#26

Interesting. Amplifier fans what settings do you favour? I’m a big fan of 12 o clock on the treble 3 o clock on the bass.

Anyone remember graphic equilizers? Weren’t they fun? Especially the ones which looked twice as complex as they really were because two of the little sliders were always glued together.

#27

Isnt that the kne where they ‘didnt use compression’ or whatever?

#28

Aye, I swear I’ve read an interview where they said it was deliberate, think they were being interviewed by a person who had written an article rallying against compression and said it in there.

#29

Yeah same, it was throughout the recording, not just at the mastering stage as well.

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#30

it says it on the CD version of Tweez by Slint, possibly Spiderland as well. i don’t remember seeing it on any Shellac or Big Black but wouldn’t be surprised.

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#31

I remember reading a large screed on Songs about Whoops-Mrs-Miggings-Where’s-My-Trousers! about how much Steve hated CDs and he’d done his best to abuse the master tapes before they sent them off to be turned into CDs or something. It was a while ago. He REALLY did not like CDs.

Ironically my vinyl version of the last Shellac album came with a CD included as well.

#32

yeah same here, albeit unlabelled and just chucked into the package. i think all the Shellac albums do, maybe it’s an incentive to direct people towards the vinyl.

he popped up briefly on some BBC4 music documentary i was watching last year, where they got him to listen to a bit of an mp3 of Dude Incredible through standard Apple earphones or something and he said it was unrecognisable. It’s not really, Steve.

#33

Not unrecognisable no, but it must be really irritating if you’re so absorbed and immersed in the whole sound design thing and you’re a complete perfectionist. If when people absorb your work in the real world the thing that you’ve laboured long and hard over sounds terrible I can see why that would be annoying.

I guess it would be like producing the world’s greatest beer for someone to make a shandy out of it. Or something. I’m not great at analogies.

#34

this is the first Drive Like Jehu album

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#35

That’s the one. I knew Albini was involved anyway.

#36

One of my favourite albums comes with a sticker on the front advising you to listen to it ‘while driving through tunnels in europe’. Quite like that.

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#37

Which album is that??

#38

The apostrophe irritates me to high fuck.

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#42

I do like that album a lot (and I love to think of ‘noise purists’ frothing at the gills every time I put it on :slight_smile: )

#43

I dont think noise purists really care tbh man

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#44

I can think of plenty of counterexamples to this.

For example, Nickelback.

#45

On the assumption that I’m listening to things that I like…

#46

How bout in the song title?