Say Hello to Ken Sands. Technical thread.

[RobertZ]

Robert, the Supremes, Vandellas, Marvellettes and such were kind of " cookie cutter"
productions with all of the guitars "direct" into the board [[not "Miked" they just plugged into the direct panel box in the studio) with the great sound of "clean" no "leakage" audio directly to the console.

Whit broke the mold by overdubbing "miked" "Wah-wah" Ragin and Dennis Coffey guitars with all of the "special effects pedals" that sounded LIVE on stage,...in the studio.
The keyboards were normally miked [[piano and organ) but the Wurlitzer and Rhodes
electric pianos were taken "direct" to the direct box on the wall in the studio. So was the "Ondioline" sysnthesizer and Clavinet.

Thanks, Ken - that's pretty amazing - and I've never heard of the Ondioline - was that a forerunner of the Roland? And I would presume the "acoustic" instruments [[piano and organ as you mention) were recorded separately from the electric which were recorded direct?