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Dingus
Silver Member
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 Posted - 02/22/2007 : 20:05:36
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Hey guys, I just realized I've never asked this question here before, and figured one of you guys might have heard the answer over the years. Andy Summers (of The Police) had a signature 1961 Telecaster that was recently remade in a small quantity by Fender. The original Telecaster included and extra knob which was a built-in overdrive, kind of like the one guitarfetish sells I guess. I was thinking back then (since I dont think he did the job himself) that someone probably just took a pedal, or one of those little Dan Armstrong effects and rehoused it into the telecaster body. Any thoughts on which circuit it might be?
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
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Posted - 02/23/2007 : 10:32:36
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Originally posted by Dingus
Hey guys, I just realized I've never asked this question here before, and figured one of you guys might have heard the answer over the years. Andy Summers (of The Police) had a signature 1961 Telecaster that was recently remade in a small quantity by Fender. The original Telecaster included and extra knob which was a built-in overdrive, kind of like the one guitarfetish sells I guess. I was thinking back then (since I dont think he did the job himself) that someone probably just took a pedal, or one of those little Dan Armstrong effects and rehoused it into the telecaster body. Any thoughts on which circuit it might be?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Hi Dingus
I believe Basstrya did a similar thing, by fitting an Op_Amp booster,
into his black Telecaster.
There are pics of it, in a link somewhere here on the Forum.
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visserman
Platinum Member
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Posted - 02/24/2007 : 13:44:30
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quote:
Originally posted by Dingus
Hey guys, I just realized I've never asked this question here before, and figured one of you guys might have heard the answer over the years. Andy Summers (of The Police) had a signature 1961 Telecaster that was recently remade in a small quantity by Fender. The original Telecaster included and extra knob which was a built-in overdrive, kind of like the one guitarfetish sells I guess. I was thinking back then (since I dont think he did the job himself) that someone probably just took a pedal, or one of those little Dan Armstrong effects and rehoused it into the telecaster body. Any thoughts on which circuit it might be?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Hi Dingus,
Not a straight answer really, but Pete Cornish used to design tools for Andy. Check out this list here:
http://www.petecornish.co.uk/client.html
Andy is a few times mentioned in the list.
Now I have even seen pics of the guitar you mentioned where the lead comes almost staight out of the pick-up as the guitar was slowly falling apart.
At some stage the pick-ups went, the story is mentioned in his bio. Interestingly enough you do notice this: The pick-ups of the Tele did get rewired, and its sound was altered forever. After that period [during recording of Ghost in the Machine] Andy was using more Strats.
As a listener you can hear it actually: That famous guitarsound he is renounded for can be found on the first three albums, after the "accident" the sound is somewhat different, because he may have used different guitars. |
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Andy Summers Built-in Overdrive?
