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Old 31st July 2008   #27
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Originally Posted by Karloff70 View Post
And the point I was making was that in his position it is easy to say that, as PROPER TURDS will at this stage of his career rarely find their way into his studio......

So 'whatever he's given' will at least be in a region of possible to make sound good. I strongly doubt his management would even bother him with a true turd.
Obviously he mainly mixes major label stuff, so it is of a certain level in terms of having some sort of redeeming quality. But there is still no guarantee as to the quality of the tracking or engineering before it lands on his console. Again, given these days a lot of projects (including a number of high level major label ones) are being done in houses or non-proper studio environments, there is no longer the guarantee even for the top level guys as to what the tracks are going to sound like when it gets to them.
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