Defining Tracks for Effects

dindude

What tracks, for you, define the use of the major effects types:

Best to ovoid OD and Distortion, I'm thinking of proper effected signals.

Here's the first ones that came to my mind.....

Flange: ain't talking 'bout love - Van Halen

Chorus: Come as you are - Nirvana (I've mentally blocked out most other chorus use on the grounds of bad taste)

Phase: subterranean homesick alien - Radiohead

Delay: pride - U2

Fuzz: Bold as Love (outro) - Hendrix

Wah: voodoo chile is quite obvious so I'll plump for see the light - Jeff Healey

What's yours? Feel free to add other major effect types I might have missed.

mike_l

I'd have said SCoM for Wah. Although Voodoo Chile is a good call.

not_the_dj

Good choices, although isn't "Ain't Talking..." Eddie using the Phase 90? Unchained is the song that pops into my head when thinking about Flangers. 

 Message in a Bottle is another for the flanger/chorus type thing (iirc it was a flanger).

 Going right back I think Link Wray's "The Rumble" is a great example of amp tremolo.

Personally I'd go with Exit for delay (Mr The Edge again of course) 

dindude

[quote="not_the_dj;133455"]Good choices, although isn't "Ain't Talking..." Eddie using the Phase 90?


There's seems to be some debate when I googled it just now, I've always thought it was flange but could be phase, anyone else know for sure?

Dave_Mc

not_the_dj said:

Good choices, although isn't "Ain't Talking..." Eddie using the Phase 90? Unchained is the song that pops into my head when thinking about Flangers. 

 Message in a Bottle is another for the flanger/chorus type thing (iirc it was a flanger).

That's what I thought for VH.

And agreed about message in a bottle.

randomhandclaps

Octavia: Jimi Hendrix - Fire

Phaser: Led Zep - The Rover

Whammy: RATM - Killing In The Name

Rotating Speaker: Pink Floyd - Shine On

Chorus: Metallica - Sanitarium  or Rush - Spirit Of The Radio (Not sure which)

Wah: Besides Voodoo Chile being the obvious one, then GnR - Sweet Child Of Mine

Delay: Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell

not_the_dj

Just read somewhere that the muted part of the riff is with the Phase 90 then the adds the flanger for that last unmuted double note. Tricky bugger that Eddie.

dindude

not_the_dj;133483" said:

Just read somewhere that the muted part of the riff is with the Phase 90 then the adds the flanger for that last unmuted double note. Tricky bugger that Eddie.

That suddenly makes a lot of sense, although wouldn't fancy tap dancing that one out!

mike_l

not_the_dj said:

Just read somewhere that the muted part of the riff is with the Phase 90 then the adds the flanger for that last unmuted double note. Tricky bugger that Eddie.

I thought the muted bit had nothing, the unmuted bit was flanger.

Anyhoo, I play it with a Phase 90 all the way through. Cos I'm like that*. Yeah. Sounds best (closest to the original) to me if the phaser/flanger is before the dirt........

 

 

*read can't be arsed to switch the pedal on for a tiny bit, and off again....

vasselmeyer

Delay: Welcome to the Jungle

Leslie: Couldn't Stand the Weather

Phase/Flange: Are You Gonna Go My Way?

Whammy: Marooned (Gilmour on The Division Bell)

Wah: White Room

Chorus: Mellowship Slinky in B Major (not an obvious one from the Chillis but this is a great use of the effect for me)

guitargeek62

mike_l said:

I'd have said SCoM for Wah. Although Voodoo Chile is a good call.

Yeah.... no.

Branshen

Purple rain - chorus. Too awesome to be cheesy.

Deijavoo

Tremolo - How Soon is Now : The Smiths

EricTheWeary

Without actually going and listening to it What I Am by the New Bohemians for auto wah.

