Favorite Reference Mixes

[kRza.]

Top 10 Tracks Favorite Mix Reference Tracks (for the time being) sound / mix / aesthetic - let's have 'em:

1. Oh Yoko - John Lennon
2. Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground
3. Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
4. Iron Galaxy - Cannibal Ox
5. Gigantic - Pixies
6. Marque Moon - Television
7. Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
8. Loose - The Stooges
9. If There's a Hell Below.. - Curtis Mayfield
10. Walk on By - Issac Hayes

[soundguy]

I just use these three, seems to take care of business.

1. Owner Of A Lonely Heart- Yes
2. Reeling In The Years- Steely Dan
3. Hot Blooded - Foreigner

dave

[kRza.]

1. Owner Of A Lonely Heart- Yes

[ottokbre]

Unforgetable Fire - U2
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
OK Computer - Radiohead
Love is Here - Starsailor (i know i know, about the most trite album in the world, but i love the sound of it and they made all those sticky hot channels come together)

[bobbydj]

It's just every time I see/hear it now I'm all 'Boner and a lonely fart'.

Haha - so shit but so playground funny.

Who's was that one?? Props, defog.

[kRza.]

hehe...I'll have to give credit where it's due.

'Boner and a lonely fart'

..that was mine!

[AnalogElectric]

No particular order:

Queen Adreena - Drink Me
Radiohead - OK Computer
Melvins - Stoner Witch
Frank Sinatra - 80th Birthday Collection
Neurosis - Times Of Grace
Converge - Jane Doe
AC/DC - Highway To Hell

Those are the one's I reference quite a bit. There are others but not as often as the one's listed.

--Adam Lazlo

[permanent hearing damage]

stoner witch sounds brutal, but the guitar tone on that converge record is a bit too harsh for my ears...i dunno.

i mostly record hc/punk stuff, so:

helmet - meantime
smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
his hero is gone - monuments to thieves
refused - shape of punk to come
botch - we are the romans

[Randy]

I'll limit myself to ten:

Aretha Franklin- Respect
Shellac- In a Minute
Minutemen- Corona
Mission of Burma- That's When I Reach for My Revolver
Tom Waits- Jockey Full of Bourbon
Gillian Welch- Annabelle
Johnny Cash- Rowboat
Velvet Underground- These Days
Raincoats- Shouting Out Loud
The Ex- Mother

[djslayerissick]

for metal and heavy music:

Coal Chamber - Dark Days
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Sevendust - Home
Korn - Untouchables
Slipknot - self-titled

(untouchables has some of the most INSANE guitar/bass sounds i've ever heard. the songs are alright, but do yourself a favor and check out those guitar tones. unbelievable. i want Mike Beinhorn to produce my bands debut album for those tones alone. )

for pretty stuff:
Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
Opeth - Damnation
Radiohead - any album

[spideyjack]

for stereo: crackin up by nick lowe & revolution by the beatles (past masters cd)

for bass: alice cooper/greatest hits

for country: rubber room or most anything by porter wagoner & sweetheart of the rodeo by the byrds

for fun: bubble puppy or XTC

[red cross]

"Kiss Me Baby" - The Beach Boys, Mark Linett's stereo remix on "Endless Harmony." I just fuckin love this to death. Brian fucking around and doing an impromptu, improvised mix on the documentary video was just so cool as well....

"Amnesiac" - Radiohead. Never was a fan, but this is effin great. Really effin great.

"Third/Sister Lovers" - Big Star. Man, if I ever record anything this sonically perfect I'd die the fucking happiest bastard on Earth. No kidding.

[Slider]

Big Star 1st-2nd -and 3rd.
Clash - london calling
The KINKS! - villiage green, something else, arthur.
wilco - being there.
beatles - white album.
Velvet Underground. 3rd or Loaded. not white light!
Bob Dylan - highway 61
Radiohead - amnesiac
the Zombies - odessy and Oracle
the stones - exile or anything from the early 70's.
the faces - nod is as good as a wink. (how does glyn johns do this??)

if i'm working on modern punk stuff... and i really hate to admit this.
i reference some of jerry finns stuff, or tom lord-alge.
there i said it!! i hate myself. (sob)

[Auxillary]

I never use my own. I ask the band or artist to bring in what they want their record to sound like. And no matter how much it sucks I use that as my reference.

[jaredbyline]

I hate to change the post topic, but what do you use a reference for? Volume? Stereo image? Or is it even further? Kick drum sound, for example?

And that refused album is fucking amazing. I can't believe some of the things that they do with tired old hardcore and techno sounds. Very jazzy without sounding like jazz, at least not too often.