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Recording Engineers and Guitar Solo in God Is Alive? To those that know this kind of stuff, the Guitar Solo in God Is Alive? (or for that matter any other Prince Guitar Solo.) That Solo could be isolated say in Paisley Park Studio A and listen to just that Solo, right? |
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I am now expert, but I would assume that the guitar solo was isolated on one track of a multitrack recording in which case yes. | |
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We won't know... Prince worked fast, and didn't alwyas care that much for the quality of his recordings... who knows, maybe yes it mostly was recorded on a separate chanel/track. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) |
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It would 100% be available as a single, isolated track unless the multitrack tape is damaged in some way. Prince pretty clearly played all the instruments, which he can only do one at a time. You cannot record a track and then record a second track onto the first one without erasing in the process. Therefore Prince has every instrument and voice on individual tracks. The drums are a drum machine. The bass is a keyboard. The keyboards are, well, keyboards. The vocals are their own tracks. Prince working fast only impacts how much attention the engineer can give to getting a good sound for each instrument/voice, but in the end each thing you hear was recorded on its own individual track which can be solo'd and heard completely by itself. 100% guaranteed. | |
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steakfinger said: It would 100% be available as a single, isolated track unless the multitrack tape is damaged in some way. Prince pretty clearly played all the instruments, which he can only do one at a time. You cannot record a track and then record a second track onto the first one without erasing in the process. Therefore Prince has every instrument and voice on individual tracks. The drums are a drum machine. The bass is a keyboard. The keyboards are, well, keyboards. The vocals are their own tracks. Prince working fast only impacts how much attention the engineer can give to getting a good sound for each instrument/voice, but in the end each thing you hear was recorded on its own individual track which can be solo'd and heard completely by itself. 100% guaranteed. Just a point of order, we’ve certainly heard reports that he sometimes played more than one instrument at once (eg keyboard and guitar). Agree with your broader point though. In any normal situation you would expect tracks to be isolated. This thread is mainly about live stuff, but o recall hearing similar stories about studio recordings somewhere, though perhaps only as rehearsals https://prince.org/msg/7/370401[/u]" target="_blank"> https://prince.org/msg/7/370401[/u] Any evidence of recording two instruments at once (and the track ending up in a record) exist? (Lazy question, I’ve not read Tudahl’s books yet) |
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Cool! |
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Like to Hear that Guitar solo on its own especially starting at 3:50 to end. heehee 
It wouldn't of taken much time to set up the guitat Track as that sound was used for nearly all the leads on lovesexy Era. Once they had the sound. He would just plug in and go . Cloud, mesa boogie, wah, in to desk ,done . | |
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Any you Guitarist on here ever learned this Solo, or most of it, or can Improvise on it?
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