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Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Terry01 on February 03, 2018, 03:23:10 AM

Title: Guitarists Here - Question about So Far Away sound
Post by: Terry01 on February 03, 2018, 03:23:10 AM

All knows that Knopfler had that particular sound using the Synclavier guitar
My question is: Exist any guitar pedal/effect to recreate that sound? Or the most close to it?
Thanks my friends!

Title: Re: Guitarists Here - Question about So Far Away sound
Post by: Jules on February 03, 2018, 08:40:00 AM

Quote from: Terry01 on February 03, 2018, 03:23:10 AM

All knows that Knopfler had that particular sound using the Synclavier guitar
My question is: Exist any guitar pedal/effect to recreate that sound? Or the most close to it?
Thanks my friends!

He used a pensa specially created to work with synclavier, the same he uses in Ride across the river in Sydney 86

Title: Re: Guitarists Here - Question about So Far Away sound
Post by: primi on February 03, 2018, 10:06:33 AM

Sorry for nit picking but since they started to photoshop "suhr" from "pensa suhr" guitars it is only appropriate that credit is given to the man that really built the guitar. It wasn't a Pensa, it wasn't even a Pensa-Suhr, it was just a guitar build by John Suhr that had nothing to do with Pensa. R-custom or whatever it was called.

There, I got that off my chest  :wave

Title: Re: Guitarists Here - Question about So Far Away sound
Post by: Jules on February 03, 2018, 11:34:12 AM

Quote from: primi on February 03, 2018, 10:06:33 AM

Sorry for nit picking but since they started to photoshop "suhr" from "pensa suhr" guitars it is only appropriate that credit is given to the man that really built the guitar. It wasn't a Pensa, it wasn't even a Pensa-Suhr, it was just a guitar build by John Suhr that had nothing to do with Pensa. R-custom or whatever it was called.

There, I got that off my chest  :wave

You are right;

Title: Re: Guitarists Here - Question about So Far Away sound
Post by: Ingo on February 03, 2018, 07:43:55 PM

The Synclaviar was an early sampler/synthesizer and has nothing to do with guitar sound except that Mark used that specially-built Suhr to *trigger* the Synclaviar instead of a keyboard.
What you hear on the album is a mix of the guitar and the Synclaviar sound. For this reason you will not find a guitar effect pedal to create anything close to it. Instead you need a guitar MIDI interface to trigger some synth with a similar sound. That at least should be possible even with a limited budget these days. I think the Synclaviar cost something like USD 300,000 - today you can do what the Synclaviar did with any PC and software synths/samplers.

Title: Re: Guitarists Here - Question about So Far Away sound
Post by: Eddie Fox on February 03, 2018, 11:32:07 PM

Ingo said it all, he’s the ultimate source when it comes to MK gear.

The closest I got from emulating that sound was using a Boss Phaser but still far from satisfactory.