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Billy sheehan live speed on ice keyboard sound

Discussion in 'Effects [BG]' started by brisonic, Jun 28, 2008.

  1. Jun 28, 2008 #1
    brisonic

    brisonic

    Jan 1, 2006
    san diego
    Anyone know how he got that organ/keyboard sound in the middle of the bass solo, the pipe organ sounding tone?
     
  2. Jun 28, 2008 #2
    thombo

    thombo

    Aug 25, 2006
    Denver, CO
    is that on a niacin album? if so, it might be an actual organ ala John Novello.
     
  3. Jun 28, 2008 #3
    brisonic

    brisonic

    Jan 1, 2006
    san diego
    this is before niacin and david lee roth, 1984 or so.
     
  4. Jun 28, 2008 #4
    20db pad

    20db pad

    Feb 11, 2003
    I been everywhere, man...
    None. At all.
    IIRC, it's an octave divider set to go an octave up. The ones that were available back then didn't track all that well, so you'd get a warbling effect that sounded like an organ at times.

    Bill used to control this effect by turning knobs in his rack setup, so he wasn't using a floor pedal.
     
  5. Jun 28, 2008 #5
    brisonic

    brisonic

    Jan 1, 2006
    san diego
    I wonder what ways I could get a pipe organ type sound from a bass without a midi pickup and a saw, perhaps distortion and an octave or pitchshifting thingamajig..
     
  6. Jun 28, 2008 #6
    Max Roberts

    Max Roberts

    Aug 16, 2006
    Manchester, U.K
    The Electro Harmonix POG will do it well I think. I don't have any practical experience with it though, I'm sure someone can chime in and tell you if it will work.
     
  7. Jun 28, 2008 #7
    son_of_mogh

    son_of_mogh

    Sep 13, 2003
    Somerset, New Jersey, USA
    He used Eventide Harmonizers; state of the art back then. I don't know which model(s) exactly, but he would often turn around and hit buttons to make the settings live. Saw this on his first instructional video with the pink cover and doubleneck Yamaha RBX bass. Other than his specialty Pearce preamps, he didn't have any other effects back then.
     
  8. Jun 28, 2008 #8
    brisonic

    brisonic

    Jan 1, 2006
    san diego
    The cheapest eventide I see on MF is 2 grand, one is $5495. Clearly I'll be looking at someone else's harmonizer/pitch shifter.

    BW
     
  9. Jun 28, 2008 #9
    jsingles

    jsingles

    Aug 30, 2007
    Lowell/Amesbury Massachusetts
    i read the title of this thread too fast and thought it said billy sheehan on ice, MAN that would be something else.