Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    Terry Brown (all of Rush until Grace Under Pressure), Peter Collins
    and Jim "Jimbo" Barton (Rush's Power Windows and Hold Your Fire,
    plus Queensryche's Operation:Mindcrime)
    
    jab

    Another hot current producer is Beau Hill who produced Winger, Steve
    Stevens, and many others.
    
    gh

re: Beau Hill

That name sounds familiar - is the guy who did all the ZZ Top albums also? 
If so, we all know that he can get a great guitar sound!

cat

    
    Motley Crue just dumped their old producer for Bob Rock - some up
    and coming fellow musician.  Apparently they wanted to go for someone
    who was closer to their own ages and had not become set in his ways.
    
    Flip

    Beau Hill does all of RATTs stuff and he did an ALICE COOPER album
    before thats where WINGER hooked up with him.

Mutt Lange, he produces Def Leppard.


Brynn.

    Mutt Lange also produced several of the AC/DC albums of more recent
    vintage.  I think he also did some Van Halen too.
    
    He's known for getting a really gutsy guitar sound on record.
    
    gh

    There was a TV special on Def Leppard here in the UK a couple of
    weeks ago. Much of it revolved around Mutt's influence on the group
    sound and the effect that had on the groups subsequent success.
    
    			Colin.

    Mutt lange's big production sound and knack for "perfect" arrangements
    can be heard on albums by Def Leppard (last 3), AC/DC (Highway,
    Back in Black, and For those..), Loveryboy, and Billy Ocean.
    
    Ted Templeman was the guy behind Van Halen's sound.  He also did
    Aerosmiths _Done With Mirrors_ lp and the Bullet Boys debut.

    
    Here's a vote for Martin "the ....." Birch
    
    Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, ....need I say more?
    
    /Speedking
    

    One producer who has done a lot of good stuff is Michael Wagener.
    He's done stuff for Dokken, Metallica, and others.
    
    Also, to show you what influences a producer has, Metallica's latest
    started out being produced by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero, from
    Tesla and G&R fame.  Metallica couldn't work with them and went back to
    their old producer Flemming Rasmusen.  However, they kept the other two
    to mix the album, and that was a mistake.  Because ...and Justice For
    All has a much whimpier sound than Master, which was killer for
    production and sound quality.  ST & MB are used to working with Tesla
    which uses a much cleaner, smoother, nicer sound, and that didn't help
    ...AJFA.
    
    Bob Rock also just produced The Cult's Sonic Temple, which I wasn't big
    on the production.  (Referring to an earlier note)
    
    Steve

    -1
    
    RE: AJFA's wimpier sound.
    
    Thats cuz Steve and Mike are LA cats, and they always mix on those
    squeeky clean SSL boards...they all listen to music out in their cars
    in Cali, so they mix for the car...they will do a mix and run down and
    pop it in the car to see how it sounds!  Those Thompson/Barbiero mixes
    usually sound good in the car, but lousy on a stereo, if you've
    noticed! 

    Mixed for the car?  Didn't they do Tesla's Great Radio Controversy?  I
    think it sounds really bad in the car.  It's way too thin, EQed real
    high.  You have to turn it up to somewhere around the pain threshhold
    to get it to sound good in my car.  It sound much better on my stereo
    at home! (IMO)
    
    AJFA wimpy?  I don't think so at all.  I think that the guitar sound is
    just as heavy as the earlier ones, it's just a little smoother.  My
    understanding was that was the way Metallica wanted it.  (Of course, I
    listen to it about 99% of the time in the car...)
    
    gh

    Anyway, back at the subject of this note (producers)...
    
    Glyn Johns (if I've got this correct) is another name that rings a
    bell. He did some work with the Who in the early 70s along with a host
    of other people.
    
    On the whole though I tend not to remember producers (unless they mess
    things up, substituting themselves for the band, eg Jim Steinman and
    Trevor Horn).
    
    Keef.

    my award goes to micheal wagner and ted templeman,wagner for the white
    lion material and the doken albums.he knows how to get a solid good
    up front guitar sound.
    
    ted templeman for the legendary "montrose" album,this album is at least
    16 years old and still rates with anything thats being produced today,
    it has stood the test of time.
    
    							jim.

    Ted templeman?  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    I think the Elefante brothers and Michael Omartian are awesome
    producers!
    
    Omartian is the only producer to have produced a #1 song in each of the
    last 3 decades! ('70s, '80s, '90s).
    
    Mike

    If I had to choose a producer, I'd have the dude who did TNT's last CD!
    
    Wow!
    B

    
    If I was to, I'd choose Martin Birch.
    
    

>    Omartian is the only producer to have produced a #1 song in each of the
>    last 3 decades! ('70s, '80s, '90s).

Know who they were for??? The one from the 80's must be Rod Stewart, they did 
some work together (in fact, Omartian produced all but one song on the album - 
he refused to produce that one song because of the lyrics!).

alan

    Re: Omartian
    
    '70s - Theme from S.W.A.T.
    '80s - Sailing by Christopher Cross
    '90s - How Am I Supposed to Live Without You by Michael Bolton
    
    He's also an EXCELLENT keyboard player and has some nice solo stuff!
    
    Mike

	RE: a few back, Glyn Johns...

	Yes, he was involved with a slew of bands...as was his brother,
	forget his name.

	Traffic, Joe Cocker, Family, Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, the Who,
	Faces, Eagles, Clapton, Beatles, etc. etc.
	

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	I recently saw a club listing for Nine Below Zero so if it's the same
	band then they're had at lesst one record produced by Glyn Johns.

	- Jim

This month's Audio has a big article on Eddie Kramer and some of the
legendary (really, I mean it!!!) stuff he worked on.


The Kinks, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, Led Zeppelin.

Tim

    -1
    
    KIZZ!!

That's right!  They had a photo of Ace handing some sort of plaque.
I forgot Eddie did Alive as well as some of the other early KIZZ...

Tim