Sweetening the lap steel guitar

24:15 Gordon moves on to the lap steel guitar part. “I think this would sound nice with a bit of delay and reverb. Later in the song, when it’s in solo, it’s got some reverb on it, which I’ve added. Again, a little bit of SSL dynamics fattening and levelling it out.”

For EQ, as with the bass, Gordon creates a large boost using the SSL’s EQ, and sweeps the frequency of the boost around to determine the lap steel’s tonal content. “I’m just boosting the low mids for weight – there’s plenty of top cutting through, but the bottom isn’t quite thick enough.”