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Re: Producers
I’ve always thought it could be interesting to have them in the studio with Rick Rubin.
Definitely not Rubin. They don't need someone coming in once every two months, laying on the couch, and telling them to "write more."
Plus, his preferred "engineer," Greg Fidelman (the one who actually ends up doing all of the work), would make the record an ear-bleeding mess.
Brendan O'Brien would make them sound too polished, plus he'd want to play guitar or keyboards on every track, while "helping" them arrange the songs for maximum radio impact. Maybe you bring him or Andy Wallace in at the end as a "closer", of sorts, to re-mix a couple of the songs the label & band view as singles to prep them for radio.
I would maybe take a look at Nick Raskulinecz. He's done work for Rush, Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Stone Sour, Korn, Evanescence, among others. Yes, his albums have had the tendency to be dynamically compressed, his mixes can be muddy, and cymbals can sound bad. I'd truthfully ideally hire him as the Recording Engineer, and not the Producer, because he's ultimately really good at getting the essence of what makes that particular band special, and he tries to get a band to focus on what they naturally sound like playing in a room. I think it'd be just what they need after the overproduction of the CD-era, BUT, I don't think he'd take the professional step down at this point in his career. For a project of this size? Maybe...
So, yeah, I'd look at him for the producer, provided there was something in his contract that explicitly prohibited him from baking too much peak limiting and dynamic compression into the initial mixes.
Re: Producers
Sean Beavan is pretty good imo. Just saying.
That said, even if they recorded an album... who to say it'd ever get released?
Re: Producers
That said, even if they recorded an album... who to say it'd ever get released?
If the 2016-present lineup banged out an album, no way in hell do we get a repeat of the Chinese saga.
I don't see how the conditions to cause such a nightmare could ever materialize.
The pressure is off Axl
Slash and Duff can carry the load
The label has an actual incentive to get an album in stores.
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Re: Producers
to the OP, I actually kind of like the idea of Mark Ronson. He produced the last QOTSA album too
