enframed wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:41 am Cocaine may have been the most widely used signal processor in the 70s and 80s.

Someone should design a patch or pedal or whatever called "Coke-Box."

I like this idea.

Would it be a soft knee limiter into an 8 or 10-bit A-to-D/D-to-A and then a chorus with a nice sweepable narrow-Q HPF at the end to add just the right amount of "sizzle"?

Geiginni wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:07 pm

enframed wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:41 am Cocaine may have been the most widely used signal processor in the 70s and 80s.

Someone should design a patch or pedal or whatever called "Coke-Box."

I like this idea.

Would it be a soft knee limiter into an 8 or 10-bit A-to-D/D-to-A and then a chorus with a nice sweepable narrow-Q HPF at the end to add just the right amount of "sizzle"?

If you put the right skin on it and marketed it right you could sell the shit out of this as a plugin.

The advertising would need to be intentionally funny and ironic.

Reverbed rimshot. Coupled with tambourine on the snare even better.

Harmonica added to singer-songwriter stuff, like at the start of this song, which is very good, but that cheese almost ruins it.

Add to the above, song originally composed on solo acoustic guitar or piano having a massive rock band kick in at the last chorus or something like that. See Evanescence - My Immortal, on the Fallen album.

Geiginni wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:56 am - Chorus, on anything (and too often, everything), but particularly acoustic guitar

If I had to pinpoint the absolute worst sound of the '80s it would be fretless electric bass with chorus. Sounds like a polished queef.

losthighway wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:09 pm

Geiginni wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:07 pm

enframed wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:41 am Cocaine may have been the most widely used signal processor in the 70s and 80s.

Someone should design a patch or pedal or whatever called "Coke-Box."

I like this idea.

Would it be a soft knee limiter into an 8 or 10-bit A-to-D/D-to-A and then a chorus with a nice sweepable narrow-Q HPF at the end to add just the right amount of "sizzle"?

If you put the right skin on it and marketed it right you could sell the shit out of this as a plugin.

The advertising would need to be intentionally funny and ironic.

Possible names:

8-Ball (plug-in)
Kilo (a box/pedal)
Escobar (coffin-shaped pedal)
Llello (plug-in)

req example songs of all (or some) these things posted.

100% of We Built This City.

Every instrument. Every studio trick. It's all there except Autotune, which hadn't been invented yet. There are zero good sounds on this song.

While I don't think it's a great song, I'd still love to hear someone redo it with the same performance using tones and production from the early 70s.

tommy wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:33 pm 100% of We Built This City.

Every instrument. Every studio trick. It's all there except Autotune, which hadn't been invented yet. There are zero good sounds on this song.

Good choice. While I'm no musician and cannot speak to the studio tricks employed, it's absolute garbage all the way through.

penningtron wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:21 pm polished queef.

Would see this band

Say what you will about the musical merits of Rush, but the change in their sound between Caress of Steel or 2112 and Power Windows or Presto is a stark example of everything cheesy and bad about the 80s