listing all strange sound tricks-part 2

Remote Control Sounds

from pedman@bellsouth.net
To do this take a remote control for your T.V. or something and with the volume on your guitar turned up, press one of the buttons on your remote. You should here a weird kind of beep. Also, different remotes will give you different sounds.

Blips III


by Vince Malave - vmalave@ptdprolog.net
I've been experimenting with controlling microphonic feedback. First, you need to get your guitar's pickups to squeal. I use a cheap strat for this. Then adjust volume and gain until it squeals uncontrollably (try several distortion devices if one won't do it, and put the pickups as close to the speaker as possible). Now to control it you'll need a pedal. With a wah, you can play a note, and raise the pedal to make it sustain into a squeal. I discovered this this with a Boss flanger, set all the knobs about half-up, then make it squeal. You should hear all these blips that rise and fall in sequence. You can also try using the tone knobs to control the "blips".


Plane Diving

from jimi@henge.com
I just got my first amp today and came across this site... This is the sound of a plane pulling up and then quickly losing altitude (in my opinion:) You set the pickups to the neck and slide a bottle neck from the bridge to the neck with lots of distortion.. You could probably simulate engine problems with the tremolo.. Enjoy!

Here's a very COOL .WAV File plane.wav - .WAV File 148K

Moggio's Bag of Tricks

from - lzrdking@zianet.com
Church Bells

You grab the g-string with your left hand ring finger and pull it over the b-string. Make sure their touching each other and then pluck them. It sounds just like a church bell. Try overdubbing a few tracks and you'd be surprised how great it sounds.

Helicopter

Turn guitar volume down, and also push your whammy bar down to an almost slack position with your left hand wrist. Slowly start tremolo picking with your right hand and then slowly turn up the volume with your left. As your doing all this slowly start to release and reapply pressure with the left wrist on the whammy. You get(especially very loud distorted guitar)a giant WWIII Helicopter sound! Experiment!

Hot Rod Car Sound

You need some pretty good gain on this but it's pretty easy to do. Turn your volume knob off, almost slack your whammy bar with your left hand wrist, hit say a low E, and with your right hand start to turn your volume knob up and simaltaneuously bring your bar up.Quickly shut off the volume But leave the bar in the position you shut it off at, then start to turn your volume on again and simaltaneuously raising your bar up. Find the right rythmn and time the volume knob and bar to the gear changes of a hot rod.

Poor man's Echo

Play a lick and say you end your phrase on the 2nd string/12th fret (B Note), with your left hand slide the note down the neck, quickly hit the same note with your right hand middle finger, slide the same note down the neck, repeat the same note with the left hand and slide again. Repeat as much or little, as slow or as fast as you desire. Just make the movement as smooth as possible.

Another Eddie Sound

Grab and depress the whammy with your left hand and with your right hand middle finger push the low E against the bridge pickups pole pieces and simultaniously bring the bar up and down. It will change the pitch of the bleep and it works on all the other strings too!

The Laugh

Grab the bar with your left hand and slack the strings about halfway. Now with the edge of your pick, scape and bounce it on the strings (start in between your humbuckers) Angle the pick so that it's it at a slight angle (like this __/_), so it catches the string alittle, and bounce it towards the neck pickup as you time the release and depresion of the bar. Get a feel for the big sounding HA HA HA HA.

Chug

If your trem has a bar that screws in, don't tighten it up all the way. Cranked up and muting the strings with your left hand, rock the bar back and worth in it's loose slot. Try not to get any string noise, just the sound of the bar rocking, the tailpiece shouldn't even move. Just another cool NoIsE.

Hog snort

Once again, depress the whammy bar with your left hand and time the raising and lowering of the low E with the picking of your right hand.

Alley Cat

Mute the strings, depress the whammy bar, keep the strings QUIET. Once you hit a note, let the bar SWOOP up and while it's ringing depress it slowly and let it back up again. Once again mimic the kittie's meow. Using a Wah Wah pedal does wonders but it's not really needed.

