Legends in the Field Influencing their Craft

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Down through the years, there have been many great producers.
Phil Specter, Mutt Lange, Kevin Churko, T-Bone Burnett, just to name a few. Who influences your recording techniques? Do you do Bass/Grand piano doubling like Churko? Multi layered "Wall of Sound" like Specter? Who else gives you those great ideas that push your mark?
When I first started looking into doing my own recording, It was Mutt Lange that caught my attention. As has been stated (very accurately) all over the place, Christian music used to be produced very poorly. In the late 80s early 90s hearing Steven Curtis Chapman, Petra or Whiteheart just didn't compare to Def Leopard, Foreigner or Savoy Brown. Made me start recording Made me realize how much it took to make those sounds come out of a recording with VERY limited funds. I'm just getting enough to barely work with and I'm not in any league with ANY of these guys. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy it, or that I don't like what I'm producing, but I'd sure like to have enough experience to even understand some of their techniques.
 
I've never given a rat's ass about producers, and still don't. I just don't understand the disgusting and rampant producer worship that goes on in the music world.
 
If you think it's worship to hear sounds you like and try to understand the techniques behind them, then by all means, rant on...
 
I'm not ranting. I don't care if you worship producers. I just think it's sad that they're put on a pedestal.
 
Okay, let's just rephrase the question. What techniques have you heard on recordings that made you want to research and learn the techniques.
We'll leave the word "producer" out of the question....
 
Greg_L said:
I've never given a rat's ass about producers, and still don't. I just don't understand the disgusting and rampant producer worship that goes on in the music world.
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2 sentences. This is a rant? Wow! We've really become compact in this Twitter world. :D
 
BroKen_H said:
Down through the years, there have been many great producers.

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Who influences your recording techniques?
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Apart from a few really obvious studio tricks (like reversing tape or something), and the more "subliminal" impressions I have picked up listening to all kinds of recorded music, I've never really analyzed how some engineer or producer did certain things in order to emulate them.
I do know a lot of engineer and producer names, and am aware of their "niche" styles and techniques, and there are many whose work I really like a lot....but I can't say that any one of them ever directly/consciously influenced a recording I did.

I have some production styles I like to follow in my own recordings, though I'm not ever trying to mimic anyone/anything specific with them, and I do occasionally change things up a bit in the extreme, so as not to sound the same on everything.
I can't really say where any of those influences specifically come from other than to point to everything I have ever heard in music from the time I was about 5-6 years old where I started to really listen to music rather than just hear it in the background.

Sometimes I'm kinda surprised when some folks can really drill down into, and know all of the tinniest details of engineer/producer____________.
I occasionally think, "Am I missing out on something?"...but I don't ever get caught up with it, as I would not want to obviously try to copy anyone.

We all use many techniques that others have invented before us....we just don't really do it with any conscious thought (I honestly don't). If our work gets compared to some name engineer/producer, and that pleases us, it's cool....but not something I'm personally thinking about when I record.
I like the idea of personal discovery when recording....even it turns out that someone has done it before, by discovering it for myself, it makes it original to me and will always have my own personal touch to it as opposed to trying to mimic someone intentionally.....if that makes any sense.
 
BroKen_H said:
Me too.
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Naw man, I meant I was confused about your retort to Greg's comment.

He gave an opinion. Maybe you have confused the way you use the word 'Worship' with the way he used it? IDK. I just don't see why you got offended or whatever that reply was...
 
Just didn't expect a slam on the words used instead of an answer to the question posed. Didn't take offense, just couldn't wrap my head around the harsh statement...
 
Well, RAMI, I as well have missed you. Although I don't know you, you are often a calming effect here.
Don't worry, Gerg and I play nice most of the time...
 
BroKen_H said:
Just didn't expect a slam on the words used instead of an answer to the question posed. Didn't take offense, just couldn't wrap my head around the harsh statement...
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Yeah you did take offense actually, because Greg's statement wasn't even harsh. Just an opinion. Not sure why you would reply to argue someones opinion. An honest opinion is better than no reply. Not an argument. That is on you IMO.
 
jimmys69 said:
Yeah you did take offense actually, because Greg's statement wasn't even harsh. Just an opinion.
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If I may attempt to be a calming effect here :D....I think Broken read Gerg's comment as "I don't know why YOU worship these producers so much....", when he really just meant that he didn't get all the (general) hero worship of producers.
 
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