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Post by kcatthedog on Feb 4, 2021 8:04:47 GMT -6
A fun how 2 in studio video:
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Post by jcoutu1 on Feb 4, 2021 9:25:58 GMT -6
I'm disappointed that he left out the most important part of that tone...flat wound strings. If he had rounds on there, it wouldn't even be close.
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Post by EmRR on Feb 4, 2021 16:37:31 GMT -6
Yeah no Rick bass should ever have rounds on it. I suffered with one for a decade with rounds ('cause Geddy/Squire) and it finally sounded right once it had flats on it. THEN you can crank the shit out of the treble if you want.
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Post by dreamsambas on Feb 5, 2021 16:12:54 GMT -6
It's amazing to hear how much compression the Beatles used. Whenever you hear the isolated bass or drum tracks, they sound like crap to me. But the overall songs and arrangements are so good, that it works.
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Post by theshea on Aug 4, 2021 0:21:09 GMT -6
I'm disappointed that he left out the most important part of that tone...flat wound strings. If he had rounds on there, it wouldn't even be close. yeah flatwounds are sooo important. i can get very close to pauls initial bass sound with my cheap höfner violin bass copy. but only with flatwound strings on it. |
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Post by theshea on Aug 4, 2021 0:22:50 GMT -6
It's amazing to hear how much compression the Beatles used. Whenever you hear the isolated bass or drum tracks, they sound like crap to me. But the overall songs and arrangements are so good, that it works. yeah right. it was very revealing seen the mighty waveworms of the original beatles 4-tracks in pro tools in a sound on sound article. veeery big and compressed tracks on the way in! |
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 4, 2021 8:31:44 GMT -6
It's amazing to hear how much compression the Beatles used. Whenever you hear the isolated bass or drum tracks, they sound like crap to me. But the overall songs and arrangements are so good, that it works. yeah right. it was very revealing seen the mighty waveworms of the original beatles 4-tracks in pro tools in a sound on sound article. veeery big and compressed tracks on the way in! Where can you find those tracks? |
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Post by theshea on Aug 4, 2021 8:55:18 GMT -6
yeah right. it was very revealing seen the mighty waveworms of the original beatles 4-tracks in pro tools in a sound on sound article. veeery big and compressed tracks on the way in! Where can you find those tracks? here's the online article: www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-bandscroll down to see the pro tool session and the waveforms of the original 4-track. they look heavily compressed to me. |
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Post by EmRR on Aug 4, 2021 11:30:14 GMT -6
Looks like what tape does, even without compression, though they did live 15-20dB into the RS124's. RS124's are too slow to flatten transients.
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Post by johneppstein on Aug 4, 2021 15:13:05 GMT -6
A fun how 2 in studio video: He's wrong about the DI. It was NOT invented at Abbey Road. Nobody's quite sure who was first, but it was before The Beatles. I do know that the first recorded fuzz was on a defective bass direct on a Marty Robbins record about '58-'59, so directs were in use by that time.
Also, Paul used a variety of basses about that time, depending on the song.
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Post by johneppstein on Aug 4, 2021 15:15:39 GMT -6
Oh, no! Not Giles again..... Was he even born then? |
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Post by Ned Ward on Aug 4, 2021 15:16:44 GMT -6
I thought that Motown was using DI's way before The Beatles, and I'm sure there were others...
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