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Re: Glitter Guitar tone?

2002-11-06 by Roger Jackson

--- In logic-ot@y..., Murray McDowall <murraymc@m...> wrote:
> I once heard the guy who wrote the music for the Gary Glitter hits 
in the
> early 70's talking about the guitar tone used on those records (eg 
Rock and
> Roll part 1 and 2). He said he had an idea for a recording 
technique,
> tried it in the studio and got that sound more or less straight 
away.
> Unfortunately, he did not elaborate on what the technique was. 
Anyone know
> how that sound was achieved?
> 
> Regards,
> Murray

My recollection from that time (somewhat hazy by now) is that they 
tracked each note separately. Lots of individual tracksinsted of 
chords. But they are all power chords anyway I think (i.e. no thirds)

Why? - are you doing a tribute album? :-)

RJ

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