Hi, thanks for the kind comment regarding my site. I'm not sure on the equipment used in the 'Listen Up' recording session. With only the final mix to go by, it's also tricky to say whether the guitar effects were purely from Noel's FX pedals or perhaps treatments applied by Owen Morris during the tracking and/or mixing session. If we had the multitrack you'd be able to make a comparison.

To me it sounds like Noel's lead guitar has both chorusing and a slow phasing effect applied. The riff that loops round from 1:35 sounds distorted and bandwidth-limited, becoming slightly cleaner during the solo.


And I think I can hear a slight tremolo effect in there, like analogue tape flutter. I wonder if that might be a Leslie speaker effect - you can hear something similar when Liam sings "home" in the line "I've been trying to find my way back home." Owen Morris mentioned in an October 1994 interview for Melody Maker that he used an outboard unit ("an A3", likely a Korg A3 performance signal processor) for a Leslie effect on some of the main album mixes for Definitely Maybe, so I would speculate that he used it again here. This could be handy if you need to recreate a Leslie speaker effect. 


Sorry not to have any more concrete info on the session, but hopefully the above guesswork is of some help!

Thanks for the info Definitely Could Be Oasis, that explains a great deal. The lead guitar sound on that Strokes track is very close indeed to NG on Listen Up.

And now you mention it I can hear the similarity with those multilayered guitars on Heroes. Particularly in Noel's solo. There's a great BBC video on YouTube in which Tony Visconti talks about how Robert Fripp created harmonised guitar feedback, which Brian Eno then filtered with his VCS3 synthesizer.