still got the blues sound [gary moore ]

[george 57]

how do i get the sound or tone i have vga-7 rolands amp and :confused: lots of effects is anyone alive out there ,,,,,hello this is not a trick question .......

[St.John]

I believe Gary generally uses a Gibson Les Paul through an Ibanez Tube screamer into a Marshall Valve head with the input gain turned up high, drive about halfway, output master high, which will create a natural compression and harmonic, a tad of Spring Reverb, and finally into a 4 x 12 cab (or cabs). In order to get reasonably close to his sound try medium overdrive / Distortion + Compressor + Spring Reverb into Valve simulated (preferably Plexi sound) amp and the speaker cab set to British 4 x 12. This should give you the basic building blocks. Take it easy on the distortion as Gary's sound is relatively clean but go for max sustain as clean as possible. Also be patient with the compression as it is a very subtle sound but will help the sustain and the valve style harmonics. I saw Gary before Christmas at the Fender Stratocaster 50th Anniversary concert in London and he was using a standard Strat and achieved his Bluesy tone so the Gibson Les Paul Humbuckers can be substituted with Strat single coils ! Good luck.

[Ian Rossiter]

Gary Moore has Peter Greene's old Les Paul that has a unique wiring setup. It was sent to a shop in the 60's for a repair and the tech re-wired it "wrong". It has a neat out of phase tone when both pups are engaged, he can get different sounds by backing off either of the pups and get a unique tone not normally found in Les Pauls.
I got close to the tone a few years ago with a PRS/Boss BD-2/Marshall setup. Use a neck Humbucker for thickness.
Ian

[Jimmi431]

i got a similar sound just through using my LP and my peavey, used quite a lot of gain, high treble, middle medium and bass seemed to work. My LP is a deluxe so has mini-buckers, which have slightly different sound to normal LP's. I used the neck pup throughout the song untill it gets to the last solo, where you hear the solo take on a sharper sound just switch through to the bridge pup.