Post your fave Reference CDs...

[Ola Englund]

...or CDs that you think sound awesome!

I have many favourites (Many of Sneaps work) but I need more!! I'm currently producing an album and I need some new music to listen to.

Here are my favourite reference cds:

*Meshuggah - Chaosphere(massive production, fave for guitars)
*Nevermore - DHIADW(got my eyes opened to the Sneapsound, still blows me away every time I listen to it.)

*Slipknot - Vol 3. (I like the sound of this album but I mostly listen to the drums that are absolutly crushing. Wicked snare!)

I could write a list all day with what I like on this or that album.

 

[Muttley]

I love the sound on the Dropped album by Mindfunk.

 

[Nitronium Blood]

In Flames - Colony
In Flames - Clayman
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Testament - The Gathering
Metallica - Black Album
Stampin' Ground - A New Darkness Upon Us.
Def Leppard - Euphoria
Carcass - Swansong
Opeth - Blackwater Park (Minus slight crackling IT SOUNDS GOOD OK?!)

There you go.

 

[J the TyranT]

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction.

 

[metalkingdom]

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction.

That record sounds AWESOME!!!

I rarely A/B anymore, but when I do, I reference Andy's stuff, Colin Richardson, and Andy Wallace the most - for metal anyway. For other music, I reference my own stuff. It's a good feeling to be able to do that.

 

[chadsxe]

That record sounds AWESOME!!!

I rarely A/B anymore, but when I do, I reference Andy's stuff, Colin Richardson, and Andy Wallace the most - for metal anyway. For other music, I reference my own stuff. It's a good feeling to be able to do that.

I have used

As I lay dying - Shadows in Security
LOG - Ashes of the wake

Not that I ever get close to the sounds on those albums.

 

[Mark_Palangio]

Carcass - Heartwork
In Flames - The Jester Race
Arch Enemy - Stigmata

Those are my top 3.

 

[greyskull]

for metal
kse - the end of heartache (insert/remove core where necessary)

for more pop rocky stuff
jimmy eat world - futures

for ambient
sigur ros - ( )


for 'indy'
bloc party - silent alarm

am i gonna get lynched? lol

 

[Ola Englund]

yeah come on give me some more!

 

[carl@laruso.com]

36 CF "snow caped romance" & kse - the end of heartache (perfect for metal stuff)
Lost Prophets "Start Something" (for the pop-ier stuff)
Life of Agony's new record (great for grungy-ier metal stuff)
Deftones "Deftones" (because its the biggest sounding record i've ever heard!!!)
A Taking Back Sunday track "New American Clasic" for Acoustic stuff... drums kick in @ the middle 8.... genius
....Ah yeah, and of course, "Burn My Eyes"

C.

 

[Matt Crooks]

Dream Theater "Awake"
Iced Earth "'Alive' in Athens"
Testament "The Gathering"

 

[DanAbela]

I usually use;
Metallica - Black Album
In Flames - Clayman
Nevermore - TGE (used My Acid Words as main reference track when I bought my new monitors)

and for poppy stuff;
Kaiser Cheifs - Employment
Killers - Hot Fuss

 

[kaomao]

Machine Head - Burn MyEyes

 

[greyskull]

oh yeah i forgot

At the drive in - Relationship of command
Tool - lateralus
The mars volta - deloused in the comatoriam
Johnny cash - when the man comes around

 

[C_F_H_13]

Carcass-Heartwork
Korn-Untouchables (horrible album, but damn that's alot of lowend)
Metallica-Black Album
LOG-Ashes Of The Wake
Deftones-White Pony

 

[Torniojaws]

Terror 2000 - Slaughterhouse Supremacy (that guitar tone is Perfect)
Opeth - Ghost Reveries (the drums sound very nice)
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (the overall sound is very nice)

 

[JBroll]

Nevermore - EOR Remaster (Seed Awakening's intro sounds like a jackhammer, Who Decides and Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday work very well for balancing clean and distorted segments with each other)

Dream Theater - Awake, Panic Attack from Octavarium - Awake keeps me from putting my guitars too high, Panic Attack keeps them from getting too low or thin

Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (keyboards for ambience, not cheese)

Meshuggah - Chaosphere (when I want something for ripping flesh from bone with the volume at 3)

Mr Bungle - Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny (so I know what not to sound like)

Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin

Jeff

 

[Salvation 13]

Drums:

Agathodaimon - Serpent's Embrace
In Flames - Clayman
Chimaira - Impossibility of Reason

Guitar:

Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
The Haunted - Revolver
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

Bass:

Hypocrisy - Catch 22

 

[greyskull]

Drums:

Agathodaimon - Serpent's Embrace
In Flames - Clayman
Chimaira - Impossibility of Reason

Guitar:

Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
The Haunted - Revolver
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

Bass:

Hypocrisy - Catch 22

how could i forget that album!!!! its incredible!!

oh yeah and refused - the shape of punk to come

 

[metalkingdom]

Life of Agony's new record (great for grungy-ier metal stuff)
Deftones "Deftones" (because its the biggest sounding record i've ever heard!!!) C.

Man, that LOA album sounds really great! Especially the drums and vox.

Are you sure about the Deftones first record? The one right after that (Around The Fur) sounds IMMENSELY bigger and better than that one. It has better songs, too which usually means better mixes (I'm sure that you know that already). I think that Around The Fur may be the best sounding hard rock/metal record ever made. White Pony sounds really huge, too. Terry Date fucking rules!!!