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Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 23, 2008, 09:22:22 pm
I'm just wondering, going through your whole collection of music, what would you say is the best produced/mixed/mastered album you have? I know it's kind of a hard answer to give because there's "good" music from the perspective of being well-written and good in a technical sense (sounding nice), but I listen to so much stuff sometimes I do get a little pissed, like this album could've sounded so much better if that one part stood out more/etc.

Ironically I think some of the best-sounding albums on my hard drive are some of the most awful stuff I have. Like I think Hail to the Thief by Radiohead sounded fantastic but in every other respect it's a hard listen. I also think Venetian Snares does an amazing production job with his albums and if he was just throwing noises without being concerned about how it sounded it would be pretty intolerable.

But yeah I ask this because I'm actually trying to get really serious about mixing now and I want to get an idea of what's possible on a sonic level, at CD quality. I'm also interested in how aware/unaware you have to feel that the sounds are coming out of a speaker with regard to headphones, and how distant/wide (off to the left or right) a mix can sound, and how dense/open things can be
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: ATARI on March 23, 2008, 09:44:35 pm
I guess it depends on what the style of music and what your personal preferences are.   In my personal opinion, Porcupine Tree's In Absentia and Deadwing are really well produced (the latter even more so), but I have heard some people say that they don't like the tone of the guitar so much.  Personally, I think that both of them sound excellent though.  I guess I'm more drawn to mixes that have the guitar in the forefront of the mix, and give the drums a good amount of tone as well. 

Another album that comes to mind is System of a Down's Toxicity.  I'm not going to go out and say that it is an excellently produced album, but I just love the way that the album sounds.   An album doesn't have to be necessarily well produced technically to have a good sound.  It's more of a matter of being appropriate to the musical style of the artist.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: alfungo on March 23, 2008, 09:45:51 pm
I think that 'Back In Black' is a very well produced album. When you think that it was recorded back in 1980 and it sounds good even today. Especially considering how dated Fly on the Wall, Razor's Edge and Blow up your video sound which came after.
I don'r really know anything about the technical side of things but it sounds good for a rock album even on vinyl.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on March 23, 2008, 10:00:14 pm
steely dan's aja hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Shepperd on March 23, 2008, 10:08:17 pm
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ryan on March 23, 2008, 11:21:08 pm
Quote from: DJ Soup on March 23, 2008, 10:08:17 pm
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Fugazi - Red Medicine

yeah man. i LOVE BSSM's production. it's part of the reason it's my favorite album. it's so dry and simple it's amazing. one of the reasons why i don't like SA that much is it's so overproduced, same with by the way to an extent.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: blood hell on March 23, 2008, 11:25:43 pm
I love how by the way was produced, but agree that SA was overdone (with a few too many songs as well). I really like how a ton of albums sound productionwise and I dont want to list em all
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: ATARI on March 23, 2008, 11:26:36 pm
Quote from: Ryan on March 23, 2008, 11:21:08 pm
yeah man. i LOVE BSSM's production. it's part of the reason it's my favorite album. it's so dry and simple it's amazing. one of the reasons why i don't like SA that much is it's so overproduced, same with by the way to an extent.

Californication and By The Way (I'm not sure about SA but I'm sure to some extent) were really overproduced, esepcially to the point of some tracks clipping.  It doesn't sound bad imo, but its not so good looking from a technical standpoint
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: tuxedo marx on March 24, 2008, 12:07:45 am
Queen's A Night at the Opera. The timbre of the instruments is, of course, excellent, and there's some fantastic panning work (especially vocals)
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 24, 2008, 12:49:30 am
I'm not gonna be a dick but since I'm doing stuff all on the PC I'd be looking for stuff more like... Boards of Canada or something. Even if I was in a band or something all recording stuff comes into play so that doesn't really help me

Hell even if you recommend some well-done pop albums I'll listen to what they did with it :blech:

