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Figarosmom

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Thu Aug 7, 2025, 11:59 PM Aug 7

Games People Play - Allen Parsons Project

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Games People Play - Allen Parsons Project (Original Post) Figarosmom Aug 7 OP
On Games People Play... ProfessorGAC Aug 8 #1
Well they Figarosmom Aug 8 #2
What He's Playing I Can Figure Out ProfessorGAC Aug 8 #3
Well, it's super-compressed, though not quite the brickwall... keep_left Aug 9 #4
It Doesn't Sound Like A LP To Me Either ProfessorGAC Aug 9 #5

ProfessorGAC

(74,007 posts)
1. On Games People Play...
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 06:52 PM
Aug 8

...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

(7,691 posts)
2. Well they
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:03 PM
Aug 8

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

ProfessorGAC

(74,007 posts)
3. What He's Playing I Can Figure Out
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:05 PM
Aug 8

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

(3,003 posts)
4. Well, it's super-compressed, though not quite the brickwall...
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:11 AM
Aug 9

...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

(74,007 posts)
5. It Doesn't Sound Like A LP To Me Either
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 07:29 AM
Aug 9

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!

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