| Noise Floor - or noise on the floor!
I used to play in a recording act, and when we were tracking our second album with Bob Ezrin, we set the drums up in the loading bay - cinderblock walls giving a huge natural resonance. We were in the middle of a take of the title track, and everything was working, the band sounded exceptionally exciting, and everyone was getting into the take, and then at the end we realized that we had forgotten to switch off the huge industrial heater, and there had been a bed of noise under that take. Bob was furious at the assistant whose job it was to switch it off, but in the end he used a big chunk of that take for the final.
Looking back on it, it makes me think of the end of "I Want You/She's So Heavy" with that synthesized noise that ramps up the intensity all through the end part.
Sonny Keyes
Ricochet Audio
Toronto
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