best guitar sound effects

Spiderland is rife with some neato harmonics.

Volcano Suns "White Elephant"
lotsa Hendrix
Adrian Belew on King Crimson's Discipline album

and Chrome. That's it.

Contrary to what everyone says, Big Country's guitars did NOT sound much like bagpipes at all, and Stuart Adamson woulda said so himself (and often DID) if he hadn't died. (Really, now, just because they unison-droned a bit and were from Scotland, everyone thinks "Bagpipes!" If they'd come from India, with an identical sound, would everybody compare their guitars to sitars? Probably.) But if you get the chance, listen to Robert Fripp's solo on "Prince Rupert Laments" from King Crimson's Lizard: Now THAT sounds like pipes! Or, at least, more so than "In A Big Country."

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I imagine they'd be more likely to compare them with the "been"/"bin" or "pungi"/"punji" - traditional Indian snake-charmers' pipes which consist of two reeds; one of which is used for the melody and the other as a drone, in a manner very similar to the traditional Scottish bagpipes.

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I like michael's answer too.

And, as I am listening to an old Stax playlist, Albert King's fingers. Those were an amazing guitar effect.

Fennesz. He's so ENGAGED with that laptop.

graham coxon and johnny greenwood also have to many to get started with but, theres a bit on one song on 13 where graham jumps up to double distorted and its brilliant...copies at home so i can specify. also, just pumping the signal and altering the speed on a DD3 to produce the beat on "essex dogs" is a cute trick.....theres a solo somewhere where the notes seem to be flding into little origmi frogs on some song too....evidently its time to pull out the blur records again.

I do like the guitar sound in "Because."

Am still a sucker for the Ibanez thingy on that "What I Am" solo.

I'm a big fan of the Octavia, a la Hendrix. Put to great effect on that new Dungen record. There was a killer Octavia solo on "Choice In The Matter" on Aimee Mann's "I'm With Stupid" album.

Big fan of the Yamaha Spx90 reverse reverb that Kevin Shields employed to such good use.

Madly in love with what VSTs do to guitar sounds. I started rampantly experimenting with Cubase and a bundle of VSTs after getting deep into the likes of Fennesz and Rafael Toral.

I was going to mention MBV's "Don't Ask Why" for the reversed guitar sounds. I didn't know if that was studio tom-fuckery or something that can be done while playing.

these are i guess mostly just good tones.

Not that I don't enjoy a badass electric-guitar raga, because Yes I Do!

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The atmospheric, buzzing, wash that early Mogwai used in the quiet bits, which can be created by using running the guitar through a compressor and then a delay and simply putting your finger on a note and, without pucking the string , putting vibrato on the note. Does this have a name?