Session bassist Mark Brown

That's a great article! Thanks for that.

out of all the time's i've read this article i've never

noticed this:

and now im pissed...

very cool article -- thanx!
[Edited 4/10/06 21:44pm]

“I ran the hat through a delay unit, set about 150 milliseconds, printed that to tape and printed the original hat to another track and then alternated between ‘source’ and ‘blend’ on the delay unit, recording those passes. It created a pretty cool rhythm that was constantly changing in tone and complexity but was still steady"

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The low end was filled up instead by using a classic Prince trick: running the kick drum through an AMS 16 reverb unit's reverse tube program. “It fills up the bottom so much you really don't miss the bass part, especially if you only use it on the first downbeat,” says Z. The hi-hat track was similarly dispatched, leaving only nine tracks of instruments and vocals on the record, which certainly made it easier to mix. Z recalls, only half jokingly, that the mix, which was done on an API console, took about five minutes.

And there you have Black Sweat... An inferior song employing the same sort of technique...

Rebeljuice said:

Ooh, the cup is always half-empty for you, isn't it?! I could say it is great song employing an appropriate technique to create a contemporary track with a feel of classic Prince tracks of old.

metalorange said:

Whats half empty about that? Just pointing out something that makes sense to me. Ive never read how Kiss was made before this. Now ive read it I can hear how he applied the same (ish) techniques to BS. Unfortunately, I dont think it quite worked as well as BS is definately the inferior of the two. And I quite like BS... so