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Alessandro Allesandroni (Morricone's axeman) Tone: How?
Joined: Jul 24, 2012 Posts: 2762 Finknabad, Squinkistan 
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Posted on Feb 21 2013 07:48 PM
YOu might say I'm in my Morricone Phase right now. I notice Alessandroni's guitar tone does not resemble my vintage Fender Jag, Mustang, Strat or G&L SC2 – played through a SF Twin (with Italian Jensen C12Rs). So I gather he was using different gear. Anyone have a good guess or knowledge of what he might have been using? Strings matter too. I am sure recording technique has a lot to do with it as well. |
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19347 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 
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Posted on Feb 21 2013 08:18 PM
Some recent discussion on this: He has a website here, but I don't think he spills the beans on his gear: http://www.alessandroni.com/index.htm —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19347 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 21 2013 08:19 PM
He is pictured with a Strat though:
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Feb 21 2013 08:29 PM
More famously the whistler! I heard only Allesandro played on Fistful, and that was a Strat. I understand that Bruno Battisti D'Amario was the guitarist on For a Few... and the Good, the Bad... Once Upon a Time... It is understood that he used a Jag on For a Few and Jazzmaster on Good the Bad. Bruno was also the classical guitarist on those scores. |
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Joined: Jul 24, 2012 Posts: 2762 Finknabad, Squinkistan
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Posted on Feb 21 2013 08:57 PM
Thanks, Jake! Where can more of such info as you have be found? |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Feb 21 2013 09:13 PM
Just the internet, lots of the info is in message boards and such, so Google is your friend. Whenever I become interested in something I will obsessively try and learn everything about it... I'm just a nerd! Fistful wasn't Bruno, it was Allesandro. Bruno had a really subtle touch ont he trem and used it a lot. For a Few Dollars more has some, as well as other tracks. He has a really nice touch, that dull dead thud, which was just amazing and then he'd kick in the slight trem arm quiver, he like pulling up on the trem and fluttering it gently there. I can't even begin to speculate about the amps. The guitars, I don't think anybody even knows for sure. I've never seen a primary source regarding any of this information. Just widely agreed upon speculation. I don't think they were Fender amps, just not voiced like a Fender. The tracks I am thinking of, or that I associate with most generally have no reverb on the electric guitar. I wonder if they could have gone directly into the board. Some of that stuff certainly sounds ampless. It is all brilliant, but lacks the sound of an amp sometimes. Doesn't mean I'm right, but just a wild piece of speculation. Il Clan Degli Siciliani, I don't know who the guitarist was on that one. It isn't on the list of Bruno Battisti D'Amario's work. That guitar does sound like a strat to me. Kind of has that chime to it. |
Joined: Oct 13, 2011 Posts: 251 Byron Bay, Australia 
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Posted on Feb 22 2013 07:55 AM
Don't forget, just to make it harder to figure what whatever guitar/amp they used it must of been recorded in a studio, where they most likely would of added studio some effects (compression, filters, eq, noise gates, reverb, echo, etc) —'Surf Music Lasts Forever' |
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