All tagged vintage reverb
For how seemingly simple surf guitar tone appears, it's pretty elusive. Like with cooking, the fewer ingredients you have, the better quality they need to be. There is no disguise or distractions.
Surf guitar is generally a guitar, reverb, and amp. Sometimes an early fuzz like the Maestro FZ-1A was involved. But primarily guitar to the reverb to the amp.
Each of these three ingredients needs to be correct to truly capture the classic surf guitar tone of artists like Dick Dale and the Ventures.
Plenty of people have a set it and forget it mentality when it comes to reverb, and that's fine and dandy. But there is a whole world of exploration there that can happen in real-time. Sometimes while recording, I venture into the sound design world. Meaning it's as much about the sound and feeling as it evolves as much as the part-writing. Which reverb I choose and the settings become an essential factor.
In this article, I will discuss sculpting tone with reverb, where the tweakability of a reverb is just as important as the guitar or amp you choose.
