Drown, technical question

RichS

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May 19, 2008
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In the song "Drown" during the versus, there is what sounds like an acoustic guitar picking out notes that Matt is singing over. It's almost too processed to sound like a traditional acoustic guitar, almost sounds like a harpsichord. Is it a synth? Or is it an acoustic that is heavily processed?
 
It's called a Flamenco guitar. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmcjAGJOPR0]YouTube[/ame]
 
In the song "Drown" during the versus, there is what sounds like an acoustic guitar picking out notes that Matt is singing over. It's almost too processed to sound like a traditional acoustic guitar, almost sounds like a harpsichord. Is it a synth? Or is it an acoustic that is heavily processed?

I'd say it's definitely a steel-string acoustic and I think it's either dubbed by the same acoustic playing the high octave or Matt just added that via a pitch shifter (which I think is more likely). There's also some hall/delay effect added.

Opinions?

@M@rs: Flamenco guitar? :confused:
 
-12-string acoustic guitar (also 2 separate takes, left and right)

Ok, I thought about a 12-string but I had the impression that some notes were too high so I came up with the pitch shifter. Well, that's how wrong you can be. ;)

Thanks for the info.
 
It's four tracks, four separate takes:

-Clean guitar through Roland JC-120 (2 separate takes, left & right)
-12-string acoustic guitar (also 2 separate takes, left and right)

There ya go! :)

That's awesome. I have heard variations of that sound before on albums and have never known how it was done. Thank Matt!
 
It's four tracks, four separate takes:

-Clean guitar through Roland JC-120 (2 separate takes, left & right)
-12-string acoustic guitar (also 2 separate takes, left and right)

There ya go! :)

I would give ANYTHING for a 12 string...... I want a drum set more though......