Thunder

from tnemf96@student.hv.se
I don't know if this works on a regular guitar,but it works great on a bass. While holding the bass in your lap,take a small rubber ball(like a superball or something) and roll it slowly down the strings.You get a low, rumbly sound that reminds you of thunder. I find it works best if you lower your treble as much as possible, and turn the iunstrument and amp way up.

Car Sound

from edman@bellsouth.net
1) First take your wammy bar and drop it all the way down so that it is toching the body of your guitar. (You might want to use your left hand to do this so that your right hand is free to hit the stings) It should make your guitar lower if you have Tremolo system and it sounds higher you went the wrong way. It might be fun to try that too. I don't have one so I don't know what it would sound like.

2) Hit the low E-string and let the bar go up. The speed dosn't matter one if done quikly it sounds like you it the gas hard and left it there. Slowly makes it sound like your are taking off in a powerful car slowly.

3) If you move the bar up and down quikly it sounds like a car reving up. I will try to send a sound file as soon as I figure out how.


Bell Harmonics

From - Shiloh@nci2000.net

Lift up the high E string with a finger on your fretting hand, push it up and over the B string, and back down to the fretboard. The high E string will be laying across the B string. Now pick both strings at the same time. It creates a kind of ring modulation, like in a bell. It never fails to raise eyebrows in a group of musicians, and the inevitable question, "How'd you do that??"


Marshall sqeally

from aaron@melbay.com
The only amp I've been able to do this effect with is a Marshall Tube amp (JCM800) - using a wah pedal, turn the amp on about 5 with the gain all the way up in the high gain channel-stand with the pickups as close as you can get them to the output transformer( on the right side looking at the amp) The Wah and proximity to the transformer will give a sqealling/whammy-able type sound....Don't thank me, thank Billy Corgan!

Slap Guitar

from Alien3snow@aol.com
I've got a couple of noises here for you. One is really easy. You just strike the strings like a slap bass and it gives you some awesome possibilities. You can double bass lines with your bassist, it sounds awesome. Another is you just slide your whammy bar across your strings. You can touch them and then come of or go back and forth.


Feeling

by J Hanna & H Gill - jofta@bigpond.com
...However, no pedals, no amplifiers, no drummers, no bass players, no fender technicians are really required to add effect to a guitar.

Feeling, and self expression, produce some of the greatest effect I've ever experienced in music. Witness :

Joni Mitchell
Neil Young
Chet Atkins
Tommy Emmanuel
John Lee Hooker,

and every busker who ever earned a dollar honestly.


Kirk Hammet's Psycho Descent

from - Rohanjw@aol.com
Here is a very cool noise made by Kirk Hammet on Metallica's 'Garage Inc.' Mercyful fate track. The noise is hard to explain. You need at least a floyd rose for this. Do a very very fast trill between frets 14 and 17, then graduly divebomb, then, holding the arm at slack, play fret 17 and pull it up as high as it can go, then release fret 17 to fret 0 (duh!) and do a quick dive bomb. If played properly it sounds amazing!

Tea & Bacon

from - chrisa1@flash.net
This is a pretty hard and unreliable noise, but I love it when it works well. Most of the time, it's just tea (high pitched squeal, like a screaming tea pot), but sometimes you get bacon, too (sizzle). Okay, the effect: It's basically your standard harmonic squeal, but it's higher than usual because it's not done on the fretboard. Another plus is you can do it with just one hand. Also note: You have to have a fingernail to do this. With your right middle (or index or ring) fingernail, pop the string (usually for me the high E). Then immediately stop the string to almost mute with your thumb, but do not completely mute it. Leave it barely buzzing. You can do this two ways, one with the thumb already on or near the string, and the second is done by nearly slapping the thumb (result of this method is louder, but more difficult to stop the string just right). Distortion is a must! I discovered it with mucho distortion (simultaneous Big Muff and heavy metal pedals going). It works with smaller. Make sure the distortion does not kill the effect, because the string is barely vibrating, and a pervasively distorted signal or noise gate could kill the effect. But, the sizzle comes best with excessive distortion. It's a hard deal to describe, so try it, get frustrated with it, and improve it. Works best with bridge pickup. And if done right, there will be some high frequencies going on, so keep it down or wear ear plugs -- I wouldn't subject a hole-in-the-wall club full of people to this.


