Hi! I'm just out of surgery, but want to make some progress towards getting what's needed for the upcoming semester. I'll be teaching The Sound of the Sixties to "troubled" teens.

For medical reasons, I cannot play guitar at present. I'm hoping to get a hold of some simple, 8-bar (or whatever) dry recordings of The Beatles Revolver lead guitar riffs and then run them through different amp/cab combinations A/B compare until I nail the combination that give me that sound.

Can any of my AudioSex bros or sis' record a dry version of a few Beatles Revolver lead guitar riffs . . . any help is appreciated:

*And Your Bird Can Sing
*Paperback Writer
*She Said, She Said
*Dr. Robert
*Taxman
*I Want To Tell You

I wouldn't be upset if I had I Feel Fine and Ticket To Ride, but hey . . . I'll take whatever I can get as I'm wee little, disabled beggar.

 

A year and a half later, it's a shame that you didn't receive a single reply.
I hope you're well and can play guitar again today.
10 years ago, there was a small project to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Revolver, which I had the pleasure to be involved in.
I had two jobs in the show: to play Paul's solo part in “Taxman”, which is pretty fast and heavy, and to sing the lead vocals in “Got To Get You Into My Life” (which is even more difficult, but that's another story).
Anyway, I figured out how to play it properly. The trick is that Paul shredded wildly for about 20 to 30 minutes to set himself into that state of unpredictability, getting much hotter than he ever could have been on a sudden command.
Later, they cut the best 14-second snippet out of this recorded scenario and put it in place in the song. (You can hear that they used the same sample again in the fade-out of the album version).

Regarding the guitar sound, I researched several books and biographies and found that they connected ten (!) Telefunken V72 preamps in series, probably all turned up to the max to really crank the saturation (successfully, as we all know, and also to be heard in "Revolution", "Helter Skelter" etc.).
I never had the opportunity to try this myself (I only had three of them and was already thrilled), but I believe that this was something like the role model for the sound that all distortion pedals (or plugins) try to reproduce.

Let's hear it once again, just because it's so great:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/I9BlLq5NNGI

 

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