Guitar effects

yourspaceholiday

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jA5OgZSGqww

Does anyone know what effect the guitarist is using at 2:50? I think it's some kind of fuzz, but it's definitely not something I've heard before.

blincoln

That is kind of an odd sound. Maybe fuzz through a highpass filter, then either palm muting or a gate to make it staccato? Maybe some fuzzed low notes that've been pitch-shifted up an octave or two by a pitch shifter or Green Ringer type of device? I guess it could also be a synth effect, like the ones that Roland/Boss have released where the device tracks the pitch of the incoming notes and then outputs a synthesized tone of the same pitch. If you ran a synthesized square wave through some light distortion it would probably sound like that. That last option seems a bit out of character based on the way the band looks, but I'm not familiar with them so maybe I'm wrong.

Zeon

Sounds like a shitty digital fuzz box, definately pitch shifted up 2 or 3 octaves, compressed, and then hes palm muting.

Ive got a digitech digital multi effect pedal that will make similar sounds, only because all of the digital effects are so badly emulated. You can probably pick one up for like 50 dollars if you wanted. Digital effects are fun for making noises youve never heard before, especially if youre into lo-fi kind of shit, but the downside is its really hard to work any of the more neat sounding effects into any sort of real song. I think those guys did ok there, even though im not really a fan of Devandra Banhart.

shutz

Reminds me of the guitar sound from the Beatles' Revolution. That was obtained by simply plugging the guitar straight into the console, with no DI box in-between (so that the levels were all wrong for that console.) That wouldn't even work with modern consoles because they react differently to being overloaded.

But if that guitarist has a stompbox that can more or less simulate that same kind of fuzz, ran his guitar sound through the highpass filter blincoln mentioned, and then probably through a heavy compressor or limiter, it would sound somewhat like that.

Instead of a highpass filter, it might be some sort of notch filter that only lets a certain octave through, with little to no harmonic content. That would make it easier for the subsequent fuzz to sound like that.