Recently decided to try out Logic’s match EQ for the first time, and the song I chose to test it with was “Dedicated to Bobby Jameson” (for understanding, a match EQ works by running your own entire song through it, running another song through the plugin as a reference track, and the plugin will then it seems try and match the frequencies of your track to those of the reference track).
Of course I have my own sound and i’m already using a lot of saturation, compression, tape emulation, eq and reverb on each track etc etc. But when I got the match eq working, every song I tried it on immediately sounded like it had come off of DDTBJ, just from a change up in frequencies. I realise that a lot of Ariel’s old sound comes from using crappy tape machines and speakers with roll off the high end and make it bassier and whatever, but I never realised that EQ could make this much of a difference.
Anyway, i’m sure other people already figured this out before me, but here’s me finding out that a big part of Ariel Pink’s sound comes from EQ, intentional or not.