From fkarlsson@illinois.edu Sat Dec 23 01:10:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!fkarlsson From: fkarlsson@illinois.edu (Freya Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Dec23.011002.7622@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 01:10:02 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. -- === Freya Karlsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Do not worship the copy." From amacdonald@pipeline.com Sat Dec 23 22:02:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pipeline!amacdonald From: amacdonald@pipeline.com (Astrid MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Dec23.220202.8665@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 22:02:02 GMT References: <1995Dec23.011002.7622@illinois.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec23.011002.7622@illinois.edu>, fkarlsson@illinois.edu (Freya Karlsson) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Astrid MacDonald SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Do not worship the copy."