How To Get Eric Clapton's Guitar Tone For While My Guitar Gently Weeps 

Andrew seriously rocking that late '60s, early '70s look. Way too cool.

you guys dont mess around, the same equipment, paint finishes, instruments etc as the Beatles did when they recorded. You guys are second to none, and continually blow us away.

Actually, Lucy was originally Eric's. He gave it to George. When he picks him up in his car and asked him to join The Beatles on a session, Eric told him that he didn't have a guitar. George to,d him that he had that covered. His old red 57 Les Paul.

Andrew looks straight out of the 70s with that outfit and hair lol

My God fellas. That tone is so so close and he murdered that part. Fuck. Every note I was like please keep hitting every note perfectly... and he did hahaha those bends were all so flawless. I feel like your Dad by saying this but I’m literally proud of you haha. The vibrato on the bends was literally Clapton man. Gosh guys so much fun to watch I’m sending this to all my friends and I just subscribed if this is what goes down on your channel.

That Bassman sounds killer. Eric used a crunching blonde 1964 Bassman or the blackface deluxe in the studio, so not too far from the same amp!

Excellent process of recreation! I would have sworn the effect was a bit of chorus, but it makes sense that it was ADT. Thank you for posting. BTW, here's a little story about "Lucy". She was originally a gold top LP owned by John Sebastian and then by Rick Derringer who ended up not liking how it played after he had Gibson refinish it cherry red sunburst. Derringer traded it in at a guitar shop for another guitar. A week later Eric Clapton came into that same shop, played Ricks red LP and then bought it and used it on WMGGW. Later, he gave it to George Harrison as a gift. Years later it was stolen from George when his house was broken into, and Lucy disappeared for a while. She ended up in Mexico, and when George found this out he contacted the owner in Mexico through intermediaries and he was able to get the guitar back only after he was forced into acquiring a laundry list of vintage guitars the owner wanted as a trade (ransom). Lucy has been around!

This is a great reproduction of the sound of that solo, as far as it goes. I think there's one little ingredient that would put it over the top. I recall Harrison saying they added what he called "the wobbler", some effect that added a slight vibrato to the guitar sound, that I hear on the original. I don't know if that was a setting on the ADT or something else, but I think there was some sort of subtle modulation put on that solo. This is just nit-picking, you guys did a great job recreating an iconic solo, as usual.

I have to say that you guys nail the tones. You even have to duck the copyright because it is so close.

For those poor like me and have no pedals: Guitar with the bridge and neck pickup Compressor Bass and middle: mid range Treble: slightly above middle Gain: a super small amount, not to a point where there’s distortion, just enough to get the tone to have a good punch Once you record it, copy and paste the track to another track with the same amp settings to double track it. To get the sound of the ADT, you need to paste the track just slightly later than the original. To put in music terms, probably about one 128th note. Probably even less but you get the idea. Just barely delayed. If you were to copy and paste the track to where it’s exactly in time with the original, nothing will change and you won’t get the sound of an ADT. it’ll just make the guitar sound a bit louder.

I've been thinking of this for a while

I believe Clapton gifted "Lucy" to George prior to the recording of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as I recall hearing Clapton speaking about doing it and saying that he didn't bring a guitar as he knew George had a good Les Paul. Also, I've read that Clapton said the solo didn't sound "Beatley" enough.

WOW, PERFECT...ITS THE PLAYING MORE THAN ANYTHING.

1:39 thats hilarious

Because I’m not a musician 👩‍🎤 I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ what you all are talking about the “ADT” etc, but your music sounds soooo awesome 😎 I love listening to you guys!

Okay but holy crap you actually look a bit like eric

Love the fit Andrew

Loove all your videos...awesome gtr playing ..im a profesional musician and singer in my country Chile and a Beatle fan since I was 8 yrs old...and your perfomances of The beatles tunes are spot on. The tone of your Lucy is exact to The one Eric had on while My guitar. All My Best regards from Southamerica!!

No question about it, this dud entailed it! It really is a mating what they had to go through to get this sound. To my ears it was just right.

Awesome video! Will you guys do an early Beatles tone demonstration. You could go through a bunch of the VOX AC settings and guitars for different songs.

Great stuff. Thanks guys. I have always read that Clapton was the one who said "It's not Beatle-y enough", not George. Clapton himself said that, and I *think* I read one of the engineers quoted as saying that (cannot remember if that would have been a Second Engineer or not).

Fuck man, you got every bend just like the recording. I can tell you’ve been playing that solo for years cause of how good you are at it.

A long winding signal path, from the guitar to the tape on which everything is recorded. GooD)))))))

Cheers guys, it sounds amazing and you grow as producers and engineers you get much and better gear after that you record and produce using pc plugins even in that moment you sound pretty good but now fellas you reached a new level

When I heard that song as a kid on my brother’s stereo I thought the player was broken

This was a fun watch. Amazing collection of music gear. Thanks for the shout out.

Awesome! Since you brought it up maybe a quick rundown on George's Roll Over Beethoven lead. Andrew- your performance video on Rollover is fantastic.

Wow. What great studio you guys have.❤️

Loving the facial fuzz, Andrew!

If you want to do a budget adt effect, use a harmonist pedal at the unison setting and a rotary pedal.

Greg Allman lives!

it's amazing to finally come across fellow engineers who don't closemic the shit out of guitarcabs. This was and still is the way to record an amp. Closemiking the cab will have you record a speaker and not the charateristics of the amp.

Just re-watched this. Love it.

