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Riff Tone

All Day and All of the Night

The Kinks

Guitarrock1960s

Original Gear

Guitar1962 Gretsch G6121 Chet Atkins Jet Firebird (double-cut, red, stock pickups, bridge position)
AmpElpico AC55 (slashed speaker) into Vox AC30

Amp Settings

gain6.5
bass5

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Effects & Signal Chain

Notes

Studio recording, 1964. Dave Davies ran a slashed Elpico AC55 into a Vox AC30 for the signature distorted tone. No evidence of pedals or additional effects; distortion is from amp/speaker abuse. All sources confirm this unique setup for the original studio riff. No evidence of live/touring substitutions for this recording.

Tone Character(9)
aggressive, buzzy distortiontight and punchy attackraw, uncompressed soundmid-scooped EQ for claritysharp, cutting bridge pickup toneminimal ambience, dry soundpercussive, palm-muted power chordsvintage-style breakup from damaged ampdirect, in-your-face presence

Difficulty

The riff is built on fast, repetitive power chords with tight palm muting and requires aggressive picking, but no advanced techniques or complex chord voicings.

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