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KES Transactions on Innovation in Music |
| Publisher |
Future Technology Press |
| Vol. 1 No. 1 |
Special Edition - Innovation in Music 2013 |
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| Article Title | The Progressive Heavy Metal Guitarist's Signal Chain: Contemporary Analogue and Digital Strategies |
| Primary Author | Matthew Shelvock, University of Western Ontario |
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126 - 138
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| Article ID |
im13bk-012 |
| Publication Date |
17-May-15 |
| Abstract | This paper seeks to elucidate signal processing as musical communication. To do this, I start by establishing an analytically meaningful aesthetic distinction between the musical products of signal processing techniques employed by Djent/Progressive Heavy Metal guitarists and techniques employed by guitarists working in other heavy metal sub-genres. I focus, in particular, on crucial differences in the mid-range of guitar tones characteristic of certain metal sub-genres, common practice gain staging procedures, noise management techniques, and approaches to compression. I explain how these technical procedures are, in fact, musically meaningful. In so doing, I further an emerging research paradigm which sees recording practice as musical practice per se, rather than simply a 'technical support' for the 'true arts' of composition and performance (see Hodgson 2010). |
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