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The other night I was playing around w/ wierd guitar effects and I started whistling the melodie to one of my bands songs into the pickups of my guitar, and I was wondering if there would be a way to make a whistling sound w/ effects?
I could of course just actualy whistle into my pickups on stage...but it looks kind of silly.
Any thoughts?
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yeah...i think it'd be rad to whistle into your guitar on stage.
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Yeah it would! Or you might be able to with octave +1, wah, and just solo the tune..
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Originally Posted by BlessedNinja The other night I was playing around w/ wierd guitar effects and I started whistling the melodie to one of my bands songs into the pickups of my guitar, and I was wondering if there would be a way to make a whistling sound w/ effects?
I could of course just actualy whistle into my pickups on stage...but it looks kind of silly.
Any thoughts?
Just whistle into your guitar. That would be 10x cooler than the split pickup, MIDI convertor, and synthesizer necessary to create a whistle noise from a picked note. I wouldn't now where to start if you wanted to do it with conventional effects.
Actually this might work....
Guitar played with a slide & picked with your fingers
--> Autowah
--> Reverb w/ long decay mixed at a low level... lots of high freq. content in the echo.
no distortion.
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Originally Posted by BlessedNinja I could of course just actualy whistle into my pickups on stage...but it looks kind of silly.
You could whistle into a mic. Pretty complicated but I think it might work. *You know how to whistle, don't you, BlessedNinja? You just put your lips together and...blow.
*quoted from Slim, To Have and Have Not ;-p
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[quote=slap_j]You could whistle into a mic. Pretty complicated but I think it might work. *You know how to whistle, don't you, BlessedNinja? You just put your lips together and...blow. [quote]

Then I would have to hook it up to my amp, find a way to add distortion, flange, delay, and make it sound like I'm whistling through my pickups. You wouldn't happen to know of a vocal effect that does all of these would you?
I'm not trying to produce a CD quality whistle through my amp, just a whistle-esque sound....like if you whistled through your pickups into a high gain distortion channel(kinda like mine )
I like the auto-wah Idea and I think I'll play around w/ that tonight, would you recomend I put in before the amp or in the effects loop?
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Originally Posted by BlessedNinja Originally Posted by slap_j You could whistle into a mic. Pretty complicated but I think it might work. *You know how to whistle, don't you, BlessedNinja? You just put your lips together and...blow.

Then I would have to hook it up to my amp, find a way to add distortion, flange, delay, and make it sound like I'm whistling through my pickups. You wouldn't happen to know of a vocal effect that does all of these would you?
I'm not trying to produce a CD quality whistle through my amp, just a whistle-esque sound....like if you whistled through your pickups into a high gain distortion channel(kinda like mine )
I like the auto-wah Idea and I think I'll play around w/ that tonight, would you recomend I put in before the amp or in the effects loop?
You could try both places with the auto-wah, but if you're going to use the high-gain channel on your amp, my gut instinct is that it would sound better pre-amp. Autowah works by tracking the volume peaks you your signal... a heavily distorted signal is ALL peaks, so it might not give you enough WAH, and would act more like a sort of warbly, but mostly fixed frequency mid boost.
Another thought... its expensive to experiment with if you don't have one... but have you considered whistling into a talk-box? Probably not the sound you're going for, but now that I understand you want it to be heavily distorted, I'm having a hard time imagining this sound anyway.