How did I get that sound?

ruddy_duck · February 25, 2019, 4:59pm

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Words of wisdom
My takeaway: Don’t get too hung up on it.
And maybe also, stop leaving things unfinished.

Nickeldome:

Outboard stuff is and probably always will be difficult to register and recall to the point you can reproduce the exact state you had before at a certain point in time? I tend to only focus on the items that I actually want/need to recall and forget about the rest. Some standard like sound can easily be recreated but if you find or stumble on some special thing you know you’ll want to document that for sure! I do it by making photographs from knobs and writing down anything else. There’s just no easy way to save analogue things to a digital file?

The main thing is that you have to really get all the settings that are involved in the sound/project/chain you’re dealing with. If you don’t or are not sure you did there’s a possibility it will never sound the way it did ?

On the other hand? Some great things are made to be created once to be never recreated again?

Meaning: Just do your stuff and confirm it’s absolutely awesome. Record the song and forever be done with it!? After some time you may be considered a legend because you scored a hit with that sound and every artist will try to recreate ‘that’ sound?

If you can just tell people what equipment was used and what settings you used it will probably make you some money. If you can’t it will go viral! And people all over the world will try to recreate what you did. And that will make you famous and make you even more money!