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[Jack_TriPpEr]

This question is about the beginning riff to this song.

https://youtu.be/VT5SoBCWXAo

** But very particularly, the strummed chord that ends each line. To my ears, that strummed chord has a unique attack to it, like either it was plucked by fingers, or hybrid techniqur, or there is a Compressor in use that delivers the right amount of squish. Does anyone else hear that last chord sounding like it has a different attack to it like i do? And know what FX or technique is needed to duplicate it?

For the other single notes in that riff, i am hearing a chorus effect in use, and have dialed in a matching chorus effect from my pedalboard.

 

[LLL]

Definitely compression.

Standard to put compression on clean guitar.

Isn't this an 80's tune? The clean tone, which is almost Rockman-like, and chorus screams 80's.

 

[Mincer]

It is a compressed clean sound with what sounds like a Dimension pedal.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Definitely compression.

Standard to put compression on clean guitar.

Isn't this an 80's tune? The clean tone, which is almost Rockman-like, and chorus screams 80's.

Yep, it's from the late 80s.

Do you have any recommendations for settings of the Compression, Threshold, Attack and Release knobs that would get this tone?

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

It is a compressed clean sound with what sounds like a Dimension pedal.

Do you think most other compressors could get this tone, or no, the Waza Dimension C is the only one that can do it? What makes the Dimension pedal different than other compressors?

[EDIT]: I just found this Anderton's writeup which seems to spell out the diff nicely: two vs just one delayed signals, plus no swirl/modulation.

https://blog.andertons.co.uk/learn/what-is-the-boss-dimension-c-chorus-and-how-does-it-work

 

[Mincer]

The Dimension is a chorus-type pedal, although one that arrives at a chorus sound without a ton of modulation. It really is its own thing. As far as compressors go, it doesn't sound like a particular compressor. I'd think any compressor can make clean electric guitar sound like that.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Thanks.

So apparently only a Dimension C or one of the better copycats can get that sound.

Anyone familiar w the copycats? Any of them really sound close to the Dimension C?

These are the four identified in that Anderton's article:

 

[Mincer]

Keep in mind that most Boss multi-effects, as well as the Line 6 M-series and HX Effects have Dimension models. It really needs to be in stereo to 'hear' it properly.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Keep in mind that most Boss multi-effects, as well as the Line 6 M-series and HX Effects have Dimension models. It really needs to be in stereo to 'hear' it properly.

I have and use a BOSS MS3. Just checked it. It doesn't have any kind of effect in the Modulation list named like Dimension.

 

[Mincer]

You might have to look at something a little later than an MS3. If you can set a chorus without a ton of out-of-tune wobbliness, then that would be close.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Thanks

 

[beaubrummels]

You need a soft-knee compressor so the initial pluck gets through before the compressor clamps down on the after-ring sustain part of the sound.

You can simulate a Dimension C if the chorus has a mix and speed control. Minimize the speed to like a Leslie rotary speaker speed and back off the mix a bit and it should get into the territory.