周二的时候终于看到了自己最喜欢的大师Jeff Beck的演出。回家翻翻自己的收藏，发线有篇在国外网站上找到的关于模仿Jeff音色的文章，粗略翻译一下，与大家分享。 译文：
摘自九月份的WhatGuitar杂志
Jeff Beck用不多的效果来表达一种神经质并富有感情的尖叫。因为他独特而且不拘一格的演奏风格，无论在用清音还是失真的时候，他的音色都可以立刻被辨别出来。他的风格特点之一是用低音琴弦弹奏高音音符，来获得一种肥大的音色。此外，他还喜欢在用失真效果的时候，调到琴桥拾音器，然后精确地控制摇把来制造自己想要的效果。
设备：
在Jeff Beck Group的后期到现在，Fender Strat是Jeff最常用的吉他。他现在用Fender为他签名设计的款式，连上一台Marshall JCM2000 DSL。偶尔他会用一款Rat的失真，在Come Dancing这首歌里他用了八度音，他还会用一个Snarling Dog Whine-O-Wah。
模仿音色：
你首先没有Jeff神奇的手法——又有谁有呢？但是为了得到Jeff的音色，用手指还是比用拨片要好得多。试着用你的拇指和食指捏着琴弦，瞬间拉响琴弦而不是弹响。这样会产生相当大的失真，而且与用拨片做出来的效果大不相同。一般Vintage-Style的Strat是没有琴桥拾音器的tone调节的（这里不太明白，没有吗？），但是任然可以用简单的方法来解决这个问题。就是，把拾音器的档位调到琴桥位置，把tone调到最低。音箱设置为gain9，bass3，mid7，treble8，音量调到不太影响邻居，把混响关掉。这样你的声音就足够亮了，可以补上你把tone调到最低时候失去的亮度。
为了学会Jeff的摇把技巧，你最好只在摇把系统里装两根弹簧。调整你的琴桥，直到你的琴桥翘起来，往上拉摇把的时候，可以拉高一个全音。把琴桥的弹簧松动一下，这样你的吉他的音调就会下降，再调到标准音的时候，琴桥就翘起来了。最后一点就是，自从Jeff见到Jimi以后，就开始用0.10或者0.11的琴弦了，在那之前他用0.08的。
水平有限，怕误导了各位，还是附上原文的好：
Extracted from September's issue of WhatGuitar features Jeff in the Tone Clone Beck uses a minimum of effects to wrench an insane
variety of emotion-filled shrieks and sighs out of these two basic
items. Whether playing clean (Tina Turner, Tiny Dancer), or with
balls to the wall distortion (Guitar Shop, Big Block), his sound is
instantly recognisable due to his unique, abstract approach, painting
solos with a colourful palette of death-defying riffs rather than
drawing from continuous lines. His style is also defined by playing
high notes on low strings, giving them a fat tone; and by using the
Strat's whammy as a precision tool, using the bridge pickup, tone
rolled back, through massive amounts of gain. THE GEAR
On later Jeff Beck Group releases and more currently, the Fender
Stratocaster is his instument of choice. His current favourite setup
is his own signature model Strat through Marshall JCM2000 DSL 50s
Occasional effects making appearances are a RAT distortion, an Octave doubler (Come Dancing) and lately a Snarling Dog Whine-O-Wah.
CLONE THE TONE!
Right, so you don't have the man's magic touch - who else does? You
will still do better to use your fingers rather than a pick when
questing after Beck's tone. Try grabbing the string between your
thumb and first finger, pulling it and letting it go with a snap.
Even with fairly large amounts of gain this will yield a different
sound than with a plectrum. Stock vintage-style Fender Stratocasters
do not normally come with a tone control for the bridge pickup, but
it is a simple modification that should be cheap enough to procure.
That done, switch the pickup selector to the bridge pickup alone, and
roll the tone all the way off. Turn the Gain on your amp to about 9,
the Bass to 3, the mid to 7, the Treble to 8, the Master to as loud
as the venue or neighbours will stand, and the reverb off (Jeff gets
a little occasional ambience from a digital delay). The idea is to
keep the amp bright enough so that it replenishes the bite that you
lose by turning the instument's tone down.
To achieve, or should we say approach, the man's mastery of the
whammy bar, you had best use only two springs on your stock Fender
system. Play with tightening and loosening the vibrato unit's claw
screws until the bridge sits high enough off the body to allow you to
pull up a whole step. Start by loosening the screws just a little
since this will lower your string pitch, when you retune to pitch,
the bridge will come up some more. This is a back and forth procedure
that is also affected by the string gauge you use. Speaking of which,
although he used .008s until he met Jimi Hendrix, Beck now wrestles
with .010s or .011s.
感觉Jeff音色特点，最大部分还是来自演奏的技巧上面。比方说独创的小提琴奏法，和来回转换拾音器档位，还有时不时的“咔”一声，很夸张的左手揉弦也应该考虑在内。
最后说几句自己与这个老外不同的见解，或者说是觉得奇怪的地方更为恰当。周二看他的演出，他确实是在用两把白色Fender st，不过我想应该是芬达为他定做的，而不是量产的那个型号。周二从他的琴声里，可以听出他用的至少是10号琴弦，不过芬达为他设计的型号，原装却是9号弦。大概琴弦在他的音色里所占比重并不大。他的确在用DSL2000，不过有时也可以看见他用Plexi，周二那晚，他用了两个箱头，一个是DSL2000，另一个实在看不出来，摆在4X12的箱体上面的，看起来好像是两个正方形的小箱头，外观有点像芬达的冠军。关于他的琴桥，我这里一家很有名的专业吉他调试店的员工告诉我，他的琴桥其实不是简单的“浮”起来变成小双摇而已，他估计是削掉了一块木头，不然摇把不会能往上拉那么大的幅度。 | 
发表于 2010-4-2 19:24:25
那种感觉是令人震撼的
