Fripp/Eno Guitar fx question NOT frippertronics...

plus he's a very talented guy, always was. listen to the recently put out cd of giles/giles/fripp demos. he tears shit up.

for my money Manzanera blows Fripp away as far as rock-action on the early Eno and Roxy albums though... very underrated guitarist.

Been meaning to check out more Manzanera solo, recently heard a track w/ Eno that was way cool.

I guess I was thinking the more obvious filtery machine gun stuff on songs like Blank Frank. This: "It's like a single note that just sustains and isn't all distorted but has a slight buzz to it." makes me think of the song "Here Come the Warm Jets" which sounds to me like several overtracked guitars with a mild fuzz on them with each track being bandpass filtered a bit differently. So on their own each track might sound kind of small and weedy but added together it gives this big wide full sound. But maybe you're talking about something like the solo on Blank Frank which sounds like a typical rock guitar sound but with some extra special something added.

I have a Juno 160. Is there a way to run a guitar through that and process it?

Machines like the Arp 2600 and VCS are of a totally different breed, older more flexible patchable synths. The trend has come back though, I know some recent synths allow processing of inputs. I've been intrigued by the Nord Modular/Micro Modular, where you could program a vocoder patch or any kind of patch using the audio input.

I've been trying to determine if I'd be happier processing my guitar through a bunch of Moogerfoogers or through a synth. Maybe I should look into to synth processing options.

"Everyone who's played the song with Bowie since then has had to use an E-bow to duplicate it, but Fripp had a technique in those days where he measured the distance between the guitar and the speaker where each note would feed back. For instance, an 'A' would feed back maybe at about four feet from the speaker, whereas a 'G' would feed back maybe three and a half feet from it. He had a strip that they would place on the floor, and when he was playing the note 'F' sharp he would stand on the strip's 'F' sharp point and 'F' sharp would feed back better. He really worked this out to a fine science, and we were playing this at a terrific level in the studio, too. It was very, very loud, and all the while he was playing these notes - that beautiful overhead line - Eno was turning the dials and creating a new envelope and just playing with the filter bank. We did three takes of that, and although one take would sound very patchy, three takes had all of these filter changes and feedback blending into that very smooth, haunting, overlaying melody which you hear."

http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/press/00/041001sosheroes.htm

Songs Wherein a Guitarist uses an E-Bow