Jongpil Yun
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I'm getting a push button momentary killswitch. Chris Broderick has one on his awesome RG.
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'New Born' by Muse...the solo uses the whammy in a serious way.
Are you sure it's a whammy- I'm not familiar with the song but the Muse guy has chaos pad type thing built into his guitar which makes similar noises to a whammy, could be that?
Matt mostly uses the Sweep Echo setting on the Line6 Delay Modeler. This setting is a combination of an echo/delay and a filter (similar to a phaser). It can be heard most noticably during the live intro of Bliss, and throughout numerous other songs when playing live.
The effect used on the solo of Sober is that of the Lovetone Meatball. It is primarily an envelope filter but allows you to manipulate many more parameters than conventional filters. Details and sound samples can be found on the Lovetone website.
The strange solo effect on the recording of Dark Shines is the Trumpet Effect featured on the Roland VG-8.
The solo effect of Newborn is obtained by using the Digitech Whammy set to 1-octave up.
The Muscle Museum intro is achieved by using the 1-octave up harmony setting of the Digitech Whammy.
The solo of Sunburn features the Digitech Whammy set to raise the pitch by 2-octaves as well as a slight delay.
Numerous songs on Showbiz, namely Fillip, Cave and Uno feature pitchshifting effects at the start, again obtained using the Digitech Whammy.
Despite what the official tab book might say, Sing for Absolution is played with a capo on the 2nd fret. The compressed wah sound in the solo is a Foxx Tone Machine, an old fuzz wah pedal from the sixties. The signal went from the guitar, to the pedal, then into a stereo delay going out to two different amps with different distortions on each delay, similar to the guitar setup used in the solo of Hysteria.
Thoughts of a Dying Atheist uses a capo on the 10th fret.
If anyone has a question regarding the effects that Matt uses or any queries as to a specific effect used in a song please feel free to e-mail me and I shall post them on this page - xoxdaniel@fobbedoff.netxox
Are you sure it's a whammy- I'm not familiar with the song but the Muse guy has chaos pad type thing built into his guitar which makes similar noises to a whammy, could be that?
Actually, now I think about it, there's one bit in 'Judith' that I'm sure must be played with a whammy pedal...I'm going to dig that out again now and have a listen!![]()
All i have to say was Dimebag was the king of the whammy pedal, That is how he reaches those signature fuckin high pitched Dime screams (i love doin those)
man, i never knew that judith had a whammy in it, that the only song on the cd that uses it? , isnt that album tuned down 1 and a half steps?
He used the floyd rose whammy bar to get the high pitched squeals, not the whammy pedal: YouTube - Dimebag Squealing Lessons