Raidohead - In Rainbows - Production questions

[six_wax]

Originally Posted by shaggseb

Looks like an Electrodyne to me

Don't know for the legs

S.

There appears to be a Tubetech CL1b in the rack under the 1176s, and the box on the stool sort of looks like an Elektron Machinedrum, but you really can't tell...

Godrich/Radiohead turn me fanboy like no other. Seriously, it's like I'm 14yo again.

More inside scoop please!

[Paul EQ]

Originally Posted by six_wax

There appears to be a Tubetech CL1b in the rack under the 1176s, and the box on the stool sort of looks like an Elektron Machinedrum, but you really can't tell...

Godrich/Radiohead turn me fanboy like no other. Seriously, it's like I'm 14yo again.

More inside scoop please!

And an EAR 660 below the 1176's.. Those units are amazing..

[Savernake]

I funk that's an overstatement, but ed did comment that memener (not sure who or how many) smoked a lot during kid a at least. They suggested in that in their early years they smoked a lot in their shared house. I would hazard a guess that included weed (typical students!)

I should think they grew up a lot since then, most of them have families now.

[Savernake]

And no I'm not high, that's iPhone spelling going wild.

[roger]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

the pics show a tone of (what looks like) UA M77s. I know the bass player sometimes uses a standup-electric bass, but not sure about this cd.

I'm sure weed was another very influential part of the process

dude.....you are way off (as always it seems).......there was a great feature on radiohead in Q magazine a coupla issues back about every record and every song (including b sides and soundtrack contributions) they have done.....the process and the themes and inspirations etc.....weed was not even mentioned and i certainly don't hear it in this record.........i hear it in YOUR music that's for sure (eeeek) so i can understand your confusion/haziness....................imagine thom york smoking every session? maybe he was referring to himself in the studio when he wrote paranoid android???!!!!.....somehow i don't think so.

[1954U1]

Originally Posted by Savernake

I funk that's an overstatement, but ed did comment that memener (not sure who or how many) smoked a lot during kid a at least. They suggested in that in their early years they smoked a lot in their shared house. I would hazard a guess that included weed (typical students!)

I should think they grew up a lot since then, most of them have families now.

Mhh.. but this studio where they tracked the songs has a lot of students shared house's vibe..

[Shawn1272]

On the In Rainbows Bonus disc (the one that comes with the box set), there are a bunch of pictures of the band in the studio. There are a lot of good gear photos to geek out on.

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[Savernake]

Originally Posted by 1954U1

Mhh.. but this studio where they tracked the songs has a lot of students shared house's vibe..

Are you talking about totenham house?

Dylans male, I don't doubt that it may be involved in what they do, but really, you're making a fool of yourself.

[CeretoneAudio]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

wow, you are a complete idiot. Its not like I meant that they were necessarily high while they were recording, but you have to be a complete ****ing dumb ass if you think that pot is not a big part of what they do.

Even with their families and stuff, it was a big part with Hail To The Thief, and they obviously are grown up and who the **** is to say grown ups don't smoke pot??? (not you, but the post before).

It can be a very intellectually stimulating thing too. I'm sure they could take a hit from the bong and not get red eyed.

Two jumps in a week, I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy.
Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop.
You'd kill yourself for recognition; kill yourself to never ever stop.
You broke another mirror; you're turning into something you are not.

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation, you will be the one who cannot talk.
All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you. You will be the one screaming out.

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

It's the best thing that you've ever had, the best thing that you've ever, ever
had.
It's the best thing that you've ever had; the best thing you've had has gone away.

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

[NowWhat]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

wow, you are a complete idiot. Its not like I meant that they were necessarily high while they were recording, but you have to be a complete ****ing dumb ass if you think that pot is not a big part of what they do.

Even with their families and stuff, it was a big part with Hail To The Thief, and they obviously are grown up and who the **** is to say grown ups don't smoke pot??? (not you, but the post before).

