Firstoff, on those Hendrix recordings, it may not be just a matter of simple bleedthrough or mics picking other instruments up on tracks, he just loved to do all sorts of things in front of the oonsole after the tracks were recorded, such as re-recording two or more tracks together to a new track and mixing that in, or flanging, which got its name from the methodology of actually holding your finger along the flange of the feedreel on the tape transport while re-recording a track such that the newly recorded track lagged the original track when both were played back together. Don't forget that with analog magnetic tape, each re-recording done would suffer in fidelity, but Jimi used that detriment as a sonic tool.

There's even a telephone bell hidden way back in the mix on some of the earliest Experience recordings.

Jimi created stuff that was difficult to impossible to duplicate by others even when they were using basically the same analog 16-track tape setups. To try to duplicate that using pcm digital in the computer may be an impossible task, given the differences in the two formats plus the unknowns as to exactly what it was Jimi was doing in the first place.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with experimenting and finding out what you may be able to accomplish, who knows? Just don't expect it to be done in one pass with a single plugin, at least not until someone manages to crack the thing in the first place and then also manages to write it into a plugin...


--Mac

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