I like the old stuff of the Orb not only because it is more based on good samples (loops etc) but also because it doesn't sound so 'clean'. This effect you see also a lot in other musical genre's and i don't like that at all. As if the nice old analogue deepness and warmth is completely flattened and transformed into digital harshness... There are offcourse nice sounding digital productions but i think they sound so nice because it is mixed and mastered on a proper 'old' analogue mixing desk. Whenever music productions are completely done in the digital domain u get horrible sounding shit. And overcompressing the lot also does more harm than good. At least that is what i think. R
From: Stephen Wright <steve@donsolaris.com> Reply-To: What were the skies like when you were young?<orb@mailman.xmission.com> To: What were the skies like when you were young? <orb@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Orb] Transit Kings - Token EP Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:19:07 +0100
Yea i know exactly what you mean, Terravrm started that trend with the Orb and its slowly goot worse imo
Bikes sounds almost plastic in places
Ramon Vink wrote:
moan moan moan.. ;-)
I kinda liked the Token EP, it is different. Although from a fidelity point of view i think it sounds a bit to digital to me. As if it was made with a software pakage like Reason or so. But the compositions are pretty ok i think. But i wouldn't realy like it if the new Orb album is gonna sound like that: too digital and clean. But that is the trouble i have with most modern productions anyway.
aRv
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