aphex analord onward recording quality

does anyone know how aphex achieves the quality in his analord and onwards releases.... i dont mean what synths and drum machines he uses but the quality he achieves from the way he records or effects hes using, jodey kendrick also has the same sound ?

The way its mastered reminds me of a real recoding setup of something like a rock band. like every instrument is recorded in a room. maybe that makes the difference in quality. the mastering itself is awesome

yeah it does sound like that

  On 2/14/2011 at 12:15 PM, o00o said:

every instrument is recorded in a room

Yep. Room reverb and a vast collection of analogue synths and effects used cleverly.

this is also the reason why old nirvana lps do not sound dated today in therms of recording while most electronic music that was produced back then does very much

reverb

400ms reverb dashes

yeah room reverb, spring reverb, plate reverb. there's probably much more going on, best production of all his music imo, sounds lovely.

I like that you can make all these reverbs yourself basically, and spring reverbs are really cheap if you look hard enough. Plate reverbs are really expensive if you buy a real one, but there are websites out there that have instructions on how to build a cheap one yourself, may not sound as good though.

Is each instrument tracked individually? Is it recorded both dry and with room reverb then mixed? Is the whole ensemble played and recorded at once in the room?

  On 2/14/2011 at 11:37 PM, ieafs said:

  On 2/14/2011 at 1:51 PM, o00o said:

this is also the reason why old nirvana lps do not sound dated today in therms of recording while most electronic music that was produced back then does very much

do you mean the 60s group?

 

cause the 90s nirvana sound incredibly dated in that way to me... nevermind is horrible

Yes. Nevermind is particularly horrible. Butch Vig is horrible.

  On 2/15/2011 at 5:26 PM, LUDD said:

  On 2/14/2011 at 11:37 PM, ieafs said:

  On 2/14/2011 at 1:51 PM, o00o said:

this is also the reason why old nirvana lps do not sound dated today in therms of recording while most electronic music that was produced back then does very much

do you mean the 60s group?

 

cause the 90s nirvana sound incredibly dated in that way to me... nevermind is horrible

 

 

Yes. Nevermind is particularly horrible. Butch Vig is horrible.

I was referring to this:

but as it is a live recoding its not really a good example as I realized

In Utero sounded fucking great though guys.

It's interesting to hear how his mastering/mixing has changed. RDJ album was pretty noisy and compressed and come to daddy/windowlicker seems to perfect that style of poppy compressed mixdown/mastering, then all of a sudden a sparser and cleaner, less bassy and compressed classic style shows up in the form of drukqs. After this we get the analord series which seems to be more of an improv single-track best of multiple live takes mixdown style of expression(not sure if it actually is this). Some tracks are more dry than others, lots of analog reverbs in some, others are clean synth farts driven to tape with 909-kicks, some tracks are a mix between the two. The tuss is more a hybrid between the analord and drukqs styles, intricately mixed and faded compositionally, cleanly mixed, higher fidelity, but still retaining many of the qualities in synthwork presented by the analord series. dont mind be just babbling.

i'd say the fact it was recorded from and on analog equipment from start to finish has something to do with it.. and compressed to perfection.

LOOK I DON'T LIKE NIRVANA AM I COOL YET

addressing the thread, definitely the reverb. another example of that kind of trickery is 'cow cud is a twin,' my favorite track on icbyd.

wonder how he did that nice reverb at the end of Crying in Your Face with the pads, really lush

with reverb

  On 2/16/2011 at 5:15 AM, sneaksta303 said:

with reverb

flol

  On 2/16/2011 at 5:15 AM, sneaksta303 said:

with reverb

plus delay probably.

there is reverb & delay all over everything he's ever done

  On 2/14/2011 at 11:21 AM, robot said:

does anyone know how aphex achieves the quality in his analord and onwards releases.... i dont mean what synths and drum machines he uses but the quality he achieves from the way he records or effects hes using, jodey kendrick also has the same sound ?

records onto analogue tape then cuts it up in logic

  On 2/16/2011 at 10:36 AM, ieafs said:

  On 2/16/2011 at 1:58 AM, bigs said:

LOOK I DON'T LIKE NIRVANA AM I COOL YET

 

addressing the thread, definitely the reverb. another example of that kind of trickery is 'cow cud is a twin,' my favorite track on icbyd.

i still like nirvana a lot, which is why it's a shame that nevermind was done so badly done to my ears

hehe yay. yeahhhhhhhhhh compression killz.

  On 2/16/2011 at 2:03 PM, Berk said:

  On 2/16/2011 at 5:15 AM, sneaksta303 said:

with reverb

plus delay probably.

this sounds a bit similar

skip to 2:20

i am sure that using an analogue mixer is important - the way everything knits together, the analogue sum, plays a role in the quality. maybe he records separate parts with various analogue reverbs/delays/home-made effects/compressions onto tape, then onto hardrive, then sends them back through a nice analogue mixer to get the final track?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjmsO-udwAI

what is this thing anyway? some sort of leslie cabinet?