is Allan Holdsworth's Lead tone coming from the hands and the way he plays or from his gear?

is Allan Holdsworth's Lead tone coming from the hands and the way he plays or from his gear?
Enrico Pinna shows how to get a very similar tone with guitar straight into the amp distorted channel

[@jamesprice6381]

Saw Alan on stage w/Mesa rectifier opened up SOLDERING GUN IN HAND...he was always tinkering n u can bet that he really knew what he was doing!

[@fabiocollina]

Firstly, he and Ollie Halsall defined that kind of unique playing. They created...by means of their gears, obviously, but the tone is in the hands

[@jamesprice6381]

i do ALOT of modifying, MAYBE ta get u a tad closer to his tone try running the wiper of mid pot to the OD master input or wiper, may be phased properly, worth a shot!

[@italianguitar]

I actually love my mesa as it is. i did modify the bass section years ago and quite happy! not really interested to copy Allan's tone at all, this is just for the curious 👀 😊

[@gabriell8714]

Very cool and informative, in depth video !! Very very close tone ! I think he might have used maybe just a bit more gain or compression. My favorite tone of his was in Hard hat area. The song Prelude is a really good example of Allan's reed like tone !

[@italianguitar]

yes Hard Hat Area is one of his best i think too together with Wardenclyff Tower for me. I Also love 16 Men of Tain's tone. The big difference is that he slowly stopped to use these 2 short delays late in life leaving the other two at 360 and 390 ms only ( from HHA and later)

[@vidsforsquids]

The answer is simple. BOTH

[@psychonaut9371]

He was building a 16nds train between Devil takes the hindmost and Texas, tetra, Joshua Hollins Vera Holdsworth

[@dpsingsthebodyelectric]

Grande come sempre Enrico...ma stavolta Mesa+cassa? Oppure il tuo modellatore? Anzi scusa ho letto nelle info...stavolta microfono vero?

[@italianguitar]

si Sure sm57. anche il clone che ho creato in headrush prime aveva il 57 sulla cassa quindi in pratica ho clonato ciò che senti qui, ma in più avevo usato il TC eq

[@fusionfan6883]

What people need to remember is that Alan’s sound changed many times over his career. For example his Tony Williams/VD tone is much more incendiary than say his Bundles sound. Of course later in the 70s his tone changed again as he innovated on the whammy bar, and then we have the IOU period which is a lot brighter than his later solo work. I could list all the eras of his tone but you get the idea. Like countless others I am a lover of of Allan’s general tone and have worked to achieve it with my humble setup. I posted on the Unreal Facebook page how I have got to a tone that is close. As others have said, delay is a key component and in one of my setups I use two Magicstomps. One correction on Enrico’s video though. A key to Allan’s vibrato is that he used violin vibrato rather than guitar vibrato that Enrico is using here. By this I mean, rather than doing the usual up down vibrato on the string, you need to roll your finger up and down the length of the string. But there is no question Allan had magic in his hands🎸🤘🏻

[@italianguitar]

oh yes I also love the sound of pull offs and bending but that’s…me 😛

[@reinout4872]

When you deeply understand syncopation you can do what you want but these hybrid/economy picking techniques fall apart on acoustic, and to get into syncopation without alternate picking seems far too confusing and complicated to me.

[@italianguitar]

well, I actually use alternate picking here, no hybrid at all, and lots of legato…like one pick for every 3 /5 notes all using the legato.

[@claymor8241]

Great video, really very informative. Thanks.

[@italianguitar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@reinout4872]

Allan concluded the aeon, that chord 9/11

[@bggouvea]

Brilliant! Eq is a huge part. Thank you for demonstrating this! Can you share that BT?

[@italianguitar]

you can buy the backing tracks of our album here. www.enricopinna.com

You are a wizard 🧙

[@italianguitar]

ahahah I m a tennis coach actually 😂😜

[@Acousticeg]

I very much enjoy your videos and playing. Thanks for sharing your ideas.🎸

[@italianguitar]

Glad you like them!

[@germanamaya6103]

Que lindo estudio,la steinberger mata,gracias Enrico!!!!!!siempre algo aprendo.

[@GuitarraErudita]

Solid and high quality info, ty!

[@italianguitar]

you are welcome, i hope it will be useful

[@dpsingsthebodyelectric]

Ora ho avuto il tempo per vederlo tutto...sei come Michele Cusato, non solo suoni alla grande ma avete una padronanza dei suoni livello master...interessante lo shifting delle 2 tracce per l'echo...non l'avevo mai visto fare...grande fonico

[@italianguitar]

graxie