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Source details
Publication
Guitar Player
Pages
49-50
Interviewees
Richard Kruspe
Archived URLs
Source Status
Web archive
Interviewer
Matt Blackett
Research Notes
This is where people's silly "layer their guitars 24/26/28 times" originates from. It was Richard. Who said 24. About ONE song (Links 2 3 4). And then talked about 8. Which caused mistaken "28" claims.
"Kruspe sometimes went to extreme measures to make sure the guitars remained the sonic focal point on Mutter. On "Links 2-3-4," for example, he layered 24 tracks of guitar. "My birthday is on the 24th," he explains, "and I always wanted to overdub a guitar 24 times. I played eight tracks in the low register, eight tracks higher up, and then eight more with the guitar tuned way down. I tried to get every frequency in that riff."
More discussion about this can be found here
"Kruspe sometimes went to extreme measures to make sure the guitars remained the sonic focal point on Mutter. On "Links 2-3-4," for example, he layered 24 tracks of guitar. "My birthday is on the 24th," he explains, "and I always wanted to overdub a guitar 24 times. I played eight tracks in the low register, eight tracks higher up, and then eight more with the guitar tuned way down. I tried to get every frequency in that riff."
More discussion about this can be found here
Catalog details
Date
2001.07
Language
English