Help!! I need to recreate this guitar tone/effects! (mp3 inside)

808909 · 27th April 2007

Hi,

I need to remake a cover of this song but am having problems figuring out how this guitar riff sound is made. Here is an mp3 of it, the guitar shows up between 00:03" and 00:04".

Can any guitar gurus out there help me?!! PLEASE!!!

kafka · 27th April 2007

That's kind of short. Are you sure it's a guitar? It's fairly thin sounding, and doesn't sound particularly distorted. There's some modulation going on, like a fast and deep chorus pedal or a Leslie speaker.

Absolute · 28th April 2007

Yeah I would love the find out how they do that..NOT

scrubs · 28th April 2007

I'm not convinced it's a "real" guitar, either, but you could certainly create a similar sound with a slide and a little distortion; maybe a phaser pedal set pretty fast, too.

808909 · 28th April 2007

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, I don't need to make it exact--just need to recreate a similar sound. I'm gonna try it with an electric gtr and a slide and see how that goes.

Regarding effects, what do you mean by phaser pedal set pretty fast? Is that to modulate it a bit...?

Thanks again guys!

**Blast9** · 28th April 2007

Yeah --- sounds like a slide on a (12-string?) acoustic gtr. The scraping sound certainly sounds like ac gtr strings.

I've heard The edge get that kinda thing before --- Also check out Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" for a similar sound

Use compression to bring up the decay of the note

There's loads of reverb on other instruments around the sound

5down1up · 30th April 2007

i hear a clean guitar picking in the background and a thin sounding distorted slide speaking about guitars.

Mondo · 30th April 2007

i don't hear a clean guitar at all. just a bass.

Nu-tra · 30th April 2007

It sounds like a synth with a pitch wheel slide. Probably a triton.

**Blast9** · 30th April 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mondo

i don't hear a clean guitar at all. just a bass.

28th April 2007	#6
Blast9 Moderator Joined: Dec 2003 Location: London Posts: 4,597	Yeah --- sounds like a slide on a (12-string?) acoustic gtr. The scraping sound certainly sounds like ac gtr strings. I've heard The edge get that kinda thing before --- Also check out Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" for a similar sound Use compression to bring up the decay of the note There's loads of reverb on other instruments around the sound __________________ :: New Album "Rooms" out now http://www.andymitchellmusic.com :: twitter > http://twitter.com/mitchellmusic - http://www.twitter.com/theyardbirds

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kafka Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 4,267	That's kind of short. Are you sure it's a guitar? It's fairly thin sounding, and doesn't sound particularly distorted. There's some modulation going on, like a fast and deep chorus pedal or a Leslie speaker.

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Absolute Lives for gear Joined: May 2003 Location: NY Posts: 1,142	Yeah I would love the find out how they do that..NOT

28th April 2007	#4
scrubs Gear addict Joined: Feb 2005 Location: NC Posts: 414	I'm not convinced it's a "real" guitar, either, but you could certainly create a similar sound with a slide and a little distortion; maybe a phaser pedal set pretty fast, too.

28th April 2007	#5
808909 Gear interested Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 2 Thread Starter	Thanks for the replies. Yeah, I don't need to make it exact--just need to recreate a similar sound. I'm gonna try it with an electric gtr and a slide and see how that goes. Regarding effects, what do you mean by phaser pedal set pretty fast? Is that to modulate it a bit...? Thanks again guys!

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Mondo Gear maniac Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 155	i don't hear a clean guitar at all. just a bass.

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Nu-tra Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 3,305	It sounds like a synth with a pitch wheel slide. Probably a triton.