Korgscrew
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Posted: May 08 2004, 19:14 |
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The single most useful thing to know - and not a technical thing but a musical one - is that the glockenspiel doesn't play the same thing as the piano, but plays a constant note of E all the way. If you don't do that, it'll never sound right.
The instruments there at the beginning are the piano, glockenspiel, then a pair of organ sounds - one bright, quite flutey sound and as I remember and another thicker more muted sound (which is more to the fore on the Boxed mix, as I remember). Those are joined, when the bass comes in, by another piano that plays a harmony with the first and another flutey organ which only comes in briefly.
You'll want to work out how to record things at half speed as well if you can (though I'm sure you can come up with a way of faking that sound), as there are quite a number of double speed guitars in the introduction, both playing the little melody line which is in there and playing the mandolin-like parts. If you happen to have access to Pro Tools, it's very easy in there - on the Mac you just have to hit shift + command + space and it'll drop into half speed record.
After that, the double speed guitar sound is quite straightforward - you'll just need to plug the guitar through a DI box. You'll want to use some compression on it too - you could try using a compressor before you record if you want, that gives a different effect to doing it afterwards, though be careful not to overdo it.
If you meant towards the end of the Introduction section when referring to effects, the last one which plays is the acoustic guitar - not much done to that, some compression and reverb of course.
The guitars in the the 'fast guitars' section which follows are just distorted - I'd think a fuzzbox could do that sound quite well, though Mike's sound was gained by overloading the input of a Teac tape recorder (then there was some limiting/compression and a bit of a boost at 1kHz). Note how the bass in that part is very bright sounding, and fills the role of rhythm guitar as well (on Tubular Bells 2003, Mike has a much duller bass sound and distorted rhythm guitars instead, giving it a slightly more conventional rock feel).
Well, there are some things to think about anyway...good luck!
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