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Re: Warren you crazy cat!!!


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3/31/1999 1:11 AM
Steve A.

 Re: Warren you crazy cat!!!
Trace:  
 
Grab one of those large black 14" oil drain pans from Wal-Mart...  
 
    I can't picture that at all if you are talking about the plain round plastic pans. Or are you referring to the ones that will hold maybe 6 quarts of dirty oil for recycling? There's a big opening with a strainer to catch the oil from your engine (with a large plastic threaded cap) and then a small cap you remove to pour the oil into containers for recycling.  
 
    Or do you just mean a 14" long black plastic funnel?  
 
Thanks!  
 
Steve Ahola  
 
P.S. Talking about tricks on classic recordings, many of the songs on "English Rose" (the 1969 US release from Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac) had a cheap PA set up in the studio for the vocals, which gave them the ambience of a live recording at a blues club. Surprisingly enough, at the time stuff like that wasn't being done very much (well, the engineers thought that it was totally unheard of- like why degrade the sound of the vocals when you have access to the best microphones and preamps?) I bet that the Beatles used tricks like that to get the "megaphone-like" sound on some of their songs, but they did a lot of weird things in the studio so that doesn't count! BTW it was the slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer who suggested using the PA.
  
5/4/1999 10:55 AM
Trace
Steve;  
 
Yep...the 14" plastic black funnel it is but with the smaller opening. It's the one you drain teh oil from the car into.  
 
Again, just cover the speaker with the oil pan and but a 57 up the the small opening. It should but up against it perfectly.  
 
It's the coolest sound you'll ever hear when you raise up the fader. It wacks out the mids and pretty much leaves the lows and highs alone.  
 
This works great doubled if you pan the tracks left and right. It also works to record a track with the pan and then record another with the lows and highs trimmed off and the mids boosted up pretty loud.  
 
Trace
  

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