Thoughts of the day

[⚖musicalmemoriesuk]

When I’m not sitting playing or working on my Arranger Keyboards I’m usually studying or researching something in relation to making music. 

You may recall that I post quite a lot about layering sounds, yesterday I’ve found out it’s called doubling. Another term double tracking the process of recording something ie vocals then exactly the same recording on top.

I also found that in the early days of recording studios that with the Arrival of Leslie Speakers you would think Hammond Organ and leslie speaker, well I wasn’t the only instrument that the leslie speaker was being be used for it was also being used for an effect with electric guitars.

When we look at different types of reverb that we have available today looking back in time again how creative the sound engineers were. 

You may hear about in the the Beatles recording in the bathroom why because of the Accoustics, but before then in such as Motown, everything was recorded in one room then sent from the mixer to a room called a Chamber in the Attic in which a speaker was placed and then the sound with the reverb from the chamber sent via a mic back to the mixing desk.

On the end of this have you tried using guitar sounds with a Leslie effect ?

[♚Chello]

@musicalmemoriesuk
Thanks for a very well thought out article on music and its background.

You emphasize the basic knowledge, which is the easiest way to understand all contexts in music (and everything else, by the way).

I remember in the late 70s making recordings in the bathroom in the basement, which had a formidable acoustic due to the high ceilings and the small area.

Almost like The Beatles.

[⚖musicalmemoriesuk]

Thanks Chello, it kind of comes back to what I’ve said for along time. Learning to use what you have just as early recording artists would have done. 

Today we always want more but do we ?

Have we mastered what we already have or even know how to use what we have ?

With music there really are no boundaries, but how to get the results you want (or something you want)

If you play songs of the 60s reverb was used heavily as I’ve already mentioned an echo chamber or a plate reverb.

Songs of the 70s I have read used very little reverb or a dry sound. 

How is this relevant to arranger keyboards and there’s nothing to say you couldn’t use loads of reverb when you play 70s music.