Lexicon Magazine / Section 3 of 7
The Desk
What was decided at the console rather than on the floor. Compression, gating, tape edits and arrangement, and the question that follows from all of them: when a record is assembled rather than played, where does authorship sit.
3 entries · Producers and what they changed.
Every entry in The Desk
One machine, room or technique each
- 3.1 Gated reverb Hugh Padgham's accident, how the gate cuts the tail, and why the effect defines a decade of drums.
- 3.2 Martin Rushent and Dare An album assembled from sequencer parts and edits, and the argument that it is produced rather than performed.
- 3.3 The producer as author When the arrangement is made at the desk, authorship gets harder to locate.
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