PorterhouseMusic
Mitakuye Oyasin
I've been wanting to bring this up here for a while - this recording by Led Zeppelin. Well, it's really just a single solo acoustic performance by Jimmy Page. It's one of my very favorite pieces of music, bar none. It's just so beautiful. Still learning to play it fluently myself. Not there yet - but getting there.
But I've become interested in the recording itself. It has some unusual stuff going on and I wish I could better understand the technique(s) that make this final product what it is. So yeah... I was curious what other folks might have to say about it.
If you listen - one of the things that stands out right away is that it has some sort of effect that sounds like tape manipulation or something like that. Like a phasey kind of tape flange effect or.... I don't know what. But it creates this weird swirly vertigo-in-the-stereo-field kind of thing that just sounds bitchen. I want to know how he/they achieved that.
I'm wondering if they recorded with two mics maybe - to two different tracks. And then recorded one back against the other - and manipulated the phasing or something while playing with panning?? I have no idea and know nothing about this sort of thing other than what I've picked up watching youtube for the last 20 years.
There also seems to be very subtle use of a reverse reverb here and there throughout the piece. It's barely noticeable but definitely there.
Anyway.... yeah - would love to hear ya'll's thoughts on this.
But I've become interested in the recording itself. It has some unusual stuff going on and I wish I could better understand the technique(s) that make this final product what it is. So yeah... I was curious what other folks might have to say about it.
If you listen - one of the things that stands out right away is that it has some sort of effect that sounds like tape manipulation or something like that. Like a phasey kind of tape flange effect or.... I don't know what. But it creates this weird swirly vertigo-in-the-stereo-field kind of thing that just sounds bitchen. I want to know how he/they achieved that.
I'm wondering if they recorded with two mics maybe - to two different tracks. And then recorded one back against the other - and manipulated the phasing or something while playing with panning?? I have no idea and know nothing about this sort of thing other than what I've picked up watching youtube for the last 20 years.
There also seems to be very subtle use of a reverse reverb here and there throughout the piece. It's barely noticeable but definitely there.
Anyway.... yeah - would love to hear ya'll's thoughts on this.
