The Shadows Guitar sound
Hi I am looking to get the guitar sound from the shadows song Apache. Can any help?
That sounds like the typical "Surf Guitar" sound that Dick Dale, The Ventures, The Chantays, The Surfaris, etc. used. There are some instrument settings in Jam Pack 3: New Surf Lead & Vintage Electric, and Jam Pack 1: Electric Tremolo. Surf Guitar was played with a Fender instrument (usually but not always a Stratocaster) Here's some info. I got off of Wikipedia:
Surf guitarists are noted for extensive use of the "wet" spring reverb sound and use of the tremolo arm on their guitar to bend the pitch of notes downward. Tube (valve) amplification, often through a Fender amplifier, is standard to achieve the Surf sound. The use of vibrato units (or more properly, tremolo) is also common; these were typically built into the guitar amplifiers of the late 1950s and 1960s, and more recently in effects pedals. Distortion is not commonly used, but occasionally a fuzz effect may be heard.
If you don't have the Jam Packs, I would goof around with the parameters mentioned in the above paragraph until I found a satisfactory sound.
Surf guitarists are noted for extensive use of the "wet" spring reverb sound and use of the tremolo arm on their guitar to bend the pitch of notes downward. Tube (valve) amplification, often through a Fender amplifier, is standard to achieve the Surf sound. The use of vibrato units (or more properly, tremolo) is also common; these were typically built into the guitar amplifiers of the late 1950s and 1960s, and more recently in effects pedals. Distortion is not commonly used, but occasionally a fuzz effect may be heard.
If you don't have the Jam Packs, I would goof around with the parameters mentioned in the above paragraph until I found a satisfactory sound.
