There was a time when everyone wanted to be Nu-metal. After the lesson I got the cd Rowan used for his talk about Ross Robinson and listened to one of the tracks he didn’t get to play. Too Cold by Vanilla Ice was produced in 1998 by Ross Robinson and is really really awful. I thought I’d mention this first as you really have to hear it, the best I could get was a 30 second sample off the Vanilla Ice website but give it a listen. http://www.vanillaice.com/audio/swallow_07.wma
I noticed a theme in a couple of the talks about drum sounds and it got me thinking that a different or unique drum sound really goes a long way to defining the ‘sound’ a producer brings to a record. One of the things I found interesting about Jake's talk on Kevin ‘The Caveman’ Shirley was the way he liked to mix drums. He was saying that he likes to treat drums as one full instrument and had a fairly simplistic approach towards the mic placement and recording but I think this statement applies more to mixing and post production on drums. Instead of going for the best sound on every individual drum (ie Toms, Snare, etc.) he prefers to have the kit sounding good as a whole, I thought this was an interesting way to look at it. At least a way that I have previously for some reason not really thought too much about. This leaked into Rowans talk and a similar thing with Ross Robison. With acts like Sepultura the drum sound is very raw and ‘tribal.’ By the end of the lesson I realised that in production the sound of the drums is a very major factor in the sound of a record and the way it’s mixed or produced.
We also got our major assignment for MTF which looks like it will be pretty interesting. I headed on over to the Real World ReMixed website and checked out the tracks. Having a listen to them I decided upon ‘If I Had My Way’ by ‘Little Axe’ fairly simple stuff. Some people were talking about seeing how far away from the original they could get, I’m not really sure what I want to do with it yet but just putting it back together seems to be a pretty daunting task at this point. Hopefully I’ll get something good out of it in the end.
Links:
http://www.vanillaice.com/ - …
http://www.realworldremixed.com/ - If you haven’t checked it out yet.
http://www.cavemanproductions.com/ - Website for Kevin Shirley
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I have to agree with you about vanilla ice but i think alot of him wanting to sound Nu metal is simply because he wants to gain back what little street cred he thinks he had, so he's trying to be edgy instead of heading in the realm of pop it wont work vannila ice will always be an ice ice baby.
Some of the recordings from Real World are bloody awesome quality, I can't wait to get my hands on them more.
Good thoughts though, and you are absolutely right about the drums. They are defining!
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