Name that guitar tone...

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Hey. I’m trying to figure out what effect was used on the right rhythm track on “Independent Luxury” by Sountrack of Our Lives. It comes in after first chorus, IIRC.

It’s kinda a percussive fuzz tone, almost like an overdriven harpsichord, if that makes any sense. It’s also used on a classic rock radio staple that I can’t think of at the moment.

I know it’s not much to go on, but anybody got any ideas?

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bumpage.

Okay, while sitting at the ball game last night, I realized where I’d heard it before: “Superstitious,” by Stevie Wonder. Yes, that guitar tone. What’s it called, or how is it acheived?

Thanks.

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Hi black455,

I am not an expert, but an amateur guitarist who (now you’ve mentioned it) would also like to know how Stevie Wonder got that great sound. Google suggests it’s an “Electric Clavinet” :

http://www.soundofmusic.se/synth/clavinet/clavinet.htm

Quote: ‘Model C (1968). It was this model that Stevie Wonder used on the recording of “Superstitious”’

The software version looks interesting too!

HTH,

Reuben

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That’s correct, it’s a clavinet (a keyboard), not a guitar.

I don’t know why they refer to that classic Stevie Wonder tune by a wrong name, though. It’s called “Superstition.” You think they’d want to get that right. :stuck_out_tongue: Either way, it’s a classic riff.

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Sorry. I’m not the world’s biggest Stevie buff, but that sounds about right. I’ll see if I can find some samples or midi to play with.

Thanks duders.

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Sorry. I’m not the world’s biggest Stevie buff, but that sounds about right. I’ll see if I can find some samples or midi to play with.

Thanks duders.