the cardboard box snare sound .... yeah, that was common and you saw it live too.
But again, that was a product of trying to get different sounds at a time when the only way you could was using physical methods.
And they would saturate the tape .... it was ok to go in the red ..... sometimes a lot in the red depending on the instrument being recorded.
This 70s mixing style that I like
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Speaking of Snare sounds I think I mentioned before how much I like Mick Fleetwoods 70s snare sounds.
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Its the same in Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan - just the overall sound is really similar. It does seem really anchored in that time period.Greg_L wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:08 pm Listen to the drums in those two songs...ignoring the stupid TV theme.
That's what drums sound like. They don't sound like the hyper-processed perfectly quantized modern bombastic drums we're used to hearing now. The kick isn't super deep and bassy, nor is the attack too clicky. It's a mild thump. The snare is sort of a donky thud and there's snare wire buzz. The toms have tone but are mostly pretty flat and dead. That's what drums really sound like. That is a tell-tale 70s sound if you ask me.
If you listen to Boom Boom Mancini, also by Warren Zevon from less than 10 years later it has a totally different sound. Suppose, he's intentionally going for a big "Boom Boom" on the kick, but its got naff 80s production all over it.
Posted the Ray Mancini tribute vid 'cos who doesn't like all action fighters with little to no defence?
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I'm not so much using Diff'rent Strokes as a reference its just like an exaggerated version of the style that I'm talking about it.
One thing they all have in common is tasteful rock n roll piano playing.
Its also pretty common for stuff from this era to use little motifs with little swings on things that does really have that "band in a room playing off each other" sound. A good example is on "freddy get ready" about 15s in to Johnny Strikes Up The Band. Its really obvious on Diff'rent Strokes, it actually starts off on "World Don't Move" three closely packed chord changes, then there's another little passing chord with a swing a bar or two later on "what might be right for you". Steely Dan do shit like that all the time too.
As I said, its just exaggerated on Diff'rent Strokes, its not like I'm cruising down the motorway listening to the Diff'rent Strokes theme on the stereo. Its just when I worked out what these little flourishes in these songs reminded me off it turned out to be that theme tune. @Lt. Bob will know what these little jazzy touches are called.