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The guitars in the pre-chorus of "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" is one of the "All-Time Champ..." overdriven guitar recordings. That thing is evergreen. Never mind that I get the feeling that the run from "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" into "Switch 625" was Lange. Never mind the guitar sound in the sta...

I am not trying to toot my own horn, but I wanted to share an experience I had over the weekend and perhaps it will inspire someone to try something similar. I have an album project that I've been producing with a solo artist. It's a sort of post-rock/emo folk kind of thing, reminiscent of Owen http...

I'll see your Phil Collins drum sound, and raise with Bowie "Let's Dance", then Power Station "Some Like It Hot". That sound, other than the phasor added to certain parts, is all that room. The A-Room at the Power Station is the most amazing drum room I have ever worked in or witnessed. You clap yo...

Hi, just a reminder not to use "OCD" like this unless you're actually speaking about your own experience. I have OCD (and I'll bet many of us do), and to me it doesn't mean compulsively editing everything in sight, it means doing whatever needs to be done to make something sound "right." For me, it...

I'm sure now he has a crew that spends HOURS per song editing EVERY attack to the grid. Those people are probably going blind zooming in and nudging tracks to the EXACT SPOT... So where is the line drawn between doing a correction for the sake of making the recording better and just doing something...

I'm on the cusp of 50 ... Roger GO BACK!!! IT IS ALL MESSED UP HERE AT 51 !!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: trying. so. hard... btw, I'll bury this here so I don't draw TOOOOO much attention to myself, but this article on my local recording studio scene came out last night: https://www.worcestermag...

a few years ago someone in Nashville must have dug up some 80's hair metal templates. If you take away the lyrics, the songs are again the same. :twisted: Exactly. I think modern country is directly descendent from 80's hair bands, especially moments like "Every Rose..." By Poison and "Blaze of Glo...

I don't know if this is true, but it's a great story (therefore probably not true). Someone once told me that they assisted on a session with that uber-famous producer previously discussed (but I won't mention here, because this might be total bullshit) and he had a huge shipment of TC Electronic 22...

I love the Classic Albums series, but haven't (and honestly probably won't) watch the Def Leppard or Fleetwood Mac ones, because I just don't care. The literal last thing I want to know about is how Hysteria was made. I don't want any of the shit creeping into my psyche and/or records. So Tony does...

I'm on the cusp of 50 and started using drum samples around '98 with an Alesis D4 triggered off the tracks, and SoundReplacer in 2001 and Trigger2 now. I use samples all the time, but I also take time to get good drum sounds from the live tracks and I'm using the samples as reinforcement for the mos...

It's kinda similar to how I feel about a lot of 90s big rock drum sounds, where everything is like a hyper-real version of itself and you can hear every hit perfectly clearly and it's all very impressive but I dunno maybe I just prefer things somewhat less impressive. I like to think of that as "co...

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I guess I get tired of clients who aren't really thinking forward and ask for things that were cliches 25 years ago, like the "telephone" vocal effect. I am also a little tired of the sidechain compression from the kick drum pumping the whole mix thing. It was a neat trick at one time, but it's the ...

I was thinking about gear I have in storage and what I probably should part with at this point and I remembered that I had a pair of Gaines Audio preamps racked up. I recall opening them up and seeing that they were pretty basic op-amp based preamps. Does anyone else have any experience with them? M...

One of those instances of people faking themselves out and making a problem out of nothing. Like I mentioned, there is so much psychology involved in all of this. I have had clients who are ocd about certain things that really didn't matter, based on misinformation or based on what they read somewh...