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    Posted: December 16 2009 at 10:18

Instruments other than the guitar that use effects that are traditionally reserved for the guitar, like fuzz, guitar amps, volume and wah pedal. If you want to use bass guitar as examples that's fine also.

The bass intro to Black Sabbath "NIB" sounds like a bass guitar through wah pedal

The Beatles "Savoy Truffle" which is one heavily distorted production features a wall of sax sound heavily distorted or fuzzed.

King Crimson "21st Century Schizoid Man", I think also has distorted sax, fuzz bass and vocals

The Beatles would put pianos and harmoniums through their Vox guitar amps "Penny Lane" especially the feedback at the end is from a piano through a guitar amp and "Birthday with tremolo effects

John Cale would put guitar strings on his viola and you hear it on songs like "Venus In Furs" or the screeching sound that you hear on "Heroin"

 
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Dan Wright of Proto-Kaw would feed his organ through a wah pedal.  I've tried this out myself and managed some really cool results.
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Dave Stewart made the distorted organ into a trademark. My favorite of his work is on the Khan album, though he uses it through his work with Egg, Hatfield, and National Health.
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Well, Jon Lord played his Hammond through Marshall stacks, that should count!
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Points: 178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2009 at 16:39
Coolest I`ve tried is a Hmammond through a Big Muff pI, not good on chords but damn cool on solo`s.

I think lots of the distortion effects on say king crimson and other bands from that era was done on the mixing consoloes, lots of warmth in those days.
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I've never tried to run my Kawai K1 through an effects box.  I had a really neat one for my guitar though.  It was a Zoom 2020.
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I've never tried to run my Kawai K1 through an effects box.  I had a really neat one for my guitar though.  It was a Zoom 2020.


I used to own one of thoseWink
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I've run quite a few different instruments through my Electro-harmonix micro synthesizer. Cool stuff.
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What's awesome is putting the drums through some kind of effect, like in one of Dun's songs, don't remember which one but there's only four to pick from anyway. I think they used some kind of wah or phaser.
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The old Fender Rhodes Suitcase model had a stereo amp, upon which it was supported.  The Stage model had no amp.  So to get that classic swirly Rhodes sound, I always used a Small Stone phase shifter. 
 
Jan Hammer, 'round about the time of Meeting of the Spirits, used a ring modulator on his Rhodes. 
 
I'm not sure if either the phase shifter or the ring modulator were originally intended only for guitars, but Rhodes players in the early '70s utilized them.  At least until they could afford a Moog.
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I play organ through what used to be my guitar pedal board all the time.  That consists of delay/echo, overdrive, fuzz, wah, reverb(which organs already have...), phasers, flangers, wah, harmonizers, whammy pedal..etc.  Epic stuff
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The organ has benefited from lots of effect traditionnally reserved for guitars in the 70's.
Plus, with the growing use of synths, any effect can be applied, as synthetic sounds have no specific timber.
I think more "effects" are used with synths than with guitars! some don't even apply to guitars.

The other way around works as well. Synth-based effects are now used with guitars, mostly in experimental projects but also in specific passages in many "traditionnal" prog bands.
Devin Townsend and Steven Wilson have experimented with this a lot.
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Back in my short-lived heyday as a space rock keyboardist, I used to run my Farfisa through filters, ring mod, phase, and echo/delay pedals to create cosmic sounds and atmospheres.  Now I do the same with contact mics on percussion instruments and anything else that sounds interesting.  A world of possibilities, especially when coupled with extended techniques...
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cymbals and drum machines through tape delays, ring modulators and other such fine moog products always leave me satisfied.
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Something I experienced the other day that was quite interesting is we had my sax player going through my pedal board.  The whammy pedal using the harmonizer for octave down gave a very cool effect, especially when coupled with the delay.  This was even more amplified by the awesome effects we were achieving by bending the delay (tape delay imitation pedal).  Thats what it sounds like when a saxophone cries.
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Points: 512 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2010 at 13:06
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Dan Wright of Proto-Kaw would feed his organ through a wah pedal.  I've tried this out myself and managed some really cool results.


 
THAT sounds painful !!  WinkLOL
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Points: 4160 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2010 at 12:47
I'd like to hear some harmonizer on flute. Vocoder on Clavinet. Talk box on oboe. Leslie on accordion an mandolin. Delay on harmonica.

I'd like to ban chorus on guitars, especially for jazz ensembles.
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I love the electric violin put through some serious distortion and whatever other wacky guitar effects tickle my fancy.

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Did someone has use a distor with a microphone...? I'm thinking about it but Im curious if any other has try that and maybe has a track to share with me...?
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Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

Did someone has use a distor with a microphone...? I'm thinking about it but Im curious if any other has try that and maybe has a track to share with me...?


Isn't that how the vocals on Schizoid Man were done?  I could be mistaken...
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