Boulevard Of Broken Dream...Green day- what effect

[jimbob]

Anyone know what effect is used on the peginning of Green day's "Boulevard Of Broken Dream" ?

I thought I would beable to get that choppyness from my Lune but no go. Any ideas?

[vanessa]

I used to have an old Boss auto-wah that could do that. I wish I still had it. That was the only thing I used it for.

[TheBigMan]

IIRC it's actually done in Pro Tools or something similar, but a hard square wave trem should get you close.

[jayp5150]

I've noticed that when I put my trem in the fx loop, it gets way choppier (it's just a tuna melt).  You could try that.

[alecacca]

in guitar rig 2 there are a setup called " boulevard of broken streets":
it's right. it begin with a wha putted at middle, stomp compressor, and a square wave scillator that contol the preamp of a jcm marshall. just a wha, a compressor (optional), and a square wave tremolo.

[Lp_man]

I have heard that it was a black box; http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MAudioBlackBox-main.html

Guitar rig does the same thing, it sets the timing of the song to the timing of the effect pretty cool stuff

[Rodgre]

I read that it was an Adrenalinn effect.

You can get that effect with a noise gate with a key input, triggering the gate with a 16th note sequence from a drum machine for example. You have to set the gate for a quick attack and release, and use a trigger sound that is as long as you want the pulse to be.

Roger

[RaceDriver205]

Eh? Its just a tremolo! Has a stereo quality to it as well though. Tremolo-distortion, check some more out at www.tothemax.web1000.com under FX demos.

[karloff]

I read in an interview with guitarist Billioe Joe in some music biz rag that it was all done in ProTools. All cut up into regions that were muted and not muted to get the tremolo effect to sync perfectly with the tempo of the track.