From btakahashi@utexas.edu Sun Aug 13 12:36:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!btakahashi From: btakahashi@utexas.edu (Bastien Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug13.123601.1885@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 12:36:01 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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'? -- === Bastien Takahashi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From skuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de Sun Aug 13 19:24:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!skuznetsov From: skuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de (Steve Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug13.192401.8298@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 19:24:01 GMT References: <1995Aug13.123601.1885@utexas.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug13.123601.1885@utexas.edu>, btakahashi@utexas.edu (Bastien Takahashi) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Steve Kuznetsov Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."