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Originally Posted by Glice
It works two ways, I'd say. There's no producer in the world can make a shit band sound good. If it's not right when it's being played, there's no way the producer can change that fundamental wrong-ness. There's always records - the recent Stooges one, for instance - where the producer gets it wrong, to my ears, but it's almost impossible to say 'Albini made a great record shit' because, ultimately, he made some decisions and the record would probably have been equally as lacklustre if someone else did it.
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You're right that a good producer can't polish a turd. But for certain bands a specific kind of production plays a particularly significant role in the overall quality of their product (alot of Doom/Sludge, for example.) A band like Electric Wizard, in the hands of an unsympathetic producer would almost certainly sound horrible regardless of the underlying merit of the songs themselves.