What effects unit is this?

[EddieRay]

It chops up the sound into little pieces - kinda like a tremolo with the rapid volume changes only it's more like very fast volume on/off switch. I know Pink Floyd used it. I think it was also used on "Tuff Enuff" by Fab.Thunderbirds. Anyone know what it's called?

 

[tom18222]

delay?

 

[EddieRay]

I don't think so. Think of a long, sustained signal - say about 60 seconds. Now swipe a half-second-wide erasure through the signal every other half-second. Zat make sense?

 

[tom18222]

yea..does it sound like this?

 

[EddieRay]

yea..does it sound like this?

I'll check it out when I get home.

 

[EddieRay]

yea..does it sound like this?

Yup, that's it. How do ya do it?

 

[EddieRay]

C"mon, you can tell me. I won't tell anyone else. Promise!

 

[cstockdale]

Sounds to me like a hard tremelo (vs a soft tremelo which is smoother), I can almost get taht sound out of my Danelectro Tuna Melt trem pedal, but it isn't quite that hard, but my TC Electronics M300 processor does that sound nicely.

 

[grinder]

Or how about the Randy Rhoads, one volume on, one volume off, pick up selecter switch trick. Or editing. Or taking one of the outputs from a stereo panner and running it through a noise gate.

 

[stonepiano]

Or how about the Randy Rhoads, one volume on, one volume off, pick up selecter switch trick

I agree w/ grinder. very easy and effective on a Les Paul.

 

[tom18222]

yea, ive done that before.

 

[gusfinley]

you could try

The Boss BF-3 flanger has a Gate/Pan mode which switches between left and right channels using both outputs or when using one output will turn the signal on/off according to the rate you have dialed in - pretty cool check it out.