From bmoreau@hanse.de Sun Dec 01 22:11:00 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!bmoreau From: bmoreau@hanse.de (Bill Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Dec01.221100.9627@hanse.de> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 22:11:00 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. 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'? -- Bill Moreau "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From ynilsson@cern.ch Tue Dec 03 07:38:00 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!ynilsson From: ynilsson@cern.ch (Yuki Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Dec03.073800.8108@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 07:38:00 GMT References: <1996Dec01.221100.9627@hanse.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Dec01.221100.9627@hanse.de>, bmoreau@hanse.de (Bill Moreau) 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Yuki Nilsson "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." NeXTstation Turbo Color / Linux 1.2.13 From dgarcia@pipeline.com Tue Dec 03 09:22:00 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pipeline!dgarcia From: dgarcia@pipeline.com (Dmitri García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Dec03.092200.9325@pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 09:22:00 GMT References: <1996Dec01.221100.9627@hanse.de> <1996Dec03.073800.8108@cern.ch> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec03.073800.8108@cern.ch>, ynilsson@cern.ch (Yuki Nilsson) 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. -- Dmitri García SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."