Santana - Love is You (by Marcel)

Here one among my favorite Santana instrumental tracks from the album "Freedom" released in 1987.

Equipment:
~ Paul Reed Smith Santana I
~ Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+
~ 12" Speaker: Altec 417-8H

As you may hear, I've had several problems recording at the desired volume, because the DVcam automatically filters and compresses too intense and loud sounds.
Only solution for me was to play at half volume, which of course influenced my tone in a negative way.

Hope you enjoyed it anyway!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Carlos
• Santana
• Love
• is
• You
• PRS
• instrumental
• Blues
• Soul
• Mesa
• Boogie
• Mark
• II
• C+
• Altec
• 417-8H
• speaker
• song
• Freedom
• 1987
• Cover
• lesson
• Paul
• Reed
• Smith
• Funk
• Rock

[gastongurbaitel]

Sos un animall!!!!!! INCREIBLE

[MarcelMaier]

@gastongurbaitel muchas gracias!

[willieguitars]

Your Boogie can produce that singing sustain at low volume if you set your Volume 1 and 2 on 8 and bring the master volume down to normal listening levels.

But before anything . set your master volume all the way down before you set the 1 and 2 volumes to 8. Carlos amp settings are volumes 1 and 2 is on 8, treble 7, bass 3, mid-range 9 and presence between 6 & 7. I have close up photos of Carlos amp settings front and back of the Boogie heads.

[MarcelMaier]

@willieguitars you are talking about the Mark I amp .. I just have volume 1, master 1 and lead master. I know you're talking about the photos of an italian guy that had the chance to meet Carlos' technician and go backstage to hold his guitars and take pictures of his amps .. I've studied those photos already long time ago ^^

[SHEMAMAN]

I actually love all the sounds and eras this great man played in so when I bought the prs santana and boogie mark 1 re-issue, it had a ev12 200watt black shadow for mesa installed. The results is that i get very near to most of his entire tones spanning four decades. However, it's true what Willie says. You HAVE to get the equipment down if you want to nail that sound. I guess i'm looking for the sound of ME somewhere in his mix.Thanks for your lovely video.

[kenan19]

nice

[mxr2000]

Hello. Iove your Mark IIC+ clip a lot because is one of the few clips that show what this amp can do besides Metallica and Petruci, I own on of this could you be kind to tell me your settings to get close to sound thanks..

[kaydolien]

wow, that Guitar sounds really really good!!!!! or is that you :)

[MarcelMaier]

Oh ^^ perdoname :) Yeah I love its tone! It's not the standard metal sound you hear.. I'd say pretty similar to vintage metal sounds!

I must admit the tubes and the speaker are the factors for the sound itself.. For metal people are mostly used to the EL34 instead of the 6L6 that I use actually