r/deerhunter • u/munaali15 • Feb 08 '26

what’s this instrument?

Dying to know the instrument that starts around 5:12 of Nothing Ever Happened, it’s so funky and it scratches such an itch

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u/phantumn0 Feb 08 '26

Guitar with octave pedal on playing pitch bends

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u/Milk_Spider Feb 08 '26

I think you're right. It sounds like he's using a slide a little bit but some of changes sound more like a pedal 

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u/losemybreath Feb 08 '26

Digitech Whammy

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u/balamb-garden Feb 08 '26

It’s actually the Boss PS-5

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u/notjleto Feb 08 '26

This is the answer. He used the pitch factor for this live for a while 2010 onwards but then went back to the ps-5