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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.
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. |
if you read my original post, i was asking more about acoustic sounds.
the ac gtr sound on "thats the way" is most certainly heavily influenced by the mic and compressor. im sorry but that kind of sound isnt just all "in the fingers"........
i agree that electrics are much more influenced by guitar, pedals, rooms and amps than pre amps or comps, but there are certainly many zep sounds that are heavily influenced by the recording chain and effects. i hoped this forum would be a discussion of that, not people poo pooing the notion of said discussion.
clearly page had a respect for the sonic aesthetic that certain gear brought to his sound. i read a post by steve albini on another forum where he said page brought 2 RCA BA6A compressors to a session specifically to help record his guitars. he brought them for the same reason he probably brought his favorite guitars, amps and pedals..........
because he likes the way they contribute to his recorded sound.