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Good Psychedelic Effects
- Thread starter Ricky P.
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Delay(s)
Empress Super Delay (Vintage version).
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Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay
Fuzz
Dwarfcraft Hair of the Dog
Flanger
Blackout Effectors Whetstone (my fav pedal of all time)
Empress Super Delay (Vintage version).
- or -
Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay
Fuzz
Dwarfcraft Hair of the Dog
Flanger
Blackout Effectors Whetstone (my fav pedal of all time)
split signal, run one line into a fuzz followed by a pigtronix EP-2 envelope phaser, the other into the envelope trigger input of the EP-2.
It gets no more psychedelic than that
It gets no more psychedelic than that
+1 to this. If you are all making psychedelik freak-out it will sound messy.
I guess it depends what the other players are doing, as with all styles.
I think though, bass in most 70's psychedelia was just bass and an amp. Big amps!
use a Boss BF-2 set to max res,depth low rate, manual at 12 o clock, run into a Boss PS-3 set to mode 11, pitch A to unity and B to a 5th up,100% wet. run that into a VFE Echo Ohce set with slow gear clone at medium swell with decent sustain, set the delay side to 100% wet, modulation depth at max, modulation rate at 9 o clock. set the repeat rate at 3 o clock and feedback to about 4 o clock (right before it really self-oscillates)
This to me is the BEST combo for freakouts!
This to me is the BEST combo for freakouts!
+1
Most of the time, bass in psych rock at that time was really barebones (or am I thinking even further back, in the 60s?). Effects were rarely used, you could make the lines as busy as you wanted, but effects were mainly for guitar and keys.
Nothing wrong with sfx usage though. I think the most common bass effect I hear in psychedelic rock is autowah though.
Get all these effects.....and more....all at once.... using the Danelectro DDS-1 Sitar Swami.
.bootsy did some very psychedelic solos with fuzz, envelope filter and delay, so you should try that to. also, phasers, chorus, flangers, etc.. If you could find an original roland jet phaser(larry graham pulled insane tones out of that), or even a nice replica, i bet that would work great. in fact i'd love to have one myself..
Exactly, and yes it was the 60s. Most common effect was the guitar player pounding on the top of his amp that had spring reverb in it. Also a lot of reverse envelope on guitar solos. Phase shifting on drums made an appearance here and there.
Lighting is as essential as music to achieve the full effect. Lots of kaleidoscope looking effects. They used to mix oil with colored water in a clear dish and put it on overhead projectors and then shake it. Tie dyed t-shirts a must and wild bass drum heads. A fun time for sure.
