Jangly 6 string sound

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It looks like one of the guitarists (Dick Taylor?) is playing a Gibson 335 or similar model in this youtube video.

Is this a Gibson 335 in the video here?
Pretty Things "Midnight To Six Man" 66

Note the jangly trebly sound from the guitar. A long time ago when I was experimenting with a home brew tubed guitar preamp (with spring reverb) plugged into a monoblock tube amp (with a 2 x 10 inch paper cone speakers in an oak open back cabinet) I was able to get a jangly sound similar to the "Midnight To Six Man" sound ). At the time, I believe I had a single coil (probably stacked humbucker) rail type pickup in the middle position and some other regular looking single coil pickups in a Strat style guitar (Ash body).

This might be the same rail type pickup here in the second post:
http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/guitar/acapella-41/1160327-

The magnet was really strong and tended to dampen the strings, too. The preamp I was using had a metal cover which gave a dampened bell-like tone when struck with something. Later on I took out the electronics and rebuilt the preamp into another bigger housing so I'd have more room for more controls. After I started playing it I discovered that something from the sound was lost. I remembered that when using the first preamp close to the speakers it would feedback continuously if the volume was too loud or the preamp was too close to the speakers. I had to move it back to keep it from feeding back too much. Apparently, the metal cover and the microphonic 12ax7 tubes tended to pickup some of the sound from the speakers and feed it back through the amp and gave it a jangly sound in some cases and a fuller sound over all. The sound of the guitar in the video might be altered a lot with feedback and maybe even tube microphonics. The semi-hollow body would tend to pick up sound, too.
 
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Humm I cant say for sure but I doubt they were using rail or stacked single coils like the pups like you linked to. They are a more modern design..
Humbuckers by nature tend to be warmer & less trebly they are also higher output…that very well could be a 335 played on the rear pup & picked very close to the bridge.
Also Gretch pups are known to be on the jangley side but the player looks to be playing a Gibson not Gretch.
Pretty hard to tell from the video often old TV shows often were “Lip synced” & had the record overdubbed for broadcast..so hard to say:idea:

I cant say for sure but my best guess would be a Telecaster or Gretch on the bridge pickup run through a Vox AC 30.
Vox amps are famous for their “chime & jangle”
Good luck in your tone quest.
Cheers:beerchug:
PQ
 
Not many "clear" shots by the camera team, but appears to be a circa '64-'65 ES-335 in cherry finish. The inlay, from what I can (barely) make out looks correct to the model, and as for "jangly" one, one Albert Lee was able to coax similar tones from his fleet of 335s. Played out a Vox (AC-30?) would only enhance the "chiming" tone.FWIW, the PUPS appear (to me) to be standard (Gibson OEM) HBs for the period. Nice geetar, wish he hadn't mucked up the finish w/ the black stripes or whatever that (visual) "noise" is about. Electrical tape? (Gasp!) paint? (an early influence on EVH?)

What I like @ that vid is the standard-finish Telecaster w/ the rosewood board. That's one rare bird, man.
 
This thread reminds me that we need to see/hear more Pretty Things @ our "Today's British Invasion" playlist @ Music forums.
 
Hm... just posted another '66 vid of Pretty Things @ Music Forums. A not too-terrible camera shot of Taylor @ which he looks to be playing a sunburst ES-345TD: note the so-called "double parallelogram" inlay @ the 'board.

Here's the link to that vid:

Per usual, too much camera time focused @ the audience rather than the band, so typical of BI era live performance footage.
 
The two guitarists are playing the same chord voicing in sync. That, plus the combination of humbuckers on one guitar/single coils on the other, does give it a really cool 2-string jangle.
But yeah, it's probably a Gibby.
 
Maybe the guitarist is using a fuzz pedal with a treble boosting circuit in it.
The fuzz effect in US patent 3213181 includes a differentiating circuit which would tend to sound like the treble was boosted.
http://www.google.com/patents/US3213181

other circuits
Practical Electronics July 66 and Nov 67 have fuzz projects in them which use Ge transistors.
http://archive.org/search.php?query=practical+electronics&page=1

Fuzz and Distortion Timeline
http://hewittsgaragestudio.com/fuzz-timeline.php
http://www.bigmuffpage.com/The_Tonebender_Timeline_2.html
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/Feb1968/PE_Feb1968.htm
 
I'd say yes. But isn't that due to Roger's Rickenbacker 12 string?
...along with the compressor and treble booster that were built into his guitars.
Google 'Jangle Box' (no affiliation) if you're interested in something similar.

Yep 12s usually good for that "jangly" tonal quality, even Mr Page achieves such tones in the live setting during the 12-string portions of "Stairway...".

Thinking about "jangly" 6-string sound, Robert Smith (The Cure) popped into my head. Usually I'd refer to such tone as "twang", but not in this instance (ie, The Cure). Jangly seems (to me) a more accurate description of his sound.
 
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Yea, Rics are famous for their jangly sound, but you can get it with a lot of single coil guitars. The Fender Jazzmaster is another guitar that gets used often because of it's loose bridge. You can set up a Strat with 2 springs for the jangle sound - just use vintage wound pickups instead of overwound. It's a lot cheaper option than buying a Jazzmaster or a Ric. Still, any guitar with a lose bridge will go out of tune quickly.
 
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