Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

[britishgeetah]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

i tend to use boss multifx for it...this is something i recorded with some slow-gear'd fady reverbs with 100% wet signal (some pitch transposing too, it sounds like): http://www.hazardfactor.com/collectives/lapwing.mp3

Dang, that sounded so cool...And again, thanks for all the recommendations for effects and bands, guys! This forum is really helpful to me!

 

[Mincer]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

yeah, plain wah gets to me after awhile. for me, it is more fun to play with than actually listen to. I do use the sweep echo on the line6 for auto wah- just turn delay to 0, time to 0, feedback 0, 100% wet and set the rate to taste...
you can get chorus this way too, using the mod echo.

 

[Kivitel]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

I don't normally advise people to do drugs, but to understand psychedlics, you really ought to try them at least once (small dose in a good setting, not for everybody and certainly not kids). It's not all flowers and space ships and stuff like that, it is far more profound (and afterwards, far more stupid).

For me, when I think of a psychedelic sound, I think of Kieth Richards playing all country rock through a twin reverb on Exile on Main Street and thinking "man that damn guitar is exactly like what a really watery seedy tomato tastes like but in my ears". Or listening to Beethoven and getting nervous about colliding with the alps. Or listening to an airplane go overhead and suddenly the cat has huge owl eyes, except her eyes are like sunflowers, all spiralling, brighter orange than you can ever understand, judging you, but you and the cat get along so that's cool, and everything is divisible by eight, and the king of eight who has 8s for eyes sees you but he doesn't see you he sees 8 (believe me it's hard to describe, but you are eight) and everytime a particle in the universe moves it makes a sound like a harpsichord but like if a harpsichord was all the tendons in your body.

I'm pretty sure they don't make an effects pedal for that.

 

[baritone]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

I like the sound of this chain:
amp < reverb < tremolo < delay < flanger < distortion < compressor < guitar
It creates the sound of helicopters, jets, and UFOs battling during a storm.

 

[Corbic]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

I don't normally advise people to do drugs, but to understand psychedlics, you really ought to try them at least once (small dose in a good setting, not for everybody and certainly not kids). It's not all flowers and space ships and stuff like that, it is far more profound (and afterwards, far more stupid).

For me, when I think of a psychedelic sound, I think of Kieth Richards playing all country rock through a twin reverb on Exile on Main Street and thinking "man that damn guitar is exactly like what a really watery seedy tomato tastes like but in my ears". Or listening to Beethoven and getting nervous about colliding with the alps. Or listening to an airplane go overhead and suddenly the cat has huge owl eyes, except her eyes are like sunflowers, all spiralling, brighter orange than you can ever understand, judging you, but you and the cat get along so that's cool, and everything is divisible by eight, and the king of eight who has 8s for eyes sees you but he doesn't see you he sees 8 (believe me it's hard to describe, but you are eight) and everytime a particle in the universe moves it makes a sound like a harpsichord but like if a harpsichord was all the tendons in your body.

I'm pretty sure they don't make an effects pedal for that.

I'm sorry, but suggesting to try drugs to understand psychedelia? I've never done drugs and I can understand psychedelia pretty well. Sure, I've never had a crazy acid trip during DSOTM or White Room, but I have a pretty good idea of it from listening to the songs.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

Enevelope filters, flangers, phasers, delay...several of them!
Reverb, ringmodulators, some fuzz pedals, a leslie sim or the real deal, univibe,
and a one or two compressors.

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

Enevelope filters, flangers, phasers, delay...several of them!
Reverb, ringmodulators, some fuzz pedals, a leslie sim or the real deal, univibe,
and a one or two compressors.

Hey RID, I've always had a good deal of respect for you as an effects builder and player, so I'm wondering if you just use pedals as they come and go, or if you have a pedalboard with your favorites. I've pretty much kept the same pedalboard for years, but there's a few slots on it that are a revolving door.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

