From dchoi@cmu.edu Fri Sep 01 02:57:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!dchoi From: dchoi@cmu.edu (Dong-hyun Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Sep01.025758.2718@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 02:57:58 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Dong-hyun Choi -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From mjohansson@uu.net Sat Sep 02 21:35:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!mjohansson From: mjohansson@uu.net (Marta Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Sep02.213558.8186@uu.net> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 21:35:58 GMT References: <1995Sep01.025758.2718@cmu.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep01.025758.2718@cmu.edu>, dchoi@cmu.edu (Dong-hyun Choi) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Hale's low-end mixing was a decade ahead of its time. Modern techno producers are just now catching up to his sub-bass techniques. -- Marta Johansson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From aschneider@cmu.edu Sun Sep 03 09:52:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!aschneider From: aschneider@cmu.edu (Andrei Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Sep03.095258.9150@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 09:52:58 GMT References: <1995Sep01.025758.2718@cmu.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep01.025758.2718@cmu.edu>, dchoi@cmu.edu (Dong-hyun Choi) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Andrei Schneider *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From mlaurent@stanford.edu Mon Sep 04 19:49:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!mlaurent From: mlaurent@stanford.edu (Marisol Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Sep04.194958.1138@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 19:49:58 GMT References: <1995Sep01.025758.2718@cmu.edu> <1995Sep02.213558.8186@uu.net> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep02.213558.8186@uu.net>, mjohansson@uu.net (Marta Johansson) writes: > Hale's low-end mixing was a decade ahead of its time. Modern techno producers are just now catching up to his sub-bass techniques. Hale's low-end mixing was a decade ahead of its time. Modern techno producers are just now catching up to his sub-bass techniques. -- === Marisol Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."