[jakdedert]

Fletch wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
Not to mean any disrespect, but if you are recording 50/60's r&r and
pop, why in the hell would you need a harmonizer?
Well, perhaps I should have said 50s/60s/70s - at least the early
harmonizers were there for the last decade.

I don't remember the Eventide until the eighties, and then everybody
overused it until it became a cliche. Same with digital reverb systems.
--scott

Pilot of the Airwaves, here is my request....

My memory goes to 1979 when a friend brought one in to one of our band's
rehearsals. He owned a studio and it was a new toy. He hooked it up and
we sounded like Mickey Mouse. He couldn't get it to work right. They
were very sensitive back then...

--Fletch

My first memory of it was a late night in the studio--late 70's, IIRC.
Singer had just laid down his part...producer patched the Eventide
through the channel, asked him to come in to listen to the playback.

About halfway through the excellent take, producer furtively sneaks his
hand down to the harmonizer and just 'slightly' tweaks the track flat,
then slightly sharp, and back to 'even'. Vocalist gets a funny look on
his face...says nothing. A few seconds later, producer pulls the same
trick...vocalist starts to look worried; says something about maybe
another take. Nobody says anything...all feign concern. Producer
throws the knob to Mickey Mouse mode; and everybody in the control room
just rolls on the floor as it dawns on the singer that he's been had.

'How'd you do that?'

jak