Production Values Today...Compared to Yesterday

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:38 am

[quote="hueseph"][quote="AwedOne"]hueseph wrote:

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Recorded music has lost all sense of naturalness. Guitars sound so unlike guitars........

That may be true in some cases which I agree with, but there's also the other side to that statement.

Being a keyboard player (and frustrated drummer, arent we all?) I have found myself on many occasions sitting behind my drummers kit having a bash with the band. When there is a wall of guitars playing along I cant seem to hit the drums hard enough, not because they cant hear me, but purely because I am wanting to transfer the high amount of intense energy I am feeling at the time through the kit, and that no matter how hard I hit the damn things those hits just dont do justice to what im feeling while playing the kit.
So, I think there are people out there, producers and musicians that have merely figured out a way to succesfuly translate those types of feelings and also enhance them even further. As mentioned in many posts this is done by smashing the living daylights out of tracks and using samples,etc, but if thats what it takes then so be it. When I hear a slamming drum sound im like, " yup, thats what playing drums feels like to me". Of course this doesnt apply to everyone, which is the beauty of music, not everybody likes the same stuff and not everyone gets the same sensations from playing their instruments, would be pretty boring if we did! I used to work in a music shop and a customer dropped in a cd to me and said enjoy, he didnt tell me what was on it. When I put it on it contained a shit load of Bonhams (spelling) out takes from various Zepplin recordings. No music, just drums. These were all just takes of him playing to the songs, you can sometimes hear the bleed from the cans. Its really amazing to hear the kit on its own and after paying attention to the kick sound I understood the difference between loud and big. Big can be played at very low volumes and still sound big, that kick is proof. I dont know where this guy got this cd, im guessing it would be all over the place by now. My dumb keyboard playing 2 cents!

SammyG

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:05 am

Interesting thread. I feel like I'm listening to 2 different conversations. Isn't Bolero supposed to start out very soft & eventually become very loud Smile

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