What effect is this chap using? [The National content]

[cobascis]

Currently my favorite group, I'm covering 'Terrible Love' by the National with my band. At practice I've been using just a clean Jag tone for it, but it is clearly effected live, and on the record. On the record, you can hear a the decay of the delay pedal at the beginning.. So is it just delay? It sounds tremolo-y.

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Eh?

EDIT: It is very obviously tremolo live, the record sounds much different though.

[millagurnzie]

Cool sound, its got that whole "how soon is now" vibe. Pretty sure it just delay reverb and tremolo....but maybe like a rotary trem through a couple of amps

[millagurnzie]

have a read of this

http://smithsonguitar.blogspot.com/2008 ... s-now.html

[Reece]

Good job giving him an article about an entirely different song.

It sounds a bit like old fender amp tremolo to me. Sort of wobbly.

[dezb1]

tremolo + reverb and a bit of (amp) overdrive

Ps: the timing on the tremolo is better on the original but it sounds like the same effects to me.

if you pan your speakers hard right you can hear it more clearly


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[Doog]

Yeah, I'd go along with that.

[Dingus]

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I happened upon this article today (not sure why we couldn't find it in 2010): http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4139 ... e-national

To summarize, in the studio he tuned down his guitar and played it through a tremolo pedal (he uses a Boss TR-2 live) and he was looping it with his Line 6 DL-4. So it's not one effect, it's several played on top of each other on the record, he even says there's mistakes in it.

Essentially it is the same sort of technique used on "The Smiths - How Soon is Now" as millagurnzie mentioned.

Live the two guitarists in the front are both playing the tremolo part, recreating the sound with just two layered tremolos and the guitarist in the back is playing the lead.

Here's a great photo of his pedalboard where you can see some of the settings (http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i46 ... 7158_b.jpg)


Hopefully that helps if anyone is still curious about the subject.

[Awstin]

That Jag is so nice looking.