Is there an ideal tone setup for the Trini?
I usually just flip to the treble pickup and tweak the amp. What about that shimmering clean tone on “Next Year”? That’s the Vox and the Trini Lopez. We tried to get a pretty nice clean sound on that, so we boosted the treble on the amp and kept the volume down so it wouldn’t break up too much. To me, that song illustrates the classic sound of the Trini Lopez — it’s clean with just a slight touch of distortion. “Headwires” is filled up with so many guitar parts, yet the mix doesn’t sound cluttered. Oh yeah — Adam’s good with that stuff. The main riff is an Explorer playing through the Memory Man and the Vox, and the harmonics were done with the same setup. The choruses are the Duo Jet running through a Rat and the Vox. The high, picking part in the middle eight is an SG through the Memory Man. I’m always afraid someone is going to miss a part, but Adam knows where to place the parts in the mix. He has turned me into a huge fan of panning guitars hard left and hard right to avoid turn
