Does anyone know how to get that phaser-like effect on the piano in Moving to Mars (around 1:19)?

i am sure there is no effect on the piano

if you mean around 1:39, that is rather noth the piano. may be guitar (i think...) or another synth sound

It might be synth, but then again Coldplay likes to try to use new concepts and it might be guitar...I think you can get the sound if you have a keyboard with some filters and distorters

I don't know *how* to get it, but I'm sure that's the sound of playing the sound of a piano reversed.

 

I can imagine you can record a note or chord, use a programme to reverse the audio, then convert it to a MIDI sort of file and have an electric keyboard play it. Or perhaps there's a keyboard that has a particular voice that sounds like that noise? I don't have a keyboard of my own to try this though, so good luck with that!

I don't know *how* to get it, but I'm sure that's the sound of playing the sound of a piano reversed.

 

I can imagine you can record a note or chord, use a programme to reverse the audio, then convert it to a MIDI sort of file and have an electric keyboard play it. Or perhaps there's a keyboard that has a particular voice that sounds like that noise? I don't have a keyboard of my own to try this though, so good luck with that!

 

yup, VST plugins and such things are able to do some nice tricks.

reversing suff: Boss DD7 (is it dd7 ? xD) well the delay pedal for guitar

 

also, i just found a gorgeous version of don't panic and yes, there is a piano with a phaser indeed. it's studio effects i believe, live, it can be achieved with a phaser pedal like jonny's mxr phase 90 or whatever he has got...

I've slowed it down and there is nothing going on with the piano, it's a afterwards added effect of what I believe inverted strings.

 

If u slow it down you can actually hear the piano making a fast strum downwards. And you can hear that the effect is something else.

It can be a reverst VSTi instrument or actual recording of an guitar or anything else.

It shouldn't be hard to recreate the sound.

Sounds like a normal piano to me. Might be drifting more towards the honky-tonk piano when the song really picks up, but during the quiet part it sounds normal to me.

i'd still say it's a bloody guitar xD

I don't know *how* to get it, but I'm sure that's the sound of playing the sound of a piano reversed.

 

I can imagine you can record a note or chord, use a programme to reverse the audio, then convert it to a MIDI sort of file and have an electric keyboard play it. Or perhaps there's a keyboard that has a particular voice that sounds like that noise? I don't have a keyboard of my own to try this though, so good luck with that!

 

Yeah, sorry I should have worded the question better. I'm not so concerned with "how" to get the sound, rather "what" it is ;)

Thanks for your help!

yup, VST plugins and such things are able to do some nice tricks.

reversing suff: Boss DD7 (is it dd7 ? xD) well the delay pedal for guitar

 

also, i just found a gorgeous version of don't panic and yes, there is a piano with a phaser indeed. it's studio effects i believe, live, it can be achieved with a phaser pedal like jonny's mxr phase 90 or whatever he has got...

 

Yeah, it reminded me a lot of Don't Panic's effects. I'll muck around at home (I have a DD7) and see what I can do!