But yeah I'm more on the ambient side of electronic music, which is like you MAKE timbre so I'm more concerned with those sort of things. Or you can mention like more industrial/psychedelic stuff because it's as much a studio thing as singers and instruments and stuff - so I dunno even mention stuff like SHPONGLE if you want
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: thecatamites on March 24, 2008, 01:41:13 am
Quote from: Ragnar on March 24, 2008, 12:49:30 am
I'm not gonna be a dick but since I'm doing stuff all on the PC I'd be looking for stuff more like... Boards of Canada or something. Even if I was in a band or something all recording stuff comes into play so that doesn't really help me

Hell even if you recommend some well-done pop albums I'll listen to what they did with it :blech:

But yeah I'm more on the ambient side of electronic music, which is like you MAKE timbre so I'm more concerned with those sort of things. Or you can mention like more industrial/psychedelic stuff because it's as much a studio thing as singers and instruments and stuff - so I dunno even mention stuff like SHPONGLE if you want

Well, I don't know much about production, but one album you might want to check out for the sound is "An Electric Storm" by White Noise, who were a kind of psychedelic electronica band from England in the late sixties/seventies. It's worth hearing because, as well as being a great record, it's entirely a studio production: they made it in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and they used film samples, sound effects, speed altering, and orgasm noises to give it a unique kind of sound. It's kinda hard to describe, but it fits under ambient-ish electronic music and you could probably make something like it on a computer.
Handily enough, it's also available to download free on a music blog. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the link here, but PM me if you're interested and I'll give you the link.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on March 24, 2008, 01:56:30 am
oh fuck An Electric Storm is SO GOOD.

esepecailly because it has FUCKING ALL OVER IT.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: ghastly_darklord on March 24, 2008, 02:20:13 am
jesus lizard - goat
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Wash Cycle on March 24, 2008, 02:31:06 am
I really liked that Iron & Wine + Calexico EP's production

and also Lift Your Skinny Fists by GY!BE always struck me as an album that was incredibly well mixed and produced overall. So many different things going on there and the audio is crystal clear.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 24, 2008, 03:55:16 am
Quote from: thecatamites on March 24, 2008, 01:41:13 am
Well, I don't know much about production, but one album you might want to check out for the sound is "An Electric Storm" by White Noise, who were a kind of psychedelic electronica band from England in the late sixties/seventies. It's worth hearing because, as well as being a great record, it's entirely a studio production: they made it in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and they used film samples, sound effects, speed altering, and orgasm noises to give it a unique kind of sound. It's kinda hard to describe, but it fits under ambient-ish electronic music and you could probably make something like it on a computer.
Handily enough, it's also available to download free on a music blog. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the link here, but PM me if you're interested and I'll give you the link.

Yeah I'll definitely check this out, in fact it sounds like the exact kind of stuff I'd be interested in.

So I thought maybe a visual aid would help:

(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1320/buzzqm4.th.png) (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=buzzqm4.png)

This is the most recent song I did - the whole program is like a modular synthesizer all laid out on the screen (as opposed to back in the 70's/80's when they looked like this (http://www.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/namm-07-modular-synth-emu-riley.jpg)) So each box acts like an effects unit, unless it's at the end of a chain, then it's a sound generator. There's some more hardkor programs out there where a generator is literally like... the "Generate Tone" function in Audacity so all you have is the type of wave and a frequency "knob". Buzz is a little easier to handle, usually a generator is like a synthesizer, it already has a filter and stuff built in and there's a tracker view so you can put down notes. Also most of the synths seem to have at least 2 oscillators, so you can combine a sine and a saw wave or some stuff like that. The "Infector" box is really cool because it lets you set a wave type for the sub oscillator too, which can really drastically change how it sounds. But "effects" in Buzz can be anything from a delay to an equalizer/mixer/sound meters (HVision is a spectrum analyzer, I think) so it's cool how you can just add whatever sort of unit you need. For the most part they look pretty plain like a Windows pop-up but I dunno I think it's easier to look at that way

But anyway one cool part about getting to work with filters/effects directly is that once in a while I'll come across a sound that sounds just like a certain song. The Chemical Brothers use a lot of modular stuff so I end up making a few familiar sounds from their albums, like at one point I was using a flanger or something and I made almost the same sound at the beginning of their album "Surrender". A lot of sounds can be made multiple ways but there's always the chance that you might be doing the exact same thing they did to make that sound (aside from drugs lol), so it's always an exciting experience. One day I annoyed the hell out of my brother because he had some trance music playing and I'd identify when they did a filter slide or laid down a whole bunch of snares to do that sort of "buildup" sound ;)

Edit: Sorry if this is kind of blurring the line between Music and Music Creation :/
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Lyndon on March 24, 2008, 12:31:08 pm
Imogen Heap - Speak for yourself

It has an incredible clean sound to it. There's like 50 layers of vocals and shit.

