bigmuffya wrote:you can get a bunch of weird efects using the electro harmonix polychorus pedal. http://www.ehx.comI've cleared many bars with my polychorus. At the end of my shows, I used to lean my guitar up against my amp with the pickups facing the speaker so that it would continually feedback. Then I'd start turning knobs on my polychorus and some of my other pedals for like 10-15 mins. The couple guys who'd actually sit through the whole thing would tell me how amazing it was. I'm pretty sure they were on drugs.

I sometimes use a violin bow with bass.

I've taken to using a violin bow on my semi-hollow. I use flatwounds, so it doesn't catch on the cat hairs. shit sounds great through fuzzes, distortions, etc. the POG octave down really makes it sound like a cello. I am running it through a 12" a 15" and a tweeter, though, so it resonates nicely.love it.

I've gotten some great tones putting the guitarist in a tanning bed after several shots of Jägermeister. Be sure the Jäger is ice cold. This seems to work best with Strat players.

I love my Murf.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyr8OhfmDxY

Get those little black hair band that your girlfriend has and the cat likes so much, the little rubber band things, and put them around your guitar neck at the 12th fret and play. It harmonic-izes everything. Move it around. You can get some space banjo sounds. Putting a thin piece of plastic like from a train card in the strings by the bridge wil banjo out your guitar even more. Also get a 12 string and tune all of the secondary strings to a fifth or third or what ever and rip solos into a fuzz. that is nifty.1 more. Use those little hand held fans with foam blades to bow the strings of you guitar.all of it through a delay and fuzz. all of it.

Fucking spambot. I htought someone was excited about my noises.

gavin m wrote:I found that using an Ebow and the Electro-harmonix Q-tron is just super for really squealing parts, the best thing is that the qtron is a volume controled envelope so when you move the Ebow back from the pickup you get mellow tones and the closser you get the more the high harmonix, volume and sustain increase untill it sounds like a really squelshy synth. this also works really well with phasers/step phasers like the Boss ph3, the tracks Ive done using these effects and the 'bow sound nothing like a gtr, plus you can't play chords with the ebow so it will make you look for new things to add to your songs or whatever.On another note, if you use the butt/side of your hand when damping parts between power chords smack the strings right onto the pickups rather than down near the bridge where you dampen. this gives a real nice glich to breaks etc..EBows can be great, I agree, there's a ton of things that you can do with them.

Inside every flanger (that I have seen) is a trim pot. Turn that bitch until the flanger sounds like Tron.

put your guitar directly in front of your amp for direct feedback, put it through a wah and a leslie emulator and you get some cool sounds, also put some light tom medium dist on it.