Dave,
I was not talking about "LIVE" performances.You don't have to be a "ROCKET SCIENTIST" to realize getting "THAT SOUND" in a live performance is almost impossible. Even the Shadows struggled to reproduce a "STUDIO/VINYL" sound, "LIVE".
No, we were arguing about achieving a "STUDIO SOUND" using "vintage" gear.You told me that you could achieve an "authentic" VINYL sound using cheap pickups etc. AND/OR DIGITAL EQUIPMENT. My argument was that you NEED original vintage gear I.E. Amps,Guitars,echo,pickups etc etc. I am not interested whatsoever in TRYING to get "percentages" close to "THAT SOUND", "LIVE" because as I said it's almost impossible. That LIVE example you gave me a link to,was unfortunately NOT a very good example. Don't know WHO recorded it,but it did you NO favors at all. I have heard worse,and most definitely heard MUCH better. Big place, tricky acoustics.
You need to back up your argument that you can replicate "THAT SOUND", and I "mean" THAT SOUND using standard pickups etc. home recorded,with amps mic ed up, digital,whatever.record it in your daw,wap,or mp3 send me a file,and i,ll listen to it and do an A/B comparison to a VINYL Shadows recording.This is what Paul Rossiter did.
What I am saying is with that NEW Echomatic, which is built to Meazzi spec, and one of my Vintage amps and a 50's CLASSIC PLAYER STRAT, fitted with "SLIDERS" pickups, I could get to within tiny percentages of the "ABBY ROAD" STUDIO/VINYL album sound. That soundbite I sent you of Kurt Froberg playing through the ECOMATIC, was STRAIGHT INTO AN AMP......."NO EQ WHATSOEVER".