It can be a very intellectually stimulating thing too. I'm sure they could take a hit from the bong and not get red eyed.

dylansmale: shut up dude, you're such a jackass and your music really sucks.

other guy: are you a ******, of course Radiohead (some of them) smoke weed. In a Rolling Stone article they're on their bus bitching cause none of them can roll a good joint. In a Guitar World they say "Ed was off by himself smoking his brains out and he came up with the perfect ending riff for Exit Music"


OK you're both stupid. Arguing about whether they're "Stoned" is as dumb as arguing about their gear. If there was ever a band who just outshines their equipment, it's them.

And PLUS NIGEL MAKES A BUNCH OF HIS OWN EQUIPMENT

[chrisso]

My advice?
Cut right back on the dope, it's making you delusional.
(seriously)

[chrisso]

Proves my point!

[Dean7]

Originally Posted by chrisso

Proves my point!

Give him a break. He's a young kid living with his parents in SLC where there's absolutely nothing to do, so he tries to get attention on GS by acting out.

[tone delux]

Originally Posted by recall

I read somewhere that most of the verb used on the albumwas taken from the Tottenham house sessions, in that Godrich took impulses of the hall room into altiverb or whatever.

Worked pretty well I reckon.

Also I think the drums for Nude were done with Coles ribbons.

thanks for the info. good to know. altiverb is awesome.

Originally Posted by CeretoneAudio

here is a picture from the extra disc that came with in rainbows.

you can see

Api console
mac running protools
ns 10 s
8 x 1081 modules
1176s
studer tape machine

not sure on the rest

do you have any more cool pics that reveal the cool gear they used?
thanks

[drumnbimmer]

They have the Nude multitrack files available (on iTunes no less), check it out. Bass tone is killer on there. The drum sound is also amazing. Is that slight compression sound on the drums from use of ribbons or any particular compressor?

[CeretoneAudio]

Originally Posted by drumnbimmer

They have the Nude multitrack files available (on iTunes no less), check it out. Bass tone is killer on there. The drum sound is also amazing. Is that slight compression sound on the drums from use of ribbons or any particular compressor?

drums are definately compressed not sure what with. Toward the end of the song when the drums a more busy you can hear them being pulled to the right by a compressor.

[Savernake]

Originally Posted by tone delux

thanks for the info. good to know. altiverb is awesome.



do you have any more cool pics that reveal the cool gear they used?
thanks

If anyone is willing to buy it from me, I will try and get in tottenham house and get an impulse of the larger rooms. Give me till end of summer!

[Daystar]

Anyone noticed the drums on " Videotape " - it sounds like a tape being inserted to a video .
Brilliant .

[tone delux]

Originally Posted by Savernake

If anyone is willing to buy it from me, I will try and get in tottenham house and get an impulse of the larger rooms. Give me till end of summer!

cool. i'll send you a PM.

[Savernake]

Didn't get your PM but I've been wanting to check out the grounds again for a while. My metal hear solid loving friend will gladly join me.

Thing is, I heard it was all being developed to be a hotel soon, but that's been in talks for years so hopefully its still empty. At the very least I'll get as many pictures as possible. I've already got some from the last mission around there. On the extra disc from in rainbows there's a picture of one of the band in front of this kind of archway, which leads into a big courtyard where the building was stables for loads of horses a while back. Walking into that courtyard was one of the creepiest and memorable things in my life. It was a beautiful day, but there was some thing silent and ghostly about the place, I've really never known anything like it. After an afternoon checking out all the stables, the gardeners house, and seriously overgrown gardens, we planned to return the next day to check out the main event, totenham house, but after our patient entry to the grounds it seemed gardeners were mowing and the chances of getting spotted were too high. Can't wait to go back now!

[Savernake]

Forgot to say, listened to rekoner again today. The intro sounds flawless, in fact the whole thing. Try the intro with headphones one ear at a time - totally separate sounds but the psycho acoustics work to make it fit perfectly. Amazing engineering.

[bexarametric]

I saw Radiohead play in Dallas last night.

What's the point?

Seriously. I will never be that good.

This is the fourth time I have seen them. They just get better and better.

