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

[William Ancell <thebilbicus@yahoo.co.uk>]

He was using a POG, a Boss Tremolo pedal, a TS9 and a Boss DD9 (I think) at
the Glasgow show some years back. He was getting church organ sounds out of
the POG combined with the delay.

To be honest, with the myriad of effects
available these days, even the most uncreative and lazy guitarist (i.e.
someone like me) can produce
really-quite-more-impressive-than-the-effort-implies guitar sounds.

I'm using
a DIgitech HM2 Harmonist right now with a Boss DD20 and a Boss OD20. Combined
with my envelope filter, I can get everything from strangulated space-cat
yowling to lava running down the side of a mountain.

But you can't beat a
Fender guitar right into a good Class A valve amp, IMHO. Will forever be the
bees knees for me.


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From: Maurice Rickard
<maurice@me.com>
To: tv@obbard.com
Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2011, 17:28
Subject: Re: (TV) 2 Qs on Effects (Guitar or Other?) On Song "Brief
Description"

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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