Randy Staub: Recording Evanenscence's 'What You Want'

[AeternusAmatorius]

Here's a neat article I've read about the multi-tracks for What You Want and the mixers experience with working on Ev3.

The multitracks for Evanescence's third album were so big that they required two maxed-out Pro Tools rigs to play back!

[mrmellow]

God, I love stuff like this. It's so geeky, but it gives you such a sense of the amount of work that can go into the recording process. It really makes you appreciate how much of an art form each part of the process is, and how much understanding all the people involved actually need, outside of the band themselves.

This is the sort of thing which I think causes the slight disparity between the finished product quality of, say, Amy's solo stuff and any of Ev's records. Don't get me wrong, I love Amy's solo stuff, but I always feel that something is left slightly wanting - a slight DIY quality to Amy's solo stuff that isn't there in Ev's work. Sometimes I love that aspect of it, sometimes I miss the fuller sound. I can never put my finger on what's missing though - maybe it's the production, maybe it's the mixing, who knows...