Another Guitar Thread

[Synth]

Really, we need a sticky for guitars.

So appeerntly Eddie Van Halen is doing music for porns now. But, honestly it's the best I've ever heard out of eddie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpACZS0vSO4

My question is how in the hell is making that sound? I know theres a wah, but what else? It sounds like half of the notes are harmonics.

[Chavous]

He could have that, or it could be an octave pedal (check out Pink Floyd's "Marooned".) or even high feedback levels. Then again, I'm not expert so for all I know, they could be all harmonics.

[Fishy]

Sounds like a sustainer pickup to me. He probably has it on very high output, with a wah, and everytime he presses forward on the wah, it encourages feedback to make harmonics. For all we know he's probably recorded this about a metre away from his amp, so it could be as simple as shoving it close up every so often.

[Jagori]

I'm pretty sure Fishy's got it with the Sustainer suggestion, but it doesn't have to be feedback-based. They have a mode that fades into the 5th harmonic like that. I wanted to get a Fernandes guitar for the longest time just for that effect

[Sixto]

Yeah, it's a Sustainer. Switch it on and it lasts forever.

[Fishy]

I'm pretty sure Fishy's got it with the Sustainer suggestion, but it doesn't have to be feedback-based. They have a mode that fades into the 5th harmonic like that. I wanted to get a Fernandes guitar for the longest time just for that effect

Actually it doesn't fade in, it's almost instant from what I've heard. When the harmonics fade in is related to the wah position from what i can hear. I don't think he has the pickup in harmonic mode.