How did, I think Ed, get this glockenspiel or keyboard sort of sound on the lead guitar in "No Surprises"? It is the guitar that starts the song and runs throughout?? Really lovely sound as well!!
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:18 pm
by stewart
he plugged his guitar into an amp, presumably.
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:21 pm
by Bacchus
stewart wrote:he plugged his guitar into an amp, presumably.
Yup. It's quite a unique effect. Google "electric guitar" and you should get close.
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:23 pm
by matt.dines
pich shifter
on a harmonist mode i think
you can get that sound with a us 600 and a bit of reverb quite easly
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:26 pm
by matt.dines
or just an 8ve up thinking about it with a little of the notes coming through
and its played at the 17th fret
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:28 pm
by UgoUzuegbunam
He uses a Digitech Whammy Pitch Shifter Pedal. And reverb. Okay. I can understand. But would that get the glockenspiel kinda effect?
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:39 pm
by matt.dines
both of the greenwoods use digitech whammys but its just a pitch shifter an octave above
and i think theres a little bit of the original note still in there
and a digitch whammy is £150
a behringer us 600 is £40
and its gunna get you in the same ball park
its not gunna sound exactly like a glockenspiel
cuz its not and theres a glockenspiel played over the top
but theres a guitar playing the melody with a pitch shifter in there
you can also get the "my iron lung" riff sounds out of it to.
great pedal for the money
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:39 pm
by Reece
erm.
it's an electric guitar on the right and an actual glockenspiel on the left.
i'd say the best way to get that glockenspiel sound is probably a glockenspiel.
when they do it live jonny plays the glockenspiel and ed puts a capo on the 12th.
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:14 pm
by Skip
glockenspiel= top 100 words of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:19 pm
by kittenbreath
jesus.
i suspect that the op heard that there was glockenspiel on this track, but doesnt know what a glockenspiel is, or sounds like, and assumed it was the guitar
skip to 14 seconds in, fella
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:01 pm
by johnniespring
Skip wrote:glockenspiel= top 100 words of all time
i suspect that the op heard that there was glockenspiel on this track, but doesnt know what a glockenspiel is, or sounds like, and assumed it was the guitar
skip to 14 seconds in, fella
I know there is a Glockenspiel! I mean that sweet, light effect on the guitar. It sounds like a keyboard/glockenspiel to me.
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:28 pm
by dezb1
UgoUzuegbunam wrote:
kittenbreath wrote:jesus.
i suspect that the op heard that there was glockenspiel on this track, but doesnt know what a glockenspiel is, or sounds like, and assumed it was the guitar
skip to 14 seconds in, fella
I know there is a Glockenspiel! I mean that sweet, light effect on the guitar. It sounds like a keyboard/glockenspiel to me.
put a capo on the 12th fret
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:31 am
by Space_Expert
Thom's playing acoustic capo'd at the 3rd fret, Ed's playing an electric (a rickenbacker usually) capo'd and octave higher (15th fret), and he's using a bit of reverb. It's not really that hard of a sound to cop if you've got a rick and a capo, but anything single coil-ish would work.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:37 am
by Simon
There's plenty of videos on YouTube of them playing it live that will give you a good idea of what they're doing.
I think you're pretty much covered from the tips given in this thread though.
