Hi,

 

Anyone know what Jonny is using to make the spacey synth kind of sounds on the beginning of Yellow and God Put a Smile on the latest tour. You can clearly see him doing it here [ame=

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I'm thinking it could be the swell setting on the DL4 maybe? Any ideas greatly appreciated.

I don't have a good knowledge of guitar effects/pedals, but I'm pretty sure what Jonny's doing on Yellow is not what he's doing on GPASYUF.

 

It looks and sounds like Jonny is playing the chords from the verse of Yellow but doing sound swells either manually or with an effects pedal. His hand position in this video doesn't give enough information on that (unless we watch it 50 times).

 

GPASYUF it looks like he's just picking one note constantly and has his sustain wayyyy up. The sound of it makes me think it might be the same effect he uses on LIJ.

Yeah after watching it again it looks like he's doing the swells with his volume pedal, probaly with a shedload of delay & reverb. On God Put A Smile it looks as though he plays something and loops it maybe, if you check the end of Violet Hill where he starts doing the sound on his les Paul, the sound continues even though you can clearly see him swap guitars...

 

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