What production techniques are going on in this track?

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I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I'm wondering if anybody can be give me an overview (however vague or detailed) of the production techniques going on in the track 'Nothing Much Just Out of Sight - The Fireman' (can't link because of the 10 post limit, but it's easily found on YouTube. I'm basically trying to learn to analyse what's going on and to determine what effect they have - but I'm not very experienced, so I thought some other people might be able to help.

So anything, types of effects, how they're used, direction of production, anything out of the ordinary, anything common to the style etc.

Thanks in advance...
Johnathan Crow.
 
Listening now......

Uber mental compression
distortion and the vocals
distortion on the bass
Distortion on lead guitar and harmonica
Tight echo on the kit.

The kit sounds beatlesy to me. It's probably got a lot of room sound going on, I guess.

That's what I hear straight off.
 
Haha, yeah, Beatlesy would make sense. And thanks, some of those things were obvious to me as well, but I'm interested in...

Tight echo on the kit
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I don't suppose you could go into more detail? Perhaps about how and why to do this?
 
It sounds like there's a really tight one shot slap echo on the kick and snare at least.
It'd be pretty to replicate in software. Just set a delay up for a real short time and a single repeat.
If it's labelled as feedback, set it to zero.


Flick to 1:06 to hear it best on the snare.

Why they do this? I don't know.
I suppose it's like double tracking vocals, or any technique. It has it's sound.

To me it sounds retro. I take it this is a modern production trying to sound retro?


If this is recent, fair play to Paul. I'm not a huge fan of his vocals, but this could have been Chris Cornell on an off day.
 
It's pretty recent yeah (2008). And ah yes, I can hear it pretty clearly actually, so thanks for pointing that out.
 
Steenamaroo said:
Tight echo on the kit.
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In your software (and a widely used term people are familiar with), also known as a slapback delay. Used ALL the time in older stuff (or stuff made to sound older).
 
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