Your favourite pedal usage in a song

[euan]

Not a guitar pedal but anyway:

Imogen Heap - Hide & Seek - The vocoder on her voice is so sumptuously beautiful and perfectly used to support the melody that it makes me forget how much Cher made me hate vocoders

Cher didn't use a vocoder for that song, she messed around with an auto-tune device.

I'm pretty sure that I saw an Imogen Heap interview where she said she didn't use a vocoder either. Something to do with a harmoniser. But I don't know much about either of them.

[Blazin420ChronicSkunk]

Modest Mouse made me want to have a Fernandes Sustainer.

Animal Collective made me want to try everything.

Bright Eyes - Digital Ash Again, made me want to try everything.

the Cure Made me want a chorus.

I still don't really own many effects though.

[Mo Law-ka]

MM uses a sustainer?

[aen]

That explains a lot of the "AMAZING IMPOSSIBLE FEEDBACK WORK"

[Blazin420ChronicSkunk]

MM uses a sustainer?

Yes, the Fernandes Sustainer pickup. So, it's not a pedal, but I mentioned it because it's still an effect.

[ekwatts]

Supergrass - Ebow.

QOTSA - Well, unknown coz he rarely reveals his equipment. But some of those synth noises he gets are awesome.

Trent Reznor - Cubase.

[Sublimedo]

Jimi Hendrix- Bold As Love

The Tape Flange on that outro is nothing but pure inspiration. The bulk of the song is of course Hendrix in his typical brilliance.

Smashing Pumpkins-Love

That fuzzy flange effect is just one part that highlights the angst of this awesome track.

The Cure-Lullaby

Pretty pretty chorusy delay. The Cure, 'nuff said.

The Clash-Straight to hell
I don't know what's it take to make such beautiful sound, but it's an awesome song.

Badly Drawn Boy- Once Around the Block
The acoustic in sync with a envelope wah effect in this song is gorgeous. Most of the sounds in this album are just as effective.

Sparta-Breaking the Broken

I love this band's use of delayed, overdriven verses.Their use of flange in this one is pretty cool too.

Limp Bizkit- My Way

I'm prepared to take shit for admitting this, but I love Wes Borland's work. He put the Ibanez' CF7 warp'd mode into work to make an extremely clean ring modulation. I love love this pedal. Great tone for a band with such a dumb image.

Korn-No way
Another one of those bands. I really don't like Korn, and I know people hate this album... but I do think Issues was pretty creative tone-wise. They manage to stuff ALOT of effects in one song.

Incubus- Have you Ever
I love the delayed, slightly overdriven phaser riff around the 2 min mark of this song. I guess I'm digging my grave for listing these bands. but I love incubus.

Red Hot Chili Peppers- This is the Place/Throw away your televison
I really dug the tone of this album, but I love the effect usage in both of these tracks. Theres some sort of phaser/chorus/vibrato craziness in "place" and some sequenced wah from the line 6 filter modeler in "television"

Bloc Party-Two More Years
The delay and slow phaser in this song is really effective in showing the dreariness expressed in the song. Awesome bridge of emotion and technology. I actually had a mini talk w/ kele last year about effect pedals. He was looking into a whammy of all things. There's a lot pitch shifting in some of the newer stuff but im sure it can be his Ps-5. He was looking into some other brands of pedals. I mentioned zvex to him. Seemed interested enough.


I have to second Sonic Youth for "The Diamond Sea" and The Smith's "How soon is now"

[ekwatts]

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[Mark]

Iron Maiden - Dance of Death

[Gandalf]

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[Doog]

QOTSA - Well, unknown coz he rarely reveals his equipment. But some of those synth noises he gets are awesome.

Think he uses an EH Microsynth.