Microphone Stands in Space

The water experiment is cool – worth watching to the end.

But Recordingologists will be more interested in the microphone stand, or lack thereof.

No lavalier? No prob. No boom stand either…

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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