Phil Lesh Effect on Estimated Prophet

[Sithian]

Does anyone know what effect Phil Lesh is using at the end of Estimated Prophet? Sounds like a filter of some sort, as he is getting those vowelly oinky sounds, but subtle...

 

[alec]

I don't know the song but I have seen a vid of him playing with a Pigtronix EP-1..?

Oinky - Pig - geddit?

 

[Sithian]

Good grief !

 

[AlvarHanso]

I don't think Phil uses anything on Estimated. Jerry for sure is using his Mu-Tron iii envelope filter. Live, Phil used to do ridiculous slides up and down for Estimated, but have never detected any effects on his part.

 

[N.F.A.]

Could you point us to the version you mean? Do you mean the one on the Terrapin Station album or a live version?

 

[AlvarHanso]

I've listened to live and studio and have yet to hear a hint of effect for Phil. I did a search on Phil's effects, and the consensus is that he doesn't use any effects except possibly compression. Everyone seems mystified at his BP-200 on top of his rig and what he uses it for. I did read where Big Brown had lowpass and bandpass filters built into the electronics, and he had a MIDI system for Space in the 80s-90s, but didn't employ it very much, perhaps similar to his having the capability with Big Brown and the Wall of Sound to use a separate channel for each string, but that he didn't use it very often.

 

[Sithian]

I couldn't find the version with the effect that I am questioning... I thought I heard an envelope or auto-wah on a version, but after some of these replies I think I may have been off base. C'est la vie.