best era for mixdowns

[jalfrezi]

so many different possibilities but let's have a talk...

you've got 60s which were not that great but were sort of pioneering the idea

70s...70s drum sound, 60s artists disappearing up their arses and having loads of money to experiment with different drugs and more importantly sounds. as i said before 70s drum sound.

80s, debatable whether it was good, very defineable but 'good' is down to taste.

90s, this is getting long but you've got a lot to choose from - dance music, rock music

00s, pop, dance, indie, rock, metal. there's loads to choose from, the age when sound might be more important than music. pro tools, not tape.

this is garbled bollocks but the question still stands, which was your favourite 'sound'? which do you think was/is the most technically advanced/proficient?

[caeraphym]

Early '80's when I was smashing teh shit out of pots and pans with some wooden spoons sounded

Never been able to recreate that sound again

[deadly_habit]

late 60s early 70s for me
nothing like that reel to reel grit

[abZ]

I am a large fan of 70's recordings. I mean it was all analog. Everything was done in legit studios with very high end gear. And they didn't try to brickwall everything in the mastering stages. In the early 80's everything went down hill with the overuse of drum machines and synthesizers I am sad to say. But if you listen to any artists work that was big in the 70's and 80's listen to their work in order you will see. I like the 90's better than either the 80's or the 00's. Prior to the 70's there were defo some good recordings but they were still basically recording everything live up until the late 60's and like I said they didn't really master the multi-track until the 70's.

70's imo.

[macc]

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

Grachan Moncur III - Evolution (in the Mosaic Select box set as remastered by Ron McMaster)



And that's the end of it

[Pallms]

I'm definitely going to have to go with the 70's. They were really pioneering some new techniques then, and it definitely shows. Many of the recordings from that era are extremely well balanced and, because the various mixdowns were still fairly new, each song seems to have it's own distinct sound.

[deadly_habit]

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

Grachan Moncur III - Evolution (in the Mosaic Select box set as remastered by Ron McMaster)



And that's the end of it

kind of blue is pure sex
dawn of the dead sndtrk does it for me as well
as well as morrison hotel

[r]

1970 and 2010

[b-lam]

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

Grachan Moncur III - Evolution (in the Mosaic Select box set as remastered by Ron McMaster)



And that's the end of it

1959 was a sick year, also got shape of jazz to come and giant steps

all three sound loooverly

[slim]

I quite like the sound of the old ska and rocksteady tunes where they are clearly only recording on one or two microphones at most, and the drums are reduced to an odd sounding thunk when the snare hits. Lo-fi to the point of being ridiculous but still sounding good somehow.

Otherwise i'm a big fan of 80's sounds. The Cure's Disintegration (admittedly very late 80's) sounds amazing, the only word to describe it is rich, sucks you in.

In contrast their most recent album sounds exactly like the late 2000s, brickwalled, treble-heavy, clipping in several places and squashed so bad you can't actually hear what is going on. Shame because song-wise it's pretty good.

Next decade people need to sort that shit out

[macc]

shape of jazz to come and giant steps

Someone here knows the score!!

Lonely Woman :love: