I’ve been listening to Alanis Morissette these last few….well years but these couple of weeks a little more because I absolutely adore the production value many of her songs offer. There is always a lot going on and many interesting effects used throughout her first albums.

On the track Forgiven off Jagged Little Pill there is an interesting clean effected guitar. I could never quite figure out what it was until I accidentally stumbled upon it when recording a track for my own song.

In Logic you can emulate this quite well with just the flanger plug-in. Gives a nice shimmer to your strums, but you can’t play fast or it will all sound garbled. For that heavily flanged, but still not detuned or out-of-whack use the following settings:

• Feedback at 43%
• Rate at around 0.233 Hz
• Mix at 50% (Or you can put it as a send and there have the mix at 100%)
• Experiment with the intensity from 50% – 80%. I used around 75 because I had only sustained chords strums.

There, you may not be an Alanis fan, but you can certainly use these settings to experiment with whenever you are in a rut and need a new sound.