Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[harmless]

Foo Fighters probably use engineered stops and starts all the time.

I think Dave Grohl would kill you on the spot for that.

Then he'd be a dick, because it's true.

[ABNorman]

Foo Fighters probably use engineered stops and starts all the time.

I think Dave Grohl would kill you on the spot for that.

Grohl is quite old school in his approach - he recently bought that old analogue beast of a board for his personal studio.

Doesn't mean he doesn't use those kind of techniques or anything, of course.

[harmless]

That's entirely normal in all sorts of music. Copy and pasting entire choruses is not.

[Django Butterworth]

Foo Fighters probably use engineered stops and starts all the time.

I think Dave Grohl would kill you on the spot for that.

Then he'd be a dick, because it's true.

Please show me where.

[harmless]

Last time I heard Foo Fighters' music it didn't sound very oldskool in its approach. Some of those albums are pretty damn shiny, especially something like The Colour and The Shape.

[harmless]

Foo Fighters probably use engineered stops and starts all the time.

I think Dave Grohl would kill you on the spot for that.

Then he'd be a dick, because it's true.

Please show me where.

Where what? Where he probably uses engineered stops and starts? I don't really want to go looking for Foo Fighters' songs; I was hoping you'd just agree with me that it's pretty likely.

[bodysnatcher]

i don't know why i keep coming back to this thread.

[Django Butterworth]

Foo Fighters probably use engineered stops and starts all the time.

I think Dave Grohl would kill you on the spot for that.

Then he'd be a dick, because it's true.

Please show me where.

Where what? Where he probably uses engineered stops and starts? I don't really want to go looking for Foo Fighters' songs; I was hoping you'd just agree with me that it's pretty likely.

I don't think it is. Having seen them live several times, they are a tight band and could easliy pull these off.

[Strat]

i don't know why i keep coming back to this thread.

For a potential teen wolf breakout, duh.

[Django Butterworth]

Last time I heard Foo Fighters' music it didn't sound very oldskool in its approach. Some of those albums are pretty damn shiny, especially something like The Colour and The Shape.

You mean Wasted Light too, which was recorded entirely on tape?

[ABNorman]

i don't know why i keep coming back to this thread.

You must be a self-harmless-er.

[harmless]

Foo Fighters probably use engineered stops and starts all the time.

I think Dave Grohl would kill you on the spot for that.

Then he'd be a dick, because it's true.

Please show me where.

Where what? Where he probably uses engineered stops and starts? I don't really want to go looking for Foo Fighters' songs; I was hoping you'd just agree with me that it's pretty likely.

I don't think it is. Having seen them live several times, they are a tight band and could easliy pull these off.

Never mind.

[harmless]

Last time I heard Foo Fighters' music it didn't sound very oldskool in its approach. Some of those albums are pretty damn shiny, especially something like The Colour and The Shape.

You mean Wasted Light too, which was recorded entirely on tape?

Did I say I meant Wasted Light? They have a lot of albums.

[13inlet]

I remember Matt C saying that Pro Tools weren't used on either Riot Act or Binaural. To me, that indicated they had used them previously. I'd bet Mr. Obrien really uses the shit out of Pro Tools. Truth is, I'm glad he does. They are competing with shit on the radio that's much more "perfect" to the ear then this. At least they are actually playing and singing.

Saying "we used ProTools is not the same as saying what it was used for. Copy-pasting the best take on the chorus into all the choruses is definitely not a trend in the back catalog.

Well, I'd say we don't know whether it was or not in the "back catalog".

http://www.drummagazine.com/features/po ... -backbeat/

What we do know (if my memory serves - the link above isn't the quote I was looking for) is that they wanted to step away from the Pro Tools approach for a few albums (around Binaural/Riot Act). To me, that meant they didn't want "perfect" and wanted more "authentic" instead. It also meant they had used Pro Tools in the albums before. So, from my vantage point, one of the many reasons for that move may have been this sort of vocal track editing, which can lend songs to sound too perfect (for lack of a better word) for some people's ears. That's all.

I don't know, but I would bet it was possible to do this sort of thing potentially through their entire career. So, I think it's very possible it was used even on the very early albums.

[jforte20]

i don't know why i keep coming back to this thread.

It's hard to stay away. I've tried it.

[Django Butterworth]

No you didn't, but this is a guy who re-recorded all of the drum tracks himself because they didn't sound right.

And also spent a million on what was effectively the demos for One by One because they weren't right.

[harmless]

Django, I am not trying to insult Dave and the Foo Fighters. Calm down. I am simply saying that it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they occasionally clip short stops and starts to make them sound sharper, not because the Foo Fighters are Satan's minions, but because plenty of bands do this.

[stupidmop]

The mym chorus sounds exactly the same to me, he says redeem kinda odd in both. Or the d at least.

Somehow it didn't ever occur to me that you wouldn't just paste in a chorus if you wanted them to sound exactly the same. It's different on a ballad maybe, or a song with some emotional build though I guess.

Though it wouldn't be hard to sing it twice for the sake of keeping it natural sounding, but MYM is all pro toolsy and unnatural already, all those precise stops and shit. Maybe it would bug me more on a song I liked more, Idk.

I enjoy the song for what it is (a generic punk song). I'm not entirely convinced the stops are unnatural, to be honest; I've always wondered why people here thought they were. The first one certainly has guitars screaming over it, so that's untouched. The final one may have been clipped a bit, but that's been done in punk before, and it's undoubtedly done on a lot of metal. A cut-and-paste job on the vocals would bother me more than all that.

Sorry yeah doesn't automatically mean they were unnaturally produced. I always Just prefer hearing guitars ring out and shit sounding less clean.

Foo fighters had that whole ' woo garages woo analogue' thing going on for thier last album and that's all I remember from the last foo fighters album.

[Django Butterworth]

Oh I'm not upset. Just discussing.

I just think without any proof of this actually happening, it's damaging to a bands reputation even if it's just idle speculation.

I'm just taking the other side here, don't take my vigorous defense as being upset. It's the internet and everybody has opinions.

[harmless]

The mym chorus sounds exactly the same to me, he says redeem kinda odd in both. Or the d at least.

Somehow it didn't ever occur to me that you wouldn't just paste in a chorus if you wanted them to sound exactly the same. It's different on a ballad maybe, or a song with some emotional build though I guess.

Though it wouldn't be hard to sing it twice for the sake of keeping it natural sounding, but MYM is all pro toolsy and unnatural already, all those precise stops and shit. Maybe it would bug me more on a song I liked more, Idk.

I enjoy the song for what it is (a generic punk song). I'm not entirely convinced the stops are unnatural, to be honest; I've always wondered why people here thought they were. The first one certainly has guitars screaming over it, so that's untouched. The final one may have been clipped a bit, but that's been done in punk before, and it's undoubtedly done on a lot of metal. A cut-and-paste job on the vocals would bother me more than all that.

Sorry yeah doesn't automatically mean they were unnaturally produced. I always Just prefer hearing guitars ring out and shit sounding less clean.

Foo fighters had that whole ' woo garages woo analogue' thing going on for thier last album and that's all I remember from the last foo fighters album.