mike_mccue


The beauty of how our brains work with sound is that if you want to listen to older music your brain will quickly accommodate the different sound, tone, precision etc and you may choose to sit back and enjoy the music and it can sound as great as it used to sound.

You don't have to listen to it with 2012 ears... that is entirely voluntary.

best regards,
mike

I do love some of the guitar tone of the day.... Frampton (Rocking the Filmore.... just love the guitar tone) , Townsend, and many more, had some of my favorite guitar tones..... 

mike_mccue


The beauty of how our brains work with sound is that if you want to listen to older music your brain will quickly accommodate the different sound, tone, precision etc and you may choose to sit back and enjoy the music and it can sound as great as it used to sound.

You don't have to listen to it with 2012 ears... that is entirely voluntary.

best regards,
mike

+1

mike_mccue

You don't have to listen to it with 2012 ears... that is entirely voluntary. 

Is it just me or is that a lot of ears?
(sorry, I just could not resist)

bapu

mike_mccue

You don't have to listen to it with 2012 ears... that is entirely voluntary. 

Is it just me or is that a lot of ears?
(sorry, I just could not resist)

Well it could be 1006 people...

John T


Returning slightly to Danny's earlier point, anyone setting these old records as their technical benchmark for sonic quality (not talking about the subjective experience of it as art here, just talking about the technical aspect) is a thundering idiot. Writing better songs than Queen is quite possibly a tall order. Making better mixes than their 70s LPs, though, is actually aiming pretty low. Go and have a listen to their Jazz LP. I - and many other members of this board - could do a better mix than that in my sleep.

True enough. Also I think a great many albums from the '80's should be remixed by law, especially anything Phil Collins was allowed to produce.

jamesg1213

bapu

mike_mccue

You don't have to listen to it with 2012 ears... that is entirely voluntary. 

Is it just me or is that a lot of ears?
(sorry, I just could not resist)

Well it could be 1006 people...

All wanting to be louder than each other.

jamesg1213

Danny Danzi


I don't like some of the sounds the Beatles got, but I love the Beatles. Oooh...I better build a fortress around me!

I can't stomach the sound of Steve Howe's guitar sound on the early YES albums, but I love YES.

I am not a Jeff Beck fan and though I appreciate him and can understand why people love him, he just never did anything for me.

I don't like Roger Daltry, Pete Townsend or his tone, but I love The Who.

I don't like Jimmy Page as a lead guitarist, but I love Led Zep. Ooooh...I better double that fortress now!

I don't like Bob Dylan's voice but I love his writing.

I don't like Neal Young's guitar playing but I like his tones and song writing.

I do not think Eric Clapton is God. I'd rather listen to David Gilmour or Eric Gales. Oh my, did he just say that? No he didn't...better enforce that wall with extra cement and sealer!

Janis Joplin was full of energy and a female icon, but had an annoying timbre to me.

I never liked The Greatful Dead and never understood why others did. Tones were always good though. Oh boy, now I've done it...9 trillion Dead Heads will show up my door and want to kill me!

I do not like The Rolling Stones AT ALL, but can understand why they are loved. Ok, that does it...someone will now drop a bomb on my house!

Are we brothers? Don't shut the door to the fortress just yet Danny, I'm running..

... Perhaps title his book: "The Music Spirit".
 
(A hundred years ago, Robert Henri wrote "The Art Spirit" ... with very similar quakings for portrait artists.  Robert Henri was a top-drawer Western portrait artist but preferred writing and lecturing to inspire other neo-impressionist artists)
 
Having a great treasure and sharing it generously with other artists!: most great artists have grammatical and emotional issues ... we appreciate song-pictures more than the elements ... yet we have to labor, fight, love, and conquer on every level ... and then some ... protecting and guarding the treasure from thieves and self (self being the greatest enemy, IMHO).
 
Truth seems to me, a great mix may take a few hours ... but a lifetime of labor ... or vice versa.

Indeed. A hard drill makes for an easy battle.

Every mix is its own creation.

Every mix has some problems.

Every mix is the end result of choices made way before.

Every time Ben writes something it makes me like him and his point of view less.

jamesyoyo


Every mix is its own creation.

Every mix has some problems.

Every mix is the end result of choices made way before.

Every time Ben writes something it makes me like him and his point of view less.

The first three seem relatively easy to fix, no?