EMU Blog - reflections - week 7

In class I presented Ross Robinson as outlined in the previous blog, so i will discuss some of the other speeches.

Jake presented Kevin 'the Caveman' Shirley, a producer, who was born in Johannesburg in the 60's and moved to Sydney, Australia, in the late 80's. He's worked with many artists ranging from Dream Theatre and the Black Crowes to Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin. In more recent times he has worked with Australian artists, Silverchair. He likes to work with both analogue and digital and enjoys recording artists in a live room, as well as believing each member of the band is entitled to their own monitor when recording. The latter is probably due to his 'band playing together' style of recording. I found this quite interesting.

Scott Talked about wheelchair bound Trivium producer Jason Suecof. The part that stuck out the most was when Scott played us a sample of a Trivium song that had a bright acoustic guitar at the same time as a dull sounding piano. I would take a punt and guess that they are actually complimenting each other in the mix of the song, as they both can co-exist with enough space to breathe. I believe this may be because Suecof purposely made them contrasting tones, so that they would occupy different parts of the mix, possibly using equalisation.

Ben spoke about Eddie Kramer, a prolific producer born in Cape Town, South Africa, who had worked with such greats as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Joe Cocker and the Rolling Stones. I previously didn't know he founded electric lady studios with the help of Jimi himself. Which was named after Hendrix’s album of the same name 'Electric Lady', which i might add was apparently his highest rating album in the US. Another interesting point is that Kramer is a master of live albums, having produced them for many of the artists mentioned above.

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In class presentations