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Original Message Date: 06-Dec-05 @ 04:27 PM - my top 5 albums of 2005
1. Gorillaz - Demon Days
2. Beck - Guero
3. Nouvelle Vauge - Nouvelle Vauge
4. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightening, Strike
5. Z - My Morning Jacket
Message 31/105 14-Dec-05 @ 05:19 PM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
Message 32/105 14-Dec-05 @ 08:57 PM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
...and always put a touch of reverb on the delay return channels
i always used to do that in hardware days. Nice Dom... how d'ya wangle that job?
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Message 33/105 15-Dec-05 @ 12:46 AM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
Dominic wrote:
And he always used 2 Summit compressors over the final mix. I know the guy who mixed Coldplays albums used this technique aswell. Thats all I can remember at the moment.
actually Michael Brauer uses no compression on the 2-mix proper, though he uses a hell of a lot of squeeze everywhere else. An extremely revealing article on his multibuss compression technique lays it all on the line here:
Michael Brauer @ TapeOp
And an excellent guest moderator forum in the Gearslutz.com archive. Highly recommended reading.
On a different note, I liked Midnight Vultures a lot. It's poppy fizzy, sexual irreverance is pure fun and mayhem... sounds like an album that was a lot of fun to make. Some seriously sick grooves on there too ... (Nicotine and Gravy? come on... that's a great fuckin track!)
Favorite albums of the year? Well as mentioned in another thread, I'm seriously underexposed. Impressed as hell with Jamie Lidell's efforts though. Very original and fun on repeat listens.
Message 34/105 15-Dec-05 @ 02:52 AM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
On a different note, I liked Midnight Vultures a lot. It's poppy fizzy, sexual irreverance is pure fun and mayhem... sounds like an album that was a lot of fun to make. Some seriously sick grooves on there too ... (Nicotine and Gravy? come on... that's a great fuckin track!)
someone heard me inquiring telepahically about this album?
i like beck when he gets poppier...not that i'd ever discourage an artist any other route.
i'll still believe pop and it's fringe is somehow the true testing-ground for ideas....to what extent they're of use to the larger masses.
just as i believe the best so-called experimental/intelligent(?) music has touches of pop...the best pop always dares to experiment a little....for my tastes at least.
it's nice to hear about this year's music.
Message 35/105 15-Dec-05 @ 09:11 AM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
K - fluke really. I did one session with him and then he kept asking the studio manager if I could assist him on his sesson days. i reckon it was the newspaper I used to have ready for him in the mornings that swung it!!!! He is a Mirror man.
Message 36/105 15-Dec-05 @ 09:29 AM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
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agreed, the grooves, execution, ideas are sick!! the lyrics are great fun and i love he flits between styles in one song- great live too....he was doing that album when i saw him at reading- started with swamp doing a scratch set and then tghe full ensemble turned up- one of the best shows ive seen....the boy can sing too! 6 octaves or summat silly...
greg
Message 37/105 15-Dec-05 @ 09:33 AM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
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Message 38/105 15-Dec-05 @ 11:00 AM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
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He used the channel compressors on the Neve reverb returns so just made it sound fatter. Oh and he always used the symphonic chorus patch on the SPX 90 for his hats.
Psy - He used 2 of these patched into each other for the stereo mix. Like the Coldplay mix bod.
Message 39/105 15-Dec-05 @ 11:47 AM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
chorus on hats? hmm interesting.....spose it could give you some shimmer....i often find that those tips you'd think would only be applicable to the electronic/pop domain actually originate from far subtler genres...
the bobyy owskinski book on mixing is great for inspiration...i dont try and copy the mixers tips exactly as i dont have the gear (and the one trick i did try- ny compression technique didnt work) but it does provide some cool possibilties and routings...like the q'ing of reverb returns...or making them mono and panning, or using delays instead stuff like that always interests me....
i just wish i had a big fat mixing desk!!
greg
Message 40/105 15-Dec-05 @ 11:54 AM - RE: my top 5 albums of 2005
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