Re: Guitar Compression was :Re: ...refle

["André Donawa" <andre@andredonawa.com>]

Thanks Guys,

I'm a bit of a gear geek, so I find this stuff really interesting.
A ton of useful info here.
I'm going to try tweeking my individual levels some more and see if I can
tame some of those wild sounds.

Cheers,

Andre

On Fri, July 2, 2010 5:24 pm, Rick Walker wrote:
> Andy wrote advice about the use of compressors on guitar:
> "Here's mine: Never use them. In ensemble playing, and also in live
> looping the most
> important thing about the sound is how loud is it.
> If the different elements in the mix aren't at levels
> which make the music gel together then overall it sounds *bad*."
>
> I would concur with one very notable exception...............
>
> if you use open tunings on a guitar or bass,  a very cool 'effect'  is
> to heavily
> compress so that all of the barre harmonics on the instrument are more
> of the
> same volume including those delicious ones on the 9th fret
> and at the spots up high on the neck where many audible harmonics are
> clustered
> together but not nearly as loud as the typical loud barre harmonics.
>
> This gives you a much larger melodic pallet and , of course,  these 
>things
> sound amazing when they are recorded and replayed backwards and at double
> or half speed (or, in the new LP2 -  quadruple or quarter speed)
>
> I know that my brother has really highly tauted the Keeley compressor
> which
> has a small footprint,  is built like a tank and a little pricier but
> much better
> than the typical Boss, Dod, Digitech and other popular cheap stomp box
> compressors.
>
> I believe they are around $200  ( I don't have one but want one).
>
> Rick Walker
> "I'm not a guitarist but I play one on TV"
>
>



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