Allan Holdsworth's Tone

[keyboard hunger]

Hi,

I want to find a way of creating a Allan Holdsworth Guitar like sound,

I made the Synth version of Allan but i need to create the Guitar One.

Could somebody please help me because i love his guitar tone.


bye.

[Liquid Shadow]

Try getting a guitar, then running it through an amplifier. You must not forget the distortion. If you follow these simple steps, and play around with it yourself, you too can rip off Allan Holdsworth.

[Angelic Layer]

Jens Johansson have some similar tone with Allan sometimes.

[Rexx]

Like a lot of guitarists Alan uses a wah for tone control of his leads.
I never duplicated his tone exact but it sounds like a humbucker bridge pickup, a lot of gain, mid positioned wah, heavy compression, I think he's using some sort of digital rack delay for a tight notch delay. (this is a 2ms - 10ms delay with lots of feedback regeneration - or +) Makes notes jump out and honk.
Then you add the normal reverb delay and chorus.

Alan Holdsworth is a master of tone. He tweaks, tweaks and tweaks some more.

His clean tone is as awesome as his dist ch.
He's always used a combination of amps (tube and solid state) to get the best tones possible. My guess is he uses valve amps like Marshalls for dist and Lab or twin amps for clean.

[Angelic Layer]

Like a lot of guitarists Alan uses a wah for tone control of his leads.
I never duplicated his tone exact but it sounds like a humbucker bridge pickup, a lot of gain, mid positioned wah, heavy compression, I think he's using some sort of digital rack delay for a tight notch delay. (this is a 2ms - 10ms delay with lots of feedback regeneration - or +) Makes notes jump out and honk.
Then you add the normal reverb delay and chorus.

Alan Holdsworth is a master of tone. He tweaks, tweaks and tweaks some more.

His clean tone is as awesome as his dist ch.
He's always used a combination of amps (tube and solid state) to get the best tones possible. My guess is he uses valve amps like Marshalls for dist and Lab or twin amps for clean.He uses 2 Yamaha DG80s these days, both loaded with V30s.
He had the gain on the clean amp low and crank the volume up for more bite.

[Omega Monkey]

Start with a nice sustainy tone without too much EG effect.

Add some phaser (very slow and kind of wide but not crazy).

Then add a nice medium gain, creamy sounding distortion, and you should more or less have something approximating his LIfetime/UK/Bruford (ie mid/late 70s) tone.

The key is really putting the phaser BEFORE the distortion. It really makes all the difference in the world.