Miss Hick Chic...please have Jethro watch this and tell me what Martin, er, Mr. Sexton is using at 3 minutes and 24 seconds for that sound. All I can find in google is Moog Synthesizer. He used this at the concert I saw. It was the most amazing thing ever.
I want to be able to do this at home...all the time.
Wouldn't that be the best?
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I believe he is using a wawa pedal to distort the sound. You could do this at home if you have an electric guitar, an amplifer, speakers, and a wawa pedal.
Wow.
I didn't get Jethro to see it, but I'll try to chase him down tonight so he can watch it.
My first guess is that he's got a vocorder, but it doesn't look quite right. However, by the way he moves his leg, it does look like he stepped on a pedal, and if so Jo S is likely right and it's a wawa.
We have a wawa and I gotta tell ya, it's so cool. I can hardly play and I think I sound like frickin jimi Hendrix with that thing!
Mr Sexton is a stunning talent. I think next time you accidentally follow him down the street you should mention to him that he should come to Ontario to make his next record. That's what I think.
even tho his is singing?
it is not his guitar making that sound...it is his voice...
and? that was certainly no accident....if i ever get that chance again, i'm talking to him for sure!!!
Well, if you look at his hands, it's pretty clear that he's not playing any melody (just chords) on his guitar. What he's got rigged up is a sort of vocal version of a talk-box (think 'Frampton Comes Alive'). In this case though, he's singing a melody into a mic, and the mic signal is going down into some crazy distortion and multi-effects, and then coming back up a rubber tube and allowing a bit of mouth play over top.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSlRNLcfr8g
(Stevie kills... At one point, he's singing the melody, and soloing...)
I guess you would achieve this with two microphones. One that feeds the crazy effects chain, and the other that feeds the house PA.
Everything you sing into it, turns into crazy distorted fun.
Make any sense?
But bottom line is, as far as I can tell, it's a voice effect, not a guitar effect.
Yeah, whatever that thing is, it's independent of the guitar. I saw the vocalist of Nazareth use something years ago that was like a talk box only for voice. Pretty cool thing, amazing tone.
Yeah, check out this Nazareth video for Hair of the Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEG0-3xlAkg&feature=related
hmm, dilling that sounds like a tough one to pull off at home. good luck :)
thanks, everyone...and thanks for the links to see all the music, too! What a great way to spend my coffeetime this morning.
Lexiloo? this is how i want to answer the phone, the door, talk to the dog, to people at work, etc.
sad, but true.
thanks, Jethro...
when we saw him in concert, he would just sing like a madman into that mike, and all those wicked guitar sounds came out instead of the words but somehow, the music was more than music because it was words too...does that make sense?
Makes sense to me, and it's AWESOME!
(I now want to answer the phone that way too!)
Hair of the Dog is one of my favourite songs ever. That and Back in the Saddle by Aerosmith were my alarm clock for one whole year of high school. I should blog about that...
Love the Nazareth video. The old rubber tube in the mouth vocorder thing - I think that's how Richie Sambora did Livin on a Prayer. Although I suspect that performance of Hair of the Dog might have been to a TV mix. It sounds EXACTLY like the record... and clearly I have been living with Jethro too long if I start saying things like that!!!
hey dilling,
did you sell your bus when you were last in the states?
http://kellyraeroberts.blogspot.com/
it would be too weird of a coincidence. its a really nice bus and she has beautiful pictures of it.
lexiloo~that is a sweet one and in much the same pristine condition as ours, but no way are we selling!
Ours is a little more yellow, like the yellow of the poptop canvas, but the interior is exactly the same plaid!
Here is a link to a wikipedia article on a number of voice effects, such as the talkbox, sonovox, linera prediction coding, any of which would be awesome to answer the phone with :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_voice_effects
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