Lots more please!
Lots more please!
The older I get, the better I was.
Somewhat difficult to tell from the clips because it was DRUMS with guitar and bass hardly audible. However, good bona fides so I look forward to an album.
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Randy, that solo on Hold The Line - wow. Love how in the music you are.
Jonas is everywhere!
Check out his other new trio "Barracuda Triangle". Great proggy stuff.
Looking forward to more from The Fringe this year...and be sure to advertise your shows so we all know about them!
We'll be putting an EP out in the spring containing recordings from our first session together in January 2014. Heading into the summer, the focus will be on a full record for release later in the year. There isn't an official site for the band yet, but a Facebook page is up and running at www.facebook.com/thefringetrio to keep up to date.
On that note, if you guys are recording an album, make sure you don't compress it, make sure you preserve the dynamics of the music, and don't give in to the loudness wars. Your audience likes high-quality sound: aim for quality recordings, mix carefully, and pick the right mastering engineer (if you're releasing a CD). Rock always sounds better uncompressed.
Good luck and have fun, Randy! We'll all be looking forward to your next work.
I'm pushing for something that has sonic similarities to Rush-Vapor Trails, Metallica-Death Magnetic, the DRT Gentle Giant remasters, and...Black Sabbath-Born Again.
Ah, I see. One thing I need to mention -- critics panned Vapor Trails' sonics to the extent that Rush needed to remix and remaster the album; they released it again in 2013 as Vapor Trails Remixed, and although it's improved, it's still overly compressed. The second reason for the remix and remaster is because the band felt unhappy about how the album sounded the first time around.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thread...5#post-9550206
Originally Posted by mdeckoningDeath Magnetic has also received a lot of complaints among mainstream observers:Originally Posted by Billy Budapest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_M...ing_production
the Universal Japan SHM-SACD version of Gentle Giant's Octopus is the best digital version of that album. The recent Deluxe edition of Black Sabbath's Born Again is supposedly the best version; the master tapes were lost, so it could have sounded even better.The album has been criticized for having compromised sound quality, due to an overly compressed dynamic range, during a process called peak limiting leading to audible distortion.[71] Sean Michaels of The Guardian explains that "the sound issues are a result of the 'loudness war' – an ongoing industry effort to make recordings as loud as possible".[72] A Rolling Stone article states that Rubin was "overseeing mixes in Los Angeles while the band is in Europe, headlining shows" and only communicated with him by conference calls.[73] Fans have noted that these sonic problems are not present in the Guitar Hero version of the album, where the tracks are presented separately because of the game mechanics and the tracks were sent to the game publishers before the process was made.[74][75] MusicRadar and Rolling Stone attribute a quote to the album's mastering engineer Ted Jensen in which he claims that "mixes were already brick-walled before they arrived" for mastering[76][77] and cite a petition from fans to remix or remaster the album.
Metallica and Rubin initially declined to comment on the issue, while the band's co-manager Cliff Burnstein stated that complainers were in a minority and that response to the album had otherwise been "overwhelmingly positive".[78] Ulrich later confirmed in an interview with Blender, that some creative control regarding the album's production had indeed been transferred to Rubin but also stressed his satisfaction with the final product.[79][80]
Most of the albums we all grew up listening to are uncompressed (and, for most, a minimalistic remaster of most of the original tapes would give us the best-sounding discs of those albums ever). Whatever your vision is, go for it! Don't feel an obligation to sacrifice sound quality in the name of loudness or density, though. Even heavy rock sounds good with better dynamics (when you can hear the guitar, bass and drums). We're excited to hear you guys, so as an enthusiastic listener I'm just concerned that you might walk into the trap that so many rock bands in recent times have in terms of sonic quality. If it's intentional, so be it; just make sure it isn't an accident.
http://productionadvice.co.uk/green-day-more-dynamics/
Best of luck!
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Back to the videos. Here's one of Jonas' Karmakanic tunes.
The Fringe had the only track that caught my ears on the Greg Lake issue of Prog mag.
Nice and crunchy, I will definitely buy the disc!
Proggy people not being proggy. I continue to consider this as I continue to love this album.
The older I get, the better I was.
Picked up their CD at RosFest last year. Good stuff.
Fringe disk is killer - like others said, not prog (but proggy-ish) but clearly appealing to a prog audience.
McStine's new disk is also not proggy (at all), but again very high quality (based on one listening...to take with a grain or two of salt)
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