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Old 20th November 2006, 08:50 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by taturana View Post
paperback writer was the coolest creamiest sound.... i always wondered about that one... speaker?!

a few times, striving for that tone was able to get a pretty close sound with a mono (CL1a?) tube-tech compressor.... a dbx160, can do it if you compress a lot but doesn't sound as full...

i always thought a lot of compression was used to get that sound....
It was . . . via Abbey Road's heavily modified Altec 436Bs
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