HW: Effects that Hawkwind use

[Alastair Lee Sumner]

These may all be different effects but there are two places where you can
hear what I'm trying to describe.

1. Listen to Upside Down on Space Ritual with headphones, especially the
last verse. The effect is very obvious in your left ear. It's like an echo
or reverb effect. It's quite bubbly at times

2. On Doremi at the end of Brainstorm, that guitar bit after evreything
else has finished.

I also heard something similar during the live performance on Saturday. I
pictured some kind of weird washboard that makes these noises.

Alastair.


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:33:37 -0400, Moonglum <moonglum at DREAMWORKER.CO.UK>
wrote:

>I think it's synth going through a tremolo effect.  Tremolo is volume
>variation of a signal, alterable in terms of speed and intensity.
>
>For a non-HW version, think of the guitar in the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now"
>
>For a HW version, the original studio version of Spirit Of The Age has it
>on DB's guitar.  Here, the intensity is probably on maximum, i.e. between
>the signal pulses you hear nothing at all, hence ta ta ta ta ta etc.
>
>Sorry to quote guitar examples only, but that's where it's more usually
>used!  HW breaking the mould as usual...
>
>Steve
>
>
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>On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:21:53 -0400, Alastair Lee Sumner
><als at POSTMASTER.CO.UK> wrote:
>
>
>>There is an effect that was used in the early 70s on the Space Ritual and
>>also on Doremi I think. It is most noticeable on the left channel when you
>>listen to Orgone Accumulator and Upside Down. It is hard to descibe but
>>sounds like an echo of the guitar or sometimes like an echo of the sound
of
>>the entire band or something and goes ta ta ta ta ta. It kind of sounds
>>like the volume is being repeatedly turned on and off.