hi
does someone knows how to achieve the sound of american 50s electric guitar sound, like tarantino's movies.?
In terms of FX, slapback echo is a big part of that 50's sound (Tarrantino or otherwise).
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Slap back, Tremolo and just a good tube amp really. To get a vintage sound, vintage guitars are always best, but it's still perfectly possible on modern gear. I would say a Telecaster would give the sort of 50's sound that your after.
They used lots of Reverb back in the 50's as well. So crank it up.
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50's guitars were very often f-hole jazz boxes with pickups mounted on them. They give a different sound to solid bodies (ask Brian Setzer).
Echo/reverb units were all multi-head tape units, with tube electrics. Sometimes reverb (what's called hall or room, today) were simply created in a room or hall, with a mike at one end and a speaker at the other (very high-tech!). One hit in England was actually given "echo" by putting mike and speaker into an empty water tank.
Amps were always clean, sometimes driven to very slight overdrive.
Picks were heavy tortoiseshell.
Strings were like ship's hawsers - very thick and meaty (3rd was ALWAYS wound).
Other effects hadn't been invented then.
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