{"id":417,"date":"2005-11-07T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/?p=417"},"modified":"2006-01-13T02:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T01:34:00","slug":"back-from-radlett-with-tom-e-mixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/back-from-radlett-with-tom-e-mixing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Radlett with Tom E, mixing the first few songs for the new Fosca album. One lesson learned: it&#8217;s all very well putting down 47 separate instruments on a song (<em>I&#8217;ve Agreed To Something I Shouldn&#8217;t Have<\/em>), but mixing the thing takes about 47 times longer. By the time you&#8217;ve finalised the correct treatment of Hank Marviny Guitar #3, you&#8217;ve forgotten all about Kevin Shieldsy Guitar or Jimi Hendrixy Guitar or Juno 6 Synth Pretending To Be A Glockenspiel #9. <\/p>\n<p>The simplest song of the batch, <em>Kim<\/em>, contains more or less the same amount of instruments as the version we&#8217;ve been playing live, albeit with Tom playing my guitar parts due to my &#8211; as Mr Bowie says on the back cover of <em>Hunky Dory<\/em> &#8211; inability. <em>Kim<\/em> was the fastest to mix and, strangely, sounds the most impressive.  It must be that we&#8217;ve given the song room to breathe. <\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t help that some days I turn up to the studio telling Tom &#8220;make it sound like Phil Spector&#8221;, while on other days I say, &#8220;make it sound like Nico&#8217;s solo albums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nico produced by Spector? Hmm. I suppose that&#8217;s more or less the Spector-produced Leonard Cohen album, <em>Death Of A Ladies&#8217; Man<\/em>. Which Mr S and Mr C all but disowned.  <\/p>\n<p>I, however, rather like it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Radlett with Tom E, mixing the first few songs for the new Fosca album. One lesson learned: it&#8217;s all very well putting down 47 separate instruments on a song (I&#8217;ve Agreed To Something I Shouldn&#8217;t Have), but mixing the thing takes about 47 times longer. By the time you&#8217;ve finalised the correct treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}