Others on the panel were Dave Smith, George Duke, Tom Obeheim and Jordan Rudess.

Oberheim.


:-)


He's famous.

not seeing many modern mixes here, why not?


there are some amazing modern mixes, it's as if a lot of folks never bought any music past about 1978.
LOL



i WAS listening to some old albums this weekend, and one stood out over all the rest:

Todd Rundgren, "Todd"

this has some amazing stuff.

mike_mccue

I've been listening to music ever since. 

You might want to consider some of the alternatives; eat, sleep, movies, popcorn etc.

"Keep on tryin'" by Poco knocked me out when I heard it for the first time. The sound, the mix and the performance. It was so brilliant compared to what I had heard untill then.

Ooo... That might be a nice one to listen to this afternoon (after I finish listening to Herd Of Instinct's Conjure, which I couldn't prevent myself from getting, and am on the fourth go through - man, this stuff is GREAT!!!).

 
Almost all of the Djam Karet's stuff is really well mixed ... it has to BE ... because of its "ambient" moods and such ... and every time I hear "Dark Clouds, No Rain", I hear some magificent mixing and above all ... a really good DESIGN for what the mix should be to help bring out the atmospheric feeling in a lot of their music. Some of their music comes off as a jam that goes quite long ... as Gayle says it might start on Chord A and end on Chord Z and the process and design ... who knows? ... and I will have to listen to it again to see if I can find something in there ... but I have never found a Djam Karet album that did not take me away ... rock/ambient/weird ... whatever!
 
In many ways, "Herd of Instinct" is a nice continuation of the mastery and intelligence of the "studio" and "mastering" work that this band does ... not even Steven Wilson is this good, though he is pretty clean. Th esubtleties in PT, for example, are more a factor of Richard Barbieri's design (a la Rick Wright) than anything else.
 
My main concern, and this happened on the Coffee House Band stuff, is that too much of the recording is being compressed, and the details that would be considered "subtle" and minor details that make the front end look stronger and better, were gone. I know that Bapu is not a "compression" hog, but this was an observation I wanted to make earlier that I did not have the words for. I would like to see a bit less compression and more "detail" ... even though, it is harder and sometimes not as easy as it sounds, when you are adding/mixing so many people into one swell foop!

I've mentioned this before, but the first dance record I was really blown away by when I heard it up loud, was 'Hot Water' by Level 42, really powerful, but loads of dynamics.

Thanks all. This is great. You've given me some music to hunt down for a good listen. (And I was nervous for a bit there that I'd neglected to exclude DSOTM.) Thanks!!!!

P.S. You've all been helpful.  I'm going to use the "This Post was Helpful" to help me keep track as I work my way through.... so don't feel neglected I'll get to you (but it'll take awhile... on the road a lot lately).