What do you guys recommend concerning marker placement with crossfaded clips, and/or adjacent clips without gaps? In both cases, obviously the marker is probably not located at a zero crossing (especially once quantized) or area of silence.
I do a lot of EP and album work and like to deliver as DDP for approval so I am just in the habit of quantizing up front so there are no surprises. This way, the client knows exactly how things are laid out and will respond.
My melodies become 1-bar quantized when O record them with the midi keyboard. Is there any option to disable this if it because from FL's settings? Im using Novation Keyboard. Maybe it is because of any button in the keyboard?
In addition to the band themselves, who had a legitimate production background, much of this credit should go to mega-producer, Terry Date, who is responsible for some of the best sounding heavy albums of all time, working with bands like White Zombie, The Deftones, Soundgarden, etc.
Machine Head and Fear Factory were innovators on their own, but the scooped out, mega-gain crunch and click/attack oriented kick drums perfected by Pantera had become a deadly and sought after sonic combo. I know for a fact that Machine Head (Peavey 5150) and Fear Factory (hot rodded Marshall) both used tube amplifiers and the methodology to attain the drum sound had turned to triggering and drum sampling, but the bar set by Pantera was still the gold standard even if the tools had evolved. Both of those albums because instant classics, and Colin Richardson became one of the most sought after producers in heavy music.
Not too long after, Richardson protégé, Andy Sneap made a name for himself utilizing a similar production style producing and mixing Metal heavyweights like Stuck Mojo, Machine Head, Arch Enemy, Trivium, Nevermore, Exodus and many more. You could argue that Andy Sneap and Colin Richardson defined the sound of Metal for 15 years. Almost every band of note and that had an adequate budget would try to get one of them to at least mix their album. Even my old band, God Forbid, got Colin Richardson to mix our 2004 release, Gone Forever. I have to say, he did an unbelievable job.
Thirdly, and although this is difficult to prove, I believe that Metal bands began to become less creative in how they wanted their albums to be presented. Instead of wanted to sound like themselves, they would go to a specific producer and ask them to make them sound like another band the producer had worked with. All the Metalcore bands wanted to sound like Killswitch Engage or As I Lay Dying. All of the Deathcore bands wanted to sound like Whitechapel or Black Dahlia Murder.
My overall point is that what once was a unique and singular sonic vision by a band called Pantera became in many ways, the default sound for Metal. Kick drums are click-y. The guitars are scooped out and have buzz saw crunch. The bass guitar just gets buried or has to find a place in higher registers. (I could write an entire article on how Phil Anselmo is most influential heavy singer of the last 20 years.) So many people are using the same software and plugins, the same amp modelers, the same drum samples. We have to make an effort to make records that have character. I applaud bands like Mastodon and In Flames for deciding to make different sounding albums from their peers and the status quo.
Did Pantera ruin modern Metal album production? Blaming them would be like blaming the person who invented boats for slavery, but it sure was fun to follow the trail of crumbs to try and figure out how we got here.
I do my sampling and sequencing on the Blackbox, then audio out the arrangement to an empty track on the OP. Then I pepper in a few boings and clanks into the remaining tracks, and play back while adjusting EQ, filter (Nitro please!) and compressor. Once it sounds great, I render to album, and just apply some tape tricks and M1 / M2 during the process.
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Plastic Flag as an effort began in Berlin in the summer of 2017. Admittedly listening to Calling out of Context most mornings, Cal was carefully piecing together loops from cassettes found on the streets and beats made on an iPad. Over the next year Cal built the songs through performance and experiment and, when they returned to Europe the following summer, began sewing together discarded and gifted polybags into flags to be shared and used in performance. The album plays with eclectic combinations made possible by bringing together the idiosyncratic clock of tape loops, highly quantized beats, and seemingly endless drones pursuing and freezing Cal's vocals and flute remarks. In content Plastic Flag is a whimsical snapshot of an earth filled with Plastic, Cars, Power, Dance, Love-Attempt, Poisoned Ecosystems, and Longing!
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