She’s A Rainbow
- Artist: The Rolling Stones
- Album: Their Satanic Majesties Request
- Label: ABKCO, Decca, London
- Year: 1967
- Producer: The Rolling Stones
- Engineer: Glyn Johns
- Studio: Olympic Sound Studios (London, UK)
Notes:
Compression
The piano hook steps up to the call to psychedelia. It has an unnatural attack and almost no decay. The notes sound synthesized, but the instrument is unmistakably an actual piano. Heavy compression is all it takes -- low threshold, high ratio.
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