Most if not everyone is familiar with the very iconic Abbey Road because some of the greatest sounds in pop music history were captured here. The innovative sounds that were first engineered in the 60’s are still being used by young musicians today.
Ringo Starr’s sound from The Beatles’ is the most famous of all Abbey Road drum sounds, however many other recordings were made utilising these techniques, including early albums by Pink Floyd as well as several classic psychedelic and prog albums.
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The 5 Best Dynamic EQ Plugins
Dynamic EQs are great to use for precision mixing. A dynamic EQ takes the best of both worlds and combines as they react to internal or external sources. Internal mode listens to the sound source itself while external mode listens to a different sound source and makes cuts or boosts the audio.
Neutron 2 is pretty much the best of the best out there. It has incredible precision and many years of world-class algorithms developed by iZotope behind it. Surfer EQ, different from Neutron 2, instead of responding to gain values, responds to pitch.
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How To Layer Guitars For A Huge Sound
There’s a lot of musical techniques that needs to happen in order for you to have a great guitar sound. You need to ensure that all parts work together and should sound their best.
When it comes to pop, layering guitars isn’t necessarily about creating more noise or volume like it might be in rock or metal, but rather creating a richer soundstage. These can be easily achieved with Modern DAWS. It’s technique is available to almost anyone regardless of what software you are using.
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Top 5 EQ Plugins
Having a Dynamic EQ is a must have in everyones collection. Sonnox’ EQ pedigree gives you five bands of their Oxford Type-3 EQ filters, which offer proportional-Q and an onset detection feature.
SplineEQ’s visualiser displays frequencies in a more musical way, and it lets you visualize your cuts and boosts above and below the curve which makes it a staple to most. EQuilibrium is the plugin is that you can mix and match bands using circuit models of classic filters.
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Recording electric guitar – Tips and tricks
We all want our guitar recording to sound as lively as possible. So here are some tips and tricks that you can do to achieve just that. All of these techniques rely on the double-tracking principle, but this time the idea is to do some fine-tuning
First and probably the most obvious one is to double a crunch or heavily distorted guitar with a clean one, this way, you will be able to retain some precision. You can also double it with a folk guitar. This will give you much more definition and sustain on arpeggios.
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