Favorite Recordings based on production?

[gunslinger_burrito]

The Fragile is a good one.
Off the top of my head, Octahedron is really nice sounding. When the drums kick in on the first track. . .so good.

[tremolo3]

Anything of Magnus Lindberg's.
American Don - Don Caballero

[p.j.]

I love Lee Townsend's production work on John Abercrombie's Getting There and Bill Frisell's Lookout for Hope. He does a wonderful job of balancing acoustic and electric tones and the production really adds to the music. (In an unobtrusive way, though.) Lee is definitely one of my favorite producers.

[Chankgeez]

Oh, if we're going in that direction, I also love the production of Kavichandran Alexander/Water Lily Acoustics.

All recordings using the Blumlein arrangement and of excellently high audio quality.

[kbit]

Ben Frost - A U R O R A
POS - Never Better
ISIS - Panopticon & Celestial
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bright Eyes - Noise Floor (not joking)
Yellow Swans - Going Places

Way more. I'll third the Fragile as well.


I would love to listen to sone of these with peopke and just disect the sounds.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Ben Frost - A U R O R A
POS - Never Better
ISIS - Panopticon & Celestial
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bright Eyes - Noise Floor (not joking)
Yellow Swans - Going Places

Way more. I'll third the Fragile as well.


I would love to listen to sone of these with peopke and just disect the sounds.

Hell yeah, Yellow Swans. That's a good one. I like Isis's "In the Absence of Truth" better though. The guitar tone sounds a bit fuller to me. Less of that high-end sizzle with the distortion. But that's my preference.

[kbit]

Yellow swans is the best "ambient noise" music I've come across. I'd be hard pressed to find an album better than Going Places for that vibe.

I honestly haven't listened to In The Absence of Truth very closely or very many times. I feel like there's a good balance of instruments on those records, and enough roominess without it being too floaty overall (one of the things I don't dig about Oceanic).

& I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure there was a good amount of side chain compression used on the noisier parts of Celestial which is sounds fucking baller. The bass drum coming through that mass of guitar shit. Mmmph.

This isn't very good quality but the tone at 5:30 of Gentle Time is one of my favorite guitar sounds ever. I've been listening to the remaster in my car a lot lately and that sound just consumes me when it kicks in.

[Vuvuzela]

I listened to High On Fire's "Death Is This Communion" again yesterday and that record sounds sooooooooo good.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Yellow swans is the best "ambient noise" music I've come across. I'd be hard pressed to find an album better than Going Places for that vibe.

I honestly haven't listened to In The Absence of Truth very closely or very many times. I feel like there's a good balance of instruments on those records, and enough roominess without it being too floaty overall (one of the things I don't dig about Oceanic).

& I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure there was a good amount of side chain compression used on the noisier parts of Celestial which is sounds fucking baller. The bass drum coming through that mass of guitar shit. Mmmph.

This isn't very good quality but the tone at 5:30 of Gentle Time is one of my favorite guitar sounds ever. I've been listening to the remaster in my car a lot lately and that sound just consumes me when it kicks in.

Forgot about this thread somehow.....

Isis has always had some of my favorite guitar tones. I'm pretty sure Turner mostly uses amp distortion for his main dirty tone. They used one the coolest sounding tunings a lot, too (low to high- F#(octave lower) F#, B, E, F#, B/C#
The octaves you can get with that makes for sweeeeeet tones.

[Vuvuzela]

does any one know what jeff's bass tone was achieved with on snakes for the divine? that bass sound is fucking ridiculous.
i'd imagine it was something like a 10-band EQ, a pharaoh and maybe a comp of some kind into an SVT?

[voerking]

Gorguts - Colored sands

hmmm. i love that album, but i don't love the production. the drums seem too low in the mix, and the guitars seem too washed out with reverb & delay. still, it manages to be a great record. maybe i'm just nit-picking.

[Vuvuzela]

Gorguts - Colored sands

hmmm. i love that album, but i don't love the production. the drums seem too low in the mix, and the guitars seem too washed out with reverb & delay. still, it manages to be a great record. maybe i'm just nit-picking.

i thought that the guitars' tone and balance in the mix suited the record really well.

[Chankgeez]

... oh, also, anything where they run the entire mix through a phaser.

[Plastic_Telos]

Tortoise - Standards
Tortoise- Millions Now Living will Never Die
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Clash - London Calling
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
GY!BE - Lift yr. Skinny Fists
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

For Some Reason

[GardenoftheDead]

does any one know what jeff's bass tone was achieved with on snakes for the divine? that bass sound is fucking ridiculous.
i'd imagine it was something like a 10-band EQ, a pharaoh and maybe a comp of some kind into an SVT?

One clean amp, one amp with a Boss DS-1 for distortion if I recall. Read it in an interview somewhere I can't find anymore.