Recordingography >>FX firsts

First Use of Analog Tape in Professional Audio

First Digital Pitch Shifter

Sound and Vision

Shure Unidyne

First Distortion Pedal

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Intruder

Columbia LP Record

First Professional Portable Recorder

First Plate Reverb

First Equalizer

Confess

The Big Hurt

Israel in Egypt

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Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

Rolling Stones Distortion: Keith Richards plays his Les Paul Custom Black Beauty with exquisite distortion, in open G tuning, for the iconic opening riff, panned hard right.(...)
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Don’t Do Me Like That

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Pitch Shift: Engineer Shelly Yakus fabricate a high harmony vocal in each chorus by pitch shifting Tom Petty's lead vocal by a fixed interval of(...)
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Hold Me My Daddy

XTC Chorus: Lush thick chorus appears on tasty guitars throughout. Pitch Shift: Note the 1-octave-down layer beneath the electric guitar solo. It's not about making the(...)
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