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Originally Posted by thenoiseflower  I had heard something to that affect. was there a time were the camp weigh'd the options of continuing @ 16bit? or was the earlier work up-converted once you had the Mix+?
awesome work billy, really a record that has more impact on music today than it gets credit for.
even in its volume it was ahead of the curve, I remember that record being so much louder than the other stuff I was listening to at the time. Stephen Marcusen right? anyway Great songs, great production, great recording, and a GREAT mix. |
Thanks for the kind words - I feel that both the first two albums did have an impact on how pop music was made and neither really get the credit for it. If I'm correct, V2.0 was the first album recorded completely in Pro Tools that was nominated for Album of The Year. There were plenty of people along the way that told us we were insane to use PT to make a major label record at the time.
As for the 16bit/24bit question, I felt at the time that we would gain more by moving to 24bit as some of the more delicate and harmonically-rich instrumentation was yet to be recorded. After speaking with programmers at Digi I realized that going to 24bit just meant adding 8 empty bits to the 16bit audio files and the only downside was the tracks being 50% larger. It helped i think in many ways - not only with the sonic quality of what recorded after but it seemed the plugins and mixing sounded better overall.
It was mixed to 1/2" and was mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk.