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Yves Jarvisā€™ methods for simulating effects include using a whammy bar while riding his guitarā€™s volume for reversed guitar sounds. But many are done the old-fashioned way: manipulating tape on his TEAC reel-to-reel as it passes from one head to another.

Embracing battered 6-strings, lo-fi tech, tunings du jour, and his own restless muse, the singer-songwriter does whatever he can to make his guitar-playing life difficult.

Yves Jarvisā€”born Jean-SĆ©bastien Yves Audetā€”is allergic to being complacent. ā€œI donā€™t like to tune my guitar live,ā€ the Canadian-born singer-songwriter says about his almost irrational fear of creative ennui. ā€œI donā€™t even have a tuner. I like to make my entire set in the same tuningā€”thatā€™ll be an alternate tuning, itā€™ll be something random. I force myself to find a way to reinterpret all my songs in the same tuning.ā€

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