Hi folks!
I’ve been trying to create a dub guitar sound, like the one heard in safety zone by younger brother, so i messed around with my guitar and computer but couldn’t do much.
Have you got any idea of what kind of effects or filters can make my guitar sound dub-ish?
Any recomendations?

Thanks in advance

Peace

Yeah thats a wah wah effect/ either a pedal or a plugin, what equipment u using
Malk

Hey malk,
well i was sure about the wah pedal but there’ s something else i can’t recognize.
I thought he maybe sends the output of the guitar into a synth and adds another filter but who can tell us except for the man himself??

If anyone has any extra ideas please share it!

Cheers..

Hi Gamma Goblin

I haven’t got the album to hand, but generally speaking, in my humble opinion a decent dub guitar requires :

Reverb (possibly varying amounts of it rather than the same level of reverb throughout the track). This will give a sense of space / dimension.

Delay / Echo (again using varying amounts of it rather than the same level of delay throughout the track). For example, you could do a 1 step echo on the first chord, then a 4 step echo on the next chord, then a 3 step, then no echo, then back to a 1 step echo etc. Changing the amount of delay on each chord gives the track a more “liquid” feel.

Filter or wah wah. If you have a wah wah pedal then you may as well use it, but if not you can achieve a similar effect by putting the guitar through a Low Pass filter with the resonance turned right up, and then sweeping the cutoff knob backwards and forwards to get the “wah” effect.

Chorus. A big wobbly chorus effect can also add a touch of depth and trippiness to the guitar sound, which seems to work well in dub.

Hope this helps you sir!

Cheers

Alex
www.myspace.com/phatcampmusic

Hey Phatcamp!

Although i’ ve tried those effects and filters i can’t get the sound i am after…i need a more electronic kind of sound if you know what i mean. You should listen to this track sometime.

Anyway thanks for the advice!

p.s. actually my name isn’t gamma goblin (this is the ranking by posts), but Astynax!
:D

Hey Astynax,

This is really funny cuz i just recently tried the same thing haha! I love that track, safety zone.

Well all it took was a guitar slap and a free WahWah FX, and a lil modulation. Anyways, check out the file i just uploaded it’s just 16 bars of the wahwah with a lil beat on top. Let me know if it’s on par with what you’re tryin to achieve.

Good luck

*edited: your name, sorry i hate screwin up ppl’s names.

Hey Joshua!

Your sample sounds very interesting!
Really liked it!
It seems that you didn’t play chords but a single note right?
I’ll try some chords if you could tell me what tools you used exactly…  :wink:
:D
Thanks!

Yeah, it was pretty simple what i did with it, its all the same note, 1 note. very little originality, as i was just tryin to see what it all takes to make a sound like that. I used a sample from Trilogy (e-base, modern slap full range A) so you can just make that on your own if you got your guitar hooked up. then added the free wahwah from sonitus, just google that. Then the rest is reverb and EQ. I wasn’t able to automate the wahwah for some reason, so for the 16ths i had a separate wahwah than for the 4ths. You get the picture by now

Have fun, hope this helps. I almost feel bad tellin that much though cuz half the fun is tryin to figure it out :O

[quote author=“Joshua”]Have fun, hope this helps. I almost feel bad tellin that much though cuz half the fun is tryin to figure it out :O

Yeah that’s right…!
:D
But i think the bass sample is making the difference here. I couldn’t get such a clean and punchy sound with my guitar, so maybe YB used a bass sample there…

Thanks again man!

Peace

cool! glad to help.
lemme know if you come up with anythin cool, so i can hear it!

later

reggae sound

To make this sound it is important to keep the note length short. A bit shorter than a 16th. Also have a fast sustain and a fast release, Try to use an instrument that doesnt have much delay and then add this later.