re: Board's opinion of Rick Rubin

Posted on 5/4/22 at 2:49 pm to Corso

Posted by musick

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Posted on 5/4/22 at 2:49 pm to Corso

groundbreaking producer and HUGE scholar of music history.

Music is better because Rick Rubin produced albums.

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Posted by monsterballads

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Posted on 5/4/22 at 3:23 pm to musick

in defense of rick rubin:

one thing that a LOT of people don't understand regarding recording is that the "producer" most of the time has nothing to do with mixing/mastering. so when people blame the clipping and overcompressed sound of death magnetic on rick rubin of all people and not on the people who were paid to mix/master it, all I can do is roll my eyes.

rubin is a process "guru" or thinks of himself as one. he has ideas that sometimes work, sometimes don't.

he's been known to rub people the wrong way:

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Meanwhile, not every artist who’s worked with our guy has walked away impressed with the Least Is Most approach. Rubin produced Slipknot’s 2004 album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), and famously brash frontman Corey Taylor, holding forth much later in a live Q&A interlude during a solo show, allowed that he found Rubin’s production style a little too, uh, subliminal:

“Let me give you the fricking truth of it. Rick Rubin showed up for 45 minutes a week. Yeah. Rick Rubin would then, during that 45 minutes, lay on a couch, have a mic brought in next to his face so he wouldn’t have to fricking move. I swear to God. And then he would be, like, ‘Play it for me.’ The engineer would play it. And he had shades on the whole time. Never mind the fact that there is no sun in the room. It’s all dark. You just look like an a-hole at that point. And he would just stroke his huge beard and try and get as much food out of it as he could. And he would go, ‘Play it again.’ And then he’d be, like, ‘Stop! Do that over.’”

It goes on. “The Rick Rubin of today is a thin, thin, thin shadow of the Rick Rubin that he was,” Taylor concluded. “He is overrated, he is overpaid, and I will never work with him again as long as I fricking live.”

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