That's Awesome it makes my skin chills 😀

Man, you guys are so amazing! I can’t believe how good that guitar sounds on that 1969 amp. And how freaking cool is that guitar?

you guys are fucking amazing💘 i can’t wait to see what y’all do

4:23 going for the Tom Petty look ;-) Nicely done boys!!!

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Very very cool! So far my I was going to text you and mention the ADT effect, and immediately you guys went right to it!! I’m laughing cuz you guys are the bomb!!! So freaking cool, you don’t miss a damn thing. I LOVE IT! Do you have vids of your use of ADT on vocals? You know first song they used ADT on right? (I’m sure you do lol)

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great videos ably house people! as always hell yeah

hot damn, you guys really stepped up the gear game... hell yeah 🤙

Awesome video!! Love seeing the nuts and bolts/behind the scenes of the operation

Excellent video guys, they surprise me more And more

Hi Andrew and Neil great video (as always)! I'm totally obsessed with the album preview and planning to pre order the vinyl. Also, Neil I love the work you did with Tyson Kelly on his new EP:) Can't wait for the next video!

Hell yeah!! Anyone else getting Ethan hawke vibes from neil

You guys are friggen AWESOME!!!✌️

Look forward to seeing the Lucy Les Paul in your future videos for Beatles songs.

Awesome video!! From Josh

I was so waiting for this! Great job!

ADT's Flanging/Chorusing was also used on Claptons guitar...

Bravissimo sei un grande w the Beatles continuate così.

wow it’s Tom Evans and Joey Molland playing Beatles

Great job ive got a Dumble 68 bassman ultra phonic so I was smiling the entire time. its for sale if anyone is interested im in Texas north of Dallas

Clapton loved recording with a 5 watt tweed Fender Champ around that time and into the 70s. If you can get your hands on a 5 watt Fender Champ- give it a whirl. It may not have been used during this session since he was a guest- but it’s possible he brought it with him.

Wow this is very Eric

Sounds amazing guys! There's just one thing I'm left wondering: with the volume on the amp at 4.5, how high do you have the guitar turned up?

Does anybody have an idea on how I can achieve a similar sound in guitar rig 6? would be so cool!

I love how productive you are during lockdown lol

HELL YEAH

wow!!!! so well done!!!

You look handsom

Very close sounding sound,so it is,sounding!

Clapton had already gifted the guitar to George before the session.

Andrew's guitar skils is proportional to his apperance - amazing!! PS I Love you...nah The Altec 436 is a single channel Vari Mu Tube Compressor. now edited for correction UP's Royal Compressor Plugin is based on the EMI/Abbey Road RS124, have to get one!

WOW !!

Adt its magic

Eric gave the Les Paul to George before the While my guitar gently weeps session.

Hi

40k subscribers!!!

Looks like you're using Yamaha HS speakers, are those 7 or 8s? Looking at purchasing a set but keep hearing too many mixed reviews

It looks just like a Telefunken U-47

3:52 the moment you're waiting for.

Also have you used ADT on any of your Vocals yet? Love to hear comparison side by side before/After. There’s a Keely guitar pedal that you can use in guitar in mono or stereo in studio or stereo amps Keeley 30 MS Double tracker pedal, even approved by the great Paul McCartney too. I have this pedal. Does the ADT in your computer program run multiple channels at once? Or is it only one mono track at a time. And which program is it? Are you running Mac?Ive forgotten, I’m sure you said in other videos but I’ve forgotten. But the ADT output is stereo right ? For my own curiosity. Remember I’m as obsessed as you are lol.

Hell yeah

The guitar solo was totally spot on . I’ve also played it nearly identical to the way you play it. And it definitely sounds like it was played this way but Clapton has claimed he played it with a slide? I think maybe he’s mistaken after all these years. Maybe he tried it on slide first on a take not used, but it sounds exactly the way YOU PLAY IT! What are your thoughts on this Andrew?

Neil, do you record at 48K ? If not start now! And turn Oversampling or HQ ON, on all your plugs that have that feature! And don't do Offline Renders, Render in Online Mode OR bounce to Two Track like you do! It's CPU munching , so leave HQ until final Mixdown.

This whole video could have been: Get someone who can play like Clapton. Give 'em a Les Paul and run it through ADT.

HOw would you try to emulate ADT if you were using a modeler? Like an HX stomp, FM3, Kemper etc etc

LUCY guitar for playing?

Not bad .

You are going to replace the tuning machines with Grovers right?

Where's the Leslie?

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What pedal would you use?

So funny this guitar is a Chibson. I was looking at the cutaway, thinking, 'it looks just like an Epiphone cutaway. Have Gibson also changed the shape...?"

I thought this video came from 10 years ago

Please teach me more simple way.

Wasn’t a Leslie involved?

Pretty sure he used a Bluesbreaker on the original

kewl ! now explain why there's 12 eggs in a pack genius hair-boy .

seems kinda disrespectful now to listen to it via headphones... sometimes just via phone speakers 😅

More brightness, more gain, and check out the phrasing of Eric. Keep on trying, I know you can my friends.

A couple of years ago my son tried with the limited equipment we had. I think without so much attack it would have sounded much better, but I couldn't reduce it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vD_iNFOqVF8.html

ピッチ合うてまへんがな〜😭

If you drop an Electric Guitar Player and a watermelon off a tall building, which would hit the ground first? _ Who cares? 😂😂😂😁😂

is your dad really rich or something?

Maybe you should buy a Proper Gibson Les Paul

Sound like a tin can...