Caravan sound

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In a message dated 9/16/00 11:50:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, don at till.com 
writes:

<< Chords don't work through fuzzboxes because of intermodulation.  But a
 good Canterbury keyboard player will use the "intermodulation chiffs"
 from multiple notes as an expressive tool.  Listen closely for that;
 it's pretty neat. >>

Yes, it certainly is!  You can also hear a similar distorted organ solo in 
Traffic's "Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys", from their album of the same name. 
 The organ is played by Stevie Winwood.  It's especially cool when he kind of 
slurs his various monophonic solo notes into that intermodulated grunge, and 
then later just starts playing full chords, just for the beautiful noise of 
it.

Oh yeah, "Ummagumma"-era Pink Floyd seemed to like that kind of organ sound 
quite a bit, too.

Don is right about the type of organ or type of fuzzbox:  It doesn't much 
matter what types you use.  However, if you have a drawbar-type organ, it's a 
lot of fun to change the drawbar settings while you're playing through a 
fuzzbox.  The effect can sometimes sound kind of like a guitar breaking into 
harmonic feedback, or even harmonic feedback breaking into a guitar...

Michael Bacich