Telstar Space Western — Tremolo Intro, Gallop & Melody Lead
The opening evolved from surf guitar into a “Telstar”-inspired tremolo melody, while the finished production combines dry crunchy guitars, acoustic strumming, reverse parts, delay and heavy overdubs. Bellamy said an especially extreme distortion device was used to modernize the retro sound, but its identity and knob positions are undocumented, so the fuzz settings are representative. Source: Rich Costey’s EQ interview, Total Guitar’s 2007 Bellamy feature and MuseWiki’s song page.
Real AmpE Standard
