"Soft" distortion - ideas?

[markeebee]

I really like that kind of "underwater" sound on the final repeats of a tape delay.

Any ideas how I might get that sound WITHOUT delay?  I was thinking maybe some kind of reverb with a HP filter?  Or a slow. light, reverbed filtered chorus? 

Or something?

[jacobyjd]

Here's how I do it:


Really though, I think you're on the right track. you could try driving a reverb into a compressor.

[sean k]

I don't know what you mean precisely but I'm jut rebuilding a tube and spring reverb and after my time with PT2399's I was wondering how to get the feedback thing going on. With the normal tube stuff the feedback is discouraged at all costs with the 3.3M resistors and the 10pf caps but upon reading your question it came to me that one could take signal from the return and reverse phase and stick it back in directly across the send inductor but then with this you'd also have the bandpass filter to cut lows below a certain point and highs above.

So basically I suppose it's about having a reverb with and fx send return in which you could inject what you require. Reverb with feedback?

Maybe some ducking would work as well so any new signal cuts the feedback?

[Nasse]

I tried to find info last night, tried to find something about Al Caiola underwater guitar sound trick, but only found he was been in the navy. I found one vid in the tube, in which he made a spring reverb sound like a whining horse. 

[Processaurus]

I would be interested to see if there's a technical article about how water changes sound, seems like something sound designers for movies would know.

Supposedly Jimi wanted his live guitar sound to sound "underwater".