From bchoi@ox.ac.uk Mon Oct 02 19:52:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!bchoi From: bchoi@ox.ac.uk (Bruno Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct02.195202.3865@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 19:52:02 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk 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. Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983. -- Bruno Choi US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From sfischer@pacbell.net Tue Oct 03 16:27:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!sfischer From: sfischer@pacbell.net (Steve Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct03.162702.8309@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 16:27:02 GMT References: <1995Oct02.195202.3865@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct02.195202.3865@ox.ac.uk>, bchoi@ox.ac.uk (Bruno Choi) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Steve Fischer *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0