Recreating The David Bowie 'Heroes' Lead Sound With Pedals 

Tony Visconti's breakdown of 'Heroes': ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Q2scPrc1WE.html

WOW. This is by far the closest I've ever heard anybody get to Fripp's sounds in the studio. Well done!

One of my favorite things ever recorded. Nailed it!

Great job! One of my favourite guitar sounds - Fripp and Eno made some magical sounds together in that era

In the 90's I tried this with my eBow and my 90's era effects processor. after watching this, I can see how I missed the mark. Good work.

Perfect 10/10 on the guitar tones. This has always been my favorite Bowie song and it's exactly because of this part. That movie Perks of Being a Wallflower referred to this as the "tunnel song" and whenever I hear that guitar I picture the tunnel.

I bought a Freqout just to try to do this sound. This sound is absolutely legendary!

you did it holy shit... I'm crying this is gorgeous

Absolutely love this series...cannot state that enough. More please 😊

Instantly exciting! Great job

super cool, ive been obsessed with that sound since i was a kid and first heard this song, so happy to know how it was done

I always loved this song but I think your recreation made me love even more. Chills.

Love this series! Reminds me of the old effectology videos Bill Ruppert used to do for EHX - I learned so much of how to combine pedals creatively through that, this has a similar but unique charm. Keep ‘em coming!

Lovely recreation. I love this song, and Fripp created such a haunting sound on this track

Thanks for this attempt at recreating the lead sound. It came out pretty damn good! It's very helpful as my band is currently trying to rework a shoegaze cover of the song into out setlist.

Gorgeous! Definitively there, captures that heroes-attidtude. To me that's the sound of a somewhat sad freedom, maybe disillusion. Powerfull & glorious. Thanks for the breakdown.

My favorite Bowie song. Thanks for doing this. Love your Jazzmaster. I have a 2003 AV62 Jazzmaster I bought new back then. I just liked and subscribed.

Great educational video 🎉 thank you!

GREAT work, just what I was looking after

Awesome. I was just sitting here wondering how to be able to kinda re create that guitar sound, and there you were. The team Fripp, Eno, and Bowie is nothing short of pure magic. Three geniuses at play. Four, with Tony Visconti. ❤

Loved it! Thank you!

Amazing work! Really love this, so informative and great sounds. Super helpful.

Amazing job with everything. Great tones, very to-the-point video.

great work man

Love this series, keep it up! Everyone always addresses a band or guitarists' general sound, glossing over the coolest parts of their stuff, like this.

Very well done, mate.

Wow! Incredible production quality and expert breakdown.

What a cool video fripps guitar on this is absolutely amazing simple but complex

Excellent work!

Well done!

Brilliant!

Great video ❤

Good work!

Phenomenal!

Bravo! 👏

Good stuff, keep it up!

I use a Digitech Freqout pedal live to play this. Works a treat.

so cool, man!

Excellent

I love the Sputnik III such a great pedal.

WOW just WOW

Sounds great. Lovely job. Fripp played a Les Paul with PAF humbuckers on the track. I wonder if you swapped guitars, it would get even closer?

Great video! For what it's worth I have, I scored this UBER rare Warmjet V fuzz by. Ghost Effects and it's basically a clone of a WEM Projekt V that Eno used on Here Come The Warm Jets and it SINGS just like that guitar lead... wouldn't be surprised if that was on Fripps guitar.

lindo video !

Spot on... kind of regret selling my freqout now!

This is fantastic. I know that over the years Bowie's guitarists recreated this with an Ebow to get that sustain and tone. But the Ebow didn't exist then. But the Eventide Hamroniser is on Low because Tony famously contributed it. He used it on the kick drum for Breaking Glass most notably. so it seems logical to me Fripp had one too. To me it sounds like Fripp used an Eventide rack mount to get certain aspects of the original Heroes sound in that feedback. Because there's something in the more glitchy sound of one pass (the third one I think,) that sounds like the clockworks algorithm found in the early Eventide harmonisers. I know he uses two H3000s nowdays though but back then I think he had an involved approach to signal manipulation with what was available. Combined with Eno's synth that makes sense to me. You can actually get the glitchyness from the Ultraswell these days BTW which is of course just an expansion on the original Hamroniser algorithm and latterly the H10

You omitted to mention ‘you must be sitting comfortably’ !

This is one of those sounds that can control your whole outlook on life

I came hear to try and get a lesson on how to get fripps tone from starless but now I have a lesson on David Bowie!

Great Job... obviously not easy tones to recreate.

SO FUCKEN COOL, GREAT VIDEO!!! (sorry for yelling)

We are infinite.

Could you make a video of Beauty and Beast? The guitar is highly effected and probably a flanger and distortion and a few others.

all my heroes are gone 😞

Along with Dave Gilmour on Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and Steve Hackett´s guitar solo on Firth of Fifth, Robert Fripps guitar work on Heroes is one of my all time favourites. I don´t think any of the great guitarists that played it with Bowie ever got the sound just right as well as Fripp.

I had no idea that was Robert Fripp

Brilliant!