The Police

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Effects: Chorus, Flanger

As well as being one of the finest riffs of their career, moving arpeggiated powerchords with an added 9th around the neck, this lead single from The Police’s Reggattadeblanc also featured some brilliant use of modulation. During these years guitarist Andy Summers was closely associated with the Electro-harmonix Electric Mistress, which could be used as a flanger or chorus, as well as Boss and Roland gear. “Back then I didn’t even have a Pete Cornish pedalboard, so it probably was the Electro-harmonix or the Boss, as well as an Echoplex,” he recently told TG.