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From: "Tristan Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Tom and I seem to have this disagreement once/week these days. ;)
I'm all
>for a bit of grit in recordings, or lo-fi production in general,
but that
>doesn't excuse a crappy recording, which is definitely what these
are. You
>just don't get kicks like that unless you're being willfully
unconcerned
>with those red lights that indicate it's TOO LOUD.
i really love overdriving things, its been that way with me for a
long time. i can remember being at my friends house when he got a
4 track for the first time and we wanted to record a guitar part
with about 25 effects on it, just to be annoying. we had to stand
on the first floor while the amp and 4 track were on the 3rd floor
in order to avoid the whole thing just being noise.
but thats not the point. i actually wonder if maybe theres a
digital stage in the mastering/pressing process that is making
certain things sound bad. when i mix stuff down, i like my kick to
be the loudest most obvious part, and thats the way theo's stuff
is as well if you look at a recording of it. however, if you red
line a drum like that in an analogue gain stage, it should just
get really distorted and thick sounding, whereas like on the omar
s 004 there's a "farty" sound on the kick which sounds more like
digital clipping as opposed to that kind of analogue overdrive. so
maybe whomever is mastering these things doesnt know what he's
doing and is just cranking the levels until he can hear the non-
kick parts of the track and thus clips the hell out of the kicks,
causing the farts. i have no idea where its occuring in the
process, maybe they just started mixing down to digital and dont
know what theyre doing.
>While on this note, anyone know when that Carl Craig remix
of 'Falling Up'
>is due?
no clue. when i talked to malik pittman in the summer he was
telling me he did a rmx of the LA williams cut on the beatdown
comp and that it was supposed to be coming out on the second
installment of remixes that i assume the c2 mix would be on.
havent heard anything about it from him or rick since then. its
been 2 years since the beatdown comp dropped, its time for some
more stuff from that camp....
tom
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