!

oooo · #8 01-21-2001, 07:12 PM

O.K... here's my $0.02. *When it comes to great tone, I love the old King's X stuff (Gretchen Goes to Nabraska, Out of the Silent Planet...etc) But has anybody checked out Ty Tabor on "platypus *Ice cycles"? *He used the pod on this c.d. and his tone is wimpy. *I'm not trying to bash you pod guys, but what happened? *I dig the Pod stuff, even though I'm a tube nut, but I think Ty missed the mark... was it his setup or just the album? *"Tape head" just kills... maybe he should have stuck with that rig. *O.K. *I'm rambling...... I'll be quiet now.

Jason Stone · #9 01-22-2001, 02:29 PM

If I remember correctly, there was a Guitar School story in an issue from 1990 that had pictures of Reb's and Paul Gilbert's tour rigs. *I'll try to dig up the issue. *I think it had a yellow cover with Jeff Beck on it. *That would be my best bet for figuring out how Reb got his live sound. *Also, I remember seeing Reb's instructional video from the early 90s where he said that he uses Marshalls pretty exclusively with very few effects (just some echo and/or reverb).

Jason

darren wilson · #10 01-22-2001, 04:00 PM

Don't forget Reb got his start as a studio player, so he can probably coax nearly any sound he wants/needs to out of a very basic setup.

It's important to remember that even with the exact same gear, different players sound like, well, different players... 90% of your tone is in your fingers.