A gritty observation

The blog has not been written in for some time: this is not due to a lack of musical activity, rather a flurry of intense musical activity which has left me with no time to update.

Today I was comparing a jazz recording I did to some old Stan Getz/Sonny Sitt recordings.
The difference was in the noise and fuzz - those old recordings were not clean by any means and mine was pristine clean.
To test it out I threw the logic 'clip distortion' over the master buss and I loved the effect! If I turned the drive down the result was better - more character, compression, glue.

So tomorrow in mastering I aim to 'dirty up' my mixes, either by printing to tape or by running through a preamp with a bit of overdrive.