However, the most important guitar to ever be played by Jimi Hendrix is the Fender Stratocaster. It was a black Strat with a maple fretboard. Its been said that he played this very Strat the night of his death.
Current whereabouts of this Strat, unfortunately, still remain a mystery. Aside from these, Hendrix was seen holding some other guitars at the hight of his career. He traded it for one of the Stratocasters. This one is currently owned by Hard Rock Cafe International.
Hendrix also owned two Gibson Flying V guitars. One of those is a hand-painted Flying V that Gibson even revived as a very expensive Custom Shop version in the s. Among other Gibsons, there were a few SGs in his collection.
There was a white Custom Shop SG that he used over the years. This guitar is also currently owned by Hard Rock Caffe. In terms of amps, Hendrix was a pretty straightforward type of guy.
He went through a huge number of Marshall Plexis which included a variety of models. Both of these amps have that trademark vintage Marshall tone which many guitar players around the world still love to this day. Hendrix really knew how to push those tubes to the point of breaking, which did happen more than several times during his performances. One of those is an Ampeg Portaflex, the BN model. And there were also some Sunn amps in there as well, like the s.
He even made a deal with the company to provide his band with equipment after the legendary Monterey Pop Festival. Effects pedals are not something Hendrix is known for too widely. So there are actually 4 different levels to the 4 inputs. But, even if using 3-prong grounded equipment sometimes wall outlets are miss-wired, so always do this simple test first!..
Ok, I know this is long now, but I gotta tell ya, there are actually 2 more knobs on my Plexi, making this amp actually longer wider than normal old Marshalls: Very rare!.. Hope all of this is of some interest. Play on!
Hey, thanks for this info. He got them from a pro amp rental company that went out of business, and they were in primo condition!
The half-stack is a very loud amp as it is. For a variety of distortions and clean , and stereo fx, I use a programmable pre-amp, midi controlled, into the Marshall and another of several amps for true stereo. Jimi got a lot of his sound from his fingertips and the attack and articulation of the strings. Jimi Hendrix was not afraid to bend his strings. I am sure he would love to have had a roller nut and modern Whammy. You forgot to mention the use of is Vox wah-wah pedal.
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Used to mike Hendrix's guitar amp, as stated by recording engineer Eddie Kramer in this November Sound on Sound interview. Note that the first sentence of the following excerpt pertains to Electric Ladyland. Knight got the guitar in exchange for refunding an airline Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars.
Jimi Hendrix used this guitar at the Miami Pop Festival in It was burned on stage. Later, the guitar was given to Frank Zappa, who repaired the guitar. The guitar was used on stage multiple times. Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank, now owns it. Over his unbelievably prolific and sadly short-lived career he ran through guitars fast, but he found his heavenly match with the Fender Stratocaster.
It was the guitar which he dubbed his favorite and it was this model he lit on fire during his infamous performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in Fittingly, according to his girlfriend Monika Dannemann, it was also the last guitar he played before his death. His first electric guitar was the Supro Ozark s , which he picked up back in In the mid-'60s, he messed around and did some recordings including Spanish Castle Magic with the twelve-string, double-necked Mosrite Joe Maphis guitar.
His iconic sound was tightly linked to his brilliant matching of instrument, amplification, and pedal effects.
Limiting ourselves just to his performance at Woodstock, we can marvel at his twin Marshall Watt Superlead Heads for four-foot-byfoot stacks. Before hitting the amps themselves, Hendrix ran his Stratocaster through in this order a Vox Wah pedal , a Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzface , a Uni-Vibe pedal , which then sent a split signal out to the two Marshall amps. According to Mayer, "Jimi was very aware that a simple chain of effects — along with few important options — would greatly free his mind to concentrate on performing and that a lot of control could be obtained from the guitar volume.
Naturally, because Hendrix was a left-handed guitarist playing a right-handed guitar strung for a lefty, the guitar responded slightly differently to if it was a left-handed guitar. Because the volume control and all that is facing toward your head. So the actual resonances of the cavity do change.
What happens then, of course, is that now you're faced with the fact that the actual string length on the bass string is now the other way around and conversely, on the treble strings. That's one of the reasons we used to tune the guitar down a little bit. Mayer says Hendrix's approach to sound in the studio was particularly abstract, but that a shared love of science fiction gave the pair a common language to discuss and achieve what Hendrix was looking for.
People say 'a bright sound,' 'a dark sound' and so on. So we thought in colors and about the actual way the sounds were moving around, and that's how we worked, really. Jimi was very free-form and he liked to improvise an awful lot, so the actual structure of the songs was very free-form. But once we knew what the song was about and the vision for the song, that would dictate the kind of sounds we might use, or the various effects we would use, from studio effects to panning to various echoes.
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