Rockabilly slapback delay guitar lesson - Cliff Gallup, Gene Vincent - Cat Man
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I wanted to make this video since long time but was afraid it's not the most popular one... But then one of subscribers (hello Rodolphe!) asked if I could do a video about slapback delay using Strymon Deco. And another one (hey Bill!) asked somewhere on Facebook if anyone had tabs for exactly this song. It's not just a screamin' psychobilly song - all the way from 1956! - it's one of the first songs where an effect, delay, was used not just to add a touch of ambience but to create a whole rhythmic pattern. Think of that dotted 8th note delay from the 1980s which is the very same concept, although different rhythmically, and it all came from the 50s! Hence in this video we'll talk a lot about how exactly that delay effect was created in Owen Bradley's Quonset Hut studio in Nashville back in 1956, what was its delay time, how many repeats and so on. That will lead us also towards another topic, compression. Do you use a compressor pedal for rockabilly? Many people say you don't but, in fact, those historic recordings did have quite some compression - added in the mix.
...and yes, I do love those soft and mellow Gene Vincent's ballads with jazzy guitar parts by Cliff Gallup, too!
00:00 Demo
00:30 Gene Vincent... did he play psychobilly or cool jazz? ;) (think of, Cat Man sounds like a minor song, but in fact rhythm guitar doesn't play a minor 3rd at all and the final Cliff Gallup's chord is A6/9... so it's free jazz lol!)
1:51 Licks and picking technique
6:28 How that slapjack delay was produced in the studio in 1956?
8:05 Delay pedal's settings to replicate that 1950s setup from the studio
10:12 Compressor? Compressor! And its settings.
12:01 Sound examples with Strymon Deco and Mark Bass Compressore (no affiliation, used just as examples) - เพลง
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Awesome song, can you imagine how wild this sounded in ‘56!
Brilliant as always!
Great job on this one! I myself dont like that much delay in genetal but of course always a good learning how the sounds were done back then which we heard and love. 🙂 Good point on the compressor. I read a very detailed article about Cliff Gallup some years ago about sound,equipment etc but he missed the point of the compressor you really hear on that recordings,of cours not done by a pedal but the use Fairchild or similar studio compressor.
Thank you!
In fact, I'm still curious about what was used for compression in the studio. The famous Fairchild 660 was developed in 1959. So must have been some earlier model. But there definitely was something, cause I don't hear, for example, the guitar's popping attack at all.
@@kpnash Some moons ago when I looked into this recording theme, so lets see, what I remember...
As far as I know the 660 was invented in the early 50s already ( the story goes that Les Paul back then requested to design one like the 660..). Well, it may be that they used ALtec 436B or 436C at Capital Records. There were also companies like Collins (26U1). RCA made there own, and there was Langevin, Gates(Sta-Level) and General Electric (BA5) who had limiters/Compressors.
You may know that already, I guess..?
These first devices were in fact more limiters and created for broadcasting and the process on lathe cutting to avoid overdrive the signal. So the extended part of the attack thing was invented later only which made them only then to nowadays known compressors Univeral Audio 1176 etc)
As you also may know, the tape saturation is a compression effect as well. Which may also come into game in the final sound.
BTW the first compressor(Limiter) type known is the Telefunken U3 made 1936 created specially for the Olympics ganes.. A later updated version was by Rhode and Schwarz as U23. I still have a TAB U73B tube compressor (also further development of the Telefunken) which some call "the counterpart of the Fairchild 660". But I`m no expert to proof that and still have not ben able to test it. A shame, but a musician friend in Hannover builds up a little studio and will then try it there one day.
Merci pour toutes ces explications .... c'est vraiment très intéressant
Thanks very much,I hope people learn this great song
Mort Thomasson was the engineer & Ken Nelson the producer. They also probably had room reverb mixed in with the echo. Les Paul was using tape echo before this.
Great Cliff sound!!!😀👍
Wow thank you!
Thanks for another great video! I had this song transcribed for me many years ago. I was very surprised when I was told the song only has one chord for the while song! Am!!!
In fact, it's not really Am, and that's another cool fact about the song. If you listen to a few very first bars, between Gene shouting 'Cat Man' and Cliff starting with his riff, you'll hear acoustic rhythm guitar. And it sounds like only the bottom four strings of the Am (or was it even A?!) chord. So the notes, bottom to top, are E, A, E, A. Really sort of a 'power chord' with nothing that would identify it as either major or minor. The melody of the song sounds more minor than major, and so does the guitar part. But then again, the final chord of the song is A6/9
...A6/9 on the electric guitar played over that 'power chord' on the acoustic.
So if someone asks me in which key this song is, I would say it's neither-manor-nor-major A. Which might not be unusual for an experimental/ethnic jazz tune, but this is a rockabilly song from 1956!!!
Спасибо! Как всегда всё доходчиво разжевавал, для таких тугодумов как я, самое оно.
Я бы сказал, что это видео рассчитано на продвинутых рокабиллов, т. е. тот кто посмотрел и заинтересовался - вряд ли тугодум 😉
@@kpnash, спасибо за комплимент 😉. Rockabilly forever!
Кирилл, неплохо бы было разучить из Джина нашего Винсента Baby Blue и Джонни Миксу дань уважения отдадим.
Great lesson! What a tune though, check out some of the stuff on Desperate Rock n Roll compilations and tracks like Love Me by The Phantom, gonna learn Cat Man for sure 😎
Thank you! In fact, I'm a bit surprised to see so much positive feedback on this song, though it was somewhat forgotten... but turs out, it is a hidden gem!
Thanks a lot man, awesome video! When you say you make the delay slightly louder for the Catman, do you refer to the Mix knob set around 1pm? Sorry I am a total newby to the electric world..
Yes exactly, that very knob (but I think it's called 'Blend' on Strymon Deco).
Thank you!
Hi can you please tell me what model of Gretsch you are playing?
That's just a plain Duo Jet, 6128, from 2009. That was the time when they made them with Melita bridges, I didn't like it and replaced it with a copper TruArc.
@@kpnash I have been learning Cliff Gallops songs but cant afford a 6128 Can you recommend a cheaper up to date Gretsch that I could put Dynasonics in and get close to the sound?
@@paulwhiting1648not that much options with Dynos unfortunately. Still...
Used 512X (5125 till 29). Not easy to find but really great guitars. I have one, bone stock, no pickup upgrades etc. (those still have USA made PUs).
Used 5259. Same pickups, but *really* hard to find.
Any Electromatic, like e. g. 5230, upgrading it with TV Jones afterwards, TV makes Dynosonics (he calls them T-Armonds) also in Filtertron mount, those will be a direct drop-in.
Same 5230 but with custom made pickup adapters that will take a Dyno and fit into a Filtertron route, even I have a couple of those lying around 😂