Violin Effects Pedal or "other"???

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Diminished Triad

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Is anyone familiar with whether there is an effect I can use to create or simulate a violin/fiddle sound?
My band wants to play The Devil Went Down To Georgia and so a couple of us will be playing Charlie Daniels' leads...but on guitar.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
 
Re: Violin Effects Pedal or "other"???

I think it would be cool with any singing, sustaining guitar sound, rather than try to replicate an actual violin. I think EH has their M9 Mellotron emulator, which has a violin setting- the problem is the attack...it seems to fade in, and you'd need a very quick attack. I'd just use some fancy EQ and use a regular guitar sound.
 
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The Mel9 would be completely wrong for this situation. The strings are extremely grungy sounding for playing country. I would use a neck humbucker with the tone all the way down and a thick fuzz for this kind of thing.
 
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When my band did it, I just used my tele on the bridge pickup and went for a twangy tone.
 
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One great way is to use volume pedal right after guitar to attenuate the attack. When you raise the pedal when picking and quickly swell each note in, you get that violin-like smoothness.
 
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I don't think you can play the fast stuff in that song with an Ebow. In fact, I'd love to watch someone try.
 
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or a volume pedal, no way you could swell each note on those fast runs. i think your best bet is to learn the part really well and just accept that you play guitar and not fiddle
 
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A lot of distortion with the Tone knob rolled back, lots of hammer-ons and pull-offs, maybe even 2-handed tapping, maybe even a pitch-shifter/harmonizer.

A felt pick to reduce the "click", but other than that, you're looking for a Strat set up with a 7" string radius at the bridge and a horsehair bow.

Hmmmm. You know those pocket/travel size dental floss things? Hmmm.
 
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If I was trying to replicate violin type pads and legato I agree with the ebow, volume pedal, fuzz and compressor method. For this song I'd just try to dial in an appropriate guitar sound, maybe as Newcenstein described.
 
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Thanks so much for the advice. Have lots of respect for Charlie Daniels and wanna try our best to get this one right.
 
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The Gizmotron is sort of like a hurdy gurdy for guitar, and still has the problem of the 'attack' being slow.
 
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As a viola player myself, I suggest tolling the tone down, distortion/fuzz low but present, and try to pick softly as to smooth attack.

The real trick is to get a cello to sound like a guitar. My school orchestra has been trying to get rid of the guitar parts I play for years now, and it never sounds right.
 
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jeremy said:
or a volume pedal, no way you could swell each note on those fast runs. i think your best bet is to learn the part really well and just accept that you play guitar and not fiddle
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Sure, it's impossible to nail fast runs that way. But it does work very well for creating violin-like tone.
 
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