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[L-OT] Re: Glitter Guitar tone?

2002-11-06 by Dennis Gunn

>--- 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)

Didn't I hear somewhere that that guy tuned all his strings to E?

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