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Replacing a guitarist with a pedal!?

basey

basey

Jul 31, 2005
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San Antonio, Texas
#1
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but here goes.
Our band recently lost a guitarist (we had 2). The band still sounds really good without him, but the two guitars sounded really thick together. We'll be doing a month tour in Europe in march with two other bands, using the promoters rented gear so there will be two guitar rigs on stage every night. My question is what kind of pedal could my guitarist use to make his guitar sound like two guitars and send them to different amps?
Or is there such a thing? I've been looking on the net but the only "doublers" I can find are either mono or vocal processors.

Thanks
-Bruce
 
#2
Go over to the Effects forum and search on "Unibass" and "octaver" (or just "octave"). The Akai Unibass was designed for exactly that purpose, and is said to do it pretty well; and there are a number of octavers on the market which can get you in that territory as well. :)

Edit: I just realized you said the other guitarist wanted to sound like another guitarist. :p The fx I mentioned are mainly for making a bassist sound like there is a guitarist doubling them or adding simple chords.

For the guitarist, I would just use a slapback delay (a delay with a very short time) set to only one repeat. Feed the clean guitar signal into that, then run the "real" guitar signal through his usual pedals and amp, and run the slightly delayed signal into a differently-voiced distortion and amp.

Or heck, the Unibass might work for him too.
 
#3
2 different amp/cab combos are going to sound different even if they're coming from the same guitar and playing the same notes.

However to further that you could run an ABY switch and have different effects going to one amp but not the other (which is what I'm thinking you're talking about)

It'd really be good if you all could try out whats getting rented first so you can see what will/will not work out for you though.

You could also use a delay to layer some things though.
 
#5
I'm pretty sure that rigs will be boogie dual recs(usually) or marshall JCMs. I had thought about going the delay route, I just didn't now if it would sound too 'uniform' (not sure if thats the word I'm looking for):) An ABY box would also do the trick, but it would be nice if there was a pedal that had something like a variable delay/pitch oscillator thingy on it without getting into some kind of big processor.
Thanks for the quick answers BTW!
 

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