The Yamaha SG Carlos used back in the 70's was the SG 175B.
The reason for that is because the SG 2000 was not released yet.
The B stands for Buddha inlays also part of the peacock mother of pearl inlays on the guitar's lower body.

Willieguitars


I'M VERY HUMBLE :-(..............
NO ONE HAS EVER MISINTERPRET MY WORDS BEFORE UNTIL I JOINED THIS FORUM.
I GUESS I WONT BE ABLE TO BENEFIT ANY MUSICAL INSIGHT FROM OTHER FELLOW GUITARISTS HERE.
SINCE THERE IS SOME OF THAT NEGATIVITY THING GOING ON FROM OTHERS WHICH IS PRETTY SILLY RIGHT?
I'M CONFUSED. IS THIS 'THE VIEW' OR 'GUITAR PEOPLES COURT?'.

Sure... that's humble and not insulting at all.

You'd be better off studying his technique, that's the real key to his sound.

"those who know Carlos personally have told me I manage to pull it off as far as being the closest to getting that sound."


Ok, I've got a 417-8H



I have some Gibson SGs.

I also have a couple Princeton amps.






What do I do next?

Does this sound like Carlos to you? If you don't think so then you might have some other issue with this guy. He's just in it to help someone who's looking for a good tone that's all. http://soundcloud.com/wil...a-earths-cry-heavens-3

This is pretty close. Carlos Santana himself likes him! http://soundcloud.com/wil...a-earths-cry-heavens-3

  We need to get one thing right here, As far as getting that Santana sound to be honest anybody can get that sound! I'm not talking about just the fingers at work. I'm talking about the combination of guitar, amp and of course the Altec 417-8H speaker which produces that pearly sound. The fingers and the heart is another story but even those who know Carlos personally have told me I manage to pull it off as far as being the closest to getting that sound. Do I want to sound like Carlos? "Hell no". Many guitar players struggle with trying to get that sound when they should really be looking for their own stamp and not somebody else's. The real reason many guitar players like that sound because the guitar's tone range which is the true tone range is the (Midrange) tone. it's a sound or a range that cuts through a live mix with a full band. If your guitar eq setting has a bit too much treble or too much bass or that eq V shape like scooping the mids does sound great- when you're playing solos or power chords,.. but with a band it's very difficult to cut through a mix with any settings with not enough mids. This link shows an example guitar tone with the right amount of mids: http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=channel_video_title Willieguitars

It saddens me to think that you don't realize that *the-Santana-tone* speaks for itself.




You seem like a fine player and you have very pretty, and delicate looking fingers.




If you send me the tracks and $50.00usd I'll master http://youtu.be/vDiDQu2ulw4 for you so it doesn't sound so distorted.

If you send me $100.00usd I'll get Danni to do it.






We can help.

If you like the results maybe we can do the rest of them too.






best regards,
mike

If you send me $100.00usd I'll get Danni to do it.

It'll be well worth paying the extra IMO...

 That's some sweet tone indeed bro. Honestly the only time I ever looked into getting that Carlo sound is when I did a cover of BMW. Not really looking to copy his tone but you certainly have my respect as a fellow guitarist for a job well done.