I do not understand how Jimi Hendrix gets his distortion sound during the Monterey Pop Festival?
Question – After about six months of examination, I still do not understand how Jimi Hendrix gets his distortion sound during the Monterey Pop Festival, espically on “Like a Rolling Stone”. Is it a fuzz box, his nine overdriven Marshall tube amps or a combination of the two? He seems to simply fade between heavily distorted and slightly distorted by turning the volume nob on his guitar. I tried this with a fuzz box on and the distorion is still always too heavy. I tried it without fuzz and it never seems distorted quite right. I unfortunately do not have a tube amp and cannot rule this out myself. Help? Answer – He’s getting it from the tube amps turned up really loud (the old Marshall’s didn’t have pre-amps in them, they were designed to produce overdrive when they were cranked!). Turning down the volume cleans up the sound and turning up the volume produces more distortion. Eddy Van Halen uses the same technique. This effect won’t work very well with a simulated distortion as you fou
