Arcade Fire

kRza. · Post by **kRza.** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:54 pm

mixing each song to vinyl before mastering?!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/david ... 8454/38726

love em or hate em - you gotta admit, that's pretty fucking cool.

@?,*???&? · Post by **@?,*???&?** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:33 am

Well, not before mastering- the songs were mastered for vinyl and that eq is the EXACT eq on the Arcade Fire CD because it was only mastered to vinyl and then transferred directly to digital. The only thing in the way of the signal was a good set of A to D converters.

Nice, purist approach. I've been wanting to do this for decades. I'm glad they did.

SoulOfJonas · Post by **SoulOfJonas** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:51 am

That's awesome. Probabaly a huge part of the reason why I've been listening to mp3s of that album constantly since it's come out and it still hasn't worn me out. IMHO the Arcade Fire seem to have some of the best ideas and almost always execute them eloquently.

-JV

charlievela · Post by **charlievela** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:01 pm

I love this album, but 16 tracks of drums?! I assumed it was a minimally mic'd kit. After listening over and over I was trying to figure out ways to get that sound in 2 or 3 mics

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:26 pm

charlievela wrote:I love this album, but 16 tracks of drums?! I assumed it was a minimally mic'd kit. After listening over and over I was trying to figure out ways to get that sound in 2 or 3 mics

That's like saying "I'm trying to figure out how to make this steak taste like Mac and Cheese."

winky dinglehoffer · Post by **winky dinglehoffer** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:53 pm

There's a nice article about the mixing of the record in the latest Sound on Sound.

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