Chistopher
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and of the 1/3rd, 1/2 of them are priced way to high and 1/2 of those have very narrow use cases.
I was in recording from late '80s and pedals were never used except overdrive/distortion/fuzz or for a "one of a kind" sound (and most of those "one of a kind" sounds were derived from studio rack gear to start with). I bet it's still the case and I will never use pedals myself for recording. Rack gear is mostly replaced by plugins since the last decade.
Im the age where i can remember when there were only [5] FX pedals for guitar. Now there are 7.7 billion and only 1/3rd worth a sh*t.
Not all pedals are created equal.
Those albums were in the late 70s/early 80s and recorded to tape, they didn't even have computers in the studio then, the computers that existed then would have been usesless for audio work. I'm 99% sure he used his pedalboard, they may have run the guitar though a plate reverb and some offboard compression, but they didn't do reamping back then. I doubt he could have gotten the same feel recording dry tracks into the board.
This reminds me of a story I have heard. When the Quiet Riot albums with Randy (or some of the tracks, at least) were reissued in the early 90s, they supposedly ran the guitar tracks through Carlos Cavazo's guitar rig to add more distortion to the tracks. Stranger things have happened, but it sounds like an extreme solution still. Did it really happen like that? (I have never heard the original LP versions, so I don't know what those sound like.)
I remember Guitar World had a article when the Tribute album came out and the producer said they used an early Korg digital delay through the board on a few tracks for Diary Of A Madman.
I remember Guitar World had a article when the Tribute album came out and the producer said they used an early Korg digital delay through the board on a few tracks for Diary Of A Madman.
Tommy Bolin had his attached to his mic stand so he could constantly manipulate it.
Thanks for the memory. Listening to "Post Toastee" as we speak.
Thanks for the memory. Listening to "Post Toastee" as we speak.