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Lots of cool effects in this song... tremolo, phaser, ...

What do you think is happening at 1:26?

Could that be phaser + fuzz... or maybe some kind of filter?

This is my favorite Tom Verlaine album!

Sounds like fuzz->phaser to me. Not that I think its the exact phaser, but it does sound very Small Stone-like.

PumpkinPieces wrote:Sounds like fuzz->phaser to me. Not that I think its the exact phaser, but it does sound very Small Stone-like.

Almost sounds like it's being manipulated though, like it's expression controlled. Bad Stone?

Jero wrote:

PumpkinPieces wrote:Sounds like fuzz->phaser to me. Not that I think its the exact phaser, but it does sound very Small Stone-like.

Almost sounds like it's being manipulated though, like it's expression controlled. Bad Stone?

Yeah, or Bi-Phase (or BEZ Street Sweeper ).

An old magazine article has this to say:
"TELEVISION SET LIST For the new Television album TOM VERLAINE relied mostly on his trusty Fender Jazzmaster and Stratocaster, the latter often used for chording. Also appearing were a Vox "with a vibrato arm that wouldn’t stay in tune," a hollowbody Gibson and hollowbody 12-string Harmony - "they’re much better than people give them credit for." For effects, Verlaine employed "a lot of little whacky ‘60s boxes… generally not featured on the main part of a song, but a little bit that comes and goes." Among them were an Electro-Harmonix delay, a Fender Dimension 4, a Musitron and a tube Echoplex "that was in a fire and the plastic melted off. So sometimes it distorts and sometimes it doesn’t." His amplifier was a Valv-O-Tronics, a new tube amp made by Television techie Robert Derbie. Tube fan Verlaine also used old Ampeg, Danelectro and Sears Silvertone amps."

"In concert, Verlaine plays through either Fender Super Reverbs (also used on Marquee Moon) or Vox AC30s, but for Television he went with a Valvotronics tube amp made by the group's amp technician Robert Darby, although Super Reverbs, an Ampeg Jet, and a Silvertone amp all made their way into the mix. For effects, he brought his usual "trunkload of total garbage stuff", which includes Echoplexes used as preamps, "just to goose it up." Verlaine's full-bodied tone starts with the strings: What began as a way to keep his Jazzmaster in tune has become a wide proposition—.015s or .014s on the top to .054s down low."

So I'm gonna say Mutron BiPhase and the ol' Echoplex preamp.

Thanks!
So probably a BiPhase with the foot controller.