Games People Play - Allen Parsons Project

[Figarosmom]

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. On Games People Play...

...right after the double lead I absolutely love that springy guitar tone on the solo.
Not sure how he achieved that, but if I played this sing I'd spend however much time it took to get that tone.
The part I'm talking starts at 2:27. Some nifty playing, too.

[Figarosmom]

2. Well they

We're showing both guitars at that mark maybe enlarging and watching you'll figure it out?

[ProfessorGAC]

3. What He's Playing I Can Figure Out

Not sure how he gets the guitar to sound like that.
It's the guy in the foreground playing the Les Paul that's doing it.
We don't see the amps, so no clue there.

[keep_left]

4. Well, it's super-compressed, though not quite the brickwall...

...sound in vogue by the mid-'80s (but it's close). It might be a DI track in parallel with the amp sound, and the guitar may not actually be a Les Paul--if so, that's either a coil-tapped or a parallel humbucker sound. My best guess is a Tele or a Strat on the #2 setting.

You'd be amazed all the crazy things that are done to get guitar tones in the studio. One of my favorite stories is how George Lynch used one of those crappy little Rockman things to get extra definition from massively overdubbed distortion tracks. He would lay down like 8-12 overdubs of totally saturated tones, and then he would DI a cleaner (but still distorted) Rockman track or two to balance out all the fuzziness from the tube amps. The Rockman sounds pretty lame on its own (diode/LED hard-clipping), but it turned out to be magic in parallel with the tube amps melting down.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. It Doesn't Sound Like A LP To Me Either

My guess is a Tele with both pickups on.
I do think I could get that sound with my JS-1000 with coils split and both pickups on. But, I'm too lazy to bother.
I mostly play acoustic (and, of course, piano) because all I have to do is grab a guitar off the wall & play (or sit down at the piano).
No cords, no power, no twisting knobs....
Just play!