Well, I guess most of us started listening to a certain band when we were little kids and became identified with those bands and so we loved them. Lately, for me, becoming 'identified' is not enough, it has to have the best sound quality. Maybe I'm too picky, but I've been having a really hard time finding artists and bands that I like and I KNOW there's a bunch of them out there. In this thread I'd like to ask for your help on this sort of 'quest'
. I feel sluty for some GREAT CD's right now if you know what I mean.
I've been listening to Chevelle again, and although I hate their last album "Vena Sera" (What Happened??!
) I've been pretty impressed since 2002 with their album "This Type of Thinking" and then in 2004 with "Wonder What's Next". I know they recorded in Warehouse Studios (Vancouver, Canada). I'd love to meet their engineers, shake their hand and ask them how they got every component in their album to be so loud without 'cancelling each other out.'
I also really like the recording for Tool "10,000 days" and 'some' Perfect Circle covers/remixes (3 Libras [feel my ice dub mix] The Outsider [Apocalypse Mix], Imagine, etcetera). Following this category I 'might' go for Phobia from Breaking Benjamin.
In all these albums I find the mixing and engineering to meet a common goal:
The album should get as close as possible to make you believe you are in a personal live concert. The sound should be defined and clear, the vocals should still be the main component but without getting on top of everything or fighting with the guitars but instead the guitar tone should be backing the vocal tone and mixing/blending with them yet keeping them separate (I don't know how to explain it but I think this is where Chevelle did the best job), a bass and kick drum that hit your heart, guitars are very present, violins that fill the room, drums that are really strong like on a live situation but again it doesn't take over anything else. Overall I feel every element should be easily heard and you shouldn't have to ask was that the bass or guitar or kick drum?
What other albums alike do you recommend as a good recording reference? I've been looking extensively and I don't want to get sick of Chevelle, Tool and Perfect Circle but again, I'm having the a very hard time finding albums and even artists that meets the above qualifications.
In my search for good artists I've spent money on a band called Skillet that sounded decent on MySpace but after listening to their CD I was not impressed with the sound quality. After reading the thread on best albums for 2007 I saw consistently: Arcade Fire - Neon Bible and Silverchair - Young Modern as very good 2007 albums. My girlfriend bought me those two CD's for Christmas per my request. To be honest with you (I'm no saying these albums are bad AT ALL) I do like the sound quality, but I just can't get to listen to their whole album. Feel free to comment on what do you like about these two albums by the way.
In conclusion, I'd LOVE to go order a bunch of CD's of good music right now, can you PLEASE HELP ME?
