Clean, arpeggiated guitar on King's X "Stay"

Matt Grondin · 12th May 2006

Michael, I was wondering if you might enlighten me to some of the gear used for this... it's such a unique tone and it works perfectly for those arpeggios that he's doing on the verses. BTW, I absolutely love this record. There's some seriously great songs on here and the whole thing sounds freakin' sweet... Stay, If, Freedom, etc. are all great... the whole thing rules. Nice job.

**Blast9** · 12th May 2006

My guess:

dUg fished out his 12-string bass and tracked it as a guitar?

Matt Grondin · 13th May 2006

Beats me... it sounds cool whatever it is.

**mwagener** · 13th May 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by dobby12

Michael, I was wondering if you might enlighten me to some of the gear used for this... it's such a unique tone and it works perfectly for those arpeggios that he's doing on the verses. BTW, I absolutely love this record. There's some seriously great songs on here and the whole thing sounds freakin' sweet... Stay, If, Freedom, etc. are all great... the whole thing rules. Nice job.

Matt
That is Ty's Yamaha drop 6 guitar with the volume turned back. We used the Randall MTS series "Top Boost" (VOX) module on this. The effect is a chorus/leslie from the Kurzweil KSP-8.Ty doubled the track pefectly, which gives it even more of a chorusy sound

**Blast9** · 14th May 2006

Thanks Michael...

I presume Ty double-tracked the arpeggios an octave up?

12th May 2006	#1
Matt Grondin I like lamp Joined: Jul 2005 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 1,402 Thread Starter	Clean, arpeggiated guitar on King's X "Stay" Michael, I was wondering if you might enlighten me to some of the gear used for this... it's such a unique tone and it works perfectly for those arpeggios that he's doing on the verses. BTW, I absolutely love this record. There's some seriously great songs on here and the whole thing sounds freakin' sweet... Stay, If, Freedom, etc. are all great... the whole thing rules. Nice job. __________________ Matt Grondin The Parlor Recording Studio New Orleans, LA http://www.theparlorstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/theparlorstudio matt@theparlorstudio.com Follow our build!: http://tinyurl.com/8yzrt8v

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13th May 2006	#3
Matt Grondin I like lamp Joined: Jul 2005 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 1,402 Thread Starter	Beats me... it sounds cool whatever it is.

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Blast9 Moderator Joined: Dec 2003 Location: London Posts: 4,597	Thanks Michael... I presume Ty double-tracked the arpeggios an octave up?