All done w/a JCM2K DSL

[shar-vell Dan]

 

[DanTravis62]

Tone sounds okay, not bad, but not what I would choose with a strat for sure.

It's weird how people can't separate in their minds the two concepts of "tone I like" versus "playing I like"

This isn't a terrible tone, but I honestly don't think it's doing gary many favors. I think DSLs shine with humbuckers quite a bit more

 

[CarlF]

Loved Gary but he's way out of his wheelhouse here. Never going to surpass the master, in playing or tone.

 

[bubucci]

The reason Gary Moore 'choose' DSLs is not a tone itself in first place.
I am not fan of Jeff Beck DSL tone too, thin raspy...but there are fans of if. Maybe there is some envy on my side because those sounds could get from 400€ Marshall and 400€ mexican Strat

 

[TheGreatGreen]

Tone sounds okay, not bad, but not what I would choose with a strat for sure.

It's weird how people can't separate in their minds the two concepts of "tone I like" versus "playing I like"

This isn't a terrible tone, but I honestly don't think it's doing gary many favors. I think DSLs shine with humbuckers quite a bit more

Yeah. Like you said the tone isn't bad by any means but it's more rounded off in the highs and more saturated / compressed than what at least to my ears I'd consider a great crunchy strat blues tone to be.

Maybe @bubucci is onto something though, maybe that amp was chosen because it's what the venue had, and that they're everywhere and well known enough to be straightforward to work on.

 

[DanTravis62]

Yeah. The tone is more rounded off in the highs and more saturated / compressed than what at least to my ears I'd consider a great crunchy strat blues tone to be.

Maybe @bubucci is onto something though, maybe that amp was chosen because it's what the venue had, and that they're everywhere and well known enough to be straightforward to work on.

I think that's very likely that it's what the venue had, and very UNLIKELY that it was chosen because they're straightforward to work on - have you ever opened one up? Eesh

 

[TheGreatGreen]

I think that's very likely that it's what the venue had, and very UNLIKELY that it was chosen because they're straightforward to work on - have you ever opened one up? Eesh

lol maybe straightforward wasn't the best word choice, but rather I was trying to say that they're so common that any tech would kind of know what to do if something went wrong with them, so like "straightforward" in that way, not necessarily easy to work on haha.

 

[DanTravis62]

lol maybe straightforward wasn't the best word choice, but rather I was trying to say that they're so common that any tech would kind of know what to do if something went wrong with them, so like "straightforward" in that way, not necessarily easy to work on haha.

Yeah that checks out a bit better - I guess it just seems like if that was a deciding factor they would choose something easy to work on as well as being common like a jmp or 800

 

[TheGreatGreen]

Yeah that checks out a bit better - I guess it just seems like if that was a deciding factor they would choose something easy to work on as well as being common like a jmp or 800

Yep, no arguments here!

 

[Racerxrated]

Gary can make a Gorilla sound epic.

Touring pros who use DSLs choose them because they're cheap, replaceable, or backline. And yes, they sound good. Not great, good.
The real question is, what amps did they choose to record with?
Doubt it's a DSL.

 

[shar-vell Dan]

I had heard Gary's JCM-DSL's were modded by Marshall.

 

[hammered]

Garys version is absolutely blazing . Johnny Winter and Frank Marino do some killer versions