For most of recorded rock, amp tone was a one way door. You picked the cabinet, you placed the mic, you committed. If the mix later told you the guitar was too thin or too woolly, your options were to live with it or to book the band again. The device that quietly dismantled that […]
A Solo That Wasn’t Supposed to Survive In 1960, inside the low-ceilinged Nashville room known as the Quonset Hut, engineer Glenn Snoddy was cutting a Marty Robbins country ballad called “Don’t Worry.” When the session reached its instrumental break, the part Grady Martin was playing came back through the console