Ah mostly I tend to keep the same in some variation, the only thing that has stayed the same for about a decade is my old CM compressor, I use two now, an optical and the traditional one.
I have OD's in all kinds of variations, low gain, high gain, mostly a bunch of prototypes, I still have my Ibanez FC-10 Fat Cat, slightly modded, and a MT-10 Ibanez Metalcharger overdrive, Boss DS-1, also slightly modded, always had a DS-1, oldstyle distortion, I also always have one kind of TS-style pedal at hand, right now I have kept my TS-10 and it is just modded to OD-808 specs, my old 80's Yamaha FL-100 I also keep, had a Ibanez RC-99 for some years as well, sold it a few months ago, no need for it anymore, Thomas made me a killer analouge chorus/flanger, I have a Red Repeat delay, a Crush Zone distortion, Surf Trem tremolo, a modded Delayla XL, a Delayla(gave that one to Alex), a Plexitone stock, and an AC-tone that is modded into something entirely else
Boss OD-3, Marshall Guv'nor(it is in a terible shape right now, needs a touch up)
An old old CM Parametric eq, and the Contour and Boost midshaper eq pedal.
Well I have an EH Memoryman that I have used for quite a few years as well,
an old Yamaha rack analouge delay, an old Roland SD-1000 somewhere??
Also have some old Ibanez 10 style casing delay, it is just entirely in metal and has two secs of delay..nice thing!
Doh I got too much crap floating around!!
I use the two compressors, the Plexitone, either my Red Repeat or the modded XL for delay, I also use my 4 in one effect, the Quattro quite alot,
an a modded HDB that I use for that middy TS-style drive, it just has quite a bigger range than a trad Ibanez, my Boss OD-3, Crush Zone, all these I use alot right now, along with my chorus/flanger and my Yamaha FL-100 flanger.
The amps I use the most right now is my SPAC-15 with a closed cab Jensen 15" speaker, or a Rooster 55 CM amp, that is a crossbreed between a Hiwatt and a Marshall it has a single 12 Jensen CN12Q speaker, or I use it with both my 4x12 cabs, one with G12H and one with V-30's.

 

[these_go211]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

MOOG MOOGERFOOGER MURF pedal! tremolos, phasers, shimmering, weird gurgling effects..... hard to describe. a ton of fun to experiment with. check out the moog site for sound clips. great overdrive as well.

 

[britishgeetah]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

I don't normally advise people to do drugs, but to understand psychedlics, you really ought to try them at least once (small dose in a good setting, not for everybody and certainly not kids). It's not all flowers and space ships and stuff like that, it is far more profound (and afterwards, far more stupid).

For me, when I think of a psychedelic sound, I think of Kieth Richards playing all country rock through a twin reverb on Exile on Main Street and thinking "man that damn guitar is exactly like what a really watery seedy tomato tastes like but in my ears". Or listening to Beethoven and getting nervous about colliding with the alps. Or listening to an airplane go overhead and suddenly the cat has huge owl eyes, except her eyes are like sunflowers, all spiralling, brighter orange than you can ever understand, judging you, but you and the cat get along so that's cool, and everything is divisible by eight, and the king of eight who has 8s for eyes sees you but he doesn't see you he sees 8 (believe me it's hard to describe, but you are eight) and everytime a particle in the universe moves it makes a sound like a harpsichord but like if a harpsichord was all the tendons in your body.

I'm pretty sure they don't make an effects pedal for that.

k, ill do that then

 

[britishgeetah]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

bmup

 

[Rich_T]

Re: Recommend the weirdest effects for Psychedelic rock!

I don't normally advise people to do drugs, but to understand psychedlics, you really ought to try them at least once (small dose in a good setting, not for everybody and certainly not kids). It's not all flowers and space ships and stuff like that, it is far more profound (and afterwards, far more stupid).

For me, when I think of a psychedelic sound, I think of Kieth Richards playing all country rock through a twin reverb on Exile on Main Street and thinking "man that damn guitar is exactly like what a really watery seedy tomato tastes like but in my ears". Or listening to Beethoven and getting nervous about colliding with the alps. Or listening to an airplane go overhead and suddenly the cat has huge owl eyes, except her eyes are like sunflowers, all spiralling, brighter orange than you can ever understand, judging you, but you and the cat get along so that's cool, and everything is divisible by eight, and the king of eight who has 8s for eyes sees you but he doesn't see you he sees 8 (believe me it's hard to describe, but you are eight) and everytime a particle in the universe moves it makes a sound like a harpsichord but like if a harpsichord was all the tendons in your body.

I'm pretty sure they don't make an effects pedal for that.

ha ha ha, awesome.

Yeah, get your Fuzz out for psych. the D*A*M Meathead is a great, great fuzz. I use an EHX memory man for my trippy delays.