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    This document provides classic rock song examples and brief overviews of the guitar tones and gear used to create them. It includes songs and artists like Money for Nothing by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Love is You by Carlos Santana, Crossroads by Eric Clapton of Cream, and Voodoo Chile (Slight Reprise) by Jimi Hendrix. For each song, it summarizes the key elements of the guitar tone through combinations of amplifiers, effects pedals, pickup selections and playing techniques.

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    This document provides classic rock song examples and brief overviews of the guitar tones and gear used to create them. It includes songs and artists like Money for Nothing by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Love is You by Carlos Santana, Crossroads by Eric Clapton of Cream, and Voodoo Chile (Slight Reprise) by Jimi Hendrix. For each song, it summarizes the key elements of the guitar tone through combinations of amplifiers, effects pedals, pickup selections and playing techniques.

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    This document provides classic rock song examples and brief overviews of the guitar tones and gear used to create them. It includes songs and artists like Money for Nothing by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Love is You by Carlos Santana, Crossroads by Eric Clapton of Cream, and Voodoo Chile (Slight Reprise) by Jimi Hendrix. For each song, it summarizes the key elements of the guitar tone through combinations of amplifiers, effects pedals, pickup selections and playing techniques.

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    Classic Rock Detailsr

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    This document provides classic rock song examples and brief overviews of the guitar tones and gear used to create them. It includes songs and artists like Money for Nothing by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Love is You by Carlos Santana, Crossroads by Eric Clapton of Cream, and Voodoo Chile (Slight Reprise) by Jimi Hendrix. For each song, it summarizes the key elements of the guitar tone through combinations of amplifiers, effects pedals, pickup selections and playing techniques.

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    The document discusses guitar tones and techniques for several classic rock artists including Mark Knopfler, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jonny Lang, AC/DC, and Gary Moore.

    Effects like wah pedals, fuzz pedals, and overdrive pedals are mentioned. Artists use different pickup combinations and knob settings on their guitars.

    Amps mentioned include Marshall, Mesa Boogie, Fender, and Soldano. Artists also mention using pedals to overdrive certain amp models.

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    Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)


    Money for Nothing

    Carlos Santana
    Love is You

    Eric Clapton (Cream)


    Crossroads

    Jimi Hendrix
    Voodoo Chile (Slight Reprise)

    Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)


    Zeppelin IV

    Stevie Ray Vaughn


    Pride and Joy

    Jonny Lang
    Lie to Me

    AC/DC
    Back in Black

    Gary Moore
    Still Got the Blues

    Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)


    Money for Nothin
    CR_$-for-0_L
    Overview
    Knopfler's tone on this song has been sought after by many, including Knopfler
    himself. Exactly how he got the tone is a bit of a mystery, but the keys from my
    experience are to use a very specific fixed setting on a cocked wah, plus a little preEQ, as well as using finger-picking like Knopfler does to take a little bite out of the
    tone.

    Carlos Santana
    Love is You
    CR_Santana_L
    Overview
    Smooth like Santana because his tone is smooth as can be. He uses a Mesa/Boogie
    Mark I and is even said to have coined the Boogie part of the name. He switches
    between both pickups and heavily works the volume and tone knobs, which makes
    dialing in his tone pretty difficult. I just went for a very smooth, vintage sounding lead
    tone.

    Eric Clapton (Cream)


    Crossroads
    CR_Clap-XR_L
    Overview
    A classic bluesy vintage rock tone. One of the keys to Clapton's tone is to mix the
    neck and bridge humbuckers on his Les Paul. Otherwise, it's a classic overdriven
    Marshall Bluesbreaker.

    Jimi Hendrix
    Voodoo Chile (Slight Reprise)
    CR_Jimi-VC_L
    Overview
    Fuzz plus cranked Marshall = Purple Haze.

    Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)


    Zeppelin IV
    CR_ZeppIV_L
    Overview
    Page gets a very vintage sounding tone from a fuzz pedal and an overdriven Vox.

    Stevie Ray Vaughn


    Pride and Joy
    CR_SRV_L
    Overview
    SRV used a Tube Screamer to overdrive a Fender VibroKing. Best replacement for
    that would be a Super Reverb. Unfortunately the Pod HD has neither. I use the
    Bassman instead.

    Jonny Lang
    Lie to Me
    CR_Lang_L
    Overview
    A warm, midsy overdriven blues tone. Lang gets his tone from a Marshall Gov'ner
    pedal into a ___ amp.

    AC/DC
    Back in Black
    CR_ACDC_L
    Overview
    Hard Brit rock - Huge overdriven Marshall tone. A good portion of the tone is the
    mix of Angus's brighter tone and Malcolm's darker tone. Neither one is that distorted,
    but mixed together the tone sounds quite distorted and full.

    Gary Moore
    Still Got the Blues
    CR_GM-SLO_L
    Overview
    Moore gets a huge tone here, but it's not that distorted. It's really simple boosted
    Marshall tone, but I like the way the Soldano Crunch model works for it. I use a
    compressor to keep the sound big.

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