Best produced discs?

Nevermore - dead heart in a dead world
Nevermore - this godless endeavor
Opeth - damnation and deliverance
Dimmu Borgir - death cult armageddon
Katatonia - the great cold distance
Edge of Sanity - crimson 2
Diabolical Masqeurade - death's design
Immortal - sons of northern darkness
Sylosis - (new one)
 
Emerald Sword said:
ANY ALBUM PRODUCED and/or MIXED by Andy Sneap.
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Oh come on now, don't be one of those people. I like Sneap. Really, I do. But an album that is produced by him sounds like a Sneap record no matter how you slice it and not just because it sounds good. I like what he's done with a lot of records, but I get tired of so many of my bands having that "Sneap" sound.
 
shaq said:
Oh come on now, don't be one of those people. I like Sneap. Really, I do. But an album that is produced by him sounds like a Sneap record no matter how you slice it and not just because it sounds good. I like what he's done with a lot of records, but I get tired of so many of my bands having that "Sneap" sound.
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Good. At least these albums will all sound great. I don't give a shit if they sound the same just as long as they don't sound like shit. Many people praise Roy Z. Roy production sucks donkey dick. Andy Sneap production is clear, full, and crisp. No flat or punchless, muddy production. Fredrick Nordstrom fucking ruined the latest ARCH ENEMY studio album. Flat, thin sound and the drum sound was non-existent. Andy Sneap's previous three albums involvement with ARCH ENEMY were flawless.
 
I am very surprised no one mentioned AC/DC "Back in Black." That disc turned Mutt Lange into the most famous producer in the world
Others notable:
All of Boston (Schultz was da' man as a producer)
Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi (Produced by Tad Morose)
Accept - Metal Heart (produced by Dieter Dirks of Scorpions fame)
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance (Produced by Steve Thompson)
Redemption - Fullness of Time - (Produced by Nick Van Dyk and Tommy Newton)


Bryant
 
I happen to like Dennis Ward's production work. The stuff he did with Angra sounds pretty good.

I also love the sound on Nightwish's Dark Passion Play, Mindflow's Destructive Device and on the last couple of Amon Amarth albums.
 
I know he produces everyone these days, but I tend to like Andy Sneap productions. Stuck Mojo's Declaration of a Headhunter sounds great and I really like how he made Nevermore sound on Dead Heart. I was never a big fan of the sounds on the first 3 discs.
 
Steve Vai - Passion & Warfare
Queensryche - Empire (I love the sound on here, Della Brown, Anybody Listening)
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity
Symphony X - V

Whenever I need to just hear something 'full' (I get the craving every few months), I pop one of those suckers in.
 
I know NO ONE will agree with me but I am putting my two cents in anyway.

Queensryche's "The Warning," the original production, to me sounds ten times better than anything I've heard lately. It's not something I can explain (and I haven't a clue about the intricacies of producing an album), but I can HEAR AND FEEL the emotions. Maybe because the original production is on the quiet side and I'm thinking that is something my ear likes. I do know it seems to let me breath more than the remaster.
 
grilled_cheese said:
I know NO ONE will agree with me but I am putting my two cents in anyway.

Queensryche's "The Warning," the original production, to me sounds ten times better than anything I've heard lately. It's not something I can explain (and I haven't a clue about the intricacies of producing an album), but I can HEAR AND FEEL the emotions. Maybe because the original production is on the quiet side and I'm thinking that is something my ear likes. I do know it seems to let me breath more than the remaster.
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You are wrong there, I love THE WARNING but like you I'm probably one of the few who do. It is interesting they went with James Guthrie who worked with Pink Floyd on THE WALL, maybe not the best choice for a metal sound but it really worked for the atmosphere IMO. Another disc like that is Rush GRACE UNDER PRESSURE, in that a lot of people decry the production while I actually think it worked quite well on there. I'll have to come up with a list of discs like that, production I liked but nobody else did... :erk:
 
As a producer myself, I can get really involved in this discussion and discuss why, but I'll try to keep this simple.

If I had to choose, I think my favorite produced CD (at least at the moment) is Fiona Apple's "When the Pawn..." Also, "Fear of a Blank Planet" by Porcupine Tree and "Ghost Reveries" by Opeth also stand out, both for completely different reasons. I also love the production on the two newest Pain of Salvation albums as well, which is ironic, because their production on their early stuff is what originally turned me away from that band.
 
GreggSuspyre said:
As a producer myself, I can get really involved in this discussion and discuss why
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Since you asked...

Don't know if you have heard of the band Herod, but I loved their debut for Lifeforce Records but their sophomore effort, Rich Mans War...Poor Mans War (something like that; cannot remember the whole title), which was released a few years ago, literally hurt my ears while listening to it. I've had a few CD's irritate my ears, but never anything as bad as this album. Always wondered if it was something done in the production.
 
grilled_cheese said:
Since you asked...

Don't know if you have heard of the band Herod, but I loved their debut for Lifeforce Records but their sophomore effort, Rich Mans War...Poor Mans War (something like that; cannot remember the whole title), which was released a few years ago, literally hurt my ears while listening to it. I've had a few CD's irritate my ears, but never anything as bad as this album. Always wondered if it was something done in the production.
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I haven't heard of that band, but I've definitely heard CDs that would pain my ears. A lot of that could be in mastering; the trend nowadays is to crush everything so hard that it sounds really heavy and full, which at first sounds awesome. But, the problem with that is, the high frequencies and loud levels causes ear fatigue. Some examples of CDs that have hurt my ears after a few minutes are pretty much anything I've heard by Disturbed and the newest Symphony X CD. Some peoples' ears are probably used to this, as if everyone thought the way I did these CDs would have never made it to the presses!
 
AngraRULES said:
I happen to like Dennis Ward's production work. The stuff he did with Angra sounds pretty good.

I also love the sound on Nightwish's Dark Passion Play, Mindflow's Destructive Device and on the last couple of Amon Amarth albums.
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Dennis Ward does a fabulous job in his production, and here are some more who are just as good, in my opinion:

Jacob Hansen
Tero Kinnunen
Mikka Karmila
Emppu Vuorinen
Lance King
 
I gotta go with the following:

DT - Awake
Queensryche - Empire
Chimaira - Resurrection
Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

I also think that some of the worst sounding stuff....I really hate the Symphony X stuff up until Paradise Lost, everything was over-compressed and it just sounds lifeless to me. I can't listen to those albums for that reason. I agree with the person that mentioned Disturbed as well, I like that band, but their stuff is just compressed to death.

And the worst sounding album in recent memory (besides St. Anger which I can't believe hasn't been mentioned yet!) is Death Magnetic. With the budget they had on this album, THIS is it? Good lord, they could have hired Andy Sneap, Chris Lord-Alge, Neil Kernon, Terry Date, and Colin Richardson and probably spent less and had a better sounding album. It really sucks, because those are good songs, but the production makes it near-unlistenable for me.
 
Well y'all, I'm kinda shocked & surprised no one mentioned the Mighty Martin Birch?! I'm a die-hard Iron Maiden fan, & since I've always LOVED Martin Birch's production on classics like Deep Purple's "In Rock" & B.O.C.'s "Cultosaurus Erectus" as well as "Fire Of Unknown Origin". I'm gonna have to say I still love Martin Birch's production on "Number Of The Beast", "Piece Of Mind", "Powerslave" & Somewhere In Time"! All of those Maiden albums sounded awesome from Martin Birch's production imho! but I'm sure there will be several of you that don't agree! I Just LOVE MAIDEN, that's all there is to it!:rock::rock:
 
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