To the 25th fret and Beyond!

From - chrisa1@flash.net
Here's an effect that someone else has already described, but I don't know if they mentioned that it can create a whammy bar effect, too, not to mention the highest note you can get without artificial harmonics. Take any string (better with plain, best with high E). Push it down on one of the coils of the neck humbucker, or one edge if there's a cover (this happens to be my setup [Les Paul]; don't know if it works with Strats or similar guitars). Pick as you push the string into the pickup. The pickup should tilt, making the note go up, but then you should depress it, making the note come back down. The result sounds like a bend, only more fluid -- like a whammy bar. You can pick at different times to make it sound like you're going up or going down, too. It's kind of a trick, but it's also a noise because it's a damn high note. It's good when you reach the 22nd or 24th fret and you realize it's not high enough. Actually, doing this with the B string sounds more like a "25th fret and beyond" continuation than doing this with the E string does. On the E string it's just a damn high note.

WARNING: I don't know if it's just my cheap Korean (Epiphone) guitar, or the trick, but the right side my neck pickup sunk into the body. It wasn't like the minute or the day after I did this trick, but it was after I discovered it. So do this if you have faith in your neck pickup, and/or you can easily repair this kind of stuff yourself. I did, and it's not a problem anymore.


More Thunder

from BassDemon apache33@bellsouth.net
On bass, if you turn on some moderate distortion, (no dist. may work too...... i've never tried it tho), turn your volume way up, and tap the back of the neck about middle ways between the headstock and the body with the palm of your hand, it will produce a low, brooding thunder sound.


Morello DJ Scratching

from 'Wes Borland' wesborland415@icqmail.com

I know of another noise that concerns a Tom Morello technique, the DJ scratching sound.

To do this you need a les paul style geetar or a guitar with a volume for each pickup, then set the neck pickup to "0" and the bridge pickup to "10", so you create a kill switch when you toggle between positions 2 and 3.

Now with the switch set on 2 (the middle of the 3) smart moving your hands over the strings, but not fretting any notes, then push the toggle switch into the 3rd position then put it back into the 2nd. flick the toggle switch to get the desired speed of the cuts. flipping the toggle switch gives the same effect as a crossfader for turntables, and your hand is the scratching. so flip the toggle switch to the beat of the music and rub your hand up and down at any speed. voila!

i can't send an example cuz my computer doesn't have the ability to record sound (no mic) but if you want to hear this in action check out Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine on Evil Empire.

Also, Adam Hart sent in this FYI:
If you have a Les Paul or similar, and you want to do the Morello switching pick up trick, be warned! Rapidly switching between totally on and totally off pick ups builds up heat in the selector circuit board and can fry it! my guitar tech friend has affected this repair countless times and warned me not to try it for prolongued amounts of time on my own guitar.

Be warned!

Flowing Stream

from - MetalMoth2@aol.com
I call this something like a flowing stream. You need a Zoom 505 to do this though. Hit the edit key and set the following effects listed below;

Comp. C2
Dist. Dist.
Gain. 20
ZNR\Amp. A6
EQ\Phase. P5
Mod. P9
Dly\Rev. D7
Level. How ever loud you want

After you've done this, on the High E string speed pick while palm muting between the 14th and the 22nd fret.


Delay Pedal DJ Sounds

from - Michael Robson
I was messing about with the delay time and found a cool new effect.Have all the dials on the delay pedal on full, If you play a power chord with heavy distortion then spin the time dial on your delay pedal it sound like a dj spinning a record backwards (be careful near you amp while you do this as the sound get very loud). I'll try to send a sound file of this soon.


More Stream Sounds

from The Mighty KUDZU
I use a BOSS EQ pedal set with the mid boosted, bass slighly below 0, and the highs gradually approaching the bottom to form a sort of ^ shape. then i kick on distortion and sit in front of my cabinet while keeping all of the strings vibrating. i don't know if this is reproduceable by others, but on my amp it sounds exactly like flowing water

NBC Theme with natural harmonic

from - Cole W Kuzmish
Here's how you play the NBC theme with natural harmonics.

