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Does this guitar playing technique have a name which is being looped in this short preview? I don't know how to produce this kind of sound and which effects to use to achieve this. Any ideas?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2u3jy1odgelppk1/cut.mp3

clementino
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    What guitar…? The predominant instrument sounds like a [Clavinet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavinet). – Tetsujin Sep 07 '21 at 10:41
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    Sorry, there's no guitar there! Clavinet, maybe. Listen to Superstition. – Tim Sep 07 '21 at 10:52
  • Ah ok, that's already good to know. Thank you! – clementino Sep 07 '21 at 10:55
  • Welcome! Just so you know, questions identifying songs, techniques, equipment, etc. are off-topic here, but might be a better fit at https://musicfans.stackexchange.com. Feel free to take the [tour](https://music.stackexchange.com/tour)! (Also: Clavinet is awesome.) – Andy Bonner Sep 07 '21 at 14:30
  • @AndyBonner Has Technique ID always been off-topic? I feel like we get a lot of technique questions, I would be surprised if those were all summarily off-topic. Seems weird, since learning technique is part of musical practice. I get why instrument and song ID questions are no good, but technique? OP is just asking how to make a certain sound. Seems like that ought to be permissible. – user45266 Sep 07 '21 at 20:48
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    @user45266 I know, right? My guess is it falls under the "make sure question/answer can help future people" doctrine. In this case, the reference value of this question is "Hey, here's a sample of how a Clavinet sounds, but tagged with 'guitar.'" But surely one could imagine a technique question that should be on-topic; maybe we should discuss on Meta what it would look like. – Andy Bonner Sep 07 '21 at 20:57
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    A couple of relevant metas - https://music.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2963/our-on-topic-page-currently-says-that-identifying-a-technique-is-off-topic ; https://music.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3047/are-how-do-i-make-this-sound-questions-on-topic – Нет войне Sep 07 '21 at 23:06
  • @topoReinstateMonica Ah, thanks for doing my Meta homework for me. Shame we can't always have nice things... – user45266 Sep 08 '21 at 06:42
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    @AndyBonner to be honest, I didn't read the whole tour - my bad. I just took a quick look at other questions, and thought this should fit here. However as I really thought it's kind of a guitar sound, I made my question unintentionally ontopic, but if I asked what kind of instrument it is, i'd be offtopic now. Luckily I got an answer, however not sure if this point in the rules is not too strict in a stackexchange called 'music'. – clementino Sep 08 '21 at 15:02

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