monophonic guitar

ned-ryarson · Post by **ned-ryarson** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:33 pm

wonder if it would work. of course i'd have to process it as i do mono synths, nice amount of delay and verb.

could be interesting, yes? no?

pricklyrobot · Post by **pricklyrobot** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:21 pm

Huh?

Isn't a lot of guitar playing already done monophonically? Or are you talking about fitting one with six of the same string and playing barre chords?

I made a power chord guitar, mostly the standard strings (just had to swap out one to make it work) tuned up or down a little so that they're all either D# or A#. Stick a capo on it to quickly change your base chord, and go nuts. It's pretty fun.

ned-ryarson · Post by **ned-ryarson** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:52 pm

yes leads and such they are played monophonically in a way.

i mean a monophonic guitar, where you cant play/strum chords, but you can do monophonic arpeggios. like a mono synth.

Post by **novielo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:03 pm

like this?

ned-ryarson · Post by **ned-ryarson** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:54 pm

one string willie, what a legend

Post by **tallowwaters** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:13 pm

Or you could just buy a U2 album...

ned-ryarson · Post by **ned-ryarson** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:35 pm

ha,
goin to see them actually in a massive stadium in eire.

not a fan, da bro got the tickets! f**k it, massive show...

Post by **aeon** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:34 am

Guitar with an ebow and slide is effectively monophonic.

Process with comp, analog vibrato, analog filter, trem, eventide pitch-shifter, and space/chorus-echo, and it's timbral nirvana!

cheers,
Ian

pricklyrobot · Post by **pricklyrobot** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:16 am

I've also gotten some really cool sounds playing my little lap steel with an Ebow. Through a wah pedal and some delay, fuzz, chorus, whatever; it's instant outer space noise.

hfinn · Post by **hfinn** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:48 am

tallowwaters wrote:Or you could just buy a U2 album...

There's A LOT worse s**t out there than that (although I'm a fan...)

Post by **tallowwaters** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:10 am

Wasn't criticizing - OP wanted monophonic/arpeggiated madness - take your choice between Esteban or the Edge

ned-ryarson · Post by **ned-ryarson** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:02 am

aeon wrote:Guitar with an ebow and slide is effectively monophonic.

Process with comp, analog vibrato, analog filter, trem, eventide pitch-shifter, and space/chorus-echo, and it's timbral nirvana!

cheers,
Ian

an ebow is nxt on my list actually. guitar pads here i come. but that sounds like some nice processing right there, athough i hate chorus

Post by **aeon** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:37 pm

ned-ryarson wrote:
aeon wrote:Guitar with an ebow and slide is effectively monophonic.

Process with comp, analog vibrato, analog filter, trem, eventide pitch-shifter, and space/chorus-echo, and it's timbral nirvana!

an ebow is nxt on my list actually. guitar pads here i come. but that sounds like some nice processing right there, athough i hate chorus

Yea, the only chorus I would tend to use with that kind of ebow stuff would be a Boss DC-2 Dimension C - the anti-chorus chorus. When I mentioned the space/chorus-echo, I just meant a Roland tape delay for the delay taps - awesome with the slide for sweeping trails...

cheers,
Ian

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:15 pm

the faint does it a lot, listen to their song 'psycho'

Hair · Post by **Hair** » Sat May 02, 2009 12:14 am

I'm pretty sure the Moog guitar has a facility to allow this, or something pretty close to it

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