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Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

John Mayer

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Tone Snapshot

Pickup: Likely Fender Stratocaster single-coil

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Tone profile

Gain

Tightness

Brightness

Mid Scoop

Ambience

What makes this tone

Light Breakup
Full Low End
Bright Attack
Reverb

Signal chain

Guitar: Original 1964 Fender Stratocaster
Pickup: Likely Fender Stratocaster single-coil
Amp: Vintage Fender Deluxe Reverb
Effects: Room ambience and reverb

Adapt to my rig

Tone Character

Recorded tone character

Gain character

Mostly clean with a soft edge of breakup and warm sustain.

Bass

Full but restrained so the low strings remain clear.

Mids

Smooth and present, giving the chords body.

Treble

Glassy without being sharp.

Brightness / presence

Open and airy.

Compression

Light, polished compression with lots of touch sensitivity.

Effects

Room ambience and reverb are part of the sound; additional Two-Rock, Dumble and Marshall layers expand the later overdubs and leads.

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Evidence / Sources

Tone character: glassy, warm, spacious, dynamic, smooth, lightly compressed, soulful, clean-edge

Longtime engineer Chad Franscoviak gave unusually specific recording details: Mayer's original 1964 Strat into a vintage Deluxe Reverb for most of the performance, Two-Rocks for electric overdubs, and Dumble Steel String Singer plus Marshall for leads.

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