the "WTF was that" moment

[lordgalvar]

man this is one of their best tracks for sure. i'm pretty sure more of it than people might think is just his fingers, Agata is insanely good with slides and muted strumming and stuff and i noticed when seeing them like half of the wacky sounds were just extended technique and not pedals. he could play a set with 2 or 3 pedals and it would still sound wacky as hell.

I just figured that was always a given with Agata (the technique). I know I can't manipulate a guitar like him, but I actually tried the slide and brass picks a while back after a saw them...yea, haha, way harder than it looks to coax all those sounds. I always knew that pedals/effects are just an extension of a sound and shouldn't be the driving force behind a player, but I was always amazed by what he did with a pretty mudane setup.

[BoatRich]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTSz02UXjs[/youtube]
The opening riff to Plagues by Converge was a big one for me

[Ev_O)))]

Well.
I was 15 on a plane to Thailand with the family and I was scouring the in flight entertainment.
I came across Radiohead's Basement sessions for "The King of Limbs". All my mates had been like "dude have you heard Radiohead OK computer is so amazing gee wizz wow" and I remember listening to it and "The Bends" and being generally underwhelmed. But anyway I decided to watch this on a whim and BANG life changed. Up until that moment I was an acoustic player. Thoms long delay/loops definitely intrigued me to begin with but then I heard Ed's warm and short delay tone at around 33 seconds in and shit my pants. It was eye opening as fuck. Those two moments sent me down a dark dark rabbit hole. Clean delay. Warm dirty delay. Fucking LAYERS BRO. And that goes for the whole song. First time I heard horns used in a non jazz/funk/soul context. Everything plays a small vital role without dominating, which is a quality that I still strive for across ALL my musical projects to this day.

But Ed's guitar tone. Made me want to go and buy a pedal. I bought an original Echolution Phi as my first ever purchase. It's long gone but it started me off like a mofo.

I still don't like Radiohead that much. TKOL and Kid A I cherish but everything else I find a little "Regular" for want of a much much much better word.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2084nQbmvk[/youtube]

[rfurtkamp]

Yea, that's pitch-shifted delay with mediumish feedback. Could dial that in very fast on the Timebender (octave/two octave up fairly wet).

[Inconuucl]

Not exactly a "wtf was that" moment, because it's pretty straight forward, but it was an epiphany on what you can do with pedals.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEPEleJVjOo[/youtube]

[D.o.S.]

TIL I am the only member of ILF who wants that elusive bees in a vacuum cleaner guitar tone.

[rfurtkamp]

TIL I am the only member of ILF who wants that elusive bees in a vacuum cleaner guitar tone.

It's a good thing to have sometimes. Splat thud boom, I just blew a belt!

[Inconuucl]

Stick a beehive into a metal jar with pickups attached and wired, hit jar with a stick, plug into reverb. Easy.

[myrrh]

I have a lot of these, but this one comes to mind. Comes first at 2:31
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi9ocKz1T38[/youtube]
After scratching my head over it for like a year I found out it was the Borbetomagus horn section.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVHngQ5tOIs[/youtube]

[K2000]

TIL I am the only member of ILF who wants that elusive bees in a vacuum cleaner guitar tone.

The Mentally Ill used an original Superfuzz I believe. That guitar tone is legendary.

[lordgalvar]

TIL I am the only member of ILF who wants that elusive bees in a vacuum cleaner guitar tone.

The Mentally Ill used an original Superfuzz I believe. That guitar tone is legendary.

I thought I actually replied to that (just looked and I didn't, guess I forgot to press send). I actually hadn't heard that track or Mentall Ill in quite a while, but it is still awesome. As for equipment, K2000's guess is better than any I could give. If it is a Superfuzz, then that is awesome ('cause one is on the way!).

Crass always amazed me with the sounds they got out of the BeeBaa (Soni already solved that question for me). A lot of those old bands did a ton with such limited choices. Old Japanese punk has awesome tones all over it that make me wonder too (like complete static noise in Traquilizer or Confuse to the harmonic and shifted leads of Uchida).

[rfurtkamp]

My first "gotta get a mean octave fuzz" moment was in the late 80s when I got a bunch of albums at a thrift store and my rule was "if I bought the crate, I listened to everything *ONCE* before throwing it away or using it for target practice."

I had sent many Styx albums to meet their maker by 12-gauge skeet at the time.

I didn't expect any better when I put on Jefferson Airplane's "Crown of Creation."

Oh, how wrong I was.

[youtube][/youtube]

I had an Ampeg Scrambler a few months later after pounding a LOT of pavement to find one and being dissatisfied with the available Fuzz Faces and Muffs.

[JonnyAngle]

I may lose some cool points for this, but when I heard the solos for Bulls on Parade and Killing in the Name of my mind exploded.

[Teej212]

There's a ton of these for me, but this is the only one I can think of at the moment, starting at 3:45:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKZkkBFCceY[/youtube]


Now I'm pretty sure it's a guitar with a shit ton of gain and delay, then one of em screaming into the pickups at 3:57, but it had me stumped for a while. I love that sound.

love that song. I think its just a lot of pick scraping at extremely high gain into delay. i do think a lot of its sounding cool is just due to it being chaotic and random

[Chankgeez]

Fucking Chet:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE[/youtube]