Okay, here is my next tone investigation:
The bagpipe-sounding guitar lines in the song "In a Big Country" by the band Big Country.
Delays set for really short repeats? Weird eq? Eventide strikes again??
I recall when the song was new they were asked how they got the guitars to sound like bagpipes and they just said "it's the melodies we play, not the guitar sound" and as a naive teenager I believed them but I heard that song today on the radio and I call bs! The sound is definitely processed to give a very specific tonal effect but I have no idea what's used.
Sorry, I can't link a video on my tablet but if you type "Big Country" it pops right up on YouTube. I just watched a live concert clip from 1983 and the lead guitar player seems to be playing through a Marshall half stack but he definitely has a few pedals on the floor and he is messing with them before each one of those runs. The singer/rythm guitarist doubles that line at one point but the rest of the time it's just one guitar and it still has that warbly sound. Chorus set really fast??
The bagpipe-sounding guitar lines in the song "In a Big Country" by the band Big Country.
Delays set for really short repeats? Weird eq? Eventide strikes again??
I recall when the song was new they were asked how they got the guitars to sound like bagpipes and they just said "it's the melodies we play, not the guitar sound" and as a naive teenager I believed them but I heard that song today on the radio and I call bs! The sound is definitely processed to give a very specific tonal effect but I have no idea what's used.
Sorry, I can't link a video on my tablet but if you type "Big Country" it pops right up on YouTube. I just watched a live concert clip from 1983 and the lead guitar player seems to be playing through a Marshall half stack but he definitely has a few pedals on the floor and he is messing with them before each one of those runs. The singer/rythm guitarist doubles that line at one point but the rest of the time it's just one guitar and it still has that warbly sound. Chorus set really fast??
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