Tom Morello "Scrath Effect"

As you know, Tom Morello makes lot's of sound effects with his guitar. One of them being a scratching noise which was influenced by the sound of DJ's. Anyway to do it (good) you need a two pick up guitar with two tone nobs and two volume nobs. Well tone nobs really don't matter, only volume nobs. You also need a switch(I forgot what its called lol, you know it changes which pickup(s) your using). It has to be the ones that only has two, Treble and Rhythm. So rub your hand across the strings in the area where you would pick and also a little bit near the end of the neck, and with your other hand constantly switch the "switch", w/e its called lol. I know he uses pedals as well, but I'm not sure what they are. There are videos on youtube of him teaching you how to do it, and he tells you what pedals he uses.

He doesn't use pedals to do this sound, mabey his wah toed down to get that added grit. The switch you were talking about is called the pickup selector switch, selector switch for short. Like you said, it has to be a 3 way for it to work good. Also, you don't need the switch, I do it without it all the time, it just doesn't have the precise cut off you get with the switch.


check this out as well: http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22675

Yeah, I mean he doesnt use lots of pedals. He only uses wah and only sometimes. Yeah, I don't use the switch either on my guitar, but its just the way he does it.

I'd use my switch but its a 5 way and my other guitar with it is tuned down a half step.

lol(i need 10 characters to post :))

Thanks for sharing this trick with as mate, as I'm progressive/experimental rock fan, this will surely prove very usefull to me :)

Haha, no problem. If you want:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I48oiJ-Y8kI

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=luIx0OvYgW8&feature=related

Those are Part 1 and Part 2 of Tom Morello tricks with Tom Morello.