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Jonny's
switch thingy:
Some
of you budding guitarists would probably have noticed the use of
an additional switch on Jonny's guitars.
So what does it do?? Well, it merely breaks the circuit when
pressed, i.e. a switch known by the name 'momentary switch'.
Jonny has also rewired his guitars so little is known on how he
actaully fitted it. But, recently i attempted to fit one with an
amazingly suprising result.
To
fit one just cut the wire leading to the input jack to the volume
dial, attach the switch and Bob's your uncle!
To hear samples of this switch in action watch a few videos and
listen to Paranoid Android.
And just
incase some of you are thinking: 'yes but it also changes the
pitch', infact that's the Digitech Whammy Pedal.
So go and fit the switch and buy a Whammy and off you go...
*
A rewired 90's tele plus with lace sensors
* Various other Telecasters
* A 1975 Fender Starcaster
* A Fender Rhodes Piano
* A Korg Prophecy
* FARTAR keyboard controller running e-mu classic keys * A
Xylophone
* Strings are Elite .010 gauge.
Amps:
• A Vox AC30
* Peavey 212 Chorus Amp,
* A Fender cabinet
* A Fender Twin Reverb
* Fender Deluxe 85
Effects:
• A ProCo Rat distortion pedal
* Digitech Whammy pedal
* A Fuzz Face
* Morley Phase 100
* Some sort of mid booster that comes in a small purple box?
* A Morley volume pedal I think
* Tremelo Pedal- homemade
* Phaser
* Roland Space-echo, tape echo device
* A Marshall ShredMaster distortion pedal
* Small Stone phase shifter
The basic
effects unit in ed's rack is a korg a2 multi-fx, although it's
fallen out if favor for the more analogue sounds of ok computer.
"i used it a lot on the bends, stuff like planet telex -
almost all the guitar is through that, all very
synthesised." next up is a digitech whammy pedal -
"everyone seems to have one of those, but they're
great." then there's an old mxr phaser pedal, jim dunlop
tremolo, a companion distortion pedal, electro harmonix small
stone and electric mistress, plus roland space echos and
"the usual" boss pedals. for guitars, ed has tree
rickenbacker 360s, a 12-string black model and two sunburst
six-strings, a couple of strats ("just for on the road,
they're really solid for fx-stuff"), and a hand-built guitar
made by the band's guitar tech, peter clements. it's a hybrid of
a gibson neckwith a rickenbacker semi-acoustic body ("a
beautiful, beautiful guitar," ed adds).
the
thinking behind the use of so many standalone pedals is simple -
it opens the doors to sonic experimentation big-time. "it's
how you use them, in what order you put them," as ed puts
it. "out in america we pick up loads of stuff from
second-hand stores, funky old pedals. we've got a great fuzz
pedal - the bass on exit music, the distorted bass at the end was
a 60's japanese fuzz pedal that i picked up in la. it's a great
pedal. 60 bucks for this thing - you put it on a guitar and it
sounds like telstar.
"or jonny at the end of paranoid android, the phased solo thing, that's through a mutator - he did the part then fed it back through the box and played with the settings."
another
good example is the background sound in the verse and intro to
lucky - it sounds like a typical o'brien creation. "i
remember fiddling around in the soundcheck - we were in japan -
and putting together a different pedal order and actually hitting
the strings above the nut on the headstock. the pedals that i did
it with, and the delay that was going on. it was one of these
moments - 'yeah, this is pretty cool.'
as for the
rest, everyone plays fenders - colin plays a precision bass,
jonny a telecaster, there are fender twins amps everywhere. thom
uses a fender jazzmaster and a telecaster custom - one of the
1970's ones with two humbuckers and a strat-style headstock.
"yeah, but he's just bought a rick. he's wanted one for ages
because i had one," ed adds with a smirk.
on the amp side the band use mainly reissue valve models - "in the studio it's ac30s, fender twins and a boogie rectifier, the tremoverb, which is really nice. they're all reissue ones, we haven't got any old amps - we do so much touring they'd probably break down too much. so we got the reissue blue speaker voxes. i'd love to hear a great old 1960's vox, though, i've never heard one."
from total guitar magazine.
