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It’s Disco Friday :)
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I've always wondered what's making that high, screeching sound you can hear in your left ear if you're listening with headphones. It's present throughout the song except on the bridge. Is that an aggressive organ tone?
It just sounds like a guitar, way up the neck, going through a Leslie cab with perhaps some additional flanging.
It still sounds more keyboard-ish than guitar-ish to my ears, but the way you explain it makes sense.
To me this also sound more like organ, but I never actually heard guitar in a described chain of effects.It still sounds more keyboard-ish than guitar-ish to my ears, but the way you explain it makes sense.
Guitar through Leslie Organ speaker is an old trick, dating back to the 60’s; running that through actual tape flanging is something I’m sure has happened at some point. Once the Electric Mistress came along, they were at times used to mimic a Leslie(chorus and phaser as well); close but no cigar.
Can you tell me any other recordings that have that same sound like the one in "Get Off"? The reason it's stood out for me all these years is because I haven't heard anything else quite like it.
Okay, I can see it (well, hear it!
) now.In the Pink Floyd song, it sounds like there's added reverb and EQ for a bigger sound; in the Foxy song, it's more of a raw, bare-bones, direct tone. And it helps to play it staccato.
Abbey Road, baby. Alan Parsons at the controls. There was a lot of disco that was mixed very dry, “Brick House” being an example.Okay, I can see it (well, hear it!
In the Pink Floyd song, it sounds like there's added reverb and EQ for a bigger sound; in the Foxy song, it's more of a raw, bare-bones, direct tone.
Here’s a great phase shifter in overdrive example…Okay, I can see it (well, hear it!
In the Pink Floyd song, it sounds like there's added reverb and EQ for a bigger sound; in the Foxy song, it's more of a raw, bare-bones, direct tone. And it helps to play it staccato.
Mea culpa, I tripped myself up on that one; I found a Midnight Special clip, and that riff is from an electric piano, but what looks like an RMI, which had a sharper attack(it did a respectable Clav/Harpsichord)than a Fender Rhodes, through a phaser. The guitarist, with a Strat, is doing the standard clean funky clunky stuff up the neck…
Sure, it’s lip-synched, but you know…that bass line is wicked, I always loved that little lick up an octave.