Also, check out Timberland and stuff by Justin Timberlake.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Cheshire Cat on March 24, 2008, 12:39:28 pm
Say what you will, Nevermind by Nirvana sounded fantastic.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Mama Luigi on March 24, 2008, 02:19:36 pm
For The Love of Art and the Making by Beyond Twilight definitely deserves a mention. Whenever I'm testing high-end audio equipment, it's the album I'll run.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on March 24, 2008, 03:25:38 pm
this topic is kind of bad man. everyone is just saying shit they like that also sounds decent.

I mean if it was rap production at least the limitation would make it interesting but in ALL OF MUSIC WHO HAS WELL PRODUCED ALBUMS is like asking WHO HAS A GOOD VOICE.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 24, 2008, 06:05:26 pm
Quote from: Omega the Unknown on March 24, 2008, 03:25:38 pm
this topic is kind of bad man. everyone is just saying shit they like that also sounds decent.

I mean if it was rap production at least the limitation would make it interesting but in ALL OF MUSIC WHO HAS WELL PRODUCED ALBUMS is like asking WHO HAS A GOOD VOICE.

Oh man thank you

That's why I said that Radiohead album because it's like such a depressing album and I don't think I'd be able to sit through it if it wasn't produced so well and made to be so ENGAGING

But yeah I'm actually interested in stuff like BRITNEY SPEARS and crap because obviously it's not the singer having a good voice or the melody being innovative or anything - for all that kind of stuff I imagine if a decent band on my playlist had someone like that to make an already good thing sound ridiculously good

another example is BT - that My Binary Universe album or whatever sounded great, and he obviously knows a shitload of stuff about making music with computer (he's even made his own music program or something) but he's just so... ok the guy did the soundtrack for TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 2005 I don't think he's really that sophisticated when it comes down to things - but at the same time this guy can do tracks that blow me away and lower my faith in humanity at the same time

cmon these are lyrics to one of his songs

Quote
Somebody rockin' this mic, got you droppin' it right
{A little session for the soldier who be rockin' it tight}
Ah, don't be scared just let yourself go
I make this shit boom on the microphone, come on

Mad skillz, what's the deal?
Bring it to the party- give ya something to feel
Mad skillz, what's the deal?
Bring it to the party- give ya something to feel (come on)

but the song sounds ridiculous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYaQ4OYxWU&feature=related

I'm still depressed that I haven't heard This Binary Universe in surround yet though ;_;

Edit: http://profile.imeem.com/ZyrH4Yf/music/EM5aqCBu/bt_nick_phoenix_iron_fisted_mutha/ the guy did a whole CD of MUSIC CUES - like this song might go on the next big FOX show that lasts 3 episodes before it's cancelled
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Shepperd on March 24, 2008, 06:50:09 pm
I think Paul McCartney's Chaos and Creation at the Backyard is very well produced. it is produced by the radiohead producer
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: aboutasoandthis on March 24, 2008, 11:48:06 pm
Probably Marvin Gaye "What's Going On." I remember hearing the song for the first time in a music museum in Nashville. It sounded so soulful and atmospheric. It was amazing because the museum taught you how they recorded the album. For 1970 and 10 days (I think) it sounds so clear.

Then again I'm agreeing a bit with Omega. I don't really get production as far as live musicians go. As long as they don't cheat and change the volume or normalize anything I'm fine.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: local_dunce on March 25, 2008, 02:07:40 am
Air - Talkie Walkie
It's not my favourite album in the world, in fact I do not like it very much at all but I have to give it to these guys that they are pretty genius with sound. Take Alpha Beta Gaga for instance which is one of their most famous tunes as it is has been played on EVERY ADVERT EVERYWHERE, you can really hear the acoustic guitar creeping through the primary whistling sections although it doesn't feel like a very acoustic song and the way this perfectly levelled orchestra and acoustic sound is trying to break out center and right, this synth swell comes up left panned and you don't even realize that you are listening to classical orchestral/acoustic music and synth-pop at the same time. The whole album doesn't drop a beat all the way through, I think it is one of the best productions on an album that I own.

