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Ok, so I've been using this in a live setting lately when I need a big, atmospheric tone. This is using the effects in my sig.
I have my amp distortion set to 5 (On channel two), so a nice grind. Reverb at 4. I set the flange to a deep, sloooow roll, put delay on about 5ms with 3 repeats, and then click on the wah.
Now my flange and wah produce similar frequencies at the bottom of thier ranges, that muddy, low tone. So I'll pick a few notes with my fingers and very slowly rock my wah while applying a mid-tempo vibrato through string bends. When the wah and flange frequencies meets, the guitar starts to feed back - but only slightly. The flange then comes out of that part of the loop and hit these high, glassy notes. It's so slowl that the repetitive "whoosh" isn't noticable, I just get these great moments of muddy, atmospheric feeback and then these glassy, smooth tones. I control everything with my wah and the vibrato. Very cool.
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Playing with a group that on one song wanted no guitar...so I looped volume swelled notes through my Vortex (with my reverb on 10). Very interesting, a single sustaining chord that goes on through out the whole song. Very U2/Radiohead-like.
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I use my Pandora to crank up max delay, reverb, echo, etc...
I can then play a single note or chord and it will echo forever. Its very fun playing with that.
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I always have a very basic setup, usually just my amp and guitar. The niftiest sounds I've made lately are by using a violin bow. Very Sigur Ros - like, lots of reverb. (Jimmy Page did it too, but I use it in a very different style then Page did). Big atmospheric tones are always cool. if I plug into a Fender Twin, I just crank the preamp volume, control whatever volume or dial in some overdrive with the guitar volume control, then just set the reverb all the way up, and play big open chords.
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Feedback.
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Originally Posted by skilletswitch Feedback.
Ah.. yes... feeeeedback.
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I made really high pitched feedback at band practice. I didn't know it was my guitar. I thought it was the drummer screaming.
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Originally Posted by skilletswitch Feedback.
oh yes...I've finaly got a controllable feedback setup (strat into tube screamer into blues driver into deluxe on "4")...so I've been using that lots (probably too much, but I like it!).
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I've been digging a sound that i've been working on. Delay doing triplets of whatever tempo, reverb (on the amp) set around 5-6, OD up a bit, gain set around 7-8 (low-gain amp it is), and wah set a bit higher then the midpoint to give it that really nasal tone. Awesomeness. I use it when i'm playing around with Third Day's Underwater.
I plan on getting at least a good chorus pedal in the next few months, maybe a flange. Then I can get some good liquidy and soaring sounds.
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try running your wah pedal backwards (just switch the inputs)
have fun with that one
seriously i always love clicking both effects on my H2O pedal on and going to town
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Originally Posted by Awzmgd117 try running your wah pedal backwards (just switch the inputs) As in, put the instrument cable through the amp jack? Sounds fun.
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Originally Posted by skilletswitch As in, put the instrument cable through the amp jack? Sounds fun.
I heard you can do damage that way.
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Originally Posted by niangelo I heard you can do damage that way.
I don't see how... There isn't really enough voltage involved to damage anything by just flipping ins/outs on a wah.
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having some nice saturation and hitting a high notes (~12th fret on high E) while manipulating them w/ a wah. kind of like an awkward swell b/c there are no bass frequencies for the wah to bring out so there's this cool "wheeerrh wheeeerrhh weeeerrhh" sound
i sound like a rusty swing set...