How does Mike achieve his trademark guitar sound?
From a 1995 interview: “Well, I’ve got two guitar sounds that I use, and it’s a mixture of my technique and the processing. Most people play with a pick; you can’t get a very clean sound because no matter how much you try and stop the other strings they’re always ringing a bit and they interfere, but because I grew up with the folk technique of playing with my fingers I can always stop the strings that aren’t being sounded, so I get a very clean sound.” …and: “I use an old Roland GP-8 guitar processor – which you can’t buy any more – because I’m used to the sound… the other guitar sound I use is a Stratocaster put through very heavy compression and gating. But it’s basically down to the technique and the feeling I put into it.” The interview can be read at: http://tubular.net/articles/95_06.html. Credit: Gareth Randall, Gareth_Randall@itv.co.uk.
