Ry Cooder compression

wt golden · Post by **wt golden** » 24 Mar 2003 12:51 am

I was wondering if any one had any ideas as to what kind of processing went on in "Into the Purple Valley".
His electric tone is very compressed - I can't match it at all with my MXR dyna comp turned all the way up.

Maybe he ran the signal through a distortion pedal then through a compressor.?

Just thought someone here might have an idea.

thanks

Will
[This message was edited by Willy Golden on 24 March 2003 at 12:52 AM.]

Olli Haavisto · Post by **Olli Haavisto** » 24 Mar 2003 8:43 am

Hi,
I don`t know what Cooder used but about the same time Lowell George was using two Dyna-Comps in series!Probably he had to use a noise gate also

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Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 24 Mar 2003 2:12 pm

Ry was using a Fairchild Limiter, I believe. He has always used extremely high end gear.

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 25 Mar 2003 6:38 pm

Here's a discussion about Mr. Cooder's equipment that might be helpful.

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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars

wt golden · Post by **wt golden** » 25 Mar 2003 10:37 pm

Thanks for all the insight. The quest for that perfect tone never seems to stop - although Ry seem to find it a lot!

will

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 27 Mar 2003 9:17 am

I'm moving this topic to "Electronics", because that's where we generally talk about equipment.