How do you get the sound at the start of this song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37Blt9q3xI
Is it a technique? Effect? Is it even coming from the guitars? It also occurs at 3:13 too.
Sounds to me like a ton of distortion/overdrive, a whammy bar. Could be wrong though.
"How could you possibly be scared of being bad? Once you get past that, it's all beautiful." -Trey Anastasio
My guess is a flange pedal.
"If I had a time machine, I'd go back and tell me to practise that bloody guitar!" -Vic Lewis
Everything is 42..... again.
I've been playing around trying to get it. It seems like vibrato combined with.....something. I don't think it's using a whammy bar. Pat's guitar has a fixed bridge. Kurt's Mustang has a vibrato bridge but I don't think the bar is screwed in.
Not sure if it's even coming from the guitars but I do see Pat sliding his palm up and down the strings.
Well, I didn't see the part 3 min. into it, and now it wont load for me....
It sounds like the pick sliding against the string. And some whammy bar.
I don't see anyone doing this, though you should try picking the strings behind the nut with your fingers while using
the whammy bar and sliding the pick down the strings.
Not just the wound strings ... try some on the straight strings for that whiney sound.
Ken
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begins to live more simply without"
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I can hear a big vibrato effect in there, although i had a cheap chorus pedal a while back that would almost sound like that if you turned all the knobs up.
Steve-0
Nirvana used chorus alot.
it sounds like a flanger/chorus loop or delay with pick sliding against the string.
most of my picks have grooves from sliding against stings purposely.
I used to have a flanger. it gave that ascending/descending sound.
there is lots of delay/reverb going on I think too.
oh, and lots of attitude :D
Thanks all. I think I need to get me a chorus pedal and use some vibrato.
No one suggested throwing your guitar down a flight of stairs yet?
Used to be, was a part of me felt like hiding.. but now it comes through. Comes through to you.
I'd be willing to bet there's a leslie going on there with a flanger and delay. Could be a ring modulator.
No one suggested throwing your guitar down a flight of stairs yet?
yeah, where is John Hiatt when you need him :D
No one suggested throwing your guitar down a flight of stairs yet?
Or stepping on your dog's foot and mic'ing his response.
Ewan McGregor: I said, "Eve, I want you to look after my wedding ring while I'm away," and she started to cry and I said, "Eve. Eve, I can't wear my ring or I won't get laid on the trip!"
The video is very dark and difficult to see, but it is clear that Kurt is sliding some object (beer can?) across the strings. After he stops this effect and goes into the song it sounds like he is using super high gain distortion with his amp really cranked (you can hear lots of feedback). It is possible he is using a flanger and perhaps a little delay also.
If you know something better than Rock and Roll, I'd like to hear it - Jerry Lee Lewis
^^^Sounds like a slide to me too. That's what I first thought of.
As for the effects, I don't know, but there was some type of slide involved.
My gut says there a leslie in there somewhere, and it sounds like alot of feedback also. But I could be (probably am) wrong. :?:
