@Neo_moscity, вот, нашёл из интервью Филиппа Здара:
– Let’s talk about mixing techniques used in the 90s. Was there a big emphasis on compression at that time, the way it is today?
I think there’s always been an emphasis on that. I remember reading a
book on recording the Beatles in the 60s, which was written by their audio engineer,
Geoff Emerick, and it revealed that many British engineers at that time were copying the sound coming out of American labels like
Motown, who had the
Fairchild Compressor already. So when
EMI bought a Fairchild for their studios, the group loved it and put it on everything from bass to vocals and even cymbals. So compression quickly went from a technical tool for taming dynamics to an artistic choice, and I think everyone just got used to that. You hear it on a lot of genres from the 60s and 70s, except maybe jazz music.
When I started mixing for MC Solaar, I was already obsessed by production crews like
The Bomb Squad, who used tons of compression. When Solaar’s first album sold well, the label was generous with the budget for the second one, so I rented a
Fairchild 670 for two months and pretty much used it on everything for “
Prose Combat” to get the pumping sound I wanted; I even used it on the mix-buss. That compressor became a trademark to not only my sound, but a lot of French hip-hop later on.
Once the late 90s arrived,
Daft Punk had became the most famous French group in the world, and they had their own way of compressing. Once we became friends, I remember that
Thomas Bangalter came to me and said “
I love the way you compressed stuff on MC Solaar’s “Obsoléte” “, and I was like “
Thanks! That was the first track where I finally found a good release setting on the Fairchild, and it let me create the same pumping effect from Public Enemy records “. We all looked up to
Romanthony, who was our hero, and he had a crazy way of over-compressing that made things pump as well. He was doing back then what’s become standard today with side-chain compression, which wasn’t easy to do without plugins.
– Was your use of the Fairchild different from Daft Punk’s way of compressing their music?
Yes, Daft Punk’s way of compressing was different from mine. I used a Fairchild whereas they had the
Alesis 3630, which was a pretty cheap unit. But everyone started trying to copy them after they used that.
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