do you guys have any home made effects? for example theres a billy idol song where the guitarist pulls out a toy gun that makes different noises and holds it up to his pickups for the sound effect, on formulas... trey said he put a fan between his cab and speaker and it gave his guitar a "quivering" effect. have any of you guys come up with anything effects like these?

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umm... i do a thing with cell phone up to my pickups....
i know a guy who uses an empty beer keg for a reverb tank....

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I was standing there playing guitar oneday and I stopped and farted and the fart came through my amp...could use that...I laughed my ass off for about 10 minutes.

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when i stopped playing at a rehearsal it sounded like someone was screaming his ass off through the speaker cab. its happened several times.

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That reminds me of something that happened to me.
I was plugging my playstation into a crappy 13'' TV. The AV jacks were fucked up to it was really hard to get the picture and sound in. If it wasnt in right, the tv would make some really fucked up noise. I was listening to it, trying to make it out and the tv was playing a fucking Creed song. 'Take me higher' I think the name was. My tv was picking up some radio station but it was all distorted so it sounded fucked up. It was pretty cool.
I have no idea how that was relevent but whatever..

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ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I hit these little above my pickups with a pick.
Does that count?

Remote control.push the buttons and put it next to your pickups.

these little what?
well anyway the only thing i have found is to take a portable cd player hit pause then sway it in front of your pickups

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ive uses a remote control and tapped the fretboard for a really cool solo.

Cell phones work good too... kinda make you wonder how powerful of raido waves those bastards send out.

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it cool when you receive radio through your amp

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i always pick up german stations

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No it isent.. it fucking sucks. Im trying to play some slayer then heard horns and some guy screaming "HOLA!"

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HAHA!
I remember when I first started playing guitar, when my amp started picking up radio stations.. I forgot to turn the amp off when I went to bed. I woke up and I heard voices. It scared the shit out of me.

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it happened to my pc once... thought there were japanese demons in it.

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anybody ever used an ebow??? they're fuckin cool....

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i heve heard of them but what do they do exactly?

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you place it over a string and it can make earie sounds

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listen to the intro of the song "the moor" by Opeth. The begining sounds are made on an e-bow. Also, it can make your guitar sound like a violin.

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i have a cool violin like delay in my shitty ass zoom 707.

I messed around with it a bit and managed to incoporate it into some songs and it sounds very similar to a violin.

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makes sense, i think e-bow stands for electric bow..... i could be mistaken, but it's the most logical thing i can think of...

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E=bow actually stands for energy bow, but its all good. I have one and they are cool as hell! It makes an electro magnetic field between the space where you play it on your strings and it vibrates the sting. It has infinate sustain and depending how you put the tone and volume knobs, it can sound liek diffent instruments like a violin, wood flute, cello, and a bunch of others. I like it because when you hold it right over the magnet in your pickups it makes the note go REAL high and so you can use your emotions when you play it. Though I think its awesome, it takes some practice and it is not the best thing to get if you only want to play metal. Definate for uses for Prog. though....

energy bow... close enough
but yeh, i'm not "just" metal... i like to do the undone. and the ebow is fucking awesome.... i'm totally buying a couple as soon as finances allow it.

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a couple what would you use a couple for, i had to borrow 20 bucks from my friend today when i bought mine. lol i'm such a broke ass loser. I paid 160 candian i mighta got ripped but i don't care its pretty funkin cool. Got a good laugh at the instructional CASSETTE TAPE it came with to.

two, because a second one would come in handy.... i'd only use one at a time, but the other could be a backup or something.... it's like a big battery powered pick ... and you can never have to many picks.

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