Korgscrew
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Posted: Nov. 30 2005, 15:36 |
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Indeed I would...
It would be possible to get a similar sound by just doing fast tremolo picking on an electric guitar - that's how they did it for the live performances of Tubular Bells.
In the case of the album, and my reproduction of it, it's a 'double speed' guitar. That is, the guitar is recorded at half speed, so it plays back twice as fast and an octave higher. It gives the guitar a thinner, more 'pingy' sound, as if the whole instrument were half its size. It's a slightly unreal sound that's hard to do any other way (pitch shifting it, for example, just sounds horrible...sampling it might work, but then it would sound far more mechanical).
It would originally have been done by running the tape at half speed, but these days I can do it in software. The guitar's DIed for a really super-clean sound, and if I remember right, I used the neck pickup (which, also if I'm remembering right about what I used to do it, would have been a P90) to stop it from getting too shrill sounding. It's still played by hand - all the parts were - just not as fast as you hear it.
Nice to hear that everyone is enjoying it!
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and always a pleasure to hear Yuval play. 
, but had no idea it was one of my favorite sections of TB! Well-done!! Gorgeous & elegant! 
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