What Vibrato effect is this?

No. The main rhythm guitar on the left has a pitch vibrato effect. It sounds like the classic Magnatone vibrato. Maybe that's what it is.

I'm not hearing the flange but that don't mean it's not there. But it's definitely getting pitch-vibrato. That's the part I want to emulate.

From the demos I've been listening to, the Line 6 Space Chorus sounds the best.

Ragan, that's a flange on the left, definitely not a vibrato. Right at 0:32 -0: 33 it's perfectly clear it's not a vibrato, but sounds like a setting on a pedal. Don't forget many pedals go from a chorus to flange, so it might be dialed in the in between, so it's not an easy call identifying it.

I honestly don't think it's anything special like an old Supro or a vintage Fender, it just sounds like a typical chorus pedal set toward the flangey side or a flanger set to a low setting.

Good sounding band, but man, the main chords are right  from Lay Lady Lay, just speeded up...

Ha. I totally disagree! There is pitch modulation. Might be flange too. I'm 100%!  That pitch is going up and down!

If there is, it could be a harmonizer, it just doesn't sound like any vibrato I've ever heard from an amp. The chucka chucka in the beginning sure sounds chorusy/flangey to me. I've heard very similar sounds hundreds of times from pedals. That said, it's hard to say for sure, he could have a little pinch of vibrato n a Fender amp. The chord begins on the left, then the reverb flys to the center, so there's some processing going on there for sure. Hell, maybe find the guitarists blog or email and ask him. I've gotten responses to some technical questions from some producers you'd think would be way too busy to respond to my minutia.

Oh, and the phrasing on "sti -i il" at :36 and" ho-o-ome" at :56 are right off of Squeeze's "Pulling Mussels (from the Shell). This is a really good band, I don't know why they're stealing so blatantly. There are influences, and there's outright copping. I know it's been done before, I just had to call it.

** update, your last post just beat me to the punch as I was editing. I listened closer, and wouldn't argue it wasn't a vibrato too, but this pedal video kinda confirms my guess, that it's a pedal effect and not from the amp.

Any luck Ragan, now you've got me wondering..

Was listening to Cosmic Son of a Gun just yesterday, love it man.

"I feel what the spirits feel".

Thanks Martin. I haven't had luck finding exactly what the Dawes guy used but I've heard that type of pitch effect lots of times. It's a lot like the classic Magnatone vibrato but it's neither the fast nor slow Magnatone speed so I don't think it's that. I remember playing a DOD Vibrothang and getting that type of sound.

It is clearly a vibrato effect. Any chorus with a Dry/Wet knob can give you that if you can set it 100% wet.

Personally I'd go for a BBD based or similarly dark chorus. If not maybe the ZVex Instant Lo Fi? Depends how much you want to spend.

An analog vibrato works by delaying the signal slightly and then modulate the delay to introduce the pitch changes. A chorus or flanger works exactly the same but feeds the signal back onto itself. No wet signal, no comb filtering. Some Chorus's unfortunately may not give you a 100% Wet output, but they should. My Memory Man fully wet can do it, but the minimum delay is so big (about 20 mS) that it's only usable to run a signal through after the fact.

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Looks like a Fender Hot Rod 40 and some big ass effect box I don't recognize. Maybe that's what he used Ragan.

One interesting thing I thought about last week, there's an alternate universe of pedals out there. I looked at the Sam Ash catalogue, and there were hundreds and hundreds of them. How can anyone figure out where a sound came from with that avalanche of tone changers? And how the heck can you make an informed decision, when there are say.. 60 different overdrives, each boutiquey one of them claiming to be the holy grail.