Pedal/Tone hunt

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hankspencer

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I am trying to chase down the guitar sound in the beginning of the Smashing Pumpkins song Cherry. Sounds like some delay of course but maybe some sort of synthy thing going on? Does anyone have any thoughts? Their times are always pretty hard to track down but hoping this one is a little more straight forward
 
I gave it a listen. I wouldn’t be so sure to say there’s delay on that guitar. To me, it sounds like a tremolo with the depth maxed and square wave for the LFO to give it the “hard chop”.

And I’m not sure what else is going on with the tone besides that.
 
I definitely agree with the tremolo, but there's no attack on the guitar so I suspect there's something else going on too. It kind of sounds like some sort of freeze effect to me, maybe? Or some kind of reverb that eats the attack.
 
Doing some further research, it was most likely a tremlo and the LFO rate was controlled by the picking strength. I'm with Fama on the "something else going on" and it's probably a huge chain of studio effects and there is probably an eventide in that chain.
The question now is, where do I start on building a tremlo like this? How would I go about modulating the LFO with picking strength?
 
hankspencer said:
Doing some further research, it was most likely a tremlo and the LFO rate was controlled by the picking strength. I'm with Fama on the "something else going on" and it's probably a huge chain of studio effects and there is probably an eventide in that chain.
The question now is, where do I start on building a tremlo like this? How would I go about modulating the LFO with picking strength?
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No offense but I'm pretty sure the rate is constant? Maybe something else is controlled by picking strength, but the rate of the tremolo effect itself seems constant to me?
 
@Fama I think he meant the attack was controlled by picking strength whereas you set it for high sensitivity the attack comes in strong but low sensitivity the attack fades in or vice versa.
 
Hmmm At the beginning of the song, there's a brief moment with no instrumentation and you can distinctly hear the LFO throbbing away just before the first chord is struck.

Best hard-chop tremolo I've heard is the Vox Repeat Percussion, in Robert's store under WOODPECKER TREMOLO.

Adding in any form of picking strength detection to control a parameter, well... it's somewhat involved — the info's out there, Scully.
 
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