How to produce longer lasting sounds on an electric guitar
Hello fellow musicians,
my question may be really simple, but since I don't have much knowledge about effect pedals or rather no money to buy every pedal and see what it does, I might need some help. I am a big SRV fan and I always wonder how he managed to let his guitar ring notes for such a long time. For example in Voodoo Child there's a part where he only picks a string once and then starts tapping the neck up and down just with his fingers. Everytime I tried it, the tone was gone after a few seconds. I'm pretty sure he used some effect pedal or similar to boost his notes. If anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it.
Also if there are any "cheap" solutions, I would be very glad.
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For the specific song you mention, the two key things are:
a heavily overdriven, high gain input stage on the amp
a well set up neck
using tapping, you could play forever with only one hand (see any Van Halen) - if you aren't able to do this, either you aren't hammering on or tapping quickly/hard enough, or your neck has other issues. You do want your strings to be as low to the fretboard as you can handle for tapping - this doesn't lend itself well to hard thrashing as you get too much buzz off the frets.
This sort of tapping will work even on an unamplified acoustic guitar - the high gain amp simply makes every note more defined. Check out Joe Satriani's "Midnight" for an excellent example of an entire tune played using tapping, with only a little gain, and very little distortion.
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