Walkin' Thru The Sleepy City

Description

Any acoustic guitar can be used to play this song. For the electric, I’m using a Telecaster guitar for this song, but any electric guitar is suitable. I’ve selected the bridge pickup for a bright, crisp tone.

The electric guitar used on the recording is a 6 string bass or baritone guitar. This results in the sound of the parts played as one octave lower than on a regular 6 string electric guitar.

You can replicate this sound by using an octave pedal, POG, or whammy effect set for 1 octave down, as I’ve done in this tutorial.

A Fender tube amp is the best choice to replicate the tones heard in this tune. Dial in a clean - right on the edge of breakup sound - for example, set the Preamp Gain to 35%, Bass to 45%, Mids to 55%, Treble to 60%, and Presence to 60%.

Add some reverb to both guitars for depth.

I’m using regular light gauge strings that are 10-46 along with a heavy pick to dig right in. As for the acoustic, I’m using a medium pick along with 11-52 string gauge.

SETTINGS:
Fender Twin Model:
Drive: 35% Bass: 45% Mid: 55% Treb: 60% Presence: 60%

POG effect:
Pitch: -1 Octave
Wet/DryMIX: 100% (fx only)

Spring Reverb:
Wet/Dry: 40%