late on this, but i'd bet that theo dumps to analog tape.
you'd be suprised what running your main outs to an old VCR will do to your
tracks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maarten Baute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kent Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: (313) ugly edits (full detail)
Hi!
My feeling is that I love most of what Theo does, but as a (much,
much, much) less successful producer, I hear things in otherwise great
tracks that are 'wrong' in a way that is a sharp stick in the ear for
no discernable artistic reason. Some tracks I want to remaster -
mostly run them through a De-Esser, compress the low end to keep it
manageable.
I actually consider theo parrish to be a GREAT producer. Take a listen to
"dan ryan" or "lights donw low (this one mix)". I am sure he spends a lot
of time making the sounds sound like they sound. I really dig all the
sounds he uses, espacially the Laurel Aitken alike ska 'shakk' in "dan
ryan", wich he also used in "twin citys". And I still wonder how he did
the kick in "music" it sounds so hard, but the levels are ok.
I think everybody agrees that Theo has no studio (I never heard him use a
synth, and he uses too much samples and does too much stuff to them to
work efficiently with a sampler). He probably has only one all-in studio
application on his computer. My guess is he uses Orion or somthing alike
(I recongize the typical filters used of the sampler module). The only
sounds he uses is stuff recorded from disco, ska, and soul recordings.
What he basicly does is sampling an organ, pitching it down 2 octaves an
filter it low and put a bit distortion on it. I think this is a very
original way of sound processing, it creates a really nice warm, but kind
of hard sound. I really like his way of doing things, I enjoy listening to
his records very much. Just as I like listening to Carl Craig's early 69
records or paperclip people's "the secret tapes of dr. eich", wich also
have a typical lo-fi production.
What I do consider to be true is that the production on "friendly
children" is really bad, there is just to much bass there, resulting in a
really bad press. Maybe the people at peacefrog could press this record
better? I don´t know. Also the ugly edits are sometimes to much
bass-fueled (and too repetative most of the time).
Let me conclude with a top 5 of my favourite theo parrish records (wich I
condider to be well produced):
1) lights down low (this one mix) - the tracky mix with loads of noise.
2) dan ryan
3) dance sing
4) music
5) solitary flight
Can't wait for the Carl Craig remix of "Falling Up". I had to sell the
detroit beatdown compilation because I couldn't bear the tought that I had
a triple record pack with only one good track on it.
Cheers,
Maarten
