I stumbled on this song entirely by accident, and I'd love to know who is playing the mandolin on this. The break after the first verse blows my mind.
Anyone have an idea?
I stumbled on this song entirely by accident, and I'd love to know who is playing the mandolin on this. The break after the first verse blows my mind.
Anyone have an idea?
Who’s kidding who! The timbre of the instrument sounds to me like they slowed the tape to half speed when they recorded it - think “The Chipmonks”. We did that with a bowed bass once ‘cos we wanted it to sound like a cello. (Ten minutes later I asked the engineer to say to the bass player “That was great, lets go for a take this time”.)
Interesting. That sure sounds like an electric mandolin being recorded through the signal from its pickup, rather than being mic'd acoustically.
Does anyone know whether it would have been possible at the time to record an electric instrument direct to the board, rather than putting a mic in front of its amp? Because that's what this sounds like to me.
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