Literature Reviews
It goes through the characteristics of indie mentioning the styles that have been interplayed into the genre and where the genre came from which gives me other venues for research. During the characteristic part of the article, it explains how artists have been diverse including punk, psychedelia, and country into their music. I wanted to look at this website as half of my project is essentially based on indie guitar and incorporating it into my music so it's quite useful to look through its history. It mentions a couple bands such as The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, and the Pixies yet again giving me more things to research for my case study about guitar tone.
It also features some information about some music and production techniques used in some old indie bands claiming a band called The Jesus and Mary Chains combined beach boy melodies with Phil Spector's wall of sound production style, as well as mentioning New Order emerging out of Joy Divisions post-punk sound into a more dancey and techno sound.
This article has helped me with finding topics to look up for sources to use in my case studies and weekly updates, it has provided me with multiple bands as well as another couple of genres which have been linked with indie music in the past to possibly research. It also mentioned the wall of sound technique which is something I should definitely consider researching as it is a very well-known production style that has been used in a lot of modern music.
My second literature review is on an explanation by someone called Darrel Gil, of how to use a chorus pedal on a website for guitarists called shredaddict.com and the arctcile is called What Does a Chorus pedal do. He explains that the chorus sound is made when the pedal "splits your signal into two parts and detunes and delays one of them"(Gil, Darrel, 2017) This is a useful quote to reference in my case study on indie and pedals as it is a quick and relatively simple way of explaining how a chorus pedal works.
He then goes on to give a more detailed explanation of what each of the knobs does on the pedal, "The Rate knob controls the number of milliseconds of delay at any given time and depth control governs the intensity of modulation"(Gil, Darrel, 2017). This is yet another useful quote to reference in my case study on pedals in indie as well as practically as I now have more of an understanding of how my pedal works.
The third source I will be looking at is called the "Ultimate Guide To Flanger Pedals" and it's on the andertons music shop written by Sam Beattie. The post includes a video explaining the functions of the pedals as well as having a diagram that shows the process of it as well.
He then goes on to explain the different knobs and what they effect(similar to the previous literature review), the speed controls the speed of the variations in signal delay, as well as the depth, being the amount of modulation that takes place(Beattie, Sam, 2017), as well as giving the "best guitar flanger settings" where it gives a couple of presets for your pedal.
Both of these bits of information are useful to me as it explains how flanger pedals work which I can mention in my case study as well as use practically. The settings he has provided will prove useful for me for practical research in my music when I test out all of my pedals on my weekly updates.
My fourth source for my literature reviews is a paper by Andrea Ordanini about how artists will feature other artists from completely other genres for more chart attention. Contrary to this idea it is also believed that when artists deviate from their genres this results in being penalized and shunned by their general audience. (Ordanini, Andrea, 2018)
It also explains that the greater the cultural difference in music is the more likely it is to get higher in the charts as the song is now branching out to multiple demographics increasing the audience size by two if both artists are on a similar level of popularity. This is an idea I will be taking into consideration into my project as having a more extreme difference in genre mixing can be beneficial as well as give me a new path of research.
My fifth source for my literature review is going to be on an article giving me tips on how to mix. It goes through how important buses are as well as how to EQ and use a compressor. These are all useful tips as it is good to remind yourself of the basics of mixing, and I often get reminded of simpler ways of doing stuff when reading articles like this. The author insists on how important it is to "make the mix interesting from start to finish. (Guest, 2019)
Musictechstudent.co.uk. (2014). The History and Development of Indie Rock Music - Music Technology Student. [online] Available at: https://musictechstudent.co.uk/lessons/history-development-indie-rock-music/ [Accessed 13 Jun. 2019].
Gil, D. (2019). What does a Chorus Pedal Do? The Definitive Guide. [online] ShredAddict. Available at: https://shredaddict.com/what-does-a-chorus-pedal-do/ [Accessed 12 Jun. 2019].
Beattie, S. (2010). Guitar Flanger Pedals - Your Ultimate Guide from Andertons Music Co. [online] Andertons Music Co. Available at: https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-flanger-pedal-guide [Accessed 28 May 2019].
Ordanini, A., Nunes, J.C. and Nanni, A. (2018). The featuring phenomenon in music: how combining artists of different genres increases a song’s popularity. Marketing Letters, [online] 29(4), pp.485–499. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11002-018-9476-3.
Guest (2019). 7 Simple Mixing Tips to a Greater Mix. [online] Audio Issues. Available at: https://www.audio-issues.com/music-mixing/7-simple-mixing-steps/ [Accessed 11 Jun. 2019].
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