What's that sound in the middle of Fleetwood Mac's - Say You Love Me

[Rich G.]

I'm working on Fleetwood Mac's Say You Love me. In the middle of the song after the chorus it goes to an arpeggiated Bm E part. Any thoughts on how to achieve this sound? It sounds to me like it might have a pitch shift an octave up and maybe a chorus? Perhaps they used a 12 string in the original recording?

 

[Moke]

Always sounded like an electric sitar to me??

 

[Geordielad]

Banjo (5 string)

 

[fcs101]

Lindsey used both a 12-string electric and a banjo on the song.

 

[Rich G.]

Banjo

I hear banjo during the verse, but that middle part has too much sustain to be banjo.

I'm messing around with Pitch-Dual Chromatic with Voice 1 shifted +12 and a bit of detuning. That might get me close enough.

 

[Geordielad]

I hear banjo during the verse, but that middle part has too much sustain to be banjo.

I'm messing around with Pitch-Dual Chromatic with Voice 1 shifted +12 and a bit of detuning. That might get me close enough.

I have a pickup in the resonator on one of mine, plenty sustain from it, but you should be able to get close doing what you're doing.

 

[Greg Ferguson]

The banjo is mixed pretty far down.

At 1:46 an electric 12-string comes in. It sounds like there's a slow rotary on it followed by heavy compression.

There are various threads about replicating the sound of a 12-string with the modelers. The issue with trying to do it with the modeler is it has no idea what string is generating a note, so it'll apply any pitch or octave change to every string and trying to use a crossover or EQ to split off the B and E strings into unisons flounders because we can play the same notes in various positions on the neck. It takes a hex-pickup to do it right and the unit can't take a hex input.

"Wish DigiTech Mosaic Polyphonic 12-String Effect Pedal" has a good discussion and some presets that do as good of a job as any that I've heard.

 

[Rex]

The banjo is mixed pretty far down.

At 1:46 an electric 12-string comes in. It sounds like there's a slow rotary on it followed by heavy compression.

This. There are a few hints of banjo floating around, more as fill than as actual riff. But I think the core of the sound is from the bridge pickup of a 12-string, compressed, with rotary or maybe a slow, deep chorus.

 

[Rich G.]

I ended up using a Pitch-Dual Chromatic block.

Here's a clip from the gig. It was a one-off Fleetwood Mac tribute show featuring local musicians. I'm the guy with the Les Paul.