No. 0871972·classic-rock·5 blocks
Take It Easy
Bernie Leadon's bright country-rock lead licks on Take It Easy come from a refinished early-'60s Fender Telecaster fitted with a B-Bender, run clean into a Fender combo — no pedals. The Eagles cut their debut at Olympic Studios in London with Glyn Johns, whose dry, natural, room-honest approach kept everything close to the source. The track is in G major (open chords, no capo); Glenn Frey strums a Martin dreadnought and Leadon doubles on the bright double-time banjo.
EaglesSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Fender Telecaster (early 1960s, B-Bender)
Pickups
SS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
Deluxe Verb Nrm
1x12 Deluxe
Spring Reverb
Filter Tilt
Studio Comp
← Studio compression
Threshold
-26dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
10s
Release
180s
Mix
0.5
Level
0dB
Deluxe Verb Nrm
← Fender Deluxe Reverb
Drive
3.5
Bass
5
Mid
5.5
Treble
6.5
Presence
5.5
MV
5.5
Cut
5
1x12 Deluxe
← Fender Deluxe 1x12
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7500Hz
Level
0dB
Spring Reverb
← Fender onboard spring
Mix
0.1
Decay
0.9s
Predelay
0.0ms
Filter Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.6
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 087
Bernie Leadon's bright country-rock lead licks on Take It Easy come from a refinished early-'60s Fender Telecaster fitted with a B-Bender, run clean into a Fender combo — no pedals. The Eagles cut their debut at Olympic Studios in London with Glyn Johns, whose dry, natural, room-honest approach kept everything close to the source. The track is in G major (open chords, no capo); Glenn Frey strums a Martin dreadnought and Leadon doubles on the bright double-time banjo.
— Bernie Leadon
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