Amon Tobin - Foley Room
One of the main things you will notice about any amon tobin track is that it doesn't sound like HEY I AM A WELL PRODUCED album because he really plugs for all these vintage sounds that make his songs feel like something out of a 50's movie soundtrack and the fact that he succeeds in doing this is amazing. This guy manages to do things with sounds that I can't even comprehend. I'd really like to say BLOODSTONE BLOODSTONE BLOODSTONE for the way he blended this creepy orchestral theme and modern day electro music by using a printing press for a percussion instrument. The amazing thing about it is the fact that he just takes SOUNDS and turns SOUNDS into songs instead of instruments. Like on the track Esthers where he takes a motorbike engine, morphs it with a tigers roar and turns it into a lead instrument for an entire song. I don't know anybody else that does that and it sounds fucking ace.

Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
WELL HERE YOU GO JOKE ENTRY RIGHT!? Yeah sorry, I have a Rob Dougan album, it's not great but now that's out the way this dude is a production demon. I mean I have huge respect for ONE MAN BANDS that can WRITE music and then actually produce the sounds together that will make it listenable. Severing all matrix connections I think it really stands out on three of the tracks, the title "Furious Angels," "Clubbed to Death" and "I'm not Driving Anymore." Ragnar if you have not heard this I recommend you listen to this: THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDi9OeJqwG4) I think with PRODUCTION the main importance is to really be able to fill all aspects of the sound and I do not know the technical term for this I'm afraid but when listening to music their area areas that when left absent will make a song sound flat and that's a big production let down. Amon Tobin, Air and Rob Dougan are the people who have so far managed to fill these voids outstandingly with these albums. I mention these albums because these are the ones that keep up production quality ALL THE WAY THROUGH despite the fact that Air's Talkie Walkie album is debatably NOT GREAT, Amon Tobin's Foley Room is NO WAY NEAR the best Amon Tobin album and Rob Dougan is notious for having JUST ONE SONG PLAYED EVER as part of the matrix soundtrack.

So, I hope I'm not accused of just listing shit that I think sounds good because these are not exactly the highlights of my musical collection, just the outstanding production quality pieces.

a couple of albums that I felt like mentioning but didn't are "Dial "M" for Monkey" by Bonobo, "Exit Planet Dust" by the chem bros and "Man with a Movie Camera" by the Cinematic Orchestra.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 25, 2008, 02:46:44 am
I haven't listened to Foley Room yet :(

And I actually own Furious Angels, I thought it was kind of a "thin" mix myself but I'll listen again

http://www.myspace.com/hybridsoundsystem these guys are kind of cool, they combine breakbeat with ORCHESTRA which I hear is an incredible mixing feat, although they seem to work with people like TONY SCOTT so I respect them less for that - listen to Just for Today, it's incredible

Also I hate The Crystal Method but I have to admit Legion of Boom has some ridiculous bass - plus that WEAPONS OF MASS DISTORTION track is in every movie trailer ever made - either that or Absurd by Fluke

I seriously think Crystal Method intentionally makes songs that'll be good for movie trailers and don't make music for the sake of it anymore

Also I like LFO (not Lyte Funky Ones), they do ridiculous things with sub-bass and their songs feel like they're going off into a well or something if you have headphones on. I generally like what they do with spatial stuff. They've only done a few albums but they've worked on a few Bjork albums (Homogenic and the newest one, and possibly others.) There's only one member in the group now so it might be credited as Mark Bell since that's the guy who's left
http://www.myspace.com/lowfrequencyoscillator

Also if you like INCREDIBLY CREEPY STUFF there's a guy called Lustmord who Pulits told me about, of all people. He uses INFRASOUND and stuff and if you want to make generally scary music for a horror project I'd listen to him. But his stuff sounds like downright EVIL and not just scary so it's kind of unsettling
http://www.myspace.com/lustmord

