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loftyeric2
 Post subject: Recording technique.
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:49 pm 
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There seems to be a certain 'presence' about your recordings, Richard, something I can't quantify exactly. Something which brings the voice right into the room. A very clean sound. Is this simply a feature of modern production technique, or something you particularly went after?
...Or am I just showing my ignorance here? :?

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loftyeric2 wrote:
There seems to be a certain 'presence' about your recordings, Richard, something I can't quantify exactly. Something which brings the voice right into the room.


Yes thats what really stands out when I play his cds................his voice seems so 'close'.........................really adds atmosphere!...........
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I think there's something in the way Richard enunciates his words - like on The streets ... very clearly, '.... the streets are ours ...' which sloppier singers would somehow lose making for a more garbled sound?
But willing to admit it could be some fabulous technical stuff.

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we just ram the vocal level up in the mix not complicated

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Should have realised there wouldn't be a mystery attached :wink:

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Still shows he's a good singer. you can mask bum notes in overdubs. was anyone watching the pink floyd documentaries n telly last night? they isolated some of the vocal tracks and dave gilmore sounded kind of weak. but its masked by the heaps of other stuff going on. so hats off to hawley ;)
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well gilmore is good but never had a particularly "strong" voice - he is a guitarist first and foremost.

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well gilmore is good but never had a particularly "strong" voice - he is a guitarist first and foremost.


better than Bernard Sumner, and he's passable on record :p
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Bernard Sumner shouldn't work in theory; his voice isn't the best, he's barely competent on the guitar, his lyrics can be awful and New Order are the biggest hit and miss live act this side of Salford Market. But somehow they are effing ace and I love them with a passion.
Funny that.

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loftyeric2 wrote:
There seems to be a certain 'presence' about your recordings, Richard, something I can't quantify exactly. Something which brings the voice right into the room. A very clean sound. Is this simply a feature of modern production technique, or something you particularly went after?
...Or am I just showing my ignorance here? :?

A Joe Meek influence perhaps, mixing a close over EQ'd voice mixed with a distant overdub, a Meek trick but maybe not revelant in this instant.
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Alan Noir wrote:
Luke M wrote:
well gilmore is good but never had a particularly "strong" voice - he is a guitarist first and foremost.


better than Bernard Sumner, and he's passable on record :p


oh yes, he sounds terrible live as far as i can hear. i'm like, where's the fucking melody here? :roll: :evil:

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