Think — Aretha Franklin album art
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How to get the Think guitar tone

Aretha Franklin

Not quite clean, not quite dirty. That edge-of-breakup thing is genuinely hard to dial in and Aretha Franklin got it right. The EQ sits fairly balanced, which puts all the expressive work back on touch and technique rather than frequency shaping. Layer in spring reverb and the whole thing takes on a dimension you can't get from the amp alone.

Gear used on the recording

GuitarHollowbody / single coil
AmpFender clean

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