Shoegazing guitar....

[looney77]

Stomp under foot makes a clone of the '77 muff Billy Corgan used called the Pumpkin Pie. They are all around 150 bucks too.

 

[mr natural]

As a huge fan of My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver (the best!!), Ride and the likes, I used to record a lot of that style just on my four track, and I always found that a two pickup guitar (Jazzmaster, Jag, Tele!) with both pickups on through an amp with slightly scooped midrange with a decent amount of gain (but not necesarrily fuzzed out to high heaven) can sound pretty huge, and the subtle tremolo shimmers do a lot to get that warped record sound. Adding reverb or delay multiplies the hugeness, of course! Just 2 guitar tracks with this approach (doubling the same part) panned left and right can sound enormous.

Another groovy trick is to use a stereo delay at the very end of your chain on the shortest time possible and 1 repeat with the dry signal and delay panned hard left and right. With all the fuzz and whatnot going on it adds that extra fatness. The guitar sounds like it's in the middle of the stereo image and yet, not in the middle at all. Weird effect.
-Mr. N.

 

[Thighbanez]

What delay pedal does all of that?

 

[tele salivas]

As for the Devi Ever pedals, my personal favorite is The Rocket, which is modeled after the heavy fuzz The Smashing Pumpkins used on their Siamese Dream album.

I concur! I like mixing the Rocket trem with the Dano trem, and let them fight it out. The vintage fuzz master getting goosed by the Soda Meiser side is the shiite for fuzz! On my pedal board:

 

[Chiogtr4x]

OLD FART question: What is "shoegazing" guitar? Is it a style, based on a certain band(s)??

 

[Thighbanez]

Wow, I always thought Shoegaze was stuff like "Slowdive"...

I need to check some of this other Shoegaze and NuGaze out!

 

[jmtaylor22]

My Vitriol is my personal favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oovWTboD4

Though, my favorite old school Shoegaze band is probably Slowdive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol787NjpBS4&feature=related

As for the Devi Ever pedals, my personal favorite is The Rocket, which is modeled after the heavy fuzz The Smashing Pumpkins used on their Siamese Dream album.

I listened to Vitriol pretty cool, have you ever listened to Ned's Atomic Dustbin? Kind of reminded me of this (at least what I recall from my youth LOL).

 

[losergeek]

OLD FART question: What is "shoegazing" guitar? Is it a style, based on a certain band(s)??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegazing

Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted there until the mid 1990s, with a critical zenith reached in 1990 and 1991. The British music press—particularly NME and Melody Maker—named this style shoegazing because the musicians in these bands stood relatively still during live performances in a detached, introspective, non-confrontational state, hence the idea that they were gazing at their shoes.[1] The heavy use of effects pedals also contributed to the image of performers looking down at their feet (shoegazing) during concerts.

The shoegazing sound is typified by significant use of guitar effects, and indistinguishable vocal melodies that blended into the creative noise of the guitars.

 

[Chiogtr4x]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegazing

Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted there until the mid 1990s, with a critical zenith reached in 1990 and 1991. The British music press—particularly NME and Melody Maker—named this style shoegazing because the musicians in these bands stood relatively still during live performances in a detached, introspective, non-confrontational state, hence the idea that they were gazing at their shoes.[1] The heavy use of effects pedals also contributed to the image of performers looking down at their feet (shoegazing) during concerts.

The shoegazing sound is typified by significant use of guitar effects, and indistinguishable vocal melodies that blended into the creative noise of the guitars.

thanks! appreciate the answer

Think I'll stick to I-IV-V...

 

[Telegazer]

If it's a matter of writing riffs as you have mentioned, I'd just use a digital delay with the wet mix above 60% with long feedback and scrape the heck out of my jazzmaster on octave lines while distortion is running heavy. Don't be afraid of long tails on delay and reverb that dovetail each other, and try experimenting with riffs that harmonically bleed into each other well.


'Gazers I'm well acquainted with tend to use the RV-3 among others for pouring sauce all over their clean tone with the combined reverb and delay feature, and it admittedly does do the trick if you want that washed out tone. At the same time, modulated repeats on an 1/8 note or dotted 1/8 note into a reverb can be just as fun without the dizzy effect of processing the whole signal through a chorus pedal, if not less muddy(depending on degree of reverb and amount of drive).

As a fan of shoegazing and dream-pop during their heyday (Pale Saints, Ride, Slowdive, Lush, Moose), and I personally use reverb just to give space, but rather like to create depth with panned delay, leaving a little bit more of the guitar intact. Most of the "loud-shoegazey-moments" in one of our tunes is actually just "too much delay", and very little reverb. Listen at about 2:30: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJ3eNXgkdc