How to get this effect?

[ikekie]

Hi all,

Not sure if I am posting in the right section, so please notify me if it is the wrong place to post.

I am trying to find out about a particular effect, and how to get this kind of sound.

Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY0HAjQNVf4

You can hear it near the start of the video, from 0:08 to 0:22. It happens again, at around the 1:53 mark.

Cheers!

 

[carboxymoron]

Sounds like any normal fuzzy distortion. If you're talking about the filter that makes the guitar sound "far away" or through a loudhailer, for this video it's done in post-production when he's editing/mixing the sound, not using a pedal. But you can achieve it using band pass filter pedals. I have an Ibanez LF-7 Lo Fi which has high and low pass filters, you can simulate loudhailer, telephone, and radio kinda tones.

 

[ikekie]

Oh... post-production huh? I was hoping there would be something like a volume pedal for such an effect for live gigs. Thanks anyway!

 

[carboxymoron]

The Eventide Modfactor could possibly do the filtering (never tried one in person), with expression pedal control. Or I'm sure you could rig something up with a good multieffect like a POD HD500. If not the Ibanez LF-7 is pretty cheap although it's just on/off.

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

yup, that telephone / loudhailer effect can be done using band pass filters. might be able to do it with a graphic eq also but not to such an extent. the part where the swells seems to come in is a normal filter with sweeping frequency. should be able to achieve with the effects available in the pod hd500