sr1200
Well-known member
OK, over the past few weeks, i've been listening to a lot of recordings from the late 50's early 60's... This is probably my youth speaking (and i use youth relatively, since i dont feel young) but, I don't get it. you got some really catchy songs that even by today's standards are GREAT songs... but all my ears focus on is the insane amount of distortion on just about everything I'm listening to. The vocals on just about every "agressive" (i use that term loosely) Beatles song I've heard sounds like its either hit the tape with the ferocity of a charging bull elephant, or the pre was so far in the red, the clip indicator is still cooling off some 50 years later... and they could never quite straighten the needle on the meter ever again from hitting the stop... And its not only the beatles. (which brings me to another discovery... that everyone from that era was just trying to clone that sound without even trying for something different)
So is this the "sound" that everyone is looking for? Distorted, loose performance, noisy? I understand that the style of music was new and engineers of the day were still experimenting with techniques and pushing new technology to its limits and in that, I can hear it as a great history lesson. But I just hear it differently I guess, since to me, it wasn't something so radically new.
So is this the "sound" that everyone is looking for? Distorted, loose performance, noisy? I understand that the style of music was new and engineers of the day were still experimenting with techniques and pushing new technology to its limits and in that, I can hear it as a great history lesson. But I just hear it differently I guess, since to me, it wasn't something so radically new.