Maybe these are the Ohlsson sources:<div><a href="http://bobolhsson.com/bob-says/on-motown/">http://bobolhsson.com/bob-says/on-motown/</a><div><div><a href="http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/668960-mixing-techniques-motown-sounds.html#23">http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/668960-mixing-techniques-motown-sounds.html#23</a></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:56 PM, John Rigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:au2@jrigg.co.uk" target="_blank">au2@jrigg.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:34:03PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 17:29 +0000, John Rigg wrote:<br>
> > Early Motown hits. It wasn't used for effect, but to keep the quieter<br>
> > vocal parts high enough above the tape hiss on their DIY multitrack.<br>
><br>
> Is it used for single instruments and voices only and usually not used<br>
> for the stereo sum? On old professional recordings stereo sum<br>
> compression often does "pumping" or at least there are sometimes strange<br>
> loudness jumps.<br>
> I read a little bit about “Motown Trick”, “New York Drum Trick”, it<br>
> seems to be not used for the stereo sum.<br>
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</div>When used to reduce tape noise it would have to be applied to individual<br>
tracks (lead vocals in the example I mentioned) before hitting the tape.<br>
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John<br>
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