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- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Date: Thursday, 28 Jan 1993 11:23:32 PST
- From: <WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
- Message-ID: <93028.112332WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Santana tone info wanted
- References: <1993Jan26.065702.10886@midway.uchicago.edu>
- <1993Jan26.112108.9336@sco.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.112108.9336@sco.com>, leff@sco.COM (Bill Leff) says:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan26.065702.10886@midway.uchicago.edu>
- >kamartin@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>Hello out there,
- >>
- >> Last night I had the pleasure of having my first exposure to the music
- >>of Carlos Santana (ABRAXAS). I noticed his seemingly endless sustain, as
- >well
- >>as an interesting semi-dirty tone. What exactly does he use to get that
- >>unique sound of his, as far as specfic guitars, amps, etc.? Thanks a lot.
- >>
- >>-Kai Martin (kamartin@midway.uchicago.edu)
- >
- >Carlos uses a Mesa Boogie Mark I amp (head or combo) with 12" speaker
- >with open back cabinets. He uses a PRS guitar with old Gibson PAF
- >humbucking pickups. He's also used a Strat occasionally and used
- >to use a Gibson ES-335. He uses a wah-wah, but no distortion pedals,
- >to my knowledge. I think I may have seen pictures of him with a
- >Gibson SG as well.
-
- Carlos used to do an endorsement for the Gibson L6-S. I have an old Gibson
- catalog with his picture on the cover with a white L6-S in his hands. In last
- months "Guitar Player" an article showed a very young Carlos with a Les Paul
- Junior. I think that like a lot of us guitar players Carlos uses whatever
- guitar pleases him at the moment.
-
- He was quoted in the article saying he likes the old, hand-made PRS guitars.
- Very heavy but great tone.
-
- Brian
-