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Getting the Clapton Tone.

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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 20197
    DefaultM said:
    Don’t bother with any of that amp stuff you mentioned, just get the Digitech Crossroads pedal straight to desk and you’re sorted.
    Absolutely.  Oddly I'd just been reading an old review of it before I saw this thread.

    mooserss review - DigiTech Crossroads Eric Clapton - Audiofanzine
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24339
    edited August 2023
    I’ve seen him three times in the last 18 months; RAH in May 2022, Woking Leisure Centre ‘dry’ New Year’s Eve show (capacity about 1000 people) and RAH in May this year for the Jeff Beck Tribute. I was close to the front on each occasion and was surprised how much level was coming from his amp - much of what I was hearing was definitely from the back line, rather than the PA.

    Though his sound wasn’t massively distorted, I reckon the power stage and speakers were being driven hard. At Woking there wasn’t even a wah pedal - it was guitar straight into the amp. The guts of the amps were built by Dumble incidentally - though they appear to be Tweed Fenders.

    This is from the Beck Tribute show - EC’s tone is huge:
    https://youtu.be/d5Cx4exM2sI?si=m6PNTk_2dNWjoJ37
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  • jdgmjdgm Frets: 807
    edited August 2023
    jdgm said:

    Wear glasses, use a compressor along with all the other stuff.
    You make him sound like tyre fitter or a sandblaster.

    Wow what a compliment!!  I didn't realise you'd heard me play!!!

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  • Axe_meisterAxe_meister Frets: 4451
    Personally I think the best sound he had was his 80s/90s Soldano and TC electronic rack gear. 
    Saw him in 89 on the Journeyman tour, the sound was awesome, plus lots of variation from song to sing, now we have the same tone + maybe the Leslie song after song after song.

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  • CloudNineCloudNine Frets: 4121
    Offset said:
    Accurate or not, it was bloody funny.  Oddly enough, Clappo's voice is one of the things I like most about his music.  His playing is one of the things I like least :-)

    <retreats as mass brawl breaks out>
    I agree with this. I am no big Clapton fan, aside from a few outings with the 335 which are exceptional, but the thing I usually come away with after watching, is how good his singing is. I must have had some serious pre conceived notion many years ago that he couldn’t be a good vocalist, because I still feel a bit surprised, even after the 100th time of watching him sing really well.  =)
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  • Jez6345789Jez6345789 Frets: 1652
    Hi Eric does not like to comment on these threads but said if you find it please send it home to me lol
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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    edited August 2023
    "Off Topic"? Surely should have been moved to "Guitar" by now? @digitalscream @Roland ;
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 25239
    littlegreenman said:
    "Off Topic"? Surely should have been moved to "Guitar" by now? @digitalscream @Roland ;

    <space for hire>
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 23224
    Absolutely.  Get this music stuff out of my yard immediately !!!
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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    digitalscream said:
    littlegreenman said:
    "Off Topic"? Surely should have been moved to "Guitar" by now? @digitalscream @Roland ;

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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    edited August 2023
     =) 
    littlegreenman < My tunes here...
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  • jeromegreendayjeromegreenday Frets: 145
    @WYNIR0 - that truly is the first comment on the fretboard that has disgusted me and made me call someone out. That is exactly the same as you loosing a son and me "Joking" that's how you get your guitar tone. 
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  • jeromegreendayjeromegreenday Frets: 145
    I asked this question months ago (Possibly years) and made this thread -
    Diaz moded Fender low powered tweed twin 5E8a For Clapton - Amps Discussions on theFretBoard

