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Tone recipes·2026 · JUL
Country1989

01Marty Stuart

Hillbilly Rock

Bakersfield-derived twangy Tele tone with rockabilly slap echo. Bridge pickup of a Clarence White-style B-bender Tele into a clean Fender amp, with substantial slapback tape echo (around 110-130ms, one repeat). Every note jumps off the front of the beat. Some songs add a touch of reverb spring, but the slap echo IS the effect.

02Signal chain

Guitar to amp, 1 pedal between.

  1. In
    Guitar

    Fender Telecaster with Parsons-White B-Bender

  2. 01
    Rockabilly slap delay
    Echoplex EP-3 tape echo

    Time: ~120ms, Single repeat, Mix: 35%

  3. Out
    Amp

    Fender Vibroverb '63

03Field note

The secret sauce

Marty's tone is the B-bender as much as the amp — the mechanical string-pull at the second fret bends the B string up a whole step, mimicking pedal steel inflections inside the chord.