crimsonhawk47
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I was listening to some tracks from Sting the other day.
Now it's hard to maintain a clear picture of modern music and then Sting, as he has had a ridiculously long career and has definitely gotten more modern with his latest release.
But I was listening to some of the tracks, especially the chorus of A Thousand Years. Those tracks just do not have the same clarity that more modern productions have.
This is obviously personal preference, but I was also reading about The Wall Of Sound. This seems to still be used in pop production. One such example is Alex Da Kidd (Radioactive, Words I Never Said, I Need A Doctor).
Listen to words I never said. The drums practically disappear in the chorus. Now we know those songs were billboard-charting-whatever-super-nonsense-hot. I'm not saying you should be taking tips from pop music if you don't like it, but I don't see why every instrument needs to be heard if the record sounds good. Especially since a Wall Of Sound production can still have dynamics, it just means the Wall Of Sound comes and goes. A couple of Alex Da Kidd's tracks have the bass only come in on the chorus. I think it's really cool when a track sounds kinda big without being clean. It's like the whole track is one instrument.
Your thoughts?
*edit* I seem to be editing posts a lot lately. I do mean all of this with the giant asterisk that the vocals are coming through cleanly (except for maybe some hardcore metal where they'd prefer to have the vocals less focused, as some bands do). I'll also periodically throw in tracks I consider to be more of a wall of sound.
Pretty much anything made by Alex Da Kidd
Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody (at the chorus)
Now it's hard to maintain a clear picture of modern music and then Sting, as he has had a ridiculously long career and has definitely gotten more modern with his latest release.
But I was listening to some of the tracks, especially the chorus of A Thousand Years. Those tracks just do not have the same clarity that more modern productions have.
This is obviously personal preference, but I was also reading about The Wall Of Sound. This seems to still be used in pop production. One such example is Alex Da Kidd (Radioactive, Words I Never Said, I Need A Doctor).
Listen to words I never said. The drums practically disappear in the chorus. Now we know those songs were billboard-charting-whatever-super-nonsense-hot. I'm not saying you should be taking tips from pop music if you don't like it, but I don't see why every instrument needs to be heard if the record sounds good. Especially since a Wall Of Sound production can still have dynamics, it just means the Wall Of Sound comes and goes. A couple of Alex Da Kidd's tracks have the bass only come in on the chorus. I think it's really cool when a track sounds kinda big without being clean. It's like the whole track is one instrument.
Your thoughts?
*edit* I seem to be editing posts a lot lately. I do mean all of this with the giant asterisk that the vocals are coming through cleanly (except for maybe some hardcore metal where they'd prefer to have the vocals less focused, as some bands do). I'll also periodically throw in tracks I consider to be more of a wall of sound.
Pretty much anything made by Alex Da Kidd
Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody (at the chorus)
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