Phil Spector Passed

[RunOutGroove]

Albini is a very prolific producer. Gooogle Electrical Audio in Chicago

I don't always like the sound of his productions as they can seem a bit hard and cold sounding, but he's an interesting figure. As a drummer, I've recorded with a number of different bands/projects and though I've never done any of the recording part of it myself it's something that I've always been interested in. Even tough I'll likely never put that any of this knowledge to use (but who knows?) I like watching youtube videos on recording tech stuff.... and Albini does a lot of them and they're pretty good...

 

[Supercool!]

Steve Albini:

1) claims to capture the band's sound NOT produce it;
2) pioneered the rediscovery of ribbon mikes on guitar amps
3) recorded and played in Shellac...nuff said!

Love his work...

 

[GChief]

Good, he got what he deserves, to die alone in a prison hospital.

 

[BernardHayes]

A great talent.

 

[SoCal Sam]

RIP Lana Clarkson.

 

[doctor fuse]

I like Albini mostly for this hilarious and hard-hitting article from the 90s. I particularly love how it offends so many folks [trying to be?] in the music industry. I will have to check out more of his recordings.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

 

[BernardHayes]

Yes he had a lot of bad demons

 

[hjames]

I spent some time Saturday listening to a few of the newer Spector albums -
Leonard Cohen's Death of a Ladies Man - Leonard is almost unrecognizable compared to the albums before and after it.
The Ramones - End of the Century - a big selling album, and certainly fuller and denser than their other albums, but is it really Ramones?
Beatles - Let It Be vs Let it Be Naked - "Naked" certainly comes off as the weaker of the two.
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - can't really imagine this without all the layers - I think its a masterpiece.

 

[Route 66]

RIP, or don't, it makes no difference to me.

 

[knifeswitch]

Steve Albini:

1) claims to capture the band's sound NOT produce it;
2) pioneered the rediscovery of ribbon mikes on guitar amps
3) recorded and played in Shellac...nuff said!

Love his work...

His work with Todd T on drums is fantastic. I saw Big Black a few times in my younger days.

 

[RunOutGroove]

Steve Albini:

1) claims to capture the band's sound NOT produce it;
2) pioneered the rediscovery of ribbon mikes on guitar amps
3) recorded and played in Shellac...nuff said!

Love his work...

I'll say that the #1 part of it is maybe not as simple as he makes it. Even if you aren't directing the group that you're recording in any way or shaping it using various effects, just the way that everything is miced, the room the settings, the mix, etc still colors the sound. He might like the idea of just getting out of the way and letting the music happen, but one way or another, the choices he makes as an engineer shape what the final product sounds like. I've often thought that his sound is a bit hard/lively for my taste and I was just watching something on Youtube where he was demonstrating some drum tuning concepts (I'm a drummer so that was interesting) and I noticed that the room where he had the drums, which looked to be a tracking room, had bare brick walls. This made sense to me in light of the "hard" sound that I've heard on his stuff and I would imagine goes against some norms of recording... but if you like that "hard brick wall sound" he's probably on a short list of go-to producers who are expert in getting that sound...

 

[dbxdx5]

RIP Lana Clarkson.

Yes, RIP. A tragedy that transcends any music.

 

[goodolpg]

Strange man but I liked some of his work.