Using guitar effects on full mixes....

[ChorusCrackpot]

The advent of big guitar rack rigs came about from guitarists using rackmounted post-mix studio effect processors as part of their gear setups.

I'm just wondering if anyone has done the reverse- used a guitar effect pedal or made-for-guitar effect unit, to process a recorded track in post-production?

Lately, I crudely ran a chorus effect on my hi-fi stereo by plugging a guitar cable into the headphone jack, and into the fx return of my Roland Jazz Chorus 120 combo amp. I switched the Chorus on and voila! Was lo-fi but, sounded magnificent! Well, it was very wet that's for sure. The quality of the sound depended on the source- some songs that already had a lot of chorus effect on the instruments, didn't sound much more chorusey. If anything the overall sound got a little clouded and the effects just gelled together into one big mould.
Yet other songs that had no effects on them apart from distortion, sounded rich and full and swirly. I love it!

I want to improve the process by getting an RCA - to - TRS jack cable so I can hook up my Rockman Stereo Chorus/Delay to the CD player, then hook its outputs to the hi-fi stereo and through the main speakers. Might have to wait until the weekend though...

[cram]

For kicks, I've taken a drum beat that intro's a song I like and tried to add various effect. Guitar intro's too. It sounds cool for the first bit of the tune where one or two instruments are playing, but with a full band, the single effect can get a little weird.

It's on the tip of my tongue, but there's a tune I know of that has a sample from an earlier tune of an artist and that is set back in the mix with either a phase or flange effect... I've been trying to recall it, but no luck...

If anything, playing around like that is fun.

[ChorusCrackpot]

It's on the tip of my tongue, but there's a tune I know of that has a sample from an earlier tune of an artist and that is set back in the mix with either a phase or flange effect... I've been trying to recall it, but no luck...

I can't think of it either, but what you said did remind me that The Cure ran their drum tracks through Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress flangers while recording the Seventeen Seconds album.

[SackvilleDan]

It's on the tip of my tongue, but there's a tune I know of that has a sample from an earlier tune of an artist and that is set back in the mix with either a phase or flange effect... I've been trying to recall it, but no luck...



Barenaked Ladies did this on "Enid" but I doubt it's the song you're thinking of :D

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[rob2001]

Whatever gets you there! I've used various guitar pedals as inserts to tracks. Guitar tracks, vocal tracks etc...I got a fantastic snare sound by running the snare mic thru an old DOD Bi-Fet preamp guitar pedal.

[ChorusCrackpot]

Whatever gets you there! I've used various guitar pedals as inserts to tracks. Guitar tracks, vocal tracks etc...I got a fantastic snare sound by running the snare mic thru an old DOD Bi-Fet preamp guitar pedal.

That sounds pretty cool.



Has anyone ever distorted their vocals by running their microphone into a cranked high gain valve amp? It might work for a death metal band.