This week’s music experiment album is Muse - Black Holes and Revelations. I wasn’t too crazy about most of the album’s preview segments, but a few good tracks stood out, and the rest might grow on me.
ME: Marco - I have to agree with the rebloggers who are saying that Absolution deserves your ears. In today’s music biz, you’ll see a lot of bands switching up producers from album to album; however, Muse is one of those bands (like the Chili Peppers/Rick Rubin) who found their guy. For Muse, it’s Rich Costey. Here’s one of my favorite interviews with Rich; and here’s my favorite part:
“The main piano sound on that song [“Sing For Absolution”] was heavily treated. I laid nails, guitar strings and all sorts of metal objects on top of the piano strings themselves so that they rattled, and then I miked all that with a pair of C12s. I had the dry piano coming into the console and I then split the signal so that half of it went to tape and the other half went to a [Digitech] Whammy pedal. In fact, the Whammy pedal also got split, so that half of it went to — no surprise here — an Echoplex and the other half went to a [Lovetone] Doppelganger pedal. That achieved a fake stereo, with a dry attack front and centre, while the Doppelganger with the echo was on one side and the Whammy’s echo was on the other. Then we doubled it, so that it wasn’t even fake stereo any more; it was two performances, which made a lot more sense.”
Uhhhhhhhhh….here’s a video where you can see Costey working. I feel like web supergeek could really appreciate music supergeek. Enjoy!
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