| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] sizzle sound | | Date: | Friday, February 3, 2006 14:51:07 (-0800) | | From: | Matthew Snook <matt @..........com>
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OK, I'll try this again. I think I asked this question before, but never
heard back.
I don't have a lot of recording experience, so I was hoping that some of you
regulars could provide some pointers on a particular recording technique.
My reference is the recording of Tim O'Brien's called Restless Spirit
Wandering on his Traveler CD. At 3:22 on this tune Jerry Douglas takes a
break (takes over the tune, like he tends to do). For the most part it
sounds like a regular resonator--by that I mean that it's a modern spider &
quarterman type and not a Weissenborn or biscuit-bridge guitar. But in this
particular recording there is an excess of metal-on-metal sound, a kind of
sizzle that over-rides the typical resonator sound. Pretty cool sound, too.
Instead of the super-fat, rich reso sound that people have been trying for
years to get, it's a messy, clashing sound that fits the song pretty well.
So what's going on there? Any ideas? Is he using a glass slide, or is
there a recording technique to bring out that sort of sound? I've tried
closer and more distant placement of the mic, which makes some change but
not radically. Is it a post-recording EQ of some sort? Sometimes I hear
that sort of sound going on while playing (or it's all in my head), but when
I record it the sound comes out super-clean dobro-round (especially with the
new GreenBeard) instead of glassy-messy. How's that for a poor description?
If you can interpret my prattling and have a clue, send me a note!
Thanks,
Matt
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