Come to think of it his stuff is kind of reminiscent of Resident Evil 4 - I could imagine wandering around the castle level to this
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on March 25, 2008, 03:39:47 am
Quote from: aboutasoandthis on March 24, 2008, 11:48:06 pm
Probably Marvin Gaye "What's Going On." I remember hearing the song for the first time in a music museum in Nashville. It sounded so soulful and atmospheric. It was amazing because the museum taught you how they recorded the album. For 1970 and 10 days (I think) it sounds so clear.

great album, it was on my list for ALBUMS GW DONT RECOGNIZE but who knows now.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: big ass skelly on March 25, 2008, 07:26:26 pm
Did you really think none of us had heard or liked marvin gaye?
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on March 25, 2008, 07:30:51 pm
no, but I mean the album. since it's regarded as probably the best concept album outside of prog, it's surprising no one talks about it!
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ryan on March 25, 2008, 09:31:53 pm
what's going on is an amazing album. i really had no idea people on gw listened to stuff like that!
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: aboutasoandthis on March 25, 2008, 11:11:53 pm
Quote from: Omega the Unknown on March 25, 2008, 03:39:47 am
great album, it was on my list for ALBUMS GW DONT RECOGNIZE but who knows now.

I'd probably read this. Got a link?
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on March 25, 2008, 11:52:00 pm
Quote from: aboutasoandthis on March 25, 2008, 11:11:53 pm
I'd probably read this. Got a link?

its on the mainsite brah, the recent one ended up disintegrating in discussion but I plan on putting up another one today.

http://www.gamingw.net/tags/top%2520albums
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: ghastly_darklord on March 26, 2008, 12:43:21 am
Quote from: Omega the Unknown on March 24, 2008, 03:25:38 pm
this topic is kind of bad man. everyone is just saying shit they like that also sounds decent.

I mean if it was rap production at least the limitation would make it interesting but in ALL OF MUSIC WHO HAS WELL PRODUCED ALBUMS is like asking WHO HAS A GOOD VOICE.
it would be a pretty good topic if anyone here knew what they were talking about, perhaps
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 26, 2008, 03:08:38 am
oh yeah brian eno was ridiculously ahead of his time too

Also holy shit I'm listening to Bjork again now that I've got my speakers fixed and the bass in Hunter is hardcore

Edit: 5 Years is pretty great too
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on March 26, 2008, 04:06:44 am
Brian Eno is probably one of the best producers ever. I am also partial to Jon Brion.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: unusualgamer on March 26, 2008, 09:17:29 pm
I would have to say out of all the bands that I listen to August Burns Red's album "Messengers" is the best produced album.

The instruments mesh so well together, and they are all insanely talented. I also like that the drums aren't louder than the guitars, or the singer (unlike in Protest the Hero's album "Kezia," the drums are WAY too loud)

Also, don't give me any shit because it is metalcore etc.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Quest-Master on March 26, 2008, 11:29:09 pm
My Bloody Valentine's Loveless for me. Shouldn't expect any less of it considering the amount of time and money that seems to have been put into it. Kevin Shields' genius really shone through on this last record and I can't wait to see the new MBV record he says is in progress though I'm pretty sure anything following Loveless can only be disappointing!

I've enjoyed a fair amount of Steve Albini's diverse production work too. He's excellent at what he does, just take a look at his work with Slint, GY!BE, Neurosis, and of course his own projects.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 27, 2008, 01:27:14 am
Once again I didn't make this topic to ask which albums have good instrument playing/singers and stuff. I'm asking about everything you can do after and during recording and stuff - I know this should've been in the music creation forum :(

I dunno I like the artists I like but I do abstract it compared to suckier but better-sounding albums from a technical point of view. It especially helps to know with electronic stuff because you kind of can't not try to make stuff sound better with that because you're basically working directly with sound, in fact I think ELECTRONICA people should worry about this the most because if they're not playing an instrument, post-production stuff has to be their way of adding "character" to the sound

