dyker124 wrote: and b) that Hank may have had some footpedal treble booster or other the enhance the bitey sound. I also believe that the Abbey Road Studio's were very instrumental in The Shadows recorded sound. Interesting......
Probably had better cables too. I won't bore you with all the technical stuff about frequencies and capacitance.
Suffice to say that, In the sixties, I too had trouble getting any decent bite to my guitar sound but I was using a lead made up from a spare length of coax TV aerial cable!