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himynameisjulien

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I'd say tuning your guitar so when all strings are played it's an E chord (EBEAbBE), then taking it 2 or 3 semitones down and using a slide. Add your coolest sound.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #1 on: 01 Jul 2008, 23:18 »

Oh man, open E slide guitar is nothing. I mean, it's fun and all but in terms of cool/freaky/just plain weird, it's the tip of the iceberg.

I once ran my semi-hollow through a volume pedal, a super long delay a reverb and I think something else. I created these super long swells and fades on the volume pedal and played with a slide. The result sounded like a whale.

Tom Morello used to be awesome at coming up with strange things to do with a guitar, before he turned into an angry folk singer.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #2 on: 01 Jul 2008, 23:29 »

haha, I like your description of Tom. In an old interview he even says it's practically "and now i will create a sound" and he creates one. I must try that whale sound if I get a volume pedal. that sounds insane. long as in 500ms or as in 3s?
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #3 on: 01 Jul 2008, 23:46 »

It was under a second. I don't remember exactly how long, I did it a while ago. I think 700-800 ms, somewhere around there.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #4 on: 02 Jul 2008, 00:21 »

I love running my DOD gonkulator at ten on every setting...sounds like a band of martians.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #5 on: 02 Jul 2008, 01:05 »

I'm putting my vote in for BZZZZZZZOWWWWWWWWWW, or possibly BRARRP BRARRP BRARRRP
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #6 on: 02 Jul 2008, 01:06 »

actually never mind it is

DOWWWWW, DUH NA NA NOWWWWW, DUH NA NA NOWWW, BWAK BWAK BWAK, BWAK BWAK BWAK
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #7 on: 02 Jul 2008, 01:52 »

Pinch Harmonics... Totally..
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #8 on: 02 Jul 2008, 02:44 »

I like natural more than pinch, but harmonics are cool all the time.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #9 on: 02 Jul 2008, 03:00 »

I like natural more than pinch, but harmonics are cool all the time.

Lenny Breau-style "harp" harmonics are the aural equivalent of having chocolate-covered strawberries and whipped cream fed to you by a trio of Victoria's Secrets models.

I need to learn how to do those.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #10 on: 02 Jul 2008, 04:53 »

Paul Gilbert.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #11 on: 02 Jul 2008, 05:33 »

The feedback that bleeds into a bend at your highest fret on your highest string, with whammy bar on it.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #12 on: 02 Jul 2008, 11:10 »

There are so many.  I think when I play guitar, I try for too many sounds, and I don't have enough money to get all of them.  I like fuzzed out sounds.  Also, feedback is so cool.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #13 on: 02 Jul 2008, 12:26 »

actually never mind it is

DOWWWWW, DUH NA NA NOWWWWW, DUH NA NA NOWWW, BWAK BWAK BWAK, BWAK BWAK BWAK

hey hey my my?
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #14 on: 02 Jul 2008, 12:40 »

AND INTO THE BLACK

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #15 on: 03 Jul 2008, 02:02 »

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #16 on: 03 Jul 2008, 02:51 »

Distortion pedal (gain, volume on full) + delay pedal + amp with full distortion and volume. Play slow doom or shoegazey riffs; repeat for a couple of hours.

Adding a cello bow into the mix is also good. That's pretty much the best guitar tone you can get.



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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #17 on: 03 Jul 2008, 04:34 »

Electric toothbrush + echo/reverb with relatively slow decay. Builds up these really cool crashing crescendos. I suppose you could use an ebow, but this is cheaper and fights plaque at the same time.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #18 on: 03 Jul 2008, 10:08 »

And lord knows my guitar has plaque issues.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #19 on: 03 Jul 2008, 15:36 »

People say some of my noise tracks sound like power tools, but really..it's just a guitar.

I'm giving myself six points for making my guitar sound like a reciprocating saw.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #20 on: 03 Jul 2008, 15:44 »

Three words:

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #21 on: 03 Jul 2008, 16:58 »

Guys, you're all wrong. Whatever it is that he does, Matthew Cooper aka Eluvium has already figured out the answer to this topic. Sorry everyone.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #22 on: 03 Jul 2008, 17:01 »

The wet gurgling from your drummer's severed trachea as you saw his head off with your B string.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #23 on: 03 Jul 2008, 17:02 »

Alternately, this chord in drop-C with the gain on your amp cranked all the way up:

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #24 on: 03 Jul 2008, 18:18 »

Don't know, but if I had to guess, it's somewhere on that album that doesn't exist where Marc Ribot covers Keiji Haino tunes.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #25 on: 03 Jul 2008, 18:59 »

Alternately, this chord in drop-C with the gain on your amp cranked all the way up:

9
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12
9
0

that is a rather rad chord. However this one (tune down 5 semitones or so) sounds better imo, especcially with lots of distortion/volume:


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3
2
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2

