What effects are on this clean tone?

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stratguy23

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This is my all-time favorite clean tone, and I thought I'd try to get in its ballpark.

It reminds me of The Cure. It's beautiful and deep, and, not normally being into clean tones, I have no idea what goes into it.

What's going on here? Chorus? Phaser? Some reverb?

FYI, this is a Finnish doom metal band called Dolorian. If you like this vibe, the whole Voidwards record sounds like this.

 
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Re: What effects are on this clean tone?

Cool - I have virtually no understanding of effects, since I'm usually just dirt-only. I had no idea effects could come after reverb.

What makes you say that phaser comes *after* reverb here?
 
Re: What effects are on this clean tone?

DrNewcenstein said:
Sounds like Chorus into Reverb, and the Reverb going into a Phaser.
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That sounds pretty metallic to me, so I'd guess Flanger instead of Chorus. Everything else seems spot on. Also seems to be playing on the bridge pickup.
 
Re: What effects are on this clean tone?

Phaser colors the Chorus, hence the metallic tone. Also the modulation is different. It's not swirly enough to be Flange. I wanna say Dimension C like on the intro to Welcome Home (Sanitarium).

As for how to tell where the effect is, listen to the decay.
With a fully modular setup (running the guitar into its own mixer), or with effects on each track in a DAW, you can assign the Reverb to a separate output channel and then apply effects to that, and mix it back into the main track. The effect on the Reverb track/channel won't overload the Chorus track that way when their sweeps both peak at once.
 
Re: What effects are on this clean tone?

DrNewcenstein said:
Phaser colors the Chorus, hence the metallic tone. Also the modulation is different. It's not swirly enough to be Flange. I wanna say Dimension C like on the intro to Welcome Home (Sanitarium).

As for how to tell where the effect is, listen to the decay.
With a fully modular setup (running the guitar into its own mixer), or with effects on each track in a DAW, you can assign the Reverb to a separate output channel and then apply effects to that, and mix it back into the main track. The effect on the Reverb track/channel won't overload the Chorus track that way when their sweeps both peak at once.
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Yeah, the verse tone of "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" is kind of like this one.

That makes sense about listening to the decay. I appreciate the sharp ears and knowledge!
 
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