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Originally Posted by sleestack  There seems to be a lot of star ****ing on this board. In life for that matter.
Isn't fame mostly luck? Or ambition? There are shit tons of guitarists. Jimmy page is talented, Extremely, but he was also lucky as **** to meet the other members of led zeppelin and happen to make the music he did at that time.There has to be thousands and thousands of amazing musicians that never had the chance for innumerable reasons. I truly believe that. Luck, timing, right place right time. Ambition. Right chemistry. Lottery odds |
Just because JP and the boys "got lucky" does that make the music less special? Does it has less impact on people? Does it matter less in the history of recording? popular music? inspiration?
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Originally Posted by TonyBelmont 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. |
I completely agree with this.
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Originally Posted by TonyBelmont 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) |
I like your list. Plus add in format, tape formula, speed and calibration.
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Originally Posted by TonyBelmont 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. |
Yes and no, mostly yes.