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Getting that "The War on Drugs" guitar tone (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by TheFarm@lemmy.world to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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Hey,

So I've been working on recording a song and I am trying to get a solo tone similar to the kind of long, sustained, gain-y yet clean sound that The War on Drugs tends to use.

Any suggestions? I'm mostly recording direct input through my pedal board into a tascam sound card. I've fiddled around with my overdrive pedal (Soul Food) but the tone gets too distorted and muddy to give that clean sustain.

Is it time to get a sustain pedal? Apologies in advance if what I'm asking about gear doesn't make much sense..

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[–] kak1154@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A compressor I assume. I'd be interested to hear other replies.