rick rubin.....

CRAP

NOT CRAP.

Check the man's resume.

Find one as good, and 1/2 as versatile.

He's associated with some great music, but he's also associated with enough absolute crap (especially recently) that it leads me to conclude that his main production techniques are "Having a beard" and "nodding in the control room."

slayer

NC

anyone who sticks pentagrams on his speakers to make them louder is fine with me.

His production on 99 Problems is nice

If you want a 'hard' mix that will sound good on a car stereo or an iPod, I guess he's good at that. Most of what I've heard of his work ( other than Johnny Cash ) on a good stereo sounds like baseballs are being thrown at me from my loudspeakers. Sure, there's mastering to blame as well, but I think Rubin must have significant hearing loss if he's the one responsible for all that 2-4kHz artillery fire in his recordings.

rashiedgarrison wrote:His production on 99 Problems is nice

A great 'hard' mix appropriate for the material. Love the video, as well.

not crap for being a brilliant con man..

"yeah, you want me to produce your record? sure, no problem. i'll go get brendan o'brien to record it, andy wallace to mix it, and i'll be sitting on the couch eating funyons the whole time"

..and he's worth something like $250 million? pretty genius.