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Guthrie Govan · Erotic Cakes · 2006

Tone Overview

What Makes This Sound Unique

The Erotic Cakes closer — a funky, chicken-picking fusion track that ends the album on an upbeat, country-jazz note. The tone combines the Suhr's bridge pickup with a wah pedal for a filter effect, and the playing is all hybrid-picking swagger and attitude rather than technical demonstration.

Signal Chain

1Suhr Classic S (bridge pickup, volume ~8)
2Cornford Hellcat (edge of breakup)
3Dunlop Cry Baby Wah (cocked mid-position)
4MXR Dynacomp

Amp Settings

Gain / Volume4

Bass5

Mid7

Treble8

Edge of breakup with a compressor — the funky, percussive quality comes from the compressor accenting pick attack combined with wah filtering. The amp is barely breaking up rather than fully distorted.

Technique

How to Play It

Chicken picking — right-hand combination of picking and plucking where the pick handles low strings while fingers snap upper strings, creating the characteristic snapping attack of country and fusion lead guitar.

Budget Alternative

Achievable With

Stratocaster bridge pickup → MXR Dynacomp (compressor) → Dunlop Wah at fixed mid position → edge-of-breakup amp → practice chicken picking: snap the G and B strings with your middle finger while your pick handles the lower strings.

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