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by Ryan Electrocution_Archive
monotremata wrote:Plug your wah pedal in AFTER your distortion pedal in the chain and watch everyone wince in pain when you sweep the high end.I used to always do that--it sort of acts as a volume pedal in a way, as well. The tone gets really washed out and I still like that sound at times.Another thing to do is plug the fuzzbox that you're using your guitar with right into the recording console. The Beatles did this on Revolution, I believe, and i've heard of lots of other artists doing it, too.Some things i've done at times are and especially when recording (some of these may be obvious, some less so):--wah through delay with high feedback settings. The range of the wah at different points in it's sweep gets delayed, so you're getting all these different harmonics in the feedbacked sound--Holy Grail with the knob all the way clockwise, so it's just the wet signal. Not the most useable effect at times, but cool here and there, it's really distant sounding--something like a Fuzz Factory gets a ton of really weird, compressed, blown out sounds, and there's oscillation too, so you get all this feedback/ theremin/ ring modulation type sounds--Nashville strung guitar. You take all the high strings from a 12 string set and use them on the G, D, A, low E strings on a standard guitar, and D'Addario actually has Nashville tuned string sets, which saves on buying the full 12. I put a slight delay around 80-100 MS on it sometimes, and it creates a slight doubling effect on the strings to make it sound even more like a 12 string, but ultimately, it's got it's own sound which really cuts through the mix on things like arpeggios and open string passages. Technically everything you play (aside from the E and B strings) is an octave up, and I find that it being slightly out of tune gives it an interesting, evil sound--leave an EBow on a guitar string for some sort of drone, and then modulate it with a phaser or delay on high/ full feedback or something like that--ring modulators for noise type stuff--fuzz pedals with a bias knob to really get a blown out/ clipped sound. An EH Germanium OD has a bias/ volts knob, so it can really get pretty weird and lo-fi sounding--EH Pog for some octave sounds/ organ type stuff, or a harmony pedal for some weird harmony notes--square wave tremolo. It's not natural sounding, but has this really deep, choppy, effected sound--a couple of phasers running through each other....weird, random, even swirlier than one--using the neck pickup with the tone knob rolled all the way off. Blunt, indistinct sounding and can sound pretty cool sometimes--reverse feedback on something like a Boss DD-6. If you have the effect all the way up, it only plays the reverse feedback sound, so if you mess around with the delay time and play the regular notes, it creates a sort of random and fucked up sounding counter note that can be an interesting effect at times--step phaser.....kind of glitchy and robotic sounding--using the harmonics at the 5th, 7th and 12th frets. EBow was mentioned before, and as you move further down the neck towards the headstock, i've found the harmonics to be more unpredictable, as they seem to either choose the actual harmonic, or a higher harmonic