Pink Floyd One of these days sound?

[Nighttrain1127]

Looking for the proper effects to get the Swirly sound Roger Waters gets on "One of these days" Off of Meddle?

[thehangingmist]

and am looking for the slap bass sound guy pratt gets at pink floyd pulse concert in the same song....

[mboki]

for main riff use delay 1/8triplets ...for the other sound try tremolo (speed in 1/8 triplets) with phaser ...maybe flanger (or both)

[Jimbob Jones]

for the main riff he overdubbed a slap line with delay, and a clean fingerstyle line, if you listen to the beginning, you can here the two bass parts coming in seperately.

[thehangingmist]

yeah i read for the record they mixed two bass tracks one played with an old set of strings and the other with new! (that was because the roadie didnt turn up with the strings in time so they recorded with the old set itself later on getting new ones roger waters recorded his line again and ended up mixing the both than to keep one of them)
hope the incident is accurate

[The Lurker]

I didn't think roger slapped, but rather that he played with a pick?

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I just programmed a delay on my Zoom BFX-708 when I played that tune with my band like three years ago (Seven repeats at 290 miliseconds, IIRC. I'd love to play it again, BTW). Nothing "professional", but I think it worked.

[zongeek]

Roger tracked one line with really old strigns (flats most-likely) use Gilmour's Binson Echo.

The other track is Gilmour with new strings (flats again I think) and did the solo-middle part with a flanger, little distrotion and trem.

[BassMan250]

Originally Posted by The Lurker

I didn't think roger slapped, but rather that he played with a pick?

Roger played with a pick, so on the studio version that's what you hear. On the Pulse DVD, though, Guy Pratt slaps the line instead, so both techniques seem to work fine. I think Roger also used his Rick on the studio version whereas Guy Pratt played it with a '59 P-bass.

[40Hz_of_Love]

What about the Live in Pompeii version? Waters just used a delay, right?

[hills1234]

Do a search of the threads and you'll find this piece has been fairly well documented in the past. This thread is quite informative:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/archiv.../t-230942.html

The double-tracked basses at the start are Gilmour playing the first (R channel) on a Rickenbacker, with the Binson Echorec, then Waters (most likely on Precision) coming in doubling the part a few bars later (L channel). The middle section indeed uses a tremolo. The thread mentioned above notes: **A tremolo unit was synched to the echo time, during the middle part of One of These days**

Reproducing these effects yourself is pretty much a matter of playing around with whatever pedals/units you've got. It's great fun! I've had pretty good results using the delay and tremolo sections on my Boss GT-6B.

[niftydog]

The Delicate Sound Of Thunder video shows Guy Pratt using a Stingray... and when I first saw it as a whipper-snapper I almost wet my pants!

To my ears the live versions use a delay for the main part, but the other bit still mystifies me - however you get something similar by just using the same delay and playing staccato notes in time with every repeat.

When, oh when are they going to release Delicate Sound Of Thunder on DVD?!?!?!? GAAAAAAAHHHHH!

[Colonel Monk]

From what I've read, the Binson Echorec sounds a bit different than delay -- really there's nothing around that exactly matches the tone from that.

I think David Gilmour talks about it on that documentary of the Dark Side of the Moon....

I'd guess it has to do with the degradation of the repeats -- they are a little distorted and of course analog.

I've fooled around with that riff on my Moog 104z, and it has that analog sound that's close. On my digital delay, the repeats are a bit off sounding.

monk

[ayotteted]

Just been messing about with effects in Logic and recreated the effects for One of these Days.
Right the intro is a delay set at 280 to 300 milli seconds with a repeat of 6 to 7 ... I used the Fender Tape Echo in Amplitube

You play 1/4 notes

The tempo of the song is about 130 bpm

The middle part is still in played in 1/4 notes with the delay BUT you should now include a Flanger

I used the Ubik-F to get this to sound right ....You just slide your hands up and down the neck ...Sounds wicked

If you ned the presets then email me and I will send them

[winterburn69]

When Guy Pratt played it live, in addition to the delay, he also used a MXR Phase 90 and a Pete Cornish tremolo for the part before the vocals.

[Ric5]

The Line 6 bass pod xt has a preset for the ne of theses days" tone.

[Fair Warning]

I have been using a Carbon Copy to mess around with it. Not a big deal. The PF National Tribute Band in town here "Which Ones Pink" does a fantastic job with it and sinmply uses a delay. Current bass player uses pick. Old bass player slapped. I hammer the string with a hard finger.