What's this noise then?

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Tech Question:

What effects are used to make this resonating/beating guitar sound?
http://www.coqaa.org/junk/heyman.mp3

Give me pedals & levels if you can ...

Free beer if you can name the performer.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Resonating/beating may be a red herring... forget that part...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

the speakers on the work computer are shit, but that sounds like fuzzed up guitar going thru a wah-wah pedal (actually it sounds like a "wasp in a tin") Who is it? It sounds kind of sundial-ish.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Bardo Pond?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Just what Pashmina said - it's a heavily distorted guitar going through a wah wah which is being rocked back and forth very very fast to create the distinct changes in timbre.

It sounds vaguely familiar actually. Sounds a bit like the middle section of "Medicating angels" by Ultra Vivid Scene, but it's not that.

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

So that's just distortion + Wah? For some reason, I didn't think it was pedal-action .. I thought it was resonating - like an aural illusion due to paired frequencies... I'll try it, sounds more complicated that that to me though ...

Hint: mp3 name is song name... Cover

..OK , it's Frontier - covering Hey Man - Spacemen 3.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

a very very fast foot though don't you think.

or no, he's picking fast triplets. the wah rock
seems about standard wah rock speed. he's real
good as a guitar player.

― dz, Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know, sounds like there's a deep chorus in the chain somewhere - the guitar is 'wobbly' sounding.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 6 November 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

its a Univibe with a pedal accuated speed control. It's NOT a wah-wah.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 7 November 2003 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not thinking wah but instead one of those kinda useless boss things called...

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

shit i can't remember, but it's like an auto-wah where the wah effect is controlled by how sharply the notes are struck.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

t-wah?
kevin shields used one on 'loveless'

― joni, Friday, 7 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like a resistance gate or something... there was a crappy boss pedal about 10-15 years ago.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

T-wah, generically called an envelope filter, cf (better versions) frostwave funk-a-duck, lovetone meatball. They sound great on drum machines.

it still sounds like someone doing the old shaky-foot on a wah wah pedal to me.

seek ye also "apollo" from sundial's album "acid yantra" (which is great)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

envelope filter is it! thank you pashmina.

it sounds like a really overdriven signal run through a crappy envelope filter with the guitarist strumming somewhat streamlined at first and then more vigorously.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I get that sound with crunch and wah on my Behringer V-amp. What year is the song from?

― Shaun (shaun), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

'round about 1998.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 7 November 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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