Comments on: The Seven Types Of Music Producer

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:42:36 +0000

Lee Perry burnt down his studio to get the duppys (bad spirits) out not out of a fit of rage. This ended up being a good move for him because in his new studio is where a lot of his best work was completed!

By: popsong 3.0

popsong 3.0 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:35:38 +0000

We’ll throw this out there just for the debate….
George Strait has had 57 #1 hits…yes 57….more than any other artist ever.(go ahead google it …we didn’t believe it a first either)

All these hits are “self produced”…

Does this make George Strait the #1 producer of alltime?

By: Ian Shepherd

Ian Shepherd — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:24:15 +0000

@Thayod Good point – maybe that’s another category – The Pioneer ? But lots of the other fit into that category… have you seen this post ?

David Vorhaus and The White Noise – Electronic music pioneers

By: Thayod Ausar

Thayod Ausar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:25:50 +0000

Great Article!!!! How about Delia Derbyshire and all the other good folks from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop… Surely what they did with physical tape editing and manipulation has to qualify as the direct pre-cursor to Modern sampling and sequencing. The music Delia produced by physically splicing together pieces of tape, of various pitches and lengths, measured in time with a ruler, fashioned into multiple tape loops, and run in synchronization on multiple tape machines… Incredible…

By: admin

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:55:11 +0000

Here's some interesting commentary on the "bonkers genius" question: http://tinyurl.com/d42lch

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By: Ben Walker

Ben Walker — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:31:40 +0000

I met Hugh Padgam a couple of years ago. He definitely took the credit for the gated reverb Phil Collins snare sound, but was also a bit of a clueless tit. So I think we should give someone else the credit.

Great site, BTW. I’ll be recommending it.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:09:11 +0000

Jens is an *outstanding* engineer and a really nice guy – I’ve been lucky enough to work with him on a few projects. I did the DVD authoring for the surround mix of “Still Life”, plus enhanced CDs and a live DVD for Katatonia. Sounds like I should check out “Watershed”, too.

By: eyesofthesouth

eyesofthesouth — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:54:24 +0000

I must say Jens Bogren if for nothing else “Watershed” by Opeth. This is probably the best produced and sounding record I have heard in a LONG time. To be able to work with a creative visionary like Mikael Akerfeldt and still experiment and get new sounds and textures out of him from album to album is astounding.

This album sounds huge without sacrificing dynamics, the acoustic sounds are to die for, the drums sounds big but not overly compressed or “produced”. Check out some of his own comments here: http://bit.ly/c9xe

And also, Devin Townsend is one amazing dude. #wallofsound

By: admin

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:53:37 +0000

Ah, the old “who invented what” question, eh…

In which case, let’s tackle the Big One – who really invented that gated-reverb-tom sound from Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” / Peter Gabriel’s “Intruder” ? Hugh Padgham? Enquiring minds want to know…

And yes, fair point – I apologise for my potentially insensitive use of the words “bonkers” – in this case, hopefully it’s clear that I mean it in a humorous context – but simply “Visionary” doesn’t fit the bill… can we come up with an alternative ? Left-field ? Idiosyncratic ? Crack-pot ? Out-there ? Maybe “Unclassifiable” ?

PS. Fwiw Trevor Horn himself is the first to give full credit to his engineers – fair play etc.