From hduarte@kth.se Thu Feb 09 07:24:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!hduarte From: hduarte@kth.se (Heather Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Feb09.072449.3984@kth.se> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 07:24:49 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. 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. -- Heather Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From ereyes@demon.co.uk Fri Feb 10 13:12:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!ereyes From: ereyes@demon.co.uk (Élodie Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Feb10.131249.3228@demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 13:12:49 GMT References: <1995Feb09.072449.3984@kth.se> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb09.072449.3984@kth.se>, hduarte@kth.se (Heather Duarte) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. > Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. 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. -- Élodie Reyes "Row 14. No joke." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / AmigaOS 3.1 From bsouza@mindspring.com Fri Feb 10 17:31:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!bsouza From: bsouza@mindspring.com (Bill Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Feb10.173149.9641@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:31:49 GMT References: <1995Feb09.072449.3984@kth.se> <1995Feb10.131249.3228@demon.co.uk> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb10.131249.3228@demon.co.uk>, ereyes@demon.co.uk (Élodie Reyes) 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. -- Bill Souza -- MindSpring Enterprises "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."