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Originally Posted by demonrail666
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.
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Oh yeah, I agree with all that. Different bands, different production values. I would say that sympathetic production is a massively important part of a band - for SY, f'rinstance, I really dislike the production on EJST&NS but love the Evol/ ATL production. I really dislike the production on NYCG&F, but I love the album. It's a real shame that so many bands seem to treat production as an after-effect, rather than a critical part of the sound. Or maybe they never produce enough albums for that to be a thing. I mean, the first Ash album was recorded on some turd, but it's a great album; nuclear sounds was shit, and sounded like a bag of particularly shiny shit.
But that's heading towards an entirely different debate, so I'll stop.