Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume II : Learn from the Masters by Jan-Peter Herbst

Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume II: Learn from the Masters details how the fundamental musical quality of metal, `heaviness', is created during record production, offering unprecedented learning opportunities provided by eight world-leading producers mixing the same multi-track of the song `In Solitude' and sharing insights into their creative visions and technical realizations. The book contains unabridged interviews with the producers about their conceptual understandings of heaviness and approaches to engineering `In Solitude', enriched by nearly 300 illustrations of their sound engineering techniques. Beginning with a summary of the researchers' main findings on how heaviness is defined, the study then moves on to a comparative analysis of the producers' mixes, providing structured guidelines for critical listening. These interviews and mix documentations are complemented by contextual information about heaviness in metal music production, covering non-musical, associative factors that influence what is possibly the most valued feature of metal music-heaviness. Heaviness in Metal Music Production will appeal to students of metal music, music technology and production, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, media, and communication. It will also serve as a practical primer for professional musicians, recording engineers, and producers to improve their own production values or to allow for experimentation with new approaches. This two-volume set offers a well-rounded insight into the production of heaviness in theory and practice. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license.
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