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Old 06-13-2018, 02:16 PM
Paleolith54 Paleolith54 is offline
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Originally Posted by maxtheaxe View Post
One famous instance of this is the guitar tone on the really amped up version of the Beatles 'Revolution'. Lennon just plugged his Epi Casino direct into the board/channel preamp and had them dime it.

The engineers absolutely hated him for it but the tone is epic...iconic, even.
Yeah, I believe he actually ran through two, in series, both dimed. The engineers, rightly, feared he would burn them both up and they'd all be sacked.
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