Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

[atilla]

This is just something that gets my curiousity going: Jackal's "Lumberjack Song" has this hysterical part where it sounds like someone is playing a riff on a chainsaw.

I'm guessing it's a guitar being run through some sort of effect that fakes the chainsaw sound. I'm wondering if anybody knows what device could do this.

Now, I posted this in the Guitarists.net forum, and a few geniuses said "It's a chainsaw."

Great. So how exactly did they do it? Mic and record, then use Pro Tools or something like it do monkey with the pitch?

Most importantly, how would they do it live?

[1trussell]

Re: Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

Uh, it is a chainsaw.

I think that they just mic the chainsaw and Jesse James Dupree would pump the gas in a rhythm that would speed up and slow down the motor, thus raising and lowering the pitch.

[BLOOD SPLATTER]

Re: Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

It is a real chainsaw miced & recorded!!& live it's also a real chainsaw!!

[Tekky]

Re: Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

DOH!!! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[atilla]

Re: Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

Okay, THAT is the kind of answer I was looking for. I've gotta give the man props for that. He nailed it on the head...maybe he really IS a lumberjack!

[diablomozart]

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i've seen them life...it's definitely a real chainsaw [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]...as a matter of fact at the end of the song he usually cuts a bar stool in half with it too...d.m.

[charveljunkie]

Re: Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

diablomozart,
don't forget about the les paul he cuts in half [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
also he pulls the choke out to get the low notes [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
i've known jesse for years,i remember me and tj back stage at my gig and he comes in and said i wrote this killer song so he grab the acoustic and starts playing "she loves my co@k"
laughed my a$$ off tj said man thats porno-rock
jesse said yep i will make a million dollars playing porno-rock
and he did [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img]
damn i was writing sh*t like iron maiden and yngwie [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[guitarsjb]

Re: Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

I've seen them live also. I guarantee you it is a chainsaw.

[horns666]

Re: Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

I like the German Jackal much better ...instead of playin' with chainsaws ...they play the hell outta guitars.. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[jazzman]

Re: Weird Guitar Noises a la Jackal

Dude, it's a chainsaw!