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Steely Dan: "Aja"


Yeah, I said it.

Smooth.

2 of my all time favorite mixes are by creedence clearwater revival:
"hideaway" and "its just a thought" (both on the same cd i believe)

"since ive been loving you" by zeppelin is a good mix

bob marley had lots of good mixing. the jamaican version of his "catch a fire" album sounds great... much more dynamic than the american release.

dr dre always ends up with great mixing, especially on his 2001 album.

soundgarden - superunknown is well-mixed, but the sound of those mixes has a lot to do with the recording... the drum recordings in particular seemed to have lots of distant miking, which added that cool ambient sound. the guitars and the bass however seemed to be miked very closely. these miking setups combined well and were mixed well in the end.

recently i have been listening to a bit of the wall by pink floyd which had some really good mixing.

the beatles.... well that was always really well-produced with the george martin arrangements and all the fx and cool dubbing and tasteful studio experimentation, the dynamics and eq were always on point and well-represented. BUT with stuff getting bounced back and forth between 4-tracks a bunch of times there was kind of a loss of fidelity, at least on their studio-heavy albums. its just a more tape-saturated sound, which i think is a really cool sound, but to be objective it compromises some dynamic range and sample-accuracy and adds some extra tape hiss (the hiss factor was negligible though with the beatles).

Sample accuracy?

Best: Blue Oyster Cult's "Agents of Fortune." (I'm serious about this.)

Worst: Big Audio Dynamite's "No. 10 Upping Street."

Credible Mentions:
Bestest: 'Placemats' "Sorry Ma..."
Worstest: "Automatic for the People"