Re: (TV) 2 Qs on Effects (Guitar or Other?) On Song "Brief Description"

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@me.com>]

Hi Leo!

Tapping: sounds to me like Ficca doing some light rim shots and a
light press roll or something, sent through a plate reverb.  Or possibly Tom
tapping on a guitar with a piezo pickup or very microphonic pickups, again
sent through a plate reverb.  But the pitch-changing one sounds like pressure
on a drum head.  Billy's done that in "Torn Curtain."

Organ-like sound in 12,
it could easily be a guitar through an amp with the tremolo cranked up.  There
might be a bit of vibrato on there; I know Tom's talked about using amps with
"real vibrato."  Or maybe he's using an EHX HOG or POG, which add harmonics to
the sound, making for very organ-like tonalities.  Very low in the mix, so
it's hard to tell. Certainly there's a lot of sustain, which on a guitar could
be anything from careful amplification, to compression, to non-microphonic
feedback, or even E-bow.  Hard to know for sure, but not way outside the usual
bag of tricks.

Best,
M

On Nov 02, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Leo Casey
<LeoCasey@comcast.net> wrote:

On the cd, "Around" 's track 2, entitled 'Brief
Description' in addition to
Verlaine's nice guitar playing there are two
strange sounds or 'effects'. 
 

Could Verlaine be turning the
tuning-pegs/string-posts on a second guitar
and second guitar track, or doing
something else to get this strange effect?

Also on tracks 12 and 15, 'A
Burned Letter' and 'New', respectively,
sometimes it sounds like there is an
organ playing quietly in the
background. But the "Around" credits make no
mention of keyboards, just
Ficca on drums, Patrick Derivaz on bass, and
Verlaine on guitar. If not an
organ, could this be a guitar mimicking a
keyboard? 
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