What's going on with the trippy riff in Three Strange Days?

[Dave Locher]

https://youtu.be/onjaC3A2xjk
I have "Three Strange Days" by School of Fish stuck in my head and I'm trying to figure out what effect or effects is/are used on the trippy riff that repeats throughout the song.
Is it just really heavy eq? Some fuzz? Oddly cocked wah?
It's a little hard to tell because there is so much production on the song, but that riff just sounds weird to me. Super saturated and nasal.
In the video the player is wielding a Junior with the P90, but that doesn't mean much. To me the rhythm part sounds Gibson & the riff sounds like a Tele but in the video it's the other way around.

 

[Securb]

Sounds like it is reversed like the WARP setting on the BOSS DD6

Or this

 

[beaubrummels]

They're using different guitars on every vid I can find, include live ones where it sounds pretty consistent (one was a Les Paul, another a Gretsch Country Gentleman). I could see a Peavey head and 2x12 in one of the live vids. When my band played this song I just used EQ to get the tone. He plays the lead live by hammering harmonics on the neck, but it's a reverse track on the original recording.

 

[Dave Locher]

So lots of saturation and eq and either reversed or simulated reverse? I guess that explains it. Thanks!

 

[beaubrummels]

He might be using a particular fuzz/rat/dirt pedal. I just don't know what it is. I had to work it out with the amp I had, so just used EQ to get as close as I could.

 

[NegativeEase]

Always loved that riff.

In the beginning, thats not a pedal effect -thats the entire track recorded in reverse.

It sounds like they then tracked the guitar riff both forward AND backward and combined them for the rest of the song (not at the beginnning)

Definitely some clipping and EQ added and maybe chorus and harmonizer

I mean the song is about tripping on acid ....so the production fits in that regard right.

 

[beaubrummels]

Probably could fake the reverse sound with a noise gate where you control the duration of the gate opening, then just kick off that pedal during the rhythm parts.