The 80s Called…

The good folks at Sound on Sound — always an audio must-read — offer up this bit of time travel.
Recreating the 80s Studio Experience

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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