Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Matt]

I can play Sweet Home Alabama on my guitar but the tone doesn't sound just right. I usually use distortion and overdrive and turn my overdrive on low and my distortion up, but it still isn't the exact right sound. Any help?

[jackass]

I'd lower the distortion, boost the mids and highs and cut out some of the lows. What kind of guitar...the studio version was played on the bridge and middle pickups of a strat.

[G6add9]

Originally posted by Matt
I can play Sweet Home Alabama on my guitar but the tone doesn't sound just right. I usually use distortion and overdrive and turn my overdrive on low and my distortion up, but it still isn't the exact right sound. Any help? That is a KILLER song (I heard it again today while watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II" with Shannon Elizabeth init? I only had time to catch the first 20 min. of the flick. Anyway,

Yeah man, I love the part when he sings "Well I heard old Neil put her down. Well I hope Neil Young will remeber. A southern man don't need him around anyhow!"

....and the part when they slow the tempo down slightly and go "ooo, ooo, ooo".

[tikigeo]

I am a long time Skynyrd nut. This song comes off the most authentically when played clean with little to no distortion on a Fender Strat... 4th position toggle (out of phase). Sounds great thru my Twin Reverb using no pedals at all. There was a reason they replaced their lost members with other strat players.
It's all about the twang.

[BluesPlaya]

Yea I love Skynyrd, never seen them live though but Travis Tritt who I have seen and met a few times has been playing Synyrd songs on his tour but they vary depending on the show, luckly when I was there I got to see him play Sweet Home Alabama. He was playing a Strat with SD HotRails in the middle and bridge pickups (in that possition) through a CyberTwin and his guitarist Wendel (who is a really nice guy as is Travis) played a confederate flag PRS through a CyberTwin.

[jacksonjs30]

yea i saw them live
live they do it with a little distortion on but
the recording it's a les paul,strat,and explorer i think
but any guitar can do it just play it clean with the neck pickup on

[Agent_00Funk]

Yes there great live, they recorded there Lyve dvd here in Nashville, i went to go see them. But they use Strats in the song though.

[SHAKEnBAKE]

Yeah. they're great! They're the only reason why I wish I'm a redneck from the south (I'm asian:D )

FREEBIRD!!!!!!!

[Agent_00Funk]

Yeah. they're great! They're the only reason why I wish I'm a redneck from the south (I'm asian )

lmao

[jacksonjs30]

yea when i saw them tho that strat player wasnt there it was only 2 guitar players they sounded the same tho