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80s Production Techniques
Re: 80s Production Techniques
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Re: 80s Production Techniques
SECRETS OF THE 80s ENGINEERS!
#1 Get rid of all those silly old fashioned analogue synths, buy a DX7 , now apply it to everything. Everything! It literally is the future! Bells, pianos that sound like bells, pads that sound like bells, percussion that sounds like bells, it can do it all!! Now you just need to hire that one guy who can program it.
#2 This studio has a Fairlight/Emulator/Synclavier. OMFG ! I've always wanted a go on one of these. It has like 12 presets on the disks the studio has managed not to lose!! Check out these amazing orchestral stabs!! "ORCH5" cool! , now we just need a Shakuhachi flute sample to go flee-ooo-deee-hoooo. Boom, it's a fucking hit right there.
Hey, I just thought ...what happens if you sample your voice saying the first thing that comes into your head and then play it up and down the keyboard, WOAH fucking amazing sounds like I have never heard before!!! Listen to this n.n.n.n.n.nineteen !?
#3 Are you sure you really want to keep your guitar/bass player in the band? (Did I mention our DX7 programmer, he's sat over there?) Oh,ok... well, try out this amazing chorus/flanger. It freaking rocks, turn it up to 11. Lets apply it twelve times in stereo. Now your 1970s guitar sounds modern! It's the 1980s. Wicked!
#4 Tell the drummer to take a long smoke break while I run the Linn drum snare through this gated reverb. What you want different drum sounds? You think the 808, or the 909 sound is OK? what are you on crack? The Linn drum, man, is the only drum machine. Now listen again to the snare drum through this gated reverb PPSSHHHH PPSSSHHH, modern. We had that Phil Collins in here last week. Diamond geezer he is, Diamond Geezer.
#5 What? that crazy routing idea, sorry but half this gear is very temperamental, and the stuff that is working - it's going to take 4 hours to rewire it just to try that idea out. Well, it's your money, but look this place is 250 quid an hour and so I suggest we just press on and record it like this. It sounds fine. Just fine. Chakka Kahn is due in at 12 , so we have to be loaded out by 11.
These are the secrets of the 1980s recording studio.
A suitable dire example of what we actually thought was cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU
#1 Get rid of all those silly old fashioned analogue synths, buy a DX7 , now apply it to everything. Everything! It literally is the future! Bells, pianos that sound like bells, pads that sound like bells, percussion that sounds like bells, it can do it all!! Now you just need to hire that one guy who can program it.
#2 This studio has a Fairlight/Emulator/Synclavier. OMFG ! I've always wanted a go on one of these. It has like 12 presets on the disks the studio has managed not to lose!! Check out these amazing orchestral stabs!! "ORCH5" cool! , now we just need a Shakuhachi flute sample to go flee-ooo-deee-hoooo. Boom, it's a fucking hit right there.
Hey, I just thought ...what happens if you sample your voice saying the first thing that comes into your head and then play it up and down the keyboard, WOAH fucking amazing sounds like I have never heard before!!! Listen to this n.n.n.n.n.nineteen !?
#3 Are you sure you really want to keep your guitar/bass player in the band? (Did I mention our DX7 programmer, he's sat over there?) Oh,ok... well, try out this amazing chorus/flanger. It freaking rocks, turn it up to 11. Lets apply it twelve times in stereo. Now your 1970s guitar sounds modern! It's the 1980s. Wicked!
#4 Tell the drummer to take a long smoke break while I run the Linn drum snare through this gated reverb. What you want different drum sounds? You think the 808, or the 909 sound is OK? what are you on crack? The Linn drum, man, is the only drum machine. Now listen again to the snare drum through this gated reverb PPSSHHHH PPSSSHHH, modern. We had that Phil Collins in here last week. Diamond geezer he is, Diamond Geezer.
#5 What? that crazy routing idea, sorry but half this gear is very temperamental, and the stuff that is working - it's going to take 4 hours to rewire it just to try that idea out. Well, it's your money, but look this place is 250 quid an hour and so I suggest we just press on and record it like this. It sounds fine. Just fine. Chakka Kahn is due in at 12 , so we have to be loaded out by 11.
These are the secrets of the 1980s recording studio.
A suitable dire example of what we actually thought was cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU
Re: 80s Production Techniques
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong - these days I look back at some of the highlights as peak musical experiences.The lowlights remain a cautionary tale against indulging in the "now" sound, and the latest tech. I'd say the fashionable Art of Noise does not stand up like Hounds of Love does.
Meanwhile the actual experience of making & recording music in a studio back then, especially electronic music, it was frustratingly limited, expensive and a lot of the time the tools were just appalling. As was I.
Meanwhile the actual experience of making & recording music in a studio back then, especially electronic music, it was frustratingly limited, expensive and a lot of the time the tools were just appalling. As was I.