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 · 4 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Fender Telecaster (early 1960s, B-Bender)
Pickups
SS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Compressor
Search Rig Exchange for 'Deluxe Reverb' or 'Blackface Fender'
Spring Reverb
Compressor
← Studio compression
Intensity
2.5
Attack
0.1s
Volume
0
Search Rig Exchange for 'Deluxe Reverb' or 'Blackface Fender'
← Fender Deluxe Reverb (clean)
Gain
3.5
Bass
5
Middle
5.5
Treble
6.5
Presence
5.5
Spring Reverb
← Fender onboard spring
Decay
0.9s
Predelay
18ms
Mix
0.1
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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