insight into sessions of your favourite albums

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I thought it would be a good idea to make this thread about anyone interested in inquiring about what equiptment, instruments, and techniques were used in the production of any music anyone is into.

I am interested in:
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box (REALLY curious about this one, have searched a lot with no luck)
Beatles - anything, esp. Magical Mystety Tour
Joy Division
Dub from the 70's...how did they get that ultra warm ultra grainy saturated sound? ex. Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, anything off Trojan label

also interested in producers, especially Martin Hannett. I have searched everywhere on any insight on his workflow, gear, techniques, etc.

if anyone has any interesting information on any of these guys, it is much appreciated. also, it would be neat if other people inquired about other artists and producers and their recording sessions.
 
I would be interested in Graceland by Paul Simon (love that album so much) and any Pearl Jam stuff, but especially the stuff Brendan O'Brien did (vs. vitalogy, no code, yield, binaural)
 
also interested in guided by voices especially their Bee Thousand recording process
 
I would be interested in Tool - 10,000 Days, Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles, and Breaking Benjamin's and Chevelle's CDs. There are tons more.
 
Primus - the brown album, frizzle fry, suck on this

Machinae Supremacy - any

Any from the soundtrack of across the universe

Bad Religion - Generator
 
NL5 said:
Over at GS there is a hole thread by Joe Baresi that shows a lot of pics and explanation during the tracking of 10kD. Way cool.
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I'm googling and I can't find it... any help?
 
Also remembered I actually own a good DVD on the Pearl Jam Yield sessions. Not quite as in depth as one might like but it's a good insight to the ideas behind the music and gives hints on microphone and instruments set-ups. Its called Single Video Theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Video_Theory
 
Tool - 10,000 Days
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here's what i remember from the aforementioned baressi interview:

drums - tracked through an API console(all of their previous stuff, along with the rest of 10k days was neve), top/bottom mics on the snare and all 5? toms, a mic inside and out in front of each kick, 3 OH's(spaced pair, plus 1 dead center since carey's kit is so huge), and i believe a couple of cymbal spot mics

bass - not entirely sure, but i'm pretty sure justin uses gallien-kreuger amps, and that the tone is a combo of a mic'd cab and DI

guitars - this one's the kicker...adam jones uses a non-master volume marshall, a triple recto, and a diezel simultaneously both live and in the studio. each individual take had each amp split out to its own mesa cab, with 3 mics on each cab - a 57 and 421 up close, with either a ribbon or condenser 3-4 ft. back...can't remember which. this makes 9 inputs per take, which were then bussed to 1 track, and there's 2 takes on each side - for a total of 36(!!) guitar tracks stacked on top of each other, plus the leads and such.

vocals - maynard used his personal soundelux tube mic(interview didn't say what model) for the clean vocals, and the dirtier/screaming shit is through a good ol' SM57

in addition, i believe all tracks were recorded to 2", then dumped into PT for editing and mixing
 
+1 on the Breaking Benjamin Stuff. Some of their "ethereal" effects just kill me. I enjoy the moods that their lead guitarist creates sometimes.
 
wow, there's a lot of those 33 1/3 books on albums I really like! I wonder how much information is given on the actual recording process. Even so, I want to pick up a bunch of them.
 
iivanov88 said:
I thought it would be a good idea to make this thread about anyone interested in inquiring about what equiptment, instruments, and techniques were used in the production of any music anyone is into.

I am interested in:
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box (REALLY curious about this one, have searched a lot with no luck)
Beatles - anything, esp. Magical Mystety Tour
Joy Division
Dub from the 70's...how did they get that ultra warm ultra grainy saturated sound? ex. Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, anything off Trojan label

also interested in producers, especially Martin Hannett. I have searched everywhere on any insight on his workflow, gear, techniques, etc.

if anyone has any interesting information on any of these guys, it is much appreciated. also, it would be neat if other people inquired about other artists and producers and their recording sessions.
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i have also looked out for hannett but i think you will be lucky to find anything bearing in mind the chaos that he worked in and the tendancy to kick out anyone from the control room if they took even a passing intrest in the magic that was being spun.

but having said that i do not think that there is any great secret that he took with him....its all there naked in the recordings....

seems to me that if you put the slight short severe delay on just about everything its a start...but i dont want to take anything from his work...he was and is one of the all time gods of the recording studio.
 
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