Ideas That Changed Western Music
The BBC offers up this list of 8: (1) Pythagoras creates the scale. (2) Notation is developed. (3) The piano enters the home. (4) The first recording. (5) The birth of public radio broadcasting. (6) The first chart is published. (7) The dawn of electronic music. (8) The invention of the Walkman.
Float On
Modest Mouse
Echo and Chorus Slap Echo on the rhythm guitar gives it the optimistic bounce the tune calls for. The added chorus effect softens the texture. A similar echo and chorus decorates the full frequency, hooky, single note electric guitar lines played front and center before(...)
For What It’s Worth
Buffalo Springfield
Tremolo With a strong, deep, slow tremolo almost certainly courtesy of a Fender Amp on the Orange Gretsch G6120 (Chet Atkins), Neil Young's alternating two harmonics communicate fragility and innocence on the edge of something dreadful as the tune slowly unfolds. Distortion Break-up distortion on(...)
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Guess I’m Doing Fine
Beck Reverb Can a vocal be treated with a long reverb and still be intimate? Yes, when the reverb is mono, band limited so as not(...)
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Shure Unidyne
1939 First Single-Cartridge Unidirectional Microphoone Released to the world in 1939, the Shure Unidyne Microphone offered a unidirectional, cardioid pick-up pattern without using two diaphragms. Through acoustic signal processing, the diaphragm…
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Bad
U2 Echo U2's the Edge has made Delay FX a permanent part of his guitar rig. A classic example is apparent from the introduction of this(...)
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