I just posted about the flanger sound and how I love its use in Barracuda, and yesterday I came across this: the Barracuda Flanger.
The song was recorded in 1977 using a custom analog flanger. Well, 30+ years later and an updated version of the flanger actually used for the song has been put on the market. It's reportedly one of the best (and most expensive) flangers on the market. Eric Johnson loves it and he's a perfectionist of the highest order, so that's one big endorsement.
So if you really want to capture that awesome guitar tone from Barracuda, you'll want one of these. The user guide even tells you what settings to use:
Level: 50%
Depth: 75%
Regen: 65%
Rate: 70%
Of course, the exact sound depends on lots of other things like guitar, pickup, amp style and settings, and of course playing style. So here's some information on that:
Heart had two guitarists and they played this song together. It's technically impossible to play the song correctly with one guitar because several of the chords are constructed by the overlaid sounds of the two guitars. The guitars used for Barracuda were:
Roger Fisher: Fender Stratocaster, of unknown vintage. Stock. Besides providing half of the rhythm sounds, this is the guitar that you hear doing the harmonics and tremolo.
Howard Leese: 1966 Fender Telecaster. This was the same exact guitar that Mars Bonfire used to write Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild, so it already had a history. Howard modified the guitar with a humbucker neck pickup and a roller bridge. That's why it sounds fatter than a stock tele. This guitar can be heard doing the E chords of the main driving riff and other rhythm parts.
As for amplification:
Howard Leese: '56 4x10 Fender Bassman combo. All tube of course.
Ok then. Now you have no excuse but to replicate that sound exactly :)
I know, it doesn't work that way.
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