John wrote:

Believe it or not, that "play just the snare, and we'll do the high-hat
next," etc. type of production was actually occuring on a regular basis in
the 80's, particularly in England. If I remember correctly, a few of the
Duran Duran records were made this way, and I think the producer on some
of those records (the late Alex Sadkin, I think) was famous for that. His
reasoning was that he wanted the cleanliness of each track, so he'd be
able to treat each drum without leakage.

Wow! I'm into 80s stuff and I'll be curious to hear actual examples of
this! Any particular songs??

-- Eric (Dero) Desrochers http://homepage.mac.com/dero72

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(Eric Desrochers) writes:
John wrote:
Believe it or not, that "play just the snare, and we'll do the high-hat
next," etc. type of production was actually occuring on a regular basis in
the 80's, particularly in England. If I remember correctly, a few of the
Duran Duran records were made this way, and I think the producer on some
of those records (the late Alex Sadkin, I think) was famous for that. His
reasoning was that he wanted the cleanliness of each track, so he'd be
able to treat each drum without leakage.

Wow! I'm into 80s stuff and I'll be curious to hear actual examples of
this! Any particular songs??

I read an article about making one of the classic jazz albums from
that era a few months back .... I think it was in Mix. They talked about
recording the toms separately from the cymbals, separately from the snare
IIRC. Sorry I can't recall more details.

georgeh wrote in
:

Wow! I'm into 80s stuff and I'll be curious to hear actual examples
of this! Any particular songs??

I read an article about making one of the classic jazz albums from
that era a few months back .... I think it was in Mix. They talked
about recording the toms separately from the cymbals, separately from
the snare IIRC. Sorry I can't recall more details.


I remember reading an interview in Modern Drummer in the late 80's with
Frankie Banali. A producer made him record each drum seperately for an
album he recently recorded and was complaining about how hard it was.

--
Lee

"The world is basically made up of two kinds of people: assholes
and ass kickers, you gotta bend over or lift your foot."
- Frank Zappa