chasing early Led Zep tones with a tele & supro

[bolero]

so this supro ( model 1624T ) I have is supposedly the one Page used on the early LZ recordings...I've never tried my tele into it, so today I did a quick recording to see how it sounded

 

I haven't played this stuff in ages, so it's sloppy as all get-out.....try to ignore the playing & listen to the tone, I am wondering what everyone else thinks

 

 

used a CAD E100 close, and an sm57 about 4 feet away. these are panned hard left/right, so if you want to hear each individually in mono just pan your speakers

 

 

 

 

 

--->keep in mind the first two albums were treated with liberal amounts of EMT plate reverb, to flesh everything out. unfortunately I haven't got room in my house for one of those!!

 

 

 

 

this is into channel 1, full volume, full tone control

 

 

https://soundcloud.com/roofleaks/supro-tele

 

 

this is with the ch1 & ch2 inputs bridged, , full volume, full tone control

 

 

https://soundcloud.com/roofleaks/supro-tele-bridged

 

 

 

I think Page didn't bridge the channels ( even though the leads sound thicker bridged ) because I'm nealry 100% sure he used a fuzz as well....next time I will dig out my rangemaster clone & stick it in there, too

[FredZepp]

I love the tone out of those old Supros. And the way they do that gnarly tone makes almost any guitar that you want to plug in , sound good.

 

There are certainly some early Zep tones in those examples.... sounds nice on the lead work also..

[Vanschoyck]

Sounds like it to me!

[bolero]

for comparison, here is my H157 with Throbak SLE101's

 

but I aimed the sm57 away from the amp this time, up into a corner for room ambience

 

https://soundcloud.com/roofleaks/supro-157-2mics

 

 

..and now I am officially sick of recycling those 4 zep riffs!! although they get better as the recordings progress

[rockabilly69]

Very Zep like. I love those little Supros:)