Jimmy Mack is a good record to learn because the arrangement is open enough that you can hear how the Funk Brothers guitar parts fit together: one playing damped chops, another picking a higher figure, neither getting in the other's way.
What makes the sound. Two clean tones rather than one. The rhythm part is short and bright, the upper part rounder and more sustained. Neither is driven, and both sit under the vocal and the tambourine.
The analogue recipe. If you are recording both, use different pickups for each - bridge for the chops, neck for the figure - through the same clean amp so they belong to the same room. Live, pick the one the band is missing.
On a Boss GT-100 / GT-1000 / GX-100. One clean model, two patches: bright and compressed for the chops, rounder with a touch more reverb for the upper figure. Gain zero on both.
On a Kemper. One clean profile, using the guitar's pickup selector rather than two profiles. Keeping the amp constant is what makes two parts sound like one band.
Save yourself an evening. The Soulster Tonebook for fans of Motown Classics → has the chords, capo positions, tempos and dialled-in settings for this one.
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Also as a print. The "Jimmy Mack" Paperback print → is the same song, printed.
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