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Originally Posted by John Run
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniq...feel-about-you
I came across this article this evening. A long, detailed piece with Mark Needham. It is really fascinating if you are into how music is made, recorded, and mixed. Some general things we knew. They record a lot of the guitars and basses DI or direct into the recording console and not through amps. On the other hand they did basic track a lot of the music live - guitar, Hammond Organ, bass, drums. We also know that Lindsey loves to layer tracks. And Pro Tools have given him nearly infinite expansion capabilities.
But did we know how much ---???
Feel About You was 189 tracks including 44 drum and percussion tracks and 76 backing vocal tracks.
It is a long and for many an overly detailed read that will be boring. But I thought a few of you might enjoy it as I did.
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WHAT? The drums do not sound like that many. I love LB's layering but this sounds CRAZY. I bet if you deleted 80 of them you would not notice the difference. I'm a movie trailer editor and one of the mistakes of a new editor is they think they have to layer tons and tons of sound efx to make something sound cool. I had to take over one of these trailer for an editor out sick and I there was this section that had 10 sfx layered. I deleted 7 of the 10 tracks and ZERO difference. ZERO.