It's kind of funny that there are people on here trying to compare Radiohead's "eras" They are all different, but sometimes they run into each other. For instance. The song "Nude" was written before Kid A. It's on the Meeting People Is Easy video. Back then the song was call "Big Ideas (don't get any)". It was previewed in about 1998 (10 fing years ago) while they were on tour supporting OK Computer.

I personally can find greatness in everything since The Bends. I like it all.

[monkeyxx]

Radiohead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok with that out of the way

I think Colin uses Ampegs and Ashdown heads with his maple board P Bass.




I highly recommend hopping on bit torrent or over to VH1.com to see the Godrich-produced "live in the basement" video of half of the In Rainbows album and some of the older songs. lots of gear to look at 0)-(0

U47 over the center of the drumset, with the coles ribbons left and right and 414 on toms. U87s on the AC30s. RE20 on vocals. U47fet on bass amp. sounds amazing.

Watch Bodysnatchers (Radiohead_In Rainbows_From The Basement) | Exclusive VH1 Video Playlist | VH1.com

[monkeyxx]

sorry, I meant U87s on the AC30s

[sctt_stone]

If you listen to the lyrics everything since Kid A has been about personal experiences in Thomes life.
Things he has read. Things people have said to him. Politicians. Feelings.
Listen to the words and you will know.
Perhaps the feelings were induced by living a drug life but the songs are not by any means about getting high.
Next you will say that Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is about getting high on acid!
The nerve

Originally Posted by dylansmale

most of their songs relate to...getting stoned. If you've listened to their music you would have known that after their first CD. And you would have to be a complete moron to not have gotten that after Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief.

You would probably be a complete moron to think their music didn't have anything to do with weed. And a complete moron to think it didn't have to do with anything else other than weed.

the lyrics "smoke pot" are even evident in Hail To The Thief.

[desol]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

Why are they recording on an API console??? I would think they would have recorded that album on some Neve pres and some others, but not API. Wow, I need some kind of explanation.

Why not?

[desol]

Originally Posted by Jack P

I dig the pictures of the recording with the vintage API console..

[monkeyxx]

Originally Posted by Silver Sonya

If you read this article, the band expresses its notorious and oft-repeated disdain for gear nerds and audiophiles.

They use the same tools we all use. Except that they make more interesting choices with them.
-- c

sorry, chad, I don't think we all use vintage neumanns and neves, api desks, and $11,000 limiters!!!!! (ear 660)

he-he

[boyinthebox]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

most of their songs relate to...getting stoned.

Just because you get stoned and listen to their music, doesn't mean their songs relate to getting stoned.

I think you asserting that pot is a big part of what they do is simply rediculous. The only thing that is a big part of what they do is simple: making music together. The reason for the several years without an album release, is simply because most of the members have busy lives, young children, and families. To quote Thom Yorke, and Ed OBrien:

TY: It's harder to actually get time to work. It's harder to find your reason to work, and that isn't because you don't need to work, it's because you think, "More work? This is a young person's thing." But I don't agree with that at all. Music is music, and that's ****ing nonsense. The reverse is true. There's that, but there's also the issues you face, that you're not the center of attention any more; you have children, and they are.

EO: It's a very human thing. Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something—emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life. This record really does that. It's not a thing that's being written by someone who's in an exclusive position. It's something that's felt by everyone.

These quotes are from an interview Radiohead gave in July. These quotes basically back up exactly what sctt_stone said. Perceptions and assumptions hardly make something *REAL* or *FACTUAL*.

Regardless, great album, love the production, and if anyone has any other information regarding some of the engineering aspects, recording aspects, or general song information, I would love to hear it. I am inspired in many ways by Radiohead and how they achieve such unique final products through atypical methods of writing and song experimentation.

Cheers!

[jamie10]

kid a is when they became great.
Kid a is the best album.
Kid a is their masterpiece.
Kid a will never be surpassed, by anybody.

if you got the vinyl of in rainbows it had loads of jpg pics included on cd.
Pictures of them making album, equipment can be seen.
From the top of my head, i remember seeing analogue tape reel machine and also them using pro tools.