Eddie Kramer mixing Jimi Hendrix 'Little Wing'

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Take a step back in time to the psychedelic era with Eddie Kramer! Hosted at Question de Son in Paris, this fascinating series explores the production of 'Little Wing', one of Jimi Hendrix's most famous songs recorded in 1967. Running stems through a vintage EMI-Neve console, the distinguished engineer takes you through his experimental approach to the project. Kramer explains the recording techniques implemented and elaborates on the innovative audio processing he pioneered at the time. You'll learn about the microphones and outboard gear used at Olympic studios in London, and how Eddie and Jimi let their creativity run wild to build a sonic masterpiece. Kramer plays the recordings of each part, comments on the material, and demonstrates how he adds vocal effects. Using echo sends from the console and an Ampex tape machine, Eddie shows you exactly how he crafts an authentic analog slap delay!
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Listening to those vocals solo'd just brought me somewhere.

BravoCheesecake
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So cool could you imagine being in the studio with Eddie and Jimi

StevenOslica
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Thank you! Amazes me how much effort went into that.

StevenWDix
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Incredible the emotional charge this song carries, to my ears it’s definitely one of the JHE’s true masterpieces! ❤

tattyshoesshigure
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Gorgeous recording, what a master artist Kramer is!

pauloquist
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Wonderful to get these snippets of history. Thank you and Cheers from Seattle!

keyscook
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Amazing masterpiece, that feel and soul and soul in it, love it!!

pietvanbuiten
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Jimi was a very special human being and was lucky to have a great band and team.

surfghost
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The BPM averages 69.98. A 12th note at that tempo happens every 97 milliseconds. So the slap delay on Jimi's voice is almost precisely a 12th note. And 12th notes do have a lot of power in 4/4.

For one thing, they can invoke the feeling of triplet swing, which is definitely in this song in terms of how it feels yet is very subtle, even though it is the way every instrument here is played. It's on that grid.

The Leslie seems to rotate at about the same speed, not at the speed it would typically rotate for a Hammond B3. It is also close-mic-ed in stereo, so the effect is more12th-note autopanning than the typical Leslie sound.

The engineering was brilliant. But beyond all that, there are many other much better reasons why this is by far my favorite song from Jimi. He was more than the most seminal guitar player ever (every guitar player today, half a century later, is influenced by him, either directly or indirectly, even if they never knew he existed. Every single one). Jimi also had a terrific blues voice, and as this song proves, he was also a hell of a poet.


Fly on, Little Wing.

tomlewis
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I've heard this played by everyone, but no one has ever sounded the way Jimi did.

soupsandwich
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Its also known that Eddie used for jimi's vocals phasing, ADT, pultec and a leslie speaker besides the slap echo. So its not clear if the phasing and the fluctuation we hear comes from the leslie or the tape echo ?

TheExangelus
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This should have been much much longer

chilldude
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Did he track guitar & vocals separately? Or sing, play and record simultaneously ?

veinsofuriel
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He has my dream job. Too bad I don’t have his patience 😂

kardiakkomedia
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Goddamn, that sounds incredible. They should throw these new mixing boards out now in the trash.

brendacuccaro
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HEY EDDIE, THAT SONG WAS CUT OFF WAY TOO SHORT. YOU NEED TO RELEASE THE LONGER VERSION OF THAT🧐

Swayzeo
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133msec slap echo probably Ampex 350/351

TheExangelus
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This would be so much better as an instrumental

ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hgec
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While I would never advocate any illegal piracy, the isolated stems to this song (and MANY others) is available to those who wish to hear them . (Thanks to the Rock Band video games being hacked)

tonywords
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When I first heard Jimi Hendrix I was at an older shrink's house who listened to Do-Wop which I hated. I pulled out an album that looked like it did not belong in his collection and that album was "Axis Bold as Love". I asked him what he thought of the album from another room he said it was shit and not to put it on the turntable.

Being 15 or 16 years old at the time, with my curiosity aroused by the compelling album art, I put it on the turntable any way. After the first cut, EXP, which was thankfully short I thought was idiotic, from the first drum rolls, of Up From The Skies I the music carried to another place.

Half way through the first side, I said, "this guy is as great as Bach" and from then on, as far as I was concerned Hendrix was without peer. Although many years later as my tastes matured, and expanded far beyond rock to virtually every culture and idiom of music in the world, I was able to separate the man from the myth. I always still consider Hendrix as one of the greatest electric guitar players who ever lived and an innovator as well as an epic poet lyrically, I now see him in context of his time and relationship to other greats before and since who's genius allows the listener to travel on the journeys of a psychedelic psychonaut.

However, that said, I always loved Jimi's voice, that for me was the voice of youth, vitality and absolute sincerity. In this cut of Little Wing, even without reverb and phase shifter, while he may not have the range of an opera singer, his voice is beautiful and majestic, while simultaneously being down to earth and approachable.

ericgendell