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Suede·Social·Issue No. 20
Tone recipes·2026 · JUL
Funk1970easy to fake

01Brook Benton (Cornell Dupree on guitar)

Rainy Night in Georgia

Hollow-body warmth with rich, fingerstyle chord melodies. Gibson ES-335 into a Fender Twin, all clean. The tone has a dark midrange with rolled-off treble — Dupree played with the tone control around 4. Reverb is amp spring only, used liberally. Notes have a slight bloom because of how he uses his thumb-and-fingers attack on the strings. Plays inversions and substitutions inside a rhythm guitar role.

02Signal chain

Guitar to amp, 0 pedals between.

  1. In
    Guitar

    Gibson ES-335 (1962 sunburst)

  2. Out
    Amp

    Fender Twin Reverb

03Field note

The secret sauce

Cornell Dupree rolls his tone knob back to about 4 — the dark sound you hear isn't a thicker pickup, it's that simple control. With tone wide open this becomes a generic clean jazzbox tone.