Peak Production Era

[FuzzyAce]

Totally! 70's era Soul and R & B was

Here's my personal fave from that era. This is timeless!

I love that whole soundtrack, still one of my favorites I play from time to time.

 

[la szum]

Pretty decent (though a little premature) consensus has formed.

Interesting.

 

[Achilles]

Pretty decent (though a little premature) consensus has formed.

Interesting.

Analog tape baby!

 

[la szum]

I wonder if there is a sort of "Peak Production Point of Diminishing Returns"
that has taken place. Like, a point where it becomes more about the "production,"
and how its role has grown so significant that it can surmount or circumvent
the music and the performances.

Certainly feels to me like something like that has happened with the 2000s
to the present.

Then it becomes more and more impossible to "sound like the record" live
unless you use tracks, and have a bunch of elements pimped/pumped into the
performance. Like Sub Bass being everywhere, on every record. Guitar mixes being
so dense that you cannot possible recreate those tones live without some ... uhmmm.....
help. And the Synth.... Synth.... everywhere these days.

This is not to say that production was not dense in the past. Just not as dense as
it is now. So dense sometimes that I can't chew it.

 

[FuzzyAce]

I think there is certainly more production going on today -- because it's so accessible and much easier to get decent results from the masses. But a song is a song, and I really do believe the 70's was the heyday, especially for writing and song arrangements.

 

[Stone]

His solo album 'I Robot' is probably the best headphone album I ever heard.

 

[la szum]

I really like the Chorus and Compression of the 1980s. The Boom of
the Synth-Era in full swing. Proliferation of electronic elements really
heightened. I think it was maybe Peak Studio with places like The
Power Station really coming to the forefront of the recording industry.

The 1980s was also the 1st time we saw DIY'ers begin to make an impact
with lo-fi 4 track recordings on the cheap.

This is peak 1980s, for me.



And this.

 

[Stone]

Dont forget Steely Dan

 

[Achilles]

Peter Gabriel has the distinction of releasing the first major label recording that was 100% digital in every aspect.
Another AMAZING headphone album.

 

[Stone]

And this one too, great production

 

[JiveTurkey]

I really like the Chorus and Compression of the 1980s. The Boom of
the Synth-Era in full swing. Proliferation of electronic elements really
heightened. I think it was maybe Peak Studio with places like The
Power Station really coming to the forefront of the recording industry.

The 1980s was also the 1st time we saw DIY'ers begin to make an impact
with lo-fi 4 track recordings on the cheap.

This is peak 1980s, for me.



And this.

Plant solo material is just SUBLIME. That guitar tone is

 

[Stone]

Pretty decent (though a little premature) consensus has formed.

 

[FuzzyAce]

I really like the Chorus and Compression of the 1980s. The Boom of
the Synth-Era in full swing. Proliferation of electronic elements really
heightened. I think it was maybe Peak Studio with places like The
Power Station really coming to the forefront of the recording industry.

The 1980s was also the 1st time we saw DIY'ers begin to make an impact
with lo-fi 4 track recordings on the cheap.

This is peak 1980s, for me.



And this.

Great choices! I see Daniel Lanois carrying over the best parts of the 70's into the 80's mindset. Perfect blend on that album.

 

[Achilles]

Shout out to the latter 80s and my personal favorite as far as best heavy production.
This entire album RIPS on a really good stereo system or headphones.

 

[Stone]

one of the worst production from the 70's was Zeppelin II, man it sounds terrible

 

[Achilles]

one of the worst production from the 70's was Zeppelin II, man it sounds terrible

You know the story behind it? Was recorded while the band was touring. There's absolutely no cohesion at all as a result.

 

[Achilles]

Back to Mindcrime for a sec. I was working at ADS at the time and spun the entire album CRANKED in their listening room on a pair of these with the most expensive turntable and amp imaginable.

Goosebump inducing!

ADS L1590s

 

[la szum]

Shout out to the latter 80s and my personal favorite as far as best heavy production.
This entire album RIPS on a really good stereo system or headphones.

Totally!

 

[FuzzyAce]

one of the worst production from the 70's was Zeppelin II, man it sounds terrible

'69.


But it goes to show -- great songs go a loooongggg way.

 

[Sidler72]

. I always felt this album had great production.