    I went into his amp specs in huge detail an it turns our he uses solid state rectifiers. 
    I saw cream in 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall and like you I couldn't believe the tone from just his strat going into his tweed amp. 
    I'm currently having someone build me an amp in the hope of getting this tone, watch this space!
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  • NickBNickB Frets: 156
    I understand he uses the middle PUP. I have a CS 56 Strat that came with gold lace sensors and the boost circuit. I pretty much nailed the Clapton tone….but it wasn’t for me as I felt it sounded “plasticky” to my ears. Swapped the PUPs for 57/62s and normal Strat tone/volume configuration. With regards to the amps didn’t Denis Cornell build him a couple? 
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  • Moe_ZambeekMoe_Zambeek Frets: 3238
    Is he using the Lace Sensors there?
    Feedback thread here: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60727/
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  • victorludorumvictorludorum Frets: 868
    Yes. It looks like the '96 tour
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  • GoldenEraGuitarsGoldenEraGuitars Frets: 8207
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    Surely this is the sound?


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  • NickBNickB Frets: 156
    Moe_Zambeek said:
    Is he using the Lace Sensors there?
    Not sure. they might be Fender noiseless..
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30192
    GoldenEraGuitars said:
    Surely this is the sound?


    That's a HPTT, not LP.

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • victorludorumvictorludorum Frets: 868
    It seems that tour was actually 1994/5, but definitely Lace Sensors.
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  • victorludorumvictorludorum Frets: 868
    Two white Clapton Strats were sold at the Christie's sale in 1999. Both accompanying write-ups state that they were 'used on stage in the mid '90s'. Both have Lace Sensors.
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  • GoldenEraGuitarsGoldenEraGuitars Frets: 8207
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    Gassage said:
    GoldenEraGuitars said:
    Surely this is the sound?


    That's a HPTT, not LP.
    Either way, you need a hot rodded tweed twin and a shit load of volume? After that, based on any sound clip of any gig you’ll be at the mercy of what the sound engineer wanted everyone to hear.. I’d have thought? But id say the volume is a massive factor, probably more so than the model of amp or pickups used.
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  • RickLucasRickLucas Frets: 353
    Those 5F8A Twins are brutal and impossibly loud for the applications of us mere mortals. I made a short clip of one a while ago and ear plugs were essential.
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  • AidanspaghettiAidanspaghetti Frets: 806
    Influential in the JB move to twins maybe? Always liked EC - Loved the Journeyman era. Soldanos FTW!
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  • PALPAL Frets: 465
    When Clapton started on the tweed thing his amps were modded by Dennis Cornell who then built some tweed 
      amps for him they were mid sounding amps with hemp speakers I believe Dennis would tell you the details.
      As you know Fender then did some amps for him. His guitars do have a boost built in and I think these were
      21db boost he also has a TBX tone control this gives a more p90 sound to his noiseless pickups. There is lots of
      information available as other members have said.
      As someone has said it's the way he plays that gives him the sound his attack and vibrato have a big effect on
      his sound so it is really as many people have said sound is in your hands. But you can get near if that is what
      you want. Hope this helps.
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited August 2023
    Eric Clapton's amps are just a Fender Tweed Twin box with a Peavey Rage amp and a Mooer Green Mile built in, and that's the truth.


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  • MikePMikeP Frets: 22
    Am I right in summarising this thread as

    OP - I bought all the Clapton gear but I still don't sound like Eric, what's gone wrong?

    FORUM answer- buy some more Clapton branded gear...

    ?
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  • victorludorumvictorludorum Frets: 868
    MikeP said:
    Am I right in summarising this thread as

    OP - I bought all the Clapton gear but I still don't sound like Eric, what's gone wrong?

    FORUM answer- buy some more Clapton branded gear...

    ?
    Close.

    I bought all the Clapton gear but I still don't sound like Eric, what's gone wrong?

    Answer - Don't worry about it because Clapton can't sing and he's a racist with some controversial opinions.
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 20197
    I wish someone would change the title of this thread to "Getting the Claptone."
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    The type of pickups and the TBX control don't make much difference - the important factor is the 25dB mid boost circuit. That's *a lot*, and I suspect he often uses it full up, since apparently during the development of it, he kept asking for "more of the compressor" (as he referred to it).

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