From tsouza@earthlink.net Mon Aug 28 20:56:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!tsouza From: tsouza@earthlink.net (Tomas Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug28.205617.3080@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 20:56:17 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Tomas Souza "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / Linux 1.2.13 From cbrennan@mit.edu Tue Aug 29 05:44:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!cbrennan From: cbrennan@mit.edu (Camila Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug29.054417.3665@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 05:44:17 GMT References: <1995Aug28.205617.3080@earthlink.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug28.205617.3080@earthlink.net>, tsouza@earthlink.net (Tomas Souza) 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. -- Camila Brennan "They will send a copy in my place." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / SunOS 4.1.4 From ttanaka@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Aug 30 16:04:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!ttanaka From: ttanaka@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Takeshi Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug30.160417.3943@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:04:17 GMT References: <1995Aug28.205617.3080@earthlink.net> <1995Aug29.054417.3665@mit.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug29.054417.3665@mit.edu>, cbrennan@mit.edu (Camila Brennan) 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. -- Takeshi Tanaka -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "We don't sign stars. We build them."