Effect Used in Bloc Party's Helicopter?

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- May 4, 2021 at 6:29 pm #116474
  silver_mica
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  I’m considering creating an effect with my H9 to get close to the sound of the song Helicopter toward the end – at 2:52. Not the fast picking single note, B – but the quarter notes B, D, F#, B, A, B, G, F#. The beat is pretty fast, like 170 bpm or something. Also, I’m not really sure if those were harmonics (kind of sounds like it now that I’m listening again) – but, the last time I played this I just played out what I thought the actual notes were – sort of a Bm arpeggio with a couple of passing notes. The YouTube video link is cue’d up to 2:52 – where the effect emerges.
  
  https://youtu.be/2R6S5CJWlco?t=172
  
  Anyway, what effect do you suppose is used at that point?
- May 7, 2021 at 8:23 pm #157796
  Bodde
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  silver_mica wrote:
  
  I’m considering creating an effect with my H9 to get close to the sound of the song Helicopter toward the end – at 2:52. Not the fast picking single note, B – but the quarter notes B, D, F#, B, A, B, G, F#. The beat is pretty fast, like 170 bpm or something. Also, I’m not really sure if those were harmonics (kind of sounds like it now that I’m listening again) – but, the last time I played this I just played out what I thought the actual notes were – sort of a Bm arpeggio with a couple of passing notes. The YouTube video link is cue’d up to 2:52 – where the effect emerges.
  
  https://youtu.be/2R6S5CJWlco?t=172
  
  Anyway, what effect do you suppose is used at that point?
  
  Cool song and nice guitar parts!
  I think it a crunch sound with delay and reverb. The fast part before that uses some 16th note delay I think.
- May 8, 2021 at 7:29 pm #157800
  Bodde
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  And yes. I am pretty sure those are all natural harmonics.
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Effect Used in Bloc Party’s Helicopter?