Can anyone identify this effect. (Youtube content)

[ErikW]

Trying to id this effect on the bass. This was my brother-in-law back in 1975. He passed away several years ago so I can't ask him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK0Mz...eature=related Thanks.

Erik

[Kwesi]

Sounds like either a heavy phaser or envelope phaser to me.

[john turner]

wow, that's a wacky tune. i love it.

[bigntasty]

Sounds alot like the old ElectroHarmonix flanger I played through around the same time (think Stranglehold by Ted Nugent). Sorry, I don't have any old clips to compare it to, though.

[lunarpollen]

Could it be a wah wah pedal?

[bongomania]

Phaser, the regular ol' swirly kind. Probably either a Phase 90, Mutron, or a Maestro.

Edit: Does not sound like flanger or wah, and the steady cyclic oscillations are easy to hear.

[Taylor Livingston]

Cool video.

It doesn't look like the pedal is on stage, so no visual cues will be possible here. But it sounds like a phaser, and there weren't that many of them around in 1975. I'd guess a Mutron.

[ErikW]

Originally Posted by john turner

wow, that's a wacky tune. i love it.

Yea, The Sadistic Mika Band was huge in Japan back in the 70's. They had some pretty cool tunes. I was only 12 years old back then but I loved them. My brother-in-law, then just my sister's boyfriend Katsumi "Jack" Matsumura, played bass for them for a short period. I remember sitting in our kitchen in Tokyo watching that very show on TV. Very nostalgic for me. He gave me my first guitar for my birthday that year. A Epiphone/Gibson hollow body electric. So cool. Sorry to ramble.

[john turner]

Originally Posted by ErikW

Yea, The Sadistic Mika Band was huge in Japan back in the 70's. They had some pretty cool tunes. I was only 12 years old back then but I loved them. My brother-in-law, then just my sister's boyfriend Katsumi "Jack" Matsumura, played bass for them for a short period. I remember sitting in our kitchen in Tokyo watching that very show on TV. Very nostalgic for me. He gave me my first guitar for my birthday that year. A Epiphone/Gibson hollow body electric. So cool. Sorry to ramble.

oh no rambling, thanks for sharing. that video is really cool, imo.

[iamdenialNJ]

Since it's on topic does anyone what effect (i dunno if it's bass) starts around :22 and ends :32 but continues throughout the song. It sounds like a wah or a filter of some kind. Anyone care to enlighten me?? Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffiu1qP6EUI

[bongomania]

Yeah, distorted bass through a filter. There are a few distortions combined with wah or other filter, but odds are it's just two separate pedals. The only thing making me think it's not an ordinary wah is the amount of low-end resonance during the low part. It sounds more Moog-y to me. I like it.

[iamdenialNJ]

Cool. Would you know a pedal that could do that to my sound? Without being 200+ expensive??

[bongomania]

The good-sounding filters, with expression pedal inputs, cost $$. Then you also need the expression pedal, and a nice distortion pedal. I'm sure you could get a kinda similar sound with a cheap digital synth pedal like the Digitech BSW, but the tone in that vid sounds like $400 worth of pedals to me. Unless it was done in post-production using VST effects on the computer, which is essentially "free" if you already have a laptop with some recording software with effects plugins. If so, check those out to see if there are any distortions and filters to play with.

[iamdenialNJ]

Say if I had unlimited $ what would I be looking for? lol

This is just to get an idea.

[bongomania]

Well, a Moog MF101, an expression pedal (Moog or any compatible brand), and a distortion of your choosing. I'm not sure which specific dirt to recommend for that exact tone.