"Bad Advice" says Ed on Pono Promo

EZ3455
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Did you notice Eddie's comment on the quality of PJ studio recordings "for the past twenty years" in the clip on the Pono site?

He says they were given some bad advice and were not as good as they could be.

Can anyone provide any insight to what he's referring to? (Aside from Vs. being recorded too quickly?)
Thanks!
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  • boyo79
    boyo79 Warrington, UK Posts: 6,525
    I think he would be referring to Ten.
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    Dead Man Walking Toronto-ish Posts: 2,762
    ^HAHAHAHAHA
  • bone
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    Probably the loud mastering.
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  • stoppler_pj
    stoppler_pj Montreal, Quebec, Canada Posts: 191
    reverb.
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  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    bone said:

    Probably the loud mastering.

    See picture....
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,368
    A record that sells 12 million copies sounds just fine. I'm glad they didn't turn it into something else.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,490
    buck502000 said:

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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,965
    edited May 2014
    bootlegger10 said:

    A record that sells 12 million copies sounds just fine. I'm glad they didn't turn it into something else.

    Yeah. I think it's an album with a unique identity with all the songs soaking in the reverb.

    Riot Act and Binaural also feels like a collection of songs with one creative idea regarding the audio-identity that holds them all together and creates "one thing".

    Rather that, than the stale, sterile sound of BoB's latter albums. Put Amongst the Waves on LB and Future Days on Backspacer and no one would react.

    But Eddie mentioning "the last 10 years", I'm pretty sure he means Avocado.
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  • Jammalambo
    Jammalambo Posts: 1,321
    (Aside from Vs. being recorded too quickly?)

    mmh.. you mean the best sounding album of their entire career?
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,469
    Jammalambo said:

    (Aside from Vs. being recorded too quickly?)

    mmh.. you mean the best sounding album of their entire career?

    Agreed.
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  • whofeelslikeadrank
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    2-feign-reluctance said:

    Jammalambo said:

    (Aside from Vs. being recorded too quickly?)

    mmh.. you mean the best sounding album of their entire career?

    Agreed.
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  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,051
    Avocado had ballsy sound..
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    Can't mean that cd ..
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  • DewieCox
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    buck502000 said:

    bone said:

    Probably the loud mastering.

    See picture....
    Brendan Obrien doesn't master the records.


    I think he's gotta be referring to S/T. Lotta clipping on that album.
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,122
    edited May 2014
    He's talking about the quality of digital music and MP3's in general since they've been introduced to the public, not Pearl Jam albums.

    "we" = Music/recording industry and music consumers in general...not Pearl Jam specifically.


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  • Karojo820673
    Karojo820673 Posts: 201
    Unless there has been some recent falling out with BoB I don't see how it has anything to do with him. I don't think they would have gone back to him and recorded more albums with him than any other producer if they didn't like the results
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,490
    edited May 2014
    Karojo820673 said:

    Unless there has been some recent falling out with BoB I don't see how it has anything to do with him. I don't think they would have gone back to him and recorded more albums with him than any other producer if they didn't like the results

    It was just a joke. Obviously EV wasn't talking about his producer and friend like that. Yeah, i think he was talking generally, not about PJ.

    Yes, they seem happy with BoB for some reason... I just don't understand how that's possible, because I think the guy is responsible for a lot of the horrible choices made for Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.
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  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    Brendan O'Brien - is a producer and mix engineer.

    A producer has many roles that may include, but are not limited to, gathering ideas for the project, selecting songs and/or musicians, coaching the artist and musicians in the studio, controlling the recording sessions, and supervising the entire process through mixing and mastering.

    A mix engineer or mixing engineer is a person responsible for combining ("mixing") the different sonic elements of a piece of recorded music (vocals, instruments, effects etc.) into a final version of a song (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown"). He or she mixes the elements of a recorded piece together to achieve a good balance of volume, while at the same time deciding other properties such as pan positioning, effects, and so on.
  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    buck502000 said:

    photo brendanobrien_zps2c40a270.jpg

  • Karojo820673
    Karojo820673 Posts: 201
    buck502000 said:

    buck502000 said:

    photo brendanobrien_zps2c40a270.jpg

    Yep that's the definition

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