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Communication Breakdown by Led Zeppelin
Songfacts ^ | 1968 | Songfacts

Posted on 07/22/2024 4:49:17 PM PDT by DallasBiff

The guitar riff was inspired by Eddie Cochran's "Nervous Breakdown." Jimmy Page used a small, miked amplifier to create the "guitar in a shoebox" sound. Explaining his technique to Guitar Player magazine in 1977, Page said: "I put it in a small room, a tiny vocal booth-type thing and miked it from a distance. You see, there's a very old recording maxim which goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot on recording techniques with the band generally, not just me. You're always used to them close-miking amps, just putting the microphone in front, but I'd have a mic right out the back, as well, and then balance the two, to get rid of all the phasing problems; because really, you shouldn't have to use an EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. It should all be done with the microphones. But see, everyone has gotten so carried away with EQ pots that they have forgotten the whole science of microphone placement. There aren't too many guys who know it. I'm sure Les Paul knows a lot; obviously, he must have been well into that, as were all those who produced the early rock records where there were one or two mics in the studio."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: ledzepilin; ledzeppelin; maxwellfrost
Well I watched part of the House oversight committee with Secret Service director Cheadle and Maxwell Scott, and they were discussing a "communication breakdown" in the secret service, all I could think about was the classic Led Zeppelin song.
1 posted on 07/22/2024 4:49:17 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Greatest. Band. Ever!!


2 posted on 07/22/2024 5:01:43 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DallasBiff

I’m 72 and Led Zeppelin (1) is in my top 10.


3 posted on 07/22/2024 5:08:26 PM PDT by Travelin’ Right (Liberals ruin Everything)
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To: DallasBiff

Los Angeles Forum, 1976 I think, great concert. I knew someone that had the flyer to and went to the Pasadena Civic when they rocked All Night Long a few years earlier.


4 posted on 07/22/2024 5:26:59 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: DallasBiff

Audio expert Bob Heil, who pioneered high quality concert sound for the Grateful Dead, The Who, and more, always preached the virtues of microphone phasing. No amount of EQ can make up for sound that isn’t there.


5 posted on 07/22/2024 5:42:52 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: eyeamok

They never toured in 1976....it was either ‘75 or ‘77


6 posted on 07/22/2024 5:53:51 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Travelin’ Right

That makes two of us.


7 posted on 07/22/2024 7:06:40 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: DallasBiff

They didn’t have punctuation back then.


8 posted on 07/22/2024 7:21:10 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: DallasBiff

77. MSG. Tickets were $12


9 posted on 07/22/2024 8:34:43 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( )
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To: bigbob
"No amount of EQ can make up for sound that isn’t there."

As an experienced production guy, I say you're absolutely right. If the sound being captured is sh*t, no matter what's done to it via EQ, compression, verb/delay, it'll never be right.

In the studio, for instance, a clean, great sounding raw track will sound great with a minimum of effort during mixdown.

In the studio, I've pulled my hair out trying to massage badly recorded vocals, guitars, basses etc. into shape. Most of the time the solution is to record them again - correctly.

10 posted on 07/23/2024 1:02:33 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: God luvs America

then it was 77 when I got out of High School


11 posted on 07/23/2024 5:58:22 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: DallasBiff

It’s always the same.


12 posted on 07/23/2024 6:27:15 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: DallasBiff

Communication Breakdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2atkj_KWLl0


13 posted on 07/23/2024 1:06:18 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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