What Fuzz Box Did George Use On the White Album?

[SteveM]

George at one time used a Gibson Maestro fuzz box....late 60's

Maybe that's what he used. I like to try one out either way.

 

[SteveM]

Yeah, the Emerick book is AWESOME. I got the chance to interview Emerick a few weeks back... I'm a journalist and I decided to do a piece on the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's release (June 1). So I spent about an hour on the phone with the man... he was extremely, extremely pleasant, very little ego, and very willing to share his memories.

He's very nonchalant about doing things like the tape loops on Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite. He went and got some tapes of steam organs, cut them up, threw them in the air and reassembled them. He said Lennon had already left for the night - leaving the details on how to make it "smell the sawdust" to the technical crew.

Amazing stuff.

Cool.

 

[kid klash]

George at one time used a Gibson Maestro fuzz box....late 60's

Bingo. That's what it sounds like to me. That Little olive-drab colored wedge-shaped fuzz box was what Keith Richards used on Satisfaction too.

 

[kid klash]

Is this it?
http://www.musicyo.com/product_specs.asp?pf_id=599

That's it. Mine came in the same orange box (back in the late 60's).

 

[the cool one]

I have one of those. Very old.

 

[jmorris]

for the tune revolution they over drive the redd37 tube console, adjustment were made on hands and knee at bottom of console.That is when Lennon said to Emerick " a few months in the army would have done you good!" They did have outboard processing even they but limited.

 

[cusebassman]

Fingernails on the blackboard!

Never a fan of the Revolution guitar myself. Even if it was "before its time".

 

[Unsprung]

My favorite George Harrison fuzzed guitar was on his solo hit, "What Is Life." Nothing like a 12-string Ric on fuzz, eh?

Matt

 

[jfrog]

My favorite George Harrison fuzzed guitar was on his solo hit, "What Is Life." Nothing like a 12-string Ric on fuzz, eh?

Matt

Is that what he used on that song? Great song....loved it since I was a kid!

Off topic, sort of, but Shawn Mullins did a great cover of it as well.

 

[DAS19]

Umm they just overloaded the amps/mics/and board to get that fuzz distortion sound as heard in revolution 1.

No outboard gear or effects pedels where ever used except for maybe compressors.

 

[DAS19]

I read Geoff Emmericks book and Sir George's book. Though George MArtins book wAS only on the making of Sgt. Peppers it still was good. Geoff Emmericks book tells of his life and not just the making of the albums although he does go into good detail about what innovations he helped with on the making of those albums and how he was only 19 recording the biggest band in the world.

Both are awesome books and I recommend them both to everyone that likes the beatles.