Yeah, it's just a d/f# shape but it is pretty damn awesome. Surprising just how good some of the simpler chords can sound.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #26 on: 03 Jul 2008, 20:24 »

in standard E

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #27 on: 03 Jul 2008, 22:46 »

On topic of chords, semi-barres are good too. A semi-E shape would be
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7
8
x
6
And a semi-A shape
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8
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6
x
I find it adds extra distinguishing between the A and E shapes, as in transposed one string up. Like a warmer, happier power chord.
Does anyone use alternate power chords? As in
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x
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4
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #28 on: 03 Jul 2008, 23:23 »

How is that a power chord? It's a D major triad. A power chord doesn't contain the 3.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #29 on: 03 Jul 2008, 23:58 »

Sorry, all my friends just called them alternate power chords so I guess that's what I got used to calling them. But yes there is no octave.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #30 on: 04 Jul 2008, 04:51 »

Octaves are nothing to do with power chord. A power chord consist of the root and fifth, not a third. The chord you posted has a third.

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #31 on: 04 Jul 2008, 05:56 »

Okay, but if a diad consists of only the root and the third, is it a power chord?
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #32 on: 04 Jul 2008, 06:13 »

Isn't the definition of a power chord a two-note chord (Yeah, technically not a chord, but don't care enough to find the correct term)? Seems like a 1-3 diad would be then.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #33 on: 04 Jul 2008, 06:32 »

A power chord is a fifth chord. A 1-3 diad couldn't be a power chord because power chords are neither major nor minor.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #34 on: 04 Jul 2008, 08:29 »

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #35 on: 04 Jul 2008, 08:35 »

Coolset sound I ever manged to get out of a guitar involved a half-decent guitar amp, fully distorted and cranked, and a broken bass guitar.

It sounded like thunder.

Or really, really musical dinosaur farts.
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« Reply #37 on: 04 Jul 2008, 13:03 »

Coolset sound I ever manged to get out of a guitar involved a half-decent guitar amp, fully distorted and cranked, and a broken bass guitar.

It sounded like thunder.

Or really, really musical dinosaur farts.

Actually this reminds me. Greatest sound I ever got out of a guitar, was fucking around with one of my buddies' multi-FX pedal, I managed to create a kind of rolling, moving feedback that actually moved between two notes. It was like a backing track all by itself. I set my organ playing a chord over it in another room and then playing acoustic guitar over this for like, an hour.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #38 on: 04 Jul 2008, 15:07 »

Octaves are nothing to do with power chord. A power chord consist of the root and fifth, not a third. The chord you posted has a third.

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Will do. Dynamite or Kid, which do you prefer? But if it has no octave then it's not a power chord anymore is it? But yes, it isn't either if it doesn't have a fifth. Then its just an octave. But a real power chord also has an octave. It's like cutting the E string note out of A-shape barre chords by using the index-and-ring-finger method (as opposed to all of them), for the sake of convenience and lack of carpal tunnel. It's not complete anymore, and you can tell it's not.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #39 on: 04 Jul 2008, 15:10 »

You can have an octave in a 5 chord, usually making a shape like this:

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but you don't need to, it only needs to have the one and the five, it just sounds... fuller? with an octave.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #40 on: 04 Jul 2008, 16:19 »

'DK' usually suffices. 'Kid' would get most people a slap these days, ha.

There is no specific requirement for a power chord to have an octave, nor is there in any chord. A G chord is G B and D, not G, B, D, G, B and then G again. Or if you use the barre shape, G, D, G, B, D, G. A chord is made of the unique notes.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #41 on: 04 Jul 2008, 18:04 »

all strings tuned to D#
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #42 on: 04 Jul 2008, 20:33 »

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #43 on: 05 Jul 2008, 00:26 »

you're all overcomplicating this quite a bit.

the answer is Boris.
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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #44 on: 05 Jul 2008, 00:59 »

The band, the song, or just having a russian playing lead?
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« Reply #45 on: 05 Jul 2008, 03:50 »

The mayor of London.
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« Reply #46 on: 05 Jul 2008, 04:10 »

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #47 on: 05 Jul 2008, 04:47 »

I still can't believe people actually voted for him  :evil:

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Re: Coolest sound it is possible to out of a guitar?
« Reply #49 on: 05 Jul 2008, 18:26 »

'DK' usually suffices. 'Kid' would get most people a slap these days, ha.

There is no specific requirement for a power chord to have an octave, nor is there in any chord. A G chord is G B and D, not G, B, D, G, B and then G again. Or if you use the barre shape, G, D, G, B, D, G. A chord is made of the unique notes.
Ok I get what you're saying. Thanks for clarifying, DK. I like my chords more pitched, however. Also, to mister tune everything to D#, how the hell did you accomplish this? If you aren't joking, that is. I doubt my A or G strings could be tuned to D#.
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