On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:11:14PM +0200, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 02:15:30AM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > > > well, not in the literal sense - how could it? > > > > but in the sense that there is constant action in every major frequency > > band pretty much all the time, which is why it's so quick to equalise a > > p.a. system with it. no need to loop or skip. > > > > i'm pretty sure that was what fagen was aiming at - to produce dense > > music that stays transparent yet has a very wide spectrum, constantly. > > and i wouldn't put it past him to check on the analyser where there's > > some space left for yet another sound layer or part ;) > > In that sense surely, but then I'd think Fagen is not > alone - any producer going for a 'rich' arrangement will > take care not to cram everything in the same part of the > spectrum. Don't have any ABBA here, but I wonder how they > measure on Japa... > My favorite record of perhaps all time is Thomas Dolby's "Aliens Ate My Buick". Dolby's "The Flat Earth" is a close second (notice a pattern?). I love Dolby's and Bill Bottrell's production. The stuff is so transparent, and seems so simple and clean, yet there are tons of little details hidden in there. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
