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04-10-2012 12:06 PM |
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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak
(Post 6678622)
Clearly the sound pulsations in the original Crimson and Clover were created by one of the three legendary Frammitz Hildebrand Model 2415 Fuzz Wow Pedals.
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Clearly.
According to an interview with Tommy James, found at soundonsound.com:
The recording of ‘Crimson & Clover’ took about five hours — it wasn’t like we sat and thought about it a lot, we just did what came naturally, and the tremolo part was something that we came up with in about 20 seconds.”
This refers to the wobbly vocal effect towards the end of the song, which was created by Bruce Staple running Tommy James’s Telefunken 251 through an Ampeg Gemini 2 guitar amp, applying a tremolo whose speed matched the tempo of the track, and having James repeatedly sing, “crimson and clover, over and over,” before running the miked amp back through the console.
And the interview at songfacts.com:
SF: About the sound distortion in the song, can you describe, for people like me who don't have a clue, how you did that?
Tommy: Well, actually, it was pretty simple. We had done the record with tremolo on the guitar. It's just a built-in sound on guitar amplifiers. When I played the guitar, we recorded it with tremolo pretty much in synch with the music. In other words, we tried to make it so that it was vibrating at the same speed that the drums were playing. So we made the whole record that way. And then at the end, it was like one of those whimsical ideas, we said, "Why don't we put it on the voice?" So that's what we did, we ran the vocal mike through an Ampeg guitar amp, turned on the tremolo and miked it, and ran it back through the board. It was just that simple. What was so amazing, back then, if you wanted to make a sound wiggle, you had to basically do it yourself. There was no button you could push on a synthesizer, you basically had to build the circuits yourself and everything else. So that's what we did, we just ran the vocal mike through the guitar amp, and then miked the amp and ran it back through the board.
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