hey guys - kind of a saturday afternoon posting
really obscure question, but i'm having a wonderful "back to the 80's" afternoon and loving that i don't have a session today (apart from the stack of mixing!).
does anyone have any idea what guitar rig Midge Ure used to use in ultravox, i just been reminded of some utterly wonderful controlled feedback stuff on a couple of singles. i know Boss ued to do a feedbacker pedal, but i used to have one of those and it never sounded like that, and it sounds waaaaaaaaay more controlled than amp feedback.
this was the 80s and it sounds like overtones being generated somewhere. it was a much richer sound compared to a lot of the 'pop' stuff of the time - compare it to andy taylor's guitar sound (who had a kick-ass tone when he went solo) of duran duran at about the same era.
did ure used to plug the guitar through a synth or something and use the filters??
anything of the Vienna / All Stood Still / Lament era has these amazingly dry but wild guitar tones.
the only other sound i've ever heard like it is David Torn's - just a beautiful tone that guy has.
awwwh - there goes my free afternoon
best regs
paul d
p.s. i do recognise a lot of folk on this board will be going "Midge Ure??? Is that some kind of infection or something?" can't remember how big Ultravox ever were in the US, but hey - you must have seen them on LiveAid in 85!
really obscure question, but i'm having a wonderful "back to the 80's" afternoon and loving that i don't have a session today (apart from the stack of mixing!).
does anyone have any idea what guitar rig Midge Ure used to use in ultravox, i just been reminded of some utterly wonderful controlled feedback stuff on a couple of singles. i know Boss ued to do a feedbacker pedal, but i used to have one of those and it never sounded like that, and it sounds waaaaaaaaay more controlled than amp feedback.
this was the 80s and it sounds like overtones being generated somewhere. it was a much richer sound compared to a lot of the 'pop' stuff of the time - compare it to andy taylor's guitar sound (who had a kick-ass tone when he went solo) of duran duran at about the same era.
did ure used to plug the guitar through a synth or something and use the filters??
anything of the Vienna / All Stood Still / Lament era has these amazingly dry but wild guitar tones.
the only other sound i've ever heard like it is David Torn's - just a beautiful tone that guy has.
awwwh - there goes my free afternoon
best regs
paul d
p.s. i do recognise a lot of folk on this board will be going "Midge Ure??? Is that some kind of infection or something?" can't remember how big Ultravox ever were in the US, but hey - you must have seen them on LiveAid in 85!
