heatmiser
mr. green christmas
trumpino, I am happy to answer any questions that you may have (no one ever asks me how I did things 
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I think guitar effects are one of the few areas where I feel like I know what I'm doing. You do not need extensive equipment, just a willingness to tweak.
For the "lead fill", I used a digitech RP150 multi-fx pedal and created an exaggerated noise gate and compressor setting that gave it a kind of swell (like when you play a note and then turn up the volume knob with your pinky - I can do that with a strat, but not my guitar). I then selected some random amp sim and cab sim settings that sounded pretty trashy and took some of the fullness out of it.
It still sounded too guitar-like though so I added a bit crusher/lo fi processor effect built into my roland recorder. Still sounding too full at this point, I used pretty extreme EQ to roll off most of the highs and lows. There is also tons of spring reverb from my amp.
To get weird sounds I think you just have to devote some time to layering tons of shit on there and if you start going down a path you don't like, you strip a few layers back and start again. It helps if you know ahead of time the sound you're trying to achieve.
PI included the backwards cymbal thing. My guess is that he applied some kind of "reverse plug in" to that segment after the fact? Not sure. I usually use tape for any backwards effects. I would actually like to know how PI did that 'cause I like it too.
).I think guitar effects are one of the few areas where I feel like I know what I'm doing. You do not need extensive equipment, just a willingness to tweak.
For the "lead fill", I used a digitech RP150 multi-fx pedal and created an exaggerated noise gate and compressor setting that gave it a kind of swell (like when you play a note and then turn up the volume knob with your pinky - I can do that with a strat, but not my guitar). I then selected some random amp sim and cab sim settings that sounded pretty trashy and took some of the fullness out of it.
It still sounded too guitar-like though so I added a bit crusher/lo fi processor effect built into my roland recorder. Still sounding too full at this point, I used pretty extreme EQ to roll off most of the highs and lows. There is also tons of spring reverb from my amp.
To get weird sounds I think you just have to devote some time to layering tons of shit on there and if you start going down a path you don't like, you strip a few layers back and start again. It helps if you know ahead of time the sound you're trying to achieve.
PI included the backwards cymbal thing. My guess is that he applied some kind of "reverse plug in" to that segment after the fact? Not sure. I usually use tape for any backwards effects. I would actually like to know how PI did that 'cause I like it too.
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