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Hair metal acoustics

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lexyknight
lexyknight|58

Okay, so far I know the Richie Sambora double neck, Bret Michaels' Dean. And John 5's Fender acoustic. But they're involved in so many of the genre hits, those can't be all the signatures out there from hair metal shredders. Also Steve Vai has his Ibanez and Slash has a never ending torrent of models from Gibson and Epiphone

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1|41029 MODERATOR
GEAR:
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  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp
In reply to lexyknight:

For classic album tones I doubt the signature models were used in the studio. Particularly in the 80s... they were using whatever acoustics they owned or ones belonging to the studio or producer. As an engineer I can say a good tip for acoustic in a hair metal full band mix is compress and high pass agressively... a lot 9f these tracks are less about the guitar itself than the 87 or 414 placed super close to the neck joint and the heavy processing in post.

As far as stage goes, in the 80s I remember a lot of ovations in the hands of dudes with silk scarves and ripped jeans!

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  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp
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