Sixty Seconds Of Sounds From The Danelectro Tuna Melt Tremolo Stompbox

In my recent Gearwire Gossip column about the Danelectro Tuna Melt tremolo stompbox, I griped about shooting a video and dorking it up nicely. Here's the re-shoot I did on the lovely Tuna Melt by Danelectro. It's sixty seconds (ish) of sounds I, the non-guitar player, squeezed out of the thing.

I have been battering around six-stringed instruments for my own evil purposes for years, but as far as knowing how to play? Well, let's just say it's a lost cause. But I do know how to make the experimental and oddball noises I need in the proud tradition of groups such as Wire, one of my all-time top-10 favorites in terms of groups that get great, left-of center uses out of guitars.

To be honest, the first time I played it, the more left-of-center results sounded a lot more far-out than on the second attempt you'll see and hear in this clip, but I did enjoy the Wire-esque results on one long passage in the vid. Many of the sounds won't surprise experienced, "normal" guitar players, and the "People Are Strange" tremolo effect is always fun to play, but I prefer the more dorked up hyperactive setting heard in the last part of the demo.

The results of my sonic torture of a Gibson run thru the Tuna Melt and into the Valve King 212? Well, see and hear for yourself. They won't be calling me in to do any session work for Steely Dan, but if Throbbing Gristle ever does a reunion, I'm a shoo-in.
This is all quite experimental, and I am indeed using you dear Gearwire readers (and viewers) as my personal guinea pigs as I sort through a variety of video experiments to see if anything catches on with you. So why not do me a favor and drop some feedback in the Gearwire Forums about these things? And don't bother telling me I'm a crap guitarist, we know THAT already.
Any volunteers to do weird noises on my next video, step right up. Or better yet, why not make your own and send them to Gearwire? Drop a line in the forums and ask me how to proceed on THAT one.

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Music

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• music
• Danelectro
• Tuna Melt
• Stompbox
• Tuna Melt stompbox
• tremolo effects

[zouavefrench]

Used a broken pedal for this vid at 1:09.

[Blompcube]

joe walsh eh? i know of another joe walsh who plays guitar... he's quite good :)

[Splittail01]

God i hate the Danelectro pedals, they seem to have no substances to them. This video was extremely bad at showing off the strengths of the pedal. Gearwire come on atleast with your boring dude demos he was in deoth and good at explaining the strengths of the pedals

[STUCKintheBUSH]

fail!