Defining Tracks for Effects

ThePrettyDamned

Fuzz Factory - muse, new born.

Also one of the only bands I've heard who put an octave pedal in the loop of a delay pedal (hysteria solo).

Map of the problematique has a zvex step tremolo I think, but I stand to be corrected, and sounds really cool.

I always thought, although he's known for phaser, the ain't talking about love thing was a flanger.

Big sur moon for dotted 8ths.

hywelg

UniVibe Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs

RocknRollDave

I wouldn't say it was definitive in the wider scheme of things, but for me personally the flanger is forever linked with The Holy Bible by the Manics - that faster, chorus-y, almost rotating-speaker-cab-ish sound.

Also the start of Ghostdancing by Simple Minds is one I always come back to whenever I get that flanger-plus-delay itch.
(I'm not even that sure what modulation effect it IS, but I'll say flanger for now)

Bad by U2 is a seminal delay moment for me, too. Can't recreate it for toffee meself, but I do believe there are two delays involved, so that would explain why I can't nail it with one.

not_the_dj

/\ Bad, that's the one I had in my head when I wrote Exit in my post above.

RocknRollDave

I think "The Edge's entire career" would do as a defining moment for delay, to be fair

the_jaffa

I think that The Theme From Shaft definitely deserves a mention as a definitive use of the wah pedal.  It pretty much defines that wacka wacka sound.

RocknRollDave

Long delay for me would be Brian May's Brighton Rock solo.

Not really a huge fan of it (a huuuuuge slow solo in the middle of an otherwise epic fast Rock song..) but still, it's an iconic moment, and with stereo panning of two amps it must sound immense when you're actually in a room with him playing it

Grunfeld

Flanger -- "A Forest" by The Cure.   (Pretty much all of the album Seventeen Seconds being an homage to the flanger I'd say.) 

Wah -- pretty much anything live by Michael Schenker, let's go with "Rock Bottom" by UFO

Echo -- without doubt my fave!  Lee Perry's production on the album "Heart of the Congos" by The Congos.  Everything on that album is touched with it, it's so musical, goes from foreground to background and outer space and back.  Genius.  Here's an example:

guitarfishbay

Surely Hendrix - Machine Gun is the defining univibe song, predates Bridge of Sighs by 4 years according to some quick googling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfTBMeLqWsk

frankus

Wah - I'd suggest Joe Satriani - Is There Love In Space - it's the other side of Wah few people visit.
Talk Box - Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way.
Whammy - Jeniffer Battern - Whammy Damage - it has NEVER been used better.
Chorus - Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman.
Oberheim VCF (think ooh wah) - Frank Zappa - Ship Ahoy.
Flanger - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of.. OR Audioslave - Cochise..
Compressor - Mike Keneally - Live In Japan
Auto-Wah - The Fellowship Of Funk - B.N.H
Tremolo - Ronny Jordan - Theme From Underworld
Looper - John Scofield - Uberjam.
Delay -

xSkarloey

Flanger- Billy Duffy She Sells Sanctuary. Can't belive I missed this in the first post.

EricTheWeary

the_jaffa said:

I think that The Theme From Shaft definitely deserves a mention as a definitive use of the wah pedal.  It pretty much defines that wacka wacka sound.

The late Skipp Pitts.

d8m

Delay: Echo song - Paul Gilbert

Tremolo: How soon is now - The Smiths

Fuzz: Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins

Flanger: Barracuda - Heart

Pyroman

 Flanger:  " Barracuda" Heart.  46 and 2  Tool.  Sleeping Beauty A Perfect Circle.

 Reverb:  The James Bond Theme, the song "Wipeout"  Just about ANY surf or rockabilly.

Tremolo:  Born on a Bayou  CCR.

Phaser E5150  Black Sabbath.

thisisguitar

Flanger: De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police 

Whammy: Touching Tongues - Vai

Delay: Charlie - It Bites, HIna - David Lee Roth (both great examples of creative delay)

Tremolo - Like A Stone - Audioslave

Wah: Yankee Rose - David Lee Roth, Dirt - Alice In Chains

OVF: Throw Away Your Television (solo) - RHCP

Phaser: Atomic Punk - Van Halen

kelvinburn

ebow - we could be heroes - david bowie dod envelope filter - paranoid android - radiohead Big muff pi - smashing pumpkins, anything from Siamese dream Chorus - plush - stone temple pilots harmoniser - RATM - know your enemy univibe - jimi hendrix - star spangled banner

ToneControl

sustainer guitar - With or without you

whammy pedal - last few Dave Gilmour albums

Looper - K T Tunstall

Ebow - Wishbone ash Just testing (I reckon)

 

viz

Volume swells (using a Morley Little Alligator pedal: Steve Vai - Little Alligator

Double delay and pitch shift: Steve Vai - Ballerina Talk Box: Bon Jovi - Livin' on a prayer

viz

Volume swells (using a Morley Little Alligator pedal: Steve Vai - Little Alligator

Double delay and pitch shift: Steve Vai - Ballerina

Talk Box: Bon Jovi - Livin' on a prayer

ThePrettyDamned

Gay sons of lesbian lovers - looper and synth use.

Otherwise, good call for kt Tunstall @tonecontrol.

When it comes to wah, I always think of white room by cream, as well.

Pitch shift - through the fire and flames (lol such a tune) anyone?