Welcome back to another video!
I thought I would make two short length Beatles songs, this being the first, the next to come very soon!
For George's Guitar part, he most likely used his Gretsch G6122 T-63 Country Gentleman, which is what I am using for my video! I used my VOX AC30-VR amplifier to replicate the tone, which I recorded with my Røde NT1-A Condensor Microphone, placed just in-between the speaker cones, similar to the micing approach seen at EMI throughout '62 - '64 (However, the micing in BBC studios was slightly different, with microphones placed very far from the centre speaker cone, as the engineers believed the volume of the amplifiers may damage the microphones, and this had the effect of each members individual microphones picking up each others instruments, leading to a rather muddy and live sound.)
For John's Guitar part, I believe he used his '62 Gibson J-160e, opposed to his Rickenbacker 326v58. The reason I believe this is that comparing each available version of the song, bootleg and otherwise, reveals some audio differences between broadcast dates;
Versions of the song that feature John's Rickenbacker 325v58 include;
- The 16th March, 1963 broadcast: th-cam.com/video/-9d2IRbkss4/w-d-xo.html
- The 24th May, 1963 broadcast: th-cam.com/video/tRQlgKymlk4/w-d-xo.html
- The 10th September, 1963 broadcast: th-cam.com/video/c0z_oWn2aDk/w-d-xo.html
- The 7th/15th February, 1964 broadcast: th-cam.com/video/0h-SjwXux_U/w-d-xo.html
And the only version of the song that I have found to include the J-160e, is the version I have recorded, the 30th July, 1963 broadcast:
th-cam.com/video/3rtObYg821M/w-d-xo.html
Enough of the rambling! For my Guitar part, I am using my Epiphone EJ-160e, also plugged into my AC30-VR, the mic placement being identical to George's, but the tone on the Guitar is set to around 8.
------------------- The Gear I Used -------------------
- Gretsch G6122 T-62 Country Gentleman
- Epiphone 2015 EJ-160e
- Vox AC30-VR (Valve Replicator)
- Røde NT1-A Condensor Microphone
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