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no... a octave pedal will not make it sound like a violin. it'll make it sound remarkably like a octaved guitar.
the difference between a guitars tone and a violins tone is mostly the method the strings are brought to produce sound. the guitar strings are plucked, the violin strings are drawn with a bow, barring pizzicato. there is a device called the ebow that supposedly produces a violin sound with your guitar by magnetically vibrating the strings by holding it over the string, creating the rising attack and infinite sustain of a violin; never used it, can't vouch for it.
paul gilbert, on one song, can't remember which one, strung his guitar with one string at a time, and used a bow to play the strings role, and did that six times to get the right tone on his guitar. now, if paul gilbert had to resort to such tedious measures, i doubt there is really a way to easily pull it off. but what you would be looking for is infinite, non decaying sustain, and a flat, smooth attack, akin to a bow moving across a string. i can't really tell you how to do it, i don't know how, never tried or heard anything like it.
now, when i link two metal muffs together, and dime everything, i get pretty much infinite sustain that has almost a effect like that, but it obviously does not sound like a violin. |
