Editing Jangle (section)

==The Byrds' technique==

To create the Byrds' jangle, McGuinn drew from his prior experience as a banjoist and played a picking style of rising arpeggios.<ref name="brab"/> According to him, the other crucial component was the heavy application of [[dynamic range compression]] to compensate for the Rickenbacker's lower amount of [[sustain (music)|sustain]].<ref name="mcguinn2016"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kubernik|first1=Harvey|last2=Calamar|first2=Scott|title=Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bANZjtz2qUkC&pg=PA68|year=2009|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|isbn=978-1-4027-6589-6|pages=68}}</ref> He explained:

{{quote|[Compression is] how I got my "jingle-jangle" tone. It's really squashed down, but it jumps out from the radio. With compression, I found I could hold a note for three or four seconds, and sound more like a wind instrument. Later, this led me to emulate John Coltrane's saxophone on "[[Eight Miles High]]". Without compression, I couldn't have sustained the riff's first note.<ref>{{cite web|title=Byrds' Roger McGuinn gets to root of his music passion at folk conference|url=http://www.gomemphis.com/news/2009/feb/14/mcguinn-at-roots-of-folk/|work=Space Times News|publisher=cripps Interactive Newspapers Group|access-date=March 17, 2011|author=Bob Mehr|date=February 14, 2009}}</ref>}}

In addition, McGuinn did not usually play solos, and instead played the 12-string continuously throughout the arrangement. Of other elements in the overall piece, vocals were sung in an impersonal, detached manner.<ref name="Bannister"/> He also spoke of the Byrds' music as exploring "mechanical sounds" such as jet airplanes. Bannister acknowledges that the "continuity of sensation of drone/jangle combined with emotional detachment may give an affect that can perhaps best be compared to travel, a defining experience of modernity. ...  The idea of continual movement connects to young men, associated in modern culture with fast cars, just as rock music and counterculture is associated with 'the road'."<ref name="Bannister"/>