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Brickwalled Takamine Acoustic — Full Song

Engineer Nick Brine identifies Noel Gallagher’s Takamine FP-460SC as the acoustic used for “Wonderwall,” although surviving studio footage has led some gear researchers to question whether an Epiphone Frontier also played a role. The part is in E standard with a capo at the second fret; no guitar amp is central to this recreation, and the compression values below are representative of the record’s dense, brickwalled presentation rather than documented hardware positions. Source: MusicRadar, Sound on Sound’s Owen Morris interview, and GroundGuitar.

Signal Chain

Takamine FP-460SC acousticStudio CompressionShort Room ReverbOutput
GuitarTakamine FP-460SC acoustic
Capo2nd fret
TuningE Standard
PlayingFirm, even sixteenth-note strumming
EffectStudio Compression
Mix
10
Amount7
Attack3
Release6
EffectShort Room Reverb
Mix
1.5
Decay2.5

Notes

Keep the third and fourth fingers anchored so the top two fretted notes ring through the chord changes. Strum steady sixteenth notes, accent beats two and four, and mute selectively with the fretting hand.

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