Almost any Dick Dale for spring reverb ( it isn't present on his first single but pretty much everything after).

vasselmeyer

Deijavoo said:

Tremolo - How Soon is Now : The Smiths

Bloody hell...I was racking my brains trying to think of a definitive tremolo. How could I not think of that?

mike_l

vasselmeyer said:

Deijavoo said:

Tremolo - How Soon is Now : The Smiths

Bloody hell...I was racking my brains trying to think of a definitive tremolo. How could I not think of that?

taste? |)

Kebabkid

EricTheWeary said:

Without actually going and listening to it What I Am by the New Bohemians for auto wah.

Almost any Dick Dale for spring reverb ( it isn't present on his first single but pretty much everything after).

Auto wah - Good man ETW on Edie Brickell's "What I am" and add Odysseys'  "Going back to my roots" too for another goodie with a dirtier tone. C'mon guys, find me a late 70s, vintage MXR Envelope Filter, which I believe is what was used on these tracks. Somebody's gotta have one here!
Talk Box - Steely Dan's "Haitian Divorce" is my fave but you could have Frampton, Joe Walsh or Sambora too
Modulation - Anything by Andy Summers
Chorus - On the Cyndi Lauper tracks "Time after time" and "Girls just wanna have fun"and Nirvana's "Come as you are".
Delays - Gilmour and The Edge for the rhythmic stuff. The LA crowd, Lukather, Schon, Landau for the "arena solo delay"
Tape Multi-Tap delay - Hank Marvin!!!!!
Phaser, Flanger & ADT - EVH on the tracks already mentioned and don't forget the ADT on "Ain't talkin' bout love". Ernie Isley's use of a phaser too was pretty up front on his sound.
AdrenaLinn - John Mayer's "I don't trust myself" and few others of his and Green Day's "Boulevard of broken dreams"
Wah - Hendrix (Voodoo chile and others), Santana (Moonflower period), Thin Lizzy boys (Robertson, Gorham and Moore)
Guitar synth - Pat Metheny's "Are you going with me"
Harmonizer - Trevor Rabin on "Owner of a lonely heart", the end runs of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the solo on "Together in electric dreams" (this one could be an octaver). Good use of an octaver on Pino Palladino's bass sound on "Tear your playhouse down". Oh, and the Eventide harmonizer on Vai's "Ballerina 12/24"
Whammy - Rage against the Machine's "Killing in the name of" and the Vai Passion & Warfare stuff
Fuzz - "Girl like you" Edwyn Collins & "Satisfaction"
Zoom duck wah - Cardigan's "Favourite Game" - I had a Zoom unit and it had this duck sound preset and it sounds just like the one on the solo themes of this
Tremolo and harmonizer - "How soon is now

Grumpyrocker

Adding for Phaser Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs.

Delay Gilmour on the whole of the Wall album, especially Run Like Hell and Another Brick

xSkarloey

Chorus: Back on the Chain Gang- Pretenders (don't forget what an influence James Honeyman Scott's sound was on Master J Marr)

Wah: Slash on  Mr Brownstone and John Squire on Fools Gold were my first proper encounters with the effect. 

Reverb: Peter Green back in his glory days. Any live recording shows this off. 

Slapback Echo: Richard Thompson when he solos. 

Long Delay: Gilmour, "Run Like Hell". 

Multi tap delay: Hank. 

Flanger/ Chorus/ everything but the kitchen sink: the intro to Fire Woman. Whatever Billy Duffy was on I want some. 

'Ambient' guitar based on reverbs/ echoes and mods: Vini Reilly of the Durutti Column. I still can't work out what a lot of his Strat is going through half the time. 

Leslie: Clapton on Badge. 

Fuzz: Yardbirds/ Led Zep I era Page. Tonebenders rule. 

Volume pedal swells (is this stretching it a bit?!) John Martyn (I'm thinking of Small Hours and Hurt in Your Heart). 

EricTheWeary

One of the defining artists for magnatone style vibrato. 

kelvinburn

Echoplex - John Martin