Danelectro Sitar Swami

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any of you guys out there ever heard this effect pedal?

How does it sound?

Any samples?

Peace...

PC
 
run!!!! run for your life and never look back!!!!!!

this is the biggest joke to come along since the days of Poison.

Honestly, its terrible and sounds nothing like what its called.

Do your ears a favor and stay away from it...... you can thank me later;)
 
It's like over a hundred bucks , also....and how many times do you need a fake sitar sound?????

(at least, that's the way I talked myself outta getting one, seriously...when it dawned on me that I would only use it for one tune, plus I didn't even know if sounded like crap or not, it was pretty easy for me not to get one).....................

I also wanted the danelectro "reverse sound" pedal, but I talked myself out of it for the same reason.................


If I had more money than sense, instead of more guitars than talent, I might feel differently............gibs :D
 
mmmmm...I will need it a lot!

I live in Argentina, married to an Italian woman, my mother is from India and I want to pay her a tribute album...so I need it...!

Just kidding... you guys are both right, plus I live in Argentina and it hasn't arrived here yet, and it will be really expensive (surely above 200 USD)...

The thing is, I don't want one, I just heard a song by Steve Wynn that has a guitar solo that sounds like a sitar (but still you can hear the guitar sound and playing style), so I wondered how they did that...

Thank you guys...I agree with you both...Every question I made about Danelectro gear had a negative answer...allways...

Peace...

PC
 
Well in the 'old days' back in the 60's the sitar effect was in high demand. The LA session guys I saw used to raise the action on a telecaster at the bridge and in front of it put a guitar steel there.....instant sitar.
 
I don't get it...

How can I gat a sitar kind of sound (without a sitar)

Peace...

PC
 
My keyboard (Yamaha PSR340) has a decent sitar sound, along with great useful other instruments like bagpipes, tubas and the occasional balalaika...
Dirk Demon


PS Oh, and a piano of course :)
 
PowerCouple said:
I don't get it...

How can I gat a sitar kind of sound (without a sitar)

Peace...

PC
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I think what phillboyd's talking about is using a second guitar as a drone. I've read about this tip a couple different places, and it seems easy to do. You essentially set the second guitar (usually steel string acoustic) in front of the speaker cabinet of your first guitar. When you play, the strings and body of the second guitar resonate and emit pitches due to the air pushed from the cabinet (I think). It's helpful to tune the second guitar to open chord that's in the key of the song, preferably the root. I saw this trick in an old issue of *Guitar One* some time ago; if I can find it I'll give more details.
 
I hear Ravi Shankar got one, and hooked it to his sitar.

Now his sitar sounds like a shitar.

GT
 
No, thats not it. The steel just barely touches the strings and causes the buzzing sitar effect. When set up right it buzzes in waves.
 
sorry philboyd...

I still don't get the idea...

could you be a little more "graphic"

Thanx

Peace...

PC
 
philboyd studge said:
No, thats not it. The steel just barely touches the strings and causes the buzzing sitar effect. When set up right it buzzes in waves.
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Sorry, dude, if I misrepresented you. I must be thinking of a different technique. I'm gonna have to check into this one a little more closely, obviously :rolleyes:.

Thanks for not crushing my head with an angry retort, PS :D.
 
I was disappointed when I heard the Sitar Swami pedal at the NAMM show in January. What you're basically getting is an octave pedal with a "trippy" delay effect. It doubles what you're playing at both an octave up and an octave down--and this supposedly sounds like a sitar. The folks at Danelectro should put the bong down for a second and listen to 1) a real sitar and 2) the sound of their pedal. Very different. The simulation doesn't even come close.

You could approximate the sound of the Sitar Swami by getting a little creative with pitch shifters and delays.

If you want a realistic sitar sound, buy a sitar. I think Elderly Instruments carries one for a surprisingly low-price.
 
James Burton had a piece of metal fashioned to fit in under the strings on his tele just in front of the bridge posts in that chrome thingy so that the strings just sort buzzed against it but he still got the natural note. Other than a MXR phase 90 it's the only effect I ever saw him use. The Vegas Elvis days. Another way was to come from the top with a piece of steel and hold it in place with the chrome cover that nobody used. It was a Telecaster thing.
 
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