On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.
To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.
Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.
There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.
Oh my gosh! I can't tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I'm like, 'Please take it off!' You don't even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!
I think everyone uses Auto-Tune.
Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.
I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'
I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.
I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.
What is auto-tune? I don't even know what auto-tune is.
Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.
You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.
The track 'Open Eye Signal,' when you hear that choir sound come in, that's actually me singing but sped up and with huge reverb and overlayered harmonies.
Sometimes you can just record anything and slow it down hugely and you'll find all these hidden notes and frequencies that match up really nicely.
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
