dave robinson wrote:I think if you listen to the two albums from the same period, Dance With The Shadows & Sound Of The Shadows, the sound pf Hank's guitar is similar and the echoes are too on some tunes. The lead guitar sound is what I would call 'hoarse' and would be the result of driving the Top Boost and getting some compression taking effect. The Shadows did have a drier sound at that time and in truth it is a long way from what people recognised with Apache.
Very true..as time went on in the '60's, Hank seemed to be getting further away from the early sound..I think he admitted as much once in an interview, he said he was searching for a different sound and was somewhat lost as to which direction he should take.
The Burns definitely gave different timbres etc from the Strat..I can only describe it as a dry, nasal but thicker tone, mainly on the middle and neck pickups...when he used the bridge pickup on the Burns, it was similar (but not the same) as the bridge pickup on the Strat. The Vox amp settings and tones seemed different too in the mid/late '60's- maybe the circuits changed over time from the early ones...I can't comment on his echo unit use as i know very little about them.but his guitar sound always seemed more dry with little echo as time went by.