"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Heathcliff! It's us, it's Strong Songs, we've come home!

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0:00.0	Recording a guitar amplifier is kind of a circuitous process.
0:04.5	The guitar signal is amplified through the speakers, then mic'd and sent back to the board.
0:09.6	Some engineers use three or four mics to record a guitar amp, and some say, you know what?
0:13.4	Let's forget the amp and just plug the thing directly in.
0:23.6	Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music.
0:26.2	I'm your host, Kirk Hamilton, and as always, I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk
0:29.5	about guitars recorded with one mic, guitars recorded with five mics, and guitars
0:33.3	where the engineer just used a direct input.
0:36.7	The episode that you're about to listen to is a 100% independent listener supportive
0:40.6	production.
0:41.6	Thank you so much to all of Strong Songs's patrons you're making the show possible.
0:45.8	If you like the show and would like to help me keep making it, go to patreon.com slash
0:50.2	Strong Songs to find out how to do so.
0:53.2	On this episode, we're going to be talking about one of the most widely requested songs
0:56.9	by one of the most widely requested artists that I've ever talked about on Strong Songs.
1:01.7	It is an extremely cool song and a little bit different than anything I've talked about
1:05.3	before, so let's warm up the strings, mic the guitars, and do this thing.
1:27.9	Songwriting is a mysterious process, any way you slice it, no matter how many songs I
1:33.7	learn, how many songs I write, or how many songs I pick apart on this podcast, I always
1:39.0	come back to the fact that no two songs are written the same way.
1:42.8	I've written songs where I just had to work at it, I had a single idea, and then I just
1:46.6	kind of went at it and worked and worked and worked and slowly turned it into something,
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