Guitar effects on non-guitar instruments
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Topic: Guitar effects on non-guitar instruments
Posted By: Floydman
Subject: Guitar effects on non-guitar instruments
Date Posted: December 16 2009 at 10:18
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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.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 16 2009 at 10:29
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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. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: December 16 2009 at 10:49
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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. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Hanke666
Date Posted: December 16 2009 at 11:55
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Well, Jon Lord played his Hammond through Marshall stacks, that should count!
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Posted By: Nakatira
Date Posted: December 16 2009 at 16:39
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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. ------------- http://daccord-music.com/home.cfm |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 16 2009 at 21:06
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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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Posted By: Nakatira
Date Posted: December 16 2009 at 23:12
I used to own one of those  ------------- http://daccord-music.com/home.cfm |
Slartibartfast wrote:Posted By: synthguy
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 09:30
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I've run quite a few different instruments through my Electro-harmonix micro synthesizer. Cool stuff.
Adding flange to vocals can be fun. Basically, I'll try anything to get a "different" sound.  ------------- Wearing feelings on our faces when our faces took a rest... |
Posted By: DJPuffyLemon
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 11:31
| 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. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 14:51
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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. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 15:33
| 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 |
Posted By: mono
Date Posted: December 21 2009 at 04:01
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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. ------------- https://soundcloud.com/why-music Prog trio, from ambiant to violence https://soundcloud.com/m0n0-film Film music and production projects https://soundcloud.com/fadisaliba (almost) everything else |
Posted By: nightlamp
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 18:37
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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... |
Posted By: machinemusic
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 17:27
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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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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 18:04
| 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. |
Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: May 17 2010 at 13:06
THAT sounds painful !!   ------------- "...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..." |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 27 2010 at 12:47
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: May 27 2010 at 16:54
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I love the electric violin put through some serious distortion and whatever other wacky guitar effects tickle my fancy. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 19:17
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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...? ------------- |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 20:37
Isn't that how the vocals on Schizoid Man were done? I could be mistaken... |
Posted By: notesworth
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 22:04
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I wish people would use distorted electric piano more. It sounds great. Muse use it on "Feeling Good" but I doubt it's a real electric piano. Distortion's common for electric organs. A lot of modern bands use distorted bass, so much that it's nothing special any more.
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Posted By: CyberDiablo
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 07:21
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You can hear lots of "non-guitar but guitar like" instruments in Frank Zappa's songs. ------------- Music is some kind of art. -- Anonymous |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: June 22 2010 at 00:43
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There's the usual distorted-Farfisa on like, every canterbury album ever.
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