how does one achieve this effect?

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the "pulsing" effect.
i'm not sure whether it's a tremolo a delay a combination or what.
i guess the best example i can give is in this video @ :32
not the bass synth itself, but the "pulsing" vibe to it.

I've got some riffs in my mind to apply it to but im like :confused:
 
or sidechained compression. Not my bag and i'm no expert so take this with a pinch of salt
 
When I first listened to it, I was immediately thinking it's an LFO controlling a filter. But if you watch the video, you'll realize there is no LFO, he's using his voice and the signal from his mic. Which makes me think vocoder, perhaps? But you could probably achieve a similar effect with an LFO and a filter.
 
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jwerner said:
When I first listened to it, I was immediately thinking it's an LFO controlling a filter. But if you watch the video, you'll realize there is no LFO, he's using his voice and the signal from his mic. Which makes me think vocoder, perhaps? But you could probably achieve a similar effect with an LFO and a filter.
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Yeah it's a strange thing to try and decipher. There's certainly a bass synth going on.
But that rotary thing is where I'm confused.

Found this.
So it's gotta be a common enough effect if it's in the pedal.
It looks like a more extreme "wobble" version of it that's controlled with an expression pedal kicks in at 3:45.
...If that it the same effect :confused:
Seems he says it comes from the syb5, but
I'm not really going for the synth or bass sound, just the "moving" vibe to apply to whatever
 
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I don't think he's doing it the same way in the second video. In that video, it looks like the expression pedal is controlling the frequency of an LFO.

If it is a vocoder in the first video, what he's doing is triggering a bass sample, then using his voice to control the envelopes of the band pass filters in the vocoder. Kind of like a guitar talkbox.

Of course, that's only a guess.
 
im chasing this effect all over youtube :eek:!

I've found a comment he made on the first video:
"the bass sound is made by my GT10b which my mic is plugged into, then the output of the gt10b is plugged in to the s4's input.. so i sample my gt10bs fx into the s4 and then apply fx over the samples once they are looping!"


perhaps a rotary or delay could achieve the desired results on guitar? :confused:
 
I took a quick look at the GT10b's list of preset patches, but unfortunately it didn't help. But I notice there are a lot of effects that use a rotary sound, and there are even a couple that mention a vocoder sound. So more information, but just more confusion. :D
 
jwerner said:
I took a quick look at the GT10b's list of preset patches, but unfortunately it didn't help. But I notice there are a lot of effects that use a rotary sound, and there are even a couple that mention a vocoder sound. So more information, but just more confusion. :D
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well, one of these days we'll find out.
maybe I'll just ask the d00d himself. he seems approachable enough :o
 
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