E-------------|

B------5------|

G---7-----5---|

D-------------|

A-------------|

E-------------|


It's sorta hard to pull off, but cool, too! It's works better with a lot of distortion.

A Plethora of Creepy Sounds


From Kurt - Smashpmkns@aol.com
For a creepy sound, play the strings above the nut, and if your guitar has a Les Paul-type bridge, you can also play behind the bridge.

For a turntable-esque screetchy sound, have lots of distortion, and turn the pick sideways, so the thin side is touching the strings, and slide it up and down.

For helicopter sounds, have a flanger with a slow, deep sweep, and put a square wave tremolo after it.

For a funky, bass-like sound, don't use a pick, and pull a coiled string away from the fretboard, then release.

For seagull sounds, plug a wah pedal in backwards (input to amp, output to guitar), and experiment with it.


Korn squeal

from - Kingofrock379@aol.com
I figured out the end part of the song Blind by Korn. When it slows down and there is that high pitched noise. What you do is get a wah pedal and switch the cables around so that the cable that should connect it to the amp is in the instrument's hole and the cable that should connect it to the instrument is in the amp's hole. You then just press the pedal and lift it up to hear the noise


Feedback Soundscapes

from Hilaro Garcia
Microphonic pickups are normally rather awful but they could be good sometimes. I've got a '91 Gibson Les Paul. Well one of the PUs has gone microphonic, making a loud noise if you go anywhere near a loud amp. Well that howling noise could be used in a musical context. Look for the right location and move your guitar about.

You want a proof?

O.K. then, listen to the very first part of "JesusChrist Pose" by the mighty Soundgarden.Can you hear that turbid yet great effect? Yes, you're right. An awful, cheap humbucking PU next to a loud Marshall was the most likely suspect.

Funny or what!! (still, you Gibson people, you have no excuse I'm afraid...)


Unorthodox Pitch Shifting

from Hilaro García
I bought a second hand Digital pitch shifter pedal (Boss) -that's it the one with the delay facility-. I didn't buy it for its hability to create harmonies. I believe that if you aren't a certain Mr Vai, harmonies played on the guitar can sound rarther clumsy, cliched and very, very '80s. Still, I use it for creating textures. Set the feedback to the maximum and control the pitch shifting knob to go a 5th or an octave ABOVE the current note. Together with a delay unit afterwards you'll get a never ending cascade of cosmic sounds.

Want to hear it? You don't have the pedal? Please E-mail me and find out how


Tom Morello's Buzz

from Paul Kilpinen
Take the cord out of the guitar and touch it on the metal parts of your guitar (or your hands/fingers) and use effects pedals (whammy/wah/flanger, etc) to make it sound different. This is done in the solo for 'Testify'. Tap the cord on and off quickly for a similar effect to the pickup switch technique

Oscillating Effect

from - Kevin
This one is a weird one. From guitar to amp: wah, distortion (I use a proco rat), phaser (I use EH small stone), and then another distortion unit (I use my amps distortion). After you get that hooked up, tune the low E on your guitar down to a much lower note like A. Set the phaser on a fast rate and start playing the low string with both distortions on. rock the wah back and forth. It's like a crazy oscillating type thing... very hard to put into words but very cool. For more variety, adjust the depth or rate on the phaser and use more or less distortion on both units.


Delay Tricks

From Kevin McCoy killxrockxstars@subdimension.com
This is cool. For this you will need a delay unit set to about 1 second with a decent amount of repeats. Turn your guitar volume all the way down. Strike a chord, then smoothly fade in and out with your volume knob. Sounds like a cool spacey volume swell, this is used extensively on the Incubus song "Pardon Me".

Another delay one. Set the delay on about 1 sec with as much repeat as you can get. Strike a fretted note on say, the B string. Tremelo pick the note and bend it slightly upward and then back down, varying the rate of picking and bending... sounds like 1000 out of tune guitars.

That's all for now, I will send more soon... peace man....