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Originally Posted by timaltman  The Times wrote an article on Arcade Fire a week ago. Here's an excerpt: The band took its time recording “The Suburbs,” working and reworking songs for much of a year in homes and studios, using 24-track tape. “I’d hate to take a guess at the budget,” Mr. Butler said, but he added that part of the cost was equipment the band would continue to use, including a 1940s mixing console with vacuum tubes. Each completed song was pressed onto a 12-inch disc, and the vinyl playback was recorded for the final digital master.
“We recorded it on tape, we press it to vinyl, and the digital is the archive of this physical thing that exists in the world,” Mr. Butler said. “We’re preserving it and using digital as a mode of distribution, but ultimately there was something real that was made.”
Unsurprisingly, after hitting their mix to vinyl, all the low end disappeared. I'm sure they lost consider high frequencies too. What a stupid decision. You go and use all these amazing mics, acoustic instruments full of a wide range of tonality and vintage tube gear that gives you such incredible bass response and high frequency energy and you just throw it all away to get a throwback sound? Foolish. |
That's strange. I can get on board with 'screw fidelity'. I love my analog. But I think mastering from tape straight to digital and releasing some tape>vinyl record pressings as well would have made a lot more sense.
I'm sure it came up in discussion. I guess they did what they wanted.
And I agree Neon Bible was pretty impressive.