Down through the years, there have been many great producers.
Who influences your recording techniques? Who else gives you those great ideas that push your mark?
For me it's always been far more down to what I've read than anything I've heard and wanted to emulate. I can't honestly recognize any kind of
signature sound from a producer or engineer.
I noticed, when reading Ken Scott's autobiography that he engineered a track on Pink Floyd's album "A saucerful of secrets." But it didn't sound somehow any different from the other sounds on the other 6
tracks. Or if you listen to "Led Zeppelin 2" or "Deep Purple in rock", each were recorded while each band was on the road
touring; at different studios and very higgledy piggledy.
But both albums sound pretty unified to me.
So producers and engineers have always been people I've been fascinated by, more for their opinions and stories and descriptions of what they've done and who they've worked with and how they got into it.
When I listen to music, I listen to the songs first, the individual
elements second. I don't hear the production. I don't really know what that is in specific.
I just record, pan and balance !