Here's AC/DC (allegedly) in 1974, sounding like every garage band in existence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GcTsOOftWM
By a year or two later they'd found thier now trademark sound. A sound which it seems, they've simply been polishing for what, 15 albums?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi659...eature=related
Assuming they were using the usual Marshalls, etc. How did they manage to get such a radical sound change.
With amp sims I can't get that kind of a tones shift (or something like it) without scooping at 500hz. Most old Marshall tone controls don't really seem to do that, though an '84 JCM 800 I had came really close, but it had T-75's in the cab, that weren't around in the early days of AC/DC (I think?)
So whatcha think changed?
Some people say it was Bon Scott's influence. I guess being a little older than the rest, maybe he understood or knew that cutting the lows gets rid of mud?
BTW, I'm not sure the second clip is entirely live. Sounds way to close to the studio version, and I hear pipes faintly in spots where I don't really see Bon playing.
Maybe this is more realistic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z65h-...eature=related
Anyway, by '77 thier basic trademark sound seems to have been sealed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deV_t...eature=related