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Red Garland
Jan 6, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnAvTTaJjM

The solo at 1:47... how???

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Red Garland
Jan 6, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oAFlPLGA8

Quite simple, really - the rhythm guitar sound in this one. I've been trying to get that 80s rhythm sound but never came very close. Could someone enlighten me what makes it sound so special? If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's the BM - A - Bm chord progression going on in the background in the intro.

Red Garland fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Mar 16, 2013

Red Garland
Jan 6, 2013

Declan MacManus posted:

Squeaky clean Fender (probably a silverface model but that's just a guess; if you're just looking for Generic 80's Clean Tone you'd also be well served with a Roland Jazz Chorus or any emulation of one), bridge pickup of a Telecaster, decent amount of compression, maybe a little chorus. Using all upstrokes helps, since it's basically a reggae part.

Would I be able to get that sound playing just on a Digitech RP155 plugged into a PC and through headphones? I guess that's more of a guitar thread question, but in general what's better - playing quietly on a regular apmlifier or normally, but through a processor and speakers? I live in a flat. It will change in a couple of weeks so I'll be able to rock out as much as I want but for now, it is what it is.

Red Garland
Jan 6, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_kN_DJQJ3U

Why do those drums sound like they do? They seem to have been fairly popular in the 80s. I was thinking slapback echo + some chorus?

Red Garland
Jan 6, 2013
I did a Google search on how to get the bass sound from College's "A Real Hero" and was surprised to find no answers yet. So, dear goons - how do I recreate such bass?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVDcw6iW8
Or such:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0HCpGj65mU

I think they're similiar, the latter just seems to have more cutoff.

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Red Garland
Jan 6, 2013
Guys, I have this one specific sound I'm trying to recreate that's been especially prominent in the old chicago house tracks. Two good examples (I think it's the same thing in both of them but I might be wrong):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps2Jc28tQrw (the melodic hook right after around 0:12)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oM_9ca8hxE (it fades in at around 0:25~0:30 and goes on throughout the song; I notice that it fades in not only in volume but in frequency cutoff as well, that's about as much as I have figured out)

As I've said, these are just two examples but it's persistent as hell in 1990s and early 2000s dance music which makes me think, are there any tutorials for that kind of sound? Or is it like, specific to some synth or something like that? It sound very similar across so many different songs. Thanks in advance.

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