From lgonzalez@unam.mx Tue Nov 19 05:51:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!unam!lgonzalez From: lgonzalez@unam.mx (Lucia González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Nov19.055131.6213@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 05:51:31 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx 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. -- Lucia González | lgonzalez@unam.mx PGP Key fingerprint: 7355 9926 35F9 1816 "Keep the channels open." From rsilva@inria.fr Wed Nov 20 02:42:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!rsilva From: rsilva@inria.fr (Renata Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Nov20.024231.4841@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 02:42:31 GMT References: <1996Nov19.055131.6213@unam.mx> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Nov19.055131.6213@unam.mx>, lgonzalez@unam.mx (Lucia González) 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Renata Silva Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From ffournier@kth.se Thu Nov 21 17:15:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!ffournier From: ffournier@kth.se (Freya Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Nov21.171531.4108@kth.se> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:15:31 GMT References: <1996Nov19.055131.6213@unam.mx> <1996Nov20.024231.4841@inria.fr> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov20.024231.4841@inria.fr>, rsilva@inria.fr (Renata Silva) writes: > Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. 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. -- Freya Fournier Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"