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Originally Posted by indravayu  A couple of years ago that massive Recording the Beatles came out, to near universal praise on boards like GS...many people are interested in learning how classic albums were recorded...what exactly is the problem here? |
Well, those books serve many different purposes... I mostly look at them as describing the processes that took place to record those great records. Not so much the equipment.
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Since we don't have such a resource for Zeppelin (yet), folks seek out this knowledge online. It is completely pointless for people to say "it was all in their fingers, man" or "get your own sound, dude, don't be a copycat"! Are you guys for real? If it were 1968 and a young Jimmy Page was prodding older engineers for info on Les Paul's multitracking techniques, I suppose you'd be the ones telling him it's all pointless to inquire and that nobody could ever do what Les Paul did!
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Nothing is wrong with discussing it... and I certainly wouldn't tell anyone to "get their own sound". But, the fact is, the answers people are looking for have less to do with a certain preamp or compressor... and more to do with the actual guitar rig, and the player himself. A lot of hobbyist's will blow big bucks trying to get a Helios preamp or Rev E 1176.... But, will it really get you ANY closer to that sound? Of course not.... Think about all of the other aspects:
The player
The room
The guitar rig
The microphone
The TAPE machine (how quickly people forget how much this impacts the sound)
The thing is, all of the things that really contribute the most to the sound are the absolute hardest to obtain.... the fingers, the room acoustics, the big Ampex, etc. I wish it were as simple as saying if you buy a Helios and an 1176 you'll hear the magic, but in reality those two pieces were used because they were THERE... they weren't sought out for and brought in for that day. If there was a Neve and a LA3A, it still would have sounded basically the same.