What pedals and effects are good for reproducing Radiohead tracks? Are there tones that are easy to replicate for certain songs?
My board is pretty basic:
MXR Dyna Comp
Tube Screamer
Marshall Guv'nor
Belle Epoch take echo
Tomkat Day Dreamer
and a Line 6 M5 Stompbox Modeller for the rest.
I've a Tele with a Cornell Romany amp.
EDIT:
What are your favourite Radiohead songs to play, and what effects do you use?(Was trying to play Bodysnatchers yesterday, but couldn't get it quite right)
Any help really appreciated!
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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The small stone is essential for OK Computer in particular, but it's not on Bodysnatchers iirc
TPS did an Ed OBrien pedalboard build in 2015, no idea if there are any clues in there.
So sounds like Bodysnatchers ideally needs a mixing desk for authenticity, or maybe a RAT.
What are your favourite Radiohead songs to play folks, and what effects do you use?
Oh, and @EricTheWeary - that video is a bit mind-blowing! Would love to have mine built for me!
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
Radiohead 'tones' vary significantly depending on the era.
The bends is characterised by marshal shredmaster, tremolo and whammy.
Ok computer is probably the most 'interesting'. Lots of use of phaser, delay, the whammy and some weird pedal arrangements like tremolo into auto wah. The clangy Rat into ac30 sound can be heard in a few spots.
From hail to the theif onwards the guitars are more 'normal' but characterised by big eq boosts-particularly in the mids on layered in guitar parts like jonny's parts that come in later on go to sleep, there there, and the aforementioned bodysnatchers.
You can do a lot with the pedals you've already got. For maximum fun add a whammy and a phaser and get stuck into ok computer. To get things sounding authentic put an eq pedal after your rat and try to tune the level of grit, mids and top end to whichever part it is you are trying to pick out.
There there is cool to play, especially if you are allowed to play loud
Go to sleep is a cool riff.
If you don't want to worry too much about fx try:
I will... and nude... beautiful.
Knives out for kudos.
Enjoy.
There's a website which lists loads of their gear through the ages.
For that "straight into the mixing desk" sound what about that JHS pedal? Is it called colour box or summat like that??? Sorry I can't be more specific. Also if anyone else does one of those types of pedals use an alternative coz, ya know, JHS :-/
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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