| Danelectro guitars were very important I guess. Often the guitar sounds are rather small and boxy (on purpose) and nothing records better than Danos with their unique 'metallic' midrange. It worked especially great in combo with John Paul Jones bass playing which often used more distortion than the guitars.
Open tunings were important as well, a large part of the unique 'Rain Song' sound is the tuning, obviously combined with great composition and playing skills.
A lot of the acoustic guitars sound like they were recorded in a stone-walled building and I guess a lot of them were recorded that way.
In a certain way,Led Zeppelin was like a great string quartet, the players just covered the frequency spectrum perfectly. |