This is harder for me than I thought! I tried to think of a few obvious examples of tape [media] overdrive or tape compression (not counting echoplex runaway type stuff like Frank Zappas 'Brain Police') but I think I'm having trouble telling if it was overdriving the preamps or the tape.SouthSIDE Glen said:Define "well known".
One of my favorite examples of intentional analog overdrive/saturation - whether it's actually from tape, I'm not sure, but it sure is a classic analog saturation sound ...
You may be right. Beatles often overloaded preamps to get a sound. Even horn as in Savoy Truffel on white album( opps spelling) and Good morning, Good morning on peppersmtcharlie said:I was listening to Instant Karma earlier today - original Lennon version, and was remarking to myself how much distortion there is in the vocals. I have no idea, but it seems like they recorded the vocals right into the red to do this (just the loud parts get really chunky).
It sounds killer to me.
PlayLikePage127 said:How's Led-Zeppelin for well known? Pretty much every track on Zeppelin II was recorded way too hot for the tape. The effect is ruined when it went to CD though. If you can get your hands on a copy of the vinyl record, the analog clipping is a euphoric experience.
Why wouldn't that saturated sound transfer properly to CD?PlayLikePage127 said:How's Led-Zeppelin for well known? Pretty much every track on Zeppelin II was recorded way too hot for the tape. The effect is ruined when it went to CD though. If you can get your hands on a copy of the vinyl record, the analog clipping is a euphoric experience.