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Originally Posted by chrisso  The band are about SONGS!
Of course, as they don't have to record on the cheap, they will hire the best engineer/producer (Godrich) and seek out interesting and nice gear, but put it another way.........
Do you think if we put you in a stately home in Wiltshire, with an API console, Logic/Pro Tools, Thom Yorke as your guitar tech and Nigel producing, you would come up with an album similar to 'In Rainbows'?
Of course, musicians all over the world buy/hire the same gear and the same producer as the artists they admire and DON'T come up with the same quality of output.
People hire Abbey Road, use the incredible mic collection and historic outboard and console and don't put out Beatles quality albums.
That's because it's about the personnel, the way they play, the way they write and the thousands of subjective decisions they make in the process.
It's NOT about the gear.
In fact if you think it's about a certain vocal chain they use, or whether it's Logic or Pro Tools, or what drums Phil Selway plays, or whether Yorke does all his vocals with an RE20, like a bunch of Gearslutz threads of late.........you are only fooling yourself. |
In defense of u b k, I don't believe he meant Radiohead didn't have anything to do with it, on the contrary. He's just pointing out it's a combination of great (and unique) gear, craftsmanship (the engineer, the producer, the band, everyone), fantastic acoustic rooms, great ideas, talent, passion, devotion, time, perfectionists, work, etc.