Does anyone know how to get that "Steve Stevens" RAY GUN sound?

[Beans]

Does anyone know how to get that "Steve Stevens" RAY GUN sound?
What's he using and how does he control it?
thanx... Beans

[niwatori]

Phaser? Almost positive, but can't tell you how or what.

[FeeFiFoFum]

didn't he use those funky looking Roland (midi I believe) guitars, with the
big black plastic handle thinggy on the top side?

[Jarno Nurminen]

Beans wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get that "Steve Stevens" RAY GUN sound?
> What's he using and how does he control it?
> thanx... Beans

I'm not sure about this, but I have a faint member of him using en
electronic toy gun on top of the guitar's pick-ups...

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In article <39631BEE...@SPAMLESSnic.fi>,

Jarno Nurminen <jnur...@SPAMLESSnic.fi> wrote:
> Beans wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to get that "Steve Stevens" RAY GUN sound?
> > What's he using and how does he control it?
> > thanx... Beans
>
> I'm not sure about this, but I have a faint member of him using en
> electronic toy gun on top of the guitar's pick-ups...
>

That is what he originally used. Then he had the guts of that toy
built into the guitar and wired so it was pushbutton activated. Hamer
built it for him. I think I can get a close approximation with a
phaser, alot of delay in a ping-pong mode and the whammy bar.

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> Jarno Nurminen
> jnur...@NOSPAMnic.fi
>

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I just use my tremelo very fast. But I wouldnt recommend it on a standard
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loser than a regular fulcrum tremelo.

Pete

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[Montie Merciless]

I use to use my tremelo an hit a harmonic i forgot where i havent had a
teremelo for a long time or fuzzbox for that matter her husband came and got
her.......: (
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"mark " <mws...@aol.comb> wrote in message
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>
> >I'm not sure about this, but I have a faint member...
>
> I'd check it out if I were you. See a specialist.
>
>

[Zekmoe]

>That is what he originally used. Then he had the guts of that toy
>built into the guitar and wired so it was pushbutton activated. Hamer
>built it for him. I think I can get a close approximation with a
>phaser, alot of delay in a ping-pong mode and the whammy bar.

Uhh......didn't he just use a preset on an Early 80-'s Korg Delay? Yes, I think
he did. It was a just factory preset. It is nothing more that a self oscilating
delay set fast that he just turns on and off with a momentary switch type
feel. Korg SDE-3000 or some model close to that.
Bob Maggio
Guitars and Cigars.

[Jarno Nurminen]

mark wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
> >I'm not sure about this, but I have a faint member...
> I'd check it out if I were you. See a specialist.

Without the foreigners and their typos, where would all the humour be
from this group?

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[high-mu]

Are y'all refering to that sound in "Rebel Yell"?
In the studio that was a Lexicon delay, PCM 41 (or 42, can't
remember) Lot's o' mod and regen. On tour he had one unit
dedicated to that sound, until Later he got a programable unit.
Tim

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[Bob Finn]

I was under the understanding that it was an ADA Flanger set on some
extreme settings that provided him with a wacky ray gun sound.

I could be wrong - but I remember reading it some wanky guitar magazine
back a few years ago.

Hope that helps.
Bob

[Steve_2000]

high-mu <redbugg...@earthlink.net.invalid> wrote:
>Are y'all referring to that sound in "Rebel Yell"?

>In the studio that was a Lexicon delay, PCM 41 (or 42, can't
>remember) Lot's o' mod and regen. On tour he had one unit
>dedicated to that sound, until Later he got a programable unit.
>Tim
>

Wow is this thread all over the map with answers and suggestions
or what? Very creative:)

Very faded memory tells me Tim has it right. I *think* I read
Steves said he had used an expensive Lexicon box with fairly
simple settings. Lexicon probably made a preset for it after it
became a well known sound during B. Idol's heyday. (feelin old-
'er' here..)

I do remember an old interview with him where he talked about
exactly how to get it and it being fairly simple..if you had a
multi-hundred dollar FX unit. Course a lot of good multi FX
units where way expensive in the mid-late 80's when Stevens/Idol
did that stuff.

I gotta think there's a few ways to get it much
less 'expensively' with today's products and prices.

imo

Steve

[Ryan R. Miller]

He used a ray gun, duh... No really! Not a real one, one of the old
multi-colored translucent toys. They had two knobs for the sounds and
settings. Saw him on the Vince Neil tour, and he held the thing up to his
pickups a-la the E.V.H. drill thing (though I do believe the Stevens "ray
gun" technique predates the Van Halen "drill" technique).

Ryan R. Miller

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[rcf]

He might have done that for looks, but in actuality he uses a Lexicon
ddl rack unit to do it. I forget what make and model- he explained the
whole process in an interview in one of the guitar rags a few years
back.

In article <Mrvj5.1$wL2....@news.uswest.net>, Ryan R. Miller

[tim gueguen]

rcf <ra...@diehlgraphsoft.com> wrote in message
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> He might have done that for looks, but in actuality he uses a Lexicon
> ddl rack unit to do it. I forget what make and model-

A PCM41 or '42, altho' you could generate a similar effect with any rack
delay that has an adjustable LFO waveform that gives you a square wave.(I
think he used a square wave)

tim gueguen 101867

[David Robinson]

This is out of one of my old Guitar FTPM magazines with an interview of
Steve. It came out right after he released the "Atomic Playboys" cd,
just so you know I'm not makin' this up. Paul Hamer of Hamer guitars
built the ray gun into a guitar for him. He took the internals of one
of those like plastic ray gun toys and wired it up to the pickups with a
control on the top side next to the regular guitar controls. Hamer was
doing some wild stuff with Steve Stevens back then. My old roommate had
two Steve Stevens model Hamers that were great guitars. One of them was
butt ugly though. It was a lavender double cutaway with LEDs built into
the fretboard. There was an on/off switch and a pot to control the
speed. The LEDs would flash in sequence down the neck. If you cranked
the speed all the way, they just stayed on.

I'll bet if you could find a Steve Stevens web page, you could email
Steve and get the scoop. Then again, you might get that info from Hamer
too.

David