Satriani plays the Star Spangled Banner

SBassman · #1 05-21-2006, 05:59 PM

http://www.chimehosting.com/satriani...anthem-30K.mov

Here's Satch playing the Star Spangled Banner. He's got his signature tone happening. So, what effects makes up that tone?

ZombieGhosTrain · #2 05-21-2006, 06:47 PM

That was pretty cool...sounds like wah and flange or something, effects forum guys should know.

Andrew Noury · #3 05-21-2006, 06:55 PM

DiMarzio FRED + Ibanez JS + Wah + flange(?) + Marshall 1/2 stack.

Toss in 10 really talented and practiced fingers and eclectic taste.

BassManPatsFan · #4 05-21-2006, 07:18 PM

Damn he blazed through that.
Could have made it more melodic and drawn out (in a good way).
-Alex

KeithBMI · #5 05-21-2006, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by BassManPatsFan

Damn he blazed through that.
Could have made it more melodic and drawn out (in a good way).
-Alex

+1, but the ending was cool.

ZombieGhosTrain · #6 05-21-2006, 11:13 PM

You don't want to lose peoples attention, either. Had he gone too Jimi Hendrix-y people may have gotten bored; remember he's playing to people at a football? game, not musicians.

trog · #7 05-22-2006, 06:08 AM

I thought it felt kinda stupid

SBassman · #8 05-22-2006, 07:37 AM

Any more on how he gets that tone? Just a wah and flanger? Doesn't sound like that to me, but what do I know.

BassManPatsFan · #9 05-22-2006, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZombieGhosTrain

remember he's playing to people at a football? game, not musicians.

Baseball.
-Alex

Woodchuck · #10 05-22-2006, 01:41 PM

It's been done. Move on.

heath_the_great · #11 05-23-2006, 05:42 AM

peavey

i know that he keeps his wah on most the time and leaves it "open" in certan positions

SBassman · #12 05-23-2006, 05:59 PM

Interesting.

I never read much about what might go into his tone, but after I posted this thread, I tried to Google on it. Didn't come up with much. But, I found an interview where people at a website submitted questions. It almost looked like he didn't want to answer completely. His answer was "go try a Fulltone octave effect." Cmon now. He might use that sometimes, but that Ain't what people are asking when they ask how he gets his tone.

superbassman2000 · #13 05-23-2006, 10:25 PM

how much more do you need to know about his tone?
from what i heard in the sample, its not horribly complex, just like it has been said before--DiMarzio FRED + Ibanez JS + Wah + flange(?) + Marshall 1/2 stack...although i didn't hear a flanger, but i was listening to it through laptop speakers with letterman turned up...but yeah, thats it

the only thing i can think of that hasn't been said yet is that he used a pick

Dash Rantic · #14 05-24-2006, 06:52 AM

I heard no flange on that. Definitely major wah action, though, as other have said. Two things people *haven't* said that I'm pretty sure were there:

Distortion

Delay (slapback sorta) or heavy reverb--sounded a bit more like delay to me though. Maybe a bit of both?

If you listen to the very end, just before he unplugs you can really hear the delay going--then go back and watch it again, and it's there, not very noticeable but just fattening up the sound a bit.

Anyway, cool performance. I love the SF Giants, I wish he'd played the anthem when I was last there

-Dash

DougP · #15 05-24-2006, 08:00 AM

slightly off topic: does anyone remember when Dave Mustaine palyed the Star Spangled Banner on one of MTV's Rock n Jock baseball games.

in both cases, i think it would have helped if they had put a little bit of their talent into the song. Joes version sounded pretty bland.