THE NEXT DAY - DAVID BOWIE.

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THE NEXT DAY - DAVID BOWIE.

Post by Nick Sevilla » Sat Mar 16, 2013 10:09 pm

I am so happy Tony Visconti produced this album.

Listening to David never gets old.

There is actual dynamic range in the mixes. My meters are happily bouncing up and down, instead of the usual "buried at the top" like other modern albums.

Love it.

The songs are classic Bowie.
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Post by fossiltooth » Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:14 pm

I'm enjoying it too. Bowie's voice may not be at it's strongest, but he's using it well anyway, which is always good to hear.

Dave over at SonicScoop did an interview with the engineer on that one: http://www.sonicscoop.com/2013/03/11/en ... j-mcnulty/

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Post by Nick Sevilla » Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:28 pm

Thanks for that link.
I'll be reading that soon.
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Post by kuene » Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:30 am

Visconti produced Reality too, but it is smashed to hell.

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Post by tonewoods » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:33 am

A nice interview with Tony Visconti on Sound Opinions last week:

http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/ ... notes.html
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Post by CraigS63 » Sun Mar 24, 2013 6:19 am

And the 4th song has that "Low" effect on the snare!

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Post by Nick Sevilla » Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:54 am

kuene wrote:Visconti produced Reality too, but it is smashed to hell.
True, but 10 years ago that was the "style"

Smashed to Hell, Doesn't Sell.

You may quote me.
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Post by Scodiddly » Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:39 pm

Had a co-worker playing the whole album last week. I wasn't that taken with the "rockers", but the original single that was released is a song that I really like a lot.

I realize that it's difficult at best to release a whole rock album of songs that don't, um, rock, but some artists do their best work in the atypical song formats. The first track off "Heathen" would be a good example.

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