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Tuning also very important, when Triple-tracking, that everything be tuned really well. I tried this with acoustic guitar, and found the more-perfectly the guitar was in-tune to start with, the better the "triple-track" chorus effect. Vari-pitch amount is subject to taste. Sometimes just a...

TRIPLE Tracking The secret to ABBA sound is TRIPLE tracking, using the vari-pitch. It was revealed in the Mama Mia! documentary they have been aring recently. Bjorn (or was it Benny?) is in the studio with their old engineer, pulling up tracks. They would record the whole band (bass, drums...

cool stuff I''m looking at this as a better way (for me) to make concentrated arrangements. It might wind up 8-track digital, for the sheer sonic prowess. But the instrumentation limitations on 8-track are attractive. It might involve sub-mixing, but probably more than anything, keeping a...

For example I stumbled across this article online from Mix 2003, http://mixonline.com/recording/business/audio_mothers_sound/ Talking about Zappa working in 5, 8, 12 and 16 track.

I am on an unusual quest. Spending the last week absorbed in administrative duties prompted me to play old vinyl records. It started off with the White Album, then progressed through the old record collection until I hit about 1972. Not sure the reason. What I found was a kind of "mini...

My list (got to get a website one day) ARP 2600 ARP 2900 ARP Omni II ARP 16v Piano Fender Rhodes 73 Hammond B3 Hammond C2 Hammond M100 Hammond M2 Hammond X2 Hohner Clavinet D-6 (x 3) Hohner Pianet (x 2) w/amp Korg M3R Kurzweil Midiboard Kurzweil Modules (PX1000, etc) Kurzweil K2000 Moog...

No, no NO! This Hammond is a transistor baby, not a tone-wheel monster. Probably, if you are looking for the Hammond Sound, then you are looking for a Hammond with drawbars. The Leslie, depending on which one it is, may be worth $300. But it would have to be a Leslie 145, 147 or 122 or...

Harvey Regarding the Decca Tree, or any 3-microphone setup, I was hoping to learn of your own personal experiences. Harvey, how do you like to mic things? That is, have you done some cool, weird (to us) microphone setups that have yielded something beautiful or unexpected? I stumbled into...

Questions and kudos to Harvey Harvey, this information is awesome. I wish someone had explained the facts of microphone life to me years ago. I've learned things the hard way, by trial and error and also by not paying any attention when somebody says "you can't do that" or "that microphone...