that santana sound

fred
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that santana sound

« on: June 10, 2008, 09:55:31 AM »

Hello all, i have been playing around with my amp alot as you can imagine, it is truely awsome, but i cant seem to get close to a santana sound. I much prefere his early stuff when i believe he was using a MKI (europa, black magic, samba pa ti, oye coma va, etc.) people say the OTS is very similar to the MK1 so i was wondering, how would one set their OTS to get a similar sound to his?

Also, why to people slate the FET channel. Its great! a more tamed, "produced" sound than the normal input. Not as good as the normal input IMO but still, defo not bad.


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bluesfendermanblues
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Re: that santana sound

« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2008, 03:53:59 PM »

Hello
The Mark I boogie has the boost tube in position one V1, whereas the Overtone/dumble has it in position V2 like the Boogie Mark II, Mark III & Mark IV.

Therefore, you'll not get 100% early Santana tone out of the Overtone.

However, Santana has recently switched to Dumble amplifiers so perhaps Santana can get a tone close to you ;-)

I fully agree with you on the FET channel. I've trimmed mine so that a strat through the FET channel equals a les Paul through the normal input. So its just like a Fet boost build into the amp.


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Respect for the big guy's work....we're at this part of the forum because of HAD's amps.

sunburststrat
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90% of tone is in the fingers not the digits

Re: that santana sound

« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2008, 11:32:41 AM »

Hi
call me crazy but I think a lot of the older santana tones besides the amp the guitar and the man
lean heavily on the original EH Big muff pedal.

cheers


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sure I'll take another 59' les paul... why not.

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