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 · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Telecaster (early 1960s, B-Bender)
Pickups
SS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Deluxe Comp
Scream 808
US Deluxe Nrm
1x12 US Deluxe
Spring
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
100s
Release
800s
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Scream 808
← Optional country bite
Gain
2
Tone
6
Level
7
US Deluxe Nrm
← Fender Deluxe Reverb (clean)
Drive
3.5
Bass
5
Mid
5.5
Treble
6.5
Presence
5.5
ChVol
5.5
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
5.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
1x12 US Deluxe
← Fender Deluxe 1x12
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7500Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Spring
← Fender onboard spring
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
15
Decay
0.4s
Predelay
20ms
Level
0
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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