Does anyone know of Sitar effects pedals or own one and could recoomend one?? I've always loved Eastern music and Ravi and Led Zeppelin and naturally George Harrisong but I don't feel I have the commitment to go out and buy and actual sitar.......although my one buddy Alex highly recommends this. I did hear a guy playing some really cool lead solos that must have had one of these pedals........they ain't cheap......I know that!! Thanks!! Jim C.
Sitar effect pedal
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Originally Posted by: stratmanjimboDoes anyone know of Sitar effects pedals or own one and could recoomend one??
The easiest way to get this tone is to use your own guitar to approximate it.
1. Use the bridge pickup for a thin tone & a clean tone setting on your amp. Maybe a little chorus for shimmer.
2. Play a melody with the notes all on one string (the upper strings work best, G, B or E).
3. Every note of the melody should be doubled by a note on an adjacent open string note (again, this will be either the E, B or G which ever one is next to the string used for melody & works in harmony with the melody). This is called using a pedal string or drone string.
4. The melody should be in a key that makes the drone or pedal string either a root note or 5th for the most authentic effect.
Mike does this in the opening lick of Paint It Black.
https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=24090&s_id=1972
This works because it mimics what happens on a sitar. There are lots of drone open strings & the melody is often played by sliding up & down one string to play it. Finally, you'll have to learn a bit about how typical East Indian melody lines work & do that quirky bend thing to some of the notes! While they typically stay on one chord, but sometimes mix major & minor.
For example:
[br]|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----------|[br]|-5-7-8-7~--5-7-5-4-5~--5-7-9-7-5-4-5-7-5~--------|[br]|---------------------------------------------------------------|
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That's in E minor for 2 phrases, then E major for the 3rd & has a little vibrato bending at the end of each phrase.
Alternately, you could by this EHX pedal!
https://www.ehx.com/products/ravish
The guy doing the EHX demo in the video does some of that kind of bending. It's not a big blues bend. It's just a little quirky type shaking. And you are still going to have to learn & know how to play a melody that has that typical East Indian sound.
Hope this helps! Have fun with it!
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Electro Harmonix have effect called Ravish Sitar. Check here[br]https://www.gear4music.com/guitar-effects.html[br]https://musicsquare.co.uk/137150g_Guitar-and-Bass-Guitar-and-Bass-Effects-Guitar-Effects-Pedals.html[br]https://www.sweetwater.com/shop/guitars/guitar-pedals/
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