Banjo Simulator Pedal?
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joyster
Tele-Meister
Not quite what you asked for but a Line 6 Variax transplant would give you banjo emulation, and 12-string, and dobro......
Teleworshipkid
Friend of Leo's
Why on earth would you want that?!?
...check out the Ravish Sitar?
...check out the Ravish Sitar?
Take a thin, light piece of cloth and drape it over the strings between the fretting and the picking hand. Done right this will change the attack a bit and stop your strings from sustaining, thus make your electric guitar sound banjoish. I kid you not!
UffdaDonchaKnow
Tele-Meister
The Wooten brothers do something similar with a hair scrunchie.
The banjo sound is as much picking technique as actual tones coming from the instrument. Scruggs style and claw hammer style banjo gets its sound from using the 5th string to creates rolls and drone notes.
You can buy a quality six string banjo strung and tuned like a guitar, and the music it makes really doesn't sound like a banjo.
You can buy a quality six string banjo strung and tuned like a guitar, and the music it makes really doesn't sound like a banjo.
I have the technique down, and I've done sessions playing banjo before. But on stage if there was a way to keep my same guitar on and step on a button to get banjo timbre it would improve my quality of life.
I'm gonna try that rag trick. Possibly an EQ pedal into a noise gate (or vice versa) could get me close, too.
I'm gonna try that rag trick. Possibly an EQ pedal into a noise gate (or vice versa) could get me close, too.
tele salivas
Poster Extraordinaire
Our Norweigian friend above does not lie...
this guy shows you how to simulate a church bell, too...
jefrs
Doctor of Teleocity
Not sure if is is relevant but I've seen a friend play his tele and sound just like a banjo, he did it mainly with his hand by palm-muting, but I think he also had a compressor in use, possibly a chorus too. He is a very skilful player.
He has a ceremonial royal barge for a pedal board but hardly uses any of the FX. Whenever I've used his rig I find it so confusing I bypass the lot.
He has a ceremonial royal barge for a pedal board but hardly uses any of the FX. Whenever I've used his rig I find it so confusing I bypass the lot.
Is it just me, or does that sound nothing like a banjo?
First time I saw that trick done was on a pedal steel guitar actually, a bit easier to get the cloth positioned properly there I guess. To my ears it sounded very banjo-esque, and I have done it myself on a Tele with good results. Of course, you have to have the banjo licks to complete the illusion.
tele salivas
Poster Extraordinaire
Yep, you have to be able to play banjo-like, and use of different cloth or paper and eq will give you better results. But I thought it was a good starting point on the video, live might get a bit tricky. Might as well buy a banjo! The bell was pretty cool! Never heard that one before. Sounded just like Hells Bells intro. I bet through a twin reverb it would be damn straight.
Warren Pederson
Friend of Leo's
I dunno about banjo but here's something that really is cool. Take 7 band EQ (I just use an inexpensive Behringer, the yellow one) and put one slider all the way up, the next one all the way down, up, down etc. Instant resonator/dobro sound.
mr natural
Friend of Leo's
I got a banjo-like sound once by accident by using a Rotovibe set on a slow LFO speed (I bet a phaser would work just as well) into a digital delay set on the shortest time possible with a lot of repeats. I might have had a distortion pedal in there somewhere, I forget. Try it. It almost sounds like steel drums if you vary the LFO speed on the Rotovibe.
-Mr. N.
-Mr. N.
Odd question ~ may as well ask why you'd want ANY new or "different" sound in your repertoire... The answer: Just Because.
artdecade
Poster Extraordinaire
Tim Bowen
Poster Extraordinaire
My electric banjo sounds quite similar to a banjo.
wildschwein
Friend of Leo's
And EQ pedal; roll off a lot of bottom end, boost the upper mids and tops a lot and then follow it with a ring modulator and then a highly resonant, small space reverb effect.
