In this episode of Sound Like, Rabea & Matt attempt to recreate the distinctive sound of the legendary Jimi Hendrix - for under £1500!
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Regarded by many as the greatest guitar player of all time, Jimi Hendrix is the iconic trailblazer that flipped electric guitar on its head back in the late ‘60s. With his pioneering psychedelic rock sound, Hendrix invented a unique style that has been drawn upon heavily over the years – making him one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century.
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Before his untimely death in 1970, the eclectic frontman’s eponymous band The Jimi Hendrix Experience released three studio albums between 1967-1968. Featuring some of his most renowned singles, including “Purple Haze”, “Little Wing”, “Voodoo Chile” and an acclaimed cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”, Hendrix’s final album with The Band of Gypsys didn’t generate hits of the same calibre, yet is still considered a cornerstone of his discography.
Despite his short recording career, Hendrix’s catalogue is highly-diverse and varied. With Jimi being one of the first mainstream guitar players to employ effects pedals, Hendrix broadened the sonic horizons of his contemporaries and continues to inspire aspiring guitarists many generations later.
Although Hendrix crafted an idiosyncratic sound, it’s fair to say that it can be closely captured with modern equipment. With multiple companies recreating his classic gear over the years, including a controversial prototype guitar produced by Gibson in the late 2000s, Rabea and Matt mostly selected products from companies that have produced signature versions of his equipment.
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Jimi Hendrix is most synonymous with the Fender Stratocaster. However, as a southpaw, he famously took a standard right-handed version of the instrument and flipped it to accommodate his dexterity. Also ensuring that the strings were the correct orientation, part of hendrix’s unique tone can be attributed to his Strat’s upside-down headstock and reversed bridge pickup.
With a reversed headstock, the tension on the higher strings is lessened as the distance between the tuning pegs and the nut is reduced. This therefore provided Hendrix with a looser feel on the higher strings and a tighter response on the lows, making string bends easier and thus contributing to his distinctive “slinky” playing style.
By flipping his guitars, this also caused the bridge pickups in his Stratocasters to be angled the opposite way. Although it went against Fender’s intended design, this was another ingredient of Jimi’s unique sound as it gave him more top-end presence on the lower strings and a slightly smoother timbre on the higher strings.
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Although it is different to the Stratocasters that Jimi played back in the day, the Fender Hendrix Strat still carries the spirit of his original instruments. By adhering to those aforementioned aspects with its reversed headstock (2) and bridge single-coil (3), there is no instrument on the market that can get you closer to his sound.
With a vintage-style 6-screw tremolo (5), this bridge will let you add gentle warbles or even replicate some of the more extreme divebomb effects that Jimi famously pioneered. That’s right, he did it before Eddie Van Halen!
But stripping it back to its basics though, the fundamental Strat elements are intact with the Hendrix signature model. Formed from an Alder body (1) with a Maple neck (2), this guitar has a balanced character with a snappy upper mid-range response – thanks to its bolt-on construction.
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The traditional Strat electronics are also as standard, with a 5-way pickup blade switch, master volume and a pair of tone controls (4). Fitted with a trio of Fender’s American Vintage ’65 pickups (3), these potent-sounding single-coils recapture that mid-to-late ‘60s Strat character and give you a very authentic impression.
Jimi Hendrix was one of the earliest users of Marshall amplifiers, and for most of his career he powered his sound with three 100-watt Super Lead valve amp heads. Preferring to use all of them in unison through multiple Marshall 4×12” cabinets, Hendrix’s live performances were not only notoriously loud, but this huge setup also helped him to form his heavily overdriven sound.
Labelled by Jim Marshall as “the greatest ambassador” his company ever had, it is believed that Jimi purchased between 50-100 more guitar amps from Marshall before his premature death – to cope with his rigorous touring schedule.
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Rabea wanted to use the Marshall JTM45 Reissue head to recreate Jimi’s sound, however at around the £1, 000 mark – it wasn’t so budget-friendly! Instead, the boys revisited the trusted Marshall DSL Series and settled on the 15-watt DSL15C.
Discontinued as of early 2018, the updated 20-watt DSL20R is essentially the successor of this popular amp combo. Slightly more powerful with 5 additional watts, this fully-analogue and valve-powered amplifier is certainly no slouch when it comes to volume and feel, giving you a glassy clean sound for tracks like “Little Wing” and that iconic saturated Marshall distortion tone for Jimi’s heavier songs.
Apart from its two versatile channels, this amplifier is also known for taking pedals well – both through its front-end and its effects loop section. As Jimi Hendrix used a number of pedals, having a decent pedal platform was key, and the DSL20R really delivered when used in conjunction with the stompboxes that the guys chose. That moves us nicely onto the next section…
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Like I mentioned in the introduction, Jimi Hendrix was one of the first “famous” guitar players to experiment with effects pedals. In fact, he popularised many of the staple stompboxes that you’ll see gracing the pedalboards of guitarists all over the world today; most notably wah and fuzz.
However, Jimi also experimented with modulation, delay and pitch-shifting effects too, which were essential in forming his psychedelic sound. In this next part, we’ll break down each of the contenders that Rabea and Matt picked to emulate Jimi’s old-school counterparts.
It’s fair to say that this particular pedal became an instant classic once Hendrix got his hands on one. Although Vox offer a number of different wah pedals currently, the V847-A Original Wah will get you closest to the sound of the initial versions that the rock icon used.
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In the video, you’ll notice that Rabea employs this effect in the playing excerpt of “Voodoo Child”. Closely emulating that vocal-like riff with the same articulate expression heard on the original recording, it’s evident that this wah has a fairly wide sweep that’ll range from throaty lows to searing highs. If you’re really fastidious about recreating Hendrix’s wah sound, frankly – there’s nothing better!
For achieving his super-gnarly fuzz sound, Hendrix’s initial weapon of choice was the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face pedal. Powered by a pair of germanium transistors, this stompbox allowed the legendary axeman to attain the aggressive, broken-up sound that defined many of his tracks.
To appease the players that crave this unique sound, Jim Dunlop currently produce the Hendrix Signature Fuzz Face Mini. Faithfully recreating the sound of his original units, this tiny pedal has a mini enclosure so that you can easily mount it to your pedalboard. Striking the perfect balance between old and new with its vintage tone and modern size, both traditionalists and contemporary players are catered for.
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You can hear this pedal in action in the majority of the playing clips in the video. Check out the “Voodoo Child” and “Foxy Lady” excerpts in particular, where Rabea uses it to play the main riffs.
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