@everybody's x: Tiredness or not, would you write an email to Terry Date like that? I am by no means a producer of Terry's caliber, but I think that a general amount of politeness is never wrong ...
@joey: I think that attitude will lead you nowhere. Most of the stuff I know, I learned from other people. And as everybody's x says: the really good producers have no problem in sharing what they know because in the end it's all about the vision. Also: you only know 5% of what's out there to know, even if you THINK you know it all and your mixes are TEH SHIAT. Trust me, when you look back at your mixes in 5 years, you will think "omg, what piece of trash mixes I made back then!".
I learned a lot of my electro-mixing knowledge from my friend Marc Acardipane (who's considered one of the world's top producers in electronic music) and no matter what I ask him, he always gives me an honest answer. We do it the other way around when it comes to rock/metal and real drums so we both benefit: my electro albums sound much better and his guitars sound much better too. Everyone wins (and we drink a lot of beer, too), haha
AND
I got 23 (just counted them) private messages about my Engl guitar tone from this demo
http://www.faderhead.com/blogs/mp3/sm57_engl_savage_test_02.mp3
and everyone was asking me about how I got the tone. I just miced it like everyone else on this board with a simple SM57 and then boosted the frequencies Colin Richardson talked about once, tweaked them and I was done. So if it wasn't for Colin, the guitars would probably be sounding less good. Needless to say, I was ecstatic when I got the sound and basically owe Colin a case of his favorite drink, but it also made me appreciate the value of sharing info with anyone ...
... as long as they ask NICELY!!!
