Production Perfection

[Mark L]

Post a song (or a link to a song) which you think has been impeccably produced

 

Not forgetting that we all have different tastes

[ggm1960]

I always really liked the sound of the Voodoo Lounge album but the CD sounds far better through the stereo than this video does through the headphones.

 

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[Gus Lozada]

For a Mexican artist, only a few things are as good as this one:

 

Aleks Syntek - "La F

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[Eddie]

For a Mexican artist, only a few things are as good as this one

 

That makes it sound like there are not many great productions coming from Mexico and that's not the case. Being from Televisa, Alex has the advantage of having a relatively big budget. This brings an interesting point. Some Mexican artists who have big budgets can record outside of Mexico and/or have engineers who are not from Mexico. Not that this is needed to have a great record, since there are plenty of talented people and great studios in Mexico.

 

For Syntek's CD, according to Artist Direct, mastering was done by Greg Calbi:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Greg+Calbi

Mixing by Elliott Federman:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Elliott+Federman

And Roy Hendrickson:

http://royhendrickson.com/discography/

And Eric Calvi:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Eric+Calvi

 

Having a nice budget and backing from a huge corporation certainly helps

[Eddie]

Just for fun, here's another one from Mexico, circa 1980.

Musicians include Steve Lukather (Toto) - guitar; Paulinho DaCosta - percussion; Greg Mathieson - keyboards; background vocals by The Waters and The Pearl Divers (including Mark & Bret Hudson) and drums by Miguel Ferrer (the actor).

My guess is that this was recorded at their L.A. studios.

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