BrentDomann
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I'm curious. What about their history or recording techniques draws your attention?
Producers are a scam and a sham.
This has probably been discussed to death round here already, but is this always the case?
While I wouldn't call the role a joke, I do lean more in this direction myself. It's not helped by the confusion surrounding the role. Even back in the glory days there were different kinds of producers ranging from Andrew Oldham and Kit Lambert that were managers of their bands and had never entered a studio before their bands did to Guy Stevens who was an ideas man to George Martin who was an A&R man that could adapt to Phil Spector who was as hands on as you could get to Denny Cordell who happily delegated stuff to Tony Visconti to Jimmy Page who thought in terms of being part of the band to Mickie Most who went out and found songs for his acts......I think the modern role of "producer" is a joke. Back in the glory days, producers were innovative and unique and knowledgeable. Not so much now. He's a figurehead and a mouthpiece and totally unnecessary IMO. Recording Engineer - useful. Mixing engineer - useful. Mastering engineer - useful. Producer? He's just there getting paid to tell the actually creative people what to do.
While I think some of Norman Smith's editing left much to be desired, I haven't come across any producer that I think was a bad one. So the nebulous answer would be "all of them."If you could work with a big-time producer, who would it be and why?
I'm curious.
But I've been spoiled by home recording and the notion of having a producer has not sat well with me since the fantasies of my teens. Once I noticed that Jimmy Page helped write Led Zeppelin songs, played the guitars and produced the albums, any ideas of falling into the hands of a producer were expunged from my head. From 17 or so, I wanted to do all that myself. Whether I'm crap at it or not is irrelevant to me. I wanted to do it myself. I still do.What about their history or recording techniques draws your attention?
....I think we pretty much know what sound we want.
Well...all you do is keep repeating that they are sham....so I'm here to balance out the perspective.