Also the thing I work with is just like GENERATE SINE WAVE so it's pretty abstracted from Fruityloops because it blurs the line between what is mixing and what is TIMBRE because if you don't do anything with the waveforms it's going to be the most boring shit ever but most of the stuff you change the sound with is what would be considered mixing techniques in other music. Like there's a type of synthesis called subtractive synthesis, which is where you start out with basically GENERIC sound and you make it resemble some kind of real sound with filters

Omg the wikipedia article is awesome


Edit: Man I already try to use an LFO like it says in the article (It's a low frequency wave that changes the filter over time to make it feel more natural) but maybe I should randomize the LFO itself so it doesn't follow a set pattern or anything
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Lyndon on March 27, 2008, 01:58:36 am
In reason or Logic (and probably other DAWs) they have multiple wave types on the LFOs and also the option to have two LFO's simultaneously. Logic probably has the best synth plugin. It's called Sculpture. You can control so much shit in it to the extreme of what it would sound like on a planet with a different gravity.

there's so much shit you can do with a single sine wave tone. It just depends what you want to do with it.
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 27, 2008, 03:23:25 am
Quote from: Lyndon on March 27, 2008, 01:58:36 am
In reason or Logic (and probably other DAWs) they have multiple wave types on the LFOs and also the option to have two LFO's simultaneously. Logic probably has the best synth plugin. It's called Sculpture. You can control so much shit in it to the extreme of what it would sound like on a planet with a different gravity.

there's so much shit you can do with a single sine wave tone. It just depends what you want to do with it.

Well if you saw the screen I posted my thing can basically chain as many effects as you want one after the other, so you can change the order they take effect too. And you can set an LFO to affect any parameter, so probably another LFO too but I'm not entirely sure. You can also use noise as an LFO which I guess could be used with a filter to make things sound 'grainy' or something
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Lyndon on March 27, 2008, 04:10:25 am
well in your screenshot you posted, it's basically a badly organised bus system. A much cleaner and simpler route to take would be to load modules onto a bus and from there you can monitor the send amount to the track.

This is sculpture. Notice how you can graphically map a route where you want your LFO to take you. I think you can get it as a VST plugin, so you don't neccersarily have to use Logic, which is good if you don't have a mac

Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on March 27, 2008, 05:05:09 am
Doesn't look hands-on enough for me :(

Edit: Also there are some spatial modules and stuff like that, I should really look to see if there's one that gives you an envelope interface so you can 'sculpt' the way you want the filters to change and stuff, to make it natural that way

Also don't diss modular man :(

http://leafo.net/hosted/ragnar/Fenix%20Funk%205.mp3

Is it just me or is that harpsichord sounding thing at the end ridiculously beautiful for a synth made in 1970-something
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: GoombaStalker on April 05, 2008, 07:08:12 am
Mad Season - Above

Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Radiohead - OK Computer

Emiliana Torrini - Love In Time Of Science
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: PTizzle on April 07, 2008, 10:59:47 am
Quote from: Lyndon on March 24, 2008, 12:31:08 pm
Imogen Heap - Speak for yourself

It has an incredible clean sound to it. There's like 50 layers of vocals and shit.

Also, check out Timberland and stuff by Justin Timberlake.


Definitely Speak For Yourself. Considering she produced it all herself in her bedroom and blah blah it's pretty amazing.

Gotye is an Australian artist and his album 'Like Drawing Blood' is pretty damn well produced all round - it's very well layered music which is all leveled perfectly on a sonic level and such. If it was just a studio album it wouldn't be that interesting but considering he did it all himself it has this cohesive, full feel like few other albums I've heard do. Here's a link to the video of one of the songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CM5-gel6o
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on April 07, 2008, 01:47:19 pm
holy crap both those are pretty great I can only imagine how it sounds as an mp3 (youtube quality is shite :(​)
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Ragnar on April 07, 2008, 01:58:17 pm
Also Sean Paul's songs gave some lady seizures or something because it had such INTENSE HARMONICS which I think is pretty impressive
Title: Well-produced Albums
Post by: Parker on April 10, 2008, 09:09:26 pm
Blink 182's Enema Of The State was really well produced. So is Colbie Caillat's new CD, Coco.