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Byrds Effect ?
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 5:17 pm
by Wurlitzer
How can I achieve this effect of the lead guitar ?
http://youtu.be/ThczUcrxnns
Starts at 58 seconds
Re: Byrds Effect ?
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 9:52 pm
by jimk
Sorry to take so long for a response. I'll try to answer your question, (if I can) when the audio function on my computer gets fixed. Hang on.
In the meantime, maybe one of our Byrdmaniax or recording gurus out there can help. Christian? Beatbyrd?
JimK
Re: Byrds Effect ?
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:53 am
by soma89
Great tune. Great album. On the solo I hear one speaker with a backwards guitar riff and the other one playing heavily compressed and....hmmm some amp tube compression aswell. I don`t know what else. They were really creating some crazy effects at that time. I wanna say some sort of delay
Re: Byrds Effect ?
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 10:22 pm
by beatbyrd
jimk wrote:Sorry to take so long for a response. I'll try to answer your question, (if I can) when the audio function on my computer gets fixed. Hang on.
In the meantime, maybe one of our Byrdmaniax or recording gurus out there can help. Christian? Beatbyrd?
JimK
Not a guru by any means, but thanks anyway Jim. I think that "Change is Now" was recorded around the time that McGuinn took the amp out of a portable record player and added a speaker from a walkie-talkie and then ran his guitar through it. I've thought about trying to replicate that setup, but the description is pretty vague. Maybe it's just a case of really overwhelming a 4 or 5 inch speaker and miking the results. Seems like it might be a 'use once; throw it away' kinda thing. I hold out hope that Steve Lasko has nearly perfected the 'Change is Now' stompbox.
For any SoCal Byrds fans: Roger (with Marty Stuart) will be appearing this October at Pepperdine University in Malibu. It's a great intimate venue (400 - 450?) and there are no bad seats. Tickets go on sale in late June. Two McGuinn shows ago at Pepperdine, Tom Petty showed up to play.
Re: Byrds Effect ?
Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 6:07 pm
by Folkie
Didn't McGuinn first make this experiment when he recorded the "Eight Miles High" solo, on the album "Fifth Dimension"?
Re: Byrds Effect ?
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:22 pm
by vjf1968
Late to the party I know but McGuinn was heavily into his new Moog synthesiser and interfacing it with the guitar. Paul Bever did something similar with The Doors on "When The Music's Over". Basically you take a guitar track from the console and feed it into the Moog and manipulate the wave form. It sounds like that is what is happening here. Add on the compressed lead solo and there you have it. But that is just my opinion.