Hi,
I was listening to the Aquarium Drunkard Mixtape (https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/02/05 ... a-mixtape/), and a sound caught my ear.
At around 63:10, there is a pedal steel riff, and what seems to be some sort of flutter effect. I listened to the original record (Fonograf – Adam), and it's not there. So it really seems like they recorded it on tape and digitized it.
I really like that sound on pedal steel, do you know any effect pedal that replicates it? It seems that the El Capistan could do it, but this is a very costly one, wondering if there is any alternatives.
Thanks !
Tape Flutter Effect
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A lot of delay pedals can do modulation. This one seeks to emulate some famous sounds of the past:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... oper-pedal
I've never gone deep enough with it to say if it will get you the sound you're looking for but it has numerous flavors of warble (think David Gilmour, for instance) and is a good sounding unit.
Yes, El Cap is great but I sold mine because I just wasn't using its deeper features.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... oper-pedal
I've never gone deep enough with it to say if it will get you the sound you're looking for but it has numerous flavors of warble (think David Gilmour, for instance) and is a good sounding unit.
Yes, El Cap is great but I sold mine because I just wasn't using its deeper features.
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Those TC Electronics pedal seems to have a lot of option, it indeed looks like it could achieve the sound I'm looking for. I'd say the "Shaker" is closer to the sound I'm looking for, a high frequency vibrato with fast raise (to fully achieve the effect I'd probably need to add some sort of compression/crunch).
But I'm intrigued by your comment on old-school Hawaiian players doing this by hand. Do you have any record/video to point to? Would that be a "roll the bar" vibrato? It seems that kind of high-frequency vibrato are not very used by players nowadays.
But I'm intrigued by your comment on old-school Hawaiian players doing this by hand. Do you have any record/video to point to? Would that be a "roll the bar" vibrato? It seems that kind of high-frequency vibrato are not very used by players nowadays.
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What the Hawaiian stylists did was very exaggerated, but the idea is the same. You'd need to increase the speed and do a barely perceptible hand vibrato, maybe with some phaser added. That said, I do think you're reading an awful lot into this simple effect, as it lasts only a few seconds on that recording.
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If I understand the subject correctly, the MXR Carbon Copy was one of the first that I saw that had a "modulation" switch.
Now, several Electro Harmonix pedals do as well.
One more thing to try.
With your bar hand, try NOT damping the strings behind the bar.
It can give sort of a chorusing effect that may be what you're looking for.
Now, several Electro Harmonix pedals do as well.
One more thing to try.
With your bar hand, try NOT damping the strings behind the bar.
It can give sort of a chorusing effect that may be what you're looking for.