Example of best use of a specific effect

[misterwhizzy]

All the chorus discussion recently made me think we need to discuss specific examples of stellar effect use, and I want to exclude overdrive, because all I can see from that is, "Well, his tone is good there, but I'll go better with this guy!" Let's just leave that out of the discussion.

I heard Flying High Again the other day, and the flanger that comes back after the solo when he goes back to the main riff sounds pretty perfect for the song and the effect. Any other good examples that come to mind?

[ArtieToo]

While I'm not a huge Duran Duran fan, they do have a couple of good songs. They do a nice flanger or phaser at the intro, and throughout, "Come Undone."

[superpete]

i don't know if it's the best, but i've never been able to use a delay pedal and not play the intro to welcome to the jungle

[PFDarkside]

i don't know if it's the best, but i've never been able to use a delay pedal and not play the intro to welcome to the jungle

Same for Chorus and Paradise City!

[beaubrummels]

Any 320ms / 340ms delay set to 50% with 2-3 repeats makes me start doing some U2 song

[Securb]

Somethings Happening Here by Buffalo Springfield has to be one of the most simple and perfect examples of tremolo.

[superpete]

voodoo child has to be one of, if not the, best use of a wah wah

[Liam1963]

Somethings Happening Here by Buffalo Springfield has to be one of the most simple and perfect examples of tremolo.

"For What It's Worth" is the song title, I've always loved that song! When I figured out that it was harmonics with tremolo, I thought I was a rockstar....

[Securb]

"For What It's Worth" is the song title, I've always loved that song! When I figured out that it was harmonics with tremolo, I thought I was a rockstar....

Yep, I thought I butchered the title. The other example I love of tremolo is Johnny Marr's How Soon Is Now. With the exception being it is not one effect but two Fender Twins set to different speeds.

[Erlend_G]

Good question...

I was going back-and-forth with my EHX Octavix Fuzz this evening-

either 0% "fuzz" and 70% "boost"-

or the other way around.

Two completely different.. pedals? :/ ... But I still think it sounds a bit too "IC" and modern for my "f'in" taste ....

...

To answer the OP:

I once brought a tape recorder deck home from the junkyard- plugged the cables in, and pressed "record" (with no cassette)... with bass guitar and bass amp.

...it was the fattest, dubbest, subbest BASS I've ever heard ...

...

..I hope my new EHX "Overlord" preamp will be "it" for my guitar rig! . I hope the mid controller EQ is voiced right. :/...

rock on \m/

[beaubrummels]

Jimi Hendrix' use of Octavia and Rotovibe are pretty quintessential uses of those sounds.
Brian May's use of a Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster
Jeff Beck's use of a Klon
Eric Clapton's use of Cry Baby (Hendrix and Frank Zappa also)
John Paul Jones use of whatever that was on his keyboard on No Quarter
similarly, Billy Joel's use of Chorus/Vibrato on his Fender Rhodes on Just The Way You Are
David Gilmour's use of amp tremolo on Money
Roger Waters use of tremolo and delay on his bass on One Of These Days
Pete Townshend's use of an EMS VCS3 'Putney' on a Lowery Organ to create Won't Get Fooled Again
Kurt Cobain's use of a Small Clone (Small Stone) on Smells LIke Teen Spirit
George Harrison's use of Leslie on lead guitar tracks (Eric Clapton following suit)
Dick Dale's use of Spring Reverb on everything
Tom Scholz' Hyperspace effect from Foreplay
Alex Lifeson's use of Chorus on Hemispheres, Signals and Power Windows
Jerry Garcia's use of Mu-Tron Envelope Follower / Auto-Wah on Terrapin Station

plenty more I'm just not thinking of. this is just off the top of my head.

[Mincer]

Andy Summers use of the Electric Mistress on every Police song.
Robert Fripp's tape delay/looping on his Frippertronics releases.

[Dave Locher]

The pretenders sure do compression and flange/chorus well.

I think "Run Through the Jungle" by CCR is good use of tremolo

[Securb]

The guitar solo in La Villa Strangiato is the ultimate use of a volume pedal.

[GuitarStv]

I don't know about best . . . but there are some sounds you immediately think of when you hear an effect.

Phaser - Breathe (Pink Floyd)
Wah - Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix), Bloody Well Right (Supertramp)
Tremolo - Bang Bang (Nancy Sinatra), Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)
Fuzz - Satisfaction (Rolling Stones), Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
Flanger - Walking on the Moon (Police)