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Hendrix Voodoo

I've been amazed for years at what I hear every time I listen to "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". Does anyone else hear something "other-worldly" when they listen to this? The room actually starts spinning.

Other than Hendrix's incredible virtuosity, what techniques did he use in the studio to create this effect? I actually experience an altered state of consciousnous (drug free) while listening to this!!! I have yet to find any other music that has bombarded the senses in quite the same way.

Especially take notice to the beginning of the song. It sounds like he starts in mono {with your head centered between the music) then goes to stereo with the music running back and forth between both channels. Whatever he did back in 1968, I have yet to hear anything quite as extraordinary.
mootsdude
ericthered
29 posts
 
Off subject a little but my cousin Mike has Jimi's microphone he used during the recording of "Are You Experienced'
jimburger
104 posts
 
My electrical engineering buddies tell me it was done with changing the phasing of the recording during the mixing process. Hendrix uses this technique in several places in the Electric Ladyland Album. Check out "1983...A Merman" or the title track. These phasing effects were actually "corrected" out on the original LP by Warner/Reprise but do appear on the recently remastered
CD.
daveyguitar
22 posts
 
Much of Hendrix's magic was the work of producer / engineer Eddie Kramer who was instrumental in creating sounds that Hendrix told him he wanted his guitar to sound like. I believe he may still be at Electric Lady Studios in NYC.
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