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Raven · Post by **Raven** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:50 pm

How was the sound to the intro to "If You tolerate this " created I

the tune , I don't really want to recreate the sound but I am curious how it was done

Karbon L. Forms · Post by **Karbon L. Forms** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:05 pm

by the carefull blending shit

KrunietZ · Post by **KrunietZ** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:15 pm

ehm, with a guitar

Bonteburg · Post by **Bonteburg** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:19 pm

hm off the top of my head I'd say it's a guitar with a Tremolo effect at an extreme setting, so that it sounds like it comes in pluses, similar to that R.E.M. song.
is that what you mean?

It's only what I recall, I'm not listenig to it right now...

Marco

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:45 pm

KrunietZ wrote:ehm, with a guitar

WRONG

The sweeping, filtered sound that fills out the verses of 'Tolerate', which many assumed to be an electric guitar played through a wah pedal, is actually nothing of the sort (see the 'Pheeeooow!' box on page 50). The only electric guitar on the record is Bradfield's 12-string Rickenbacker, which appears for the first time on the song's middle eight. "He didn't want to spend ages on the sound," remembers Eringa, "he just wanted to see what he could come up with, and - promising me it would be fine - he plugged it into a Trans Am amplifier that he got from a catalogue when he was 16! It was his first ever guitar amp. He said 'no, honestly, the Rickenbacker sounds great through this', and it did, bizarrely.

That 'Pheeeooow!' Sound In Full
With drums, bass, acoustic guitar and a guide vocal on tape, it became obvious to everyone that the verse of 'If You Tolerate This...' needed something else - but no-one knew what. "Eventually," says Eringa, "James decided that something should be going 'pheeeooow', and then just left me and Nick Nasmyth, their keyboard player, to see what we could come up with!"
What Nick and Dave came up with was, in the end, almost unrecognisable as a keyboard part. "All the reviews of the single said 'there's this spectral guitar effect in the verse'," he complains, "but it's actually a Wurlitzer electric piano, put into my Korg MS20, distorted beyond all piano-ness and filtered live using both the low- and high-pass filters, with resonance set really high to get that extreme distortion. It was a live, kind of organic thing - him hitting the chords and me turning the knobs! Because the filters would sweep back too far, we had to record chords one and three, and then go back and do chords two and four. We disciplined ourselves to do the whole thing live. It's too easy just to go into Pro Tools and take one good one and copy it, and then it doesn't sound as real or earthy."

>>> http://tabs.foreverdelayed.com/articles ... tethis.php

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