Is Rick Rubin the anti Brian Eno? Rubin takes things that are

brian eno is a producer, rick rubin is a reducer

Let's settle this once and for all:

is he a good producer or not?

>>71152512
youd know alot about reducing wouldnt you

>>71152543
what did he mean by this

>>71152536
He's a big guy.

>>71152536
No he ruins everything he touches

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>>71152536

Rick Rubin is a genius and it's really not even controversial desu

The fact some of his work isn't great has nothing to do with it

>>71152582
he must have touched you

>>71152543
kek?

>>71152584

The attached picture being an example of his genius and the impact he's had on music

Even without classics like that, the material he got out of Johnny Cash is fucking absurd, he's a hero for letting the world hear those

i remember last year or something when his 'likes' tab on twitter was filled with tranny porn, lol

>>71152584
yeah dude slayer is pretty epic, genius actually if I may say so
\m/

>>71152536
For the most part, we don't know. He hasn't really produced anything that was just him and we don't know what tracks are like before he touched them. He's been a part of some great albums, but it's hard to tell how much better they could have been without him. Usually though, when a track is debuted, then he "revises" it, it turns out worse

>>71152536
niBBas whomst compress everything to shit

>>71152608

I bet you're the type of person who listens to Anthrax and Megadeth, right? Typical

>>71152623
No they're even worse. Slayer is clearly the best of the big four but that isn't really saying much.

>>71152638

I just don't feel at all like I'm reaching when I say Reign in Blood is a high water mark (not necessarily THE, because that's always debatable) for thrash

I also just fucking love it

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>>71152599
>Even without classics like that, the material he got out of Johnny Cash is fucking absurd, he's a hero for letting the world hear those

This is what does it for me, after reading and hearing those bits that document how I-VI came to be, he's a cemented legend on my eyes.

>>71152660
It's a decent record but I don't know about a high water mark, just a very celebrated one. I would argue Show No Mercy is the better album anyway.

>Let me give you the fucking 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 fucking 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 asshole 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.' And he had an assistant who was seven feet tall. He had that disease where you can't grow hair on your body, so he was just bald. He looked like Mr. Clean's neurotic cousin. But he basically ran Rick Rubin's life like, he was just fucking on it, on it, on it, on it. About half way through our precious 45 minutes, he would bring in this plate of shit. I assume it was food. It was bluish green. It smelled like someone had just plunged a fucking toilet somewhere. And he would eat it as fast as he could just get it in there, all over himself. Which is, when you're working, so wonderful to look at . . . I will say this: I respect what Rick Rubin has done, I respect the work that he has done in the past to get to where he is now. But this is a huge but this is a J.Lo-sized 'but...' I will say this: The Rick Rubin of today is a thin, thin, thin shadow of the Rick Rubin that he was. He is overrated, he is overpaid, and I will never work with him again as long as I fucking live."

Corey Taylor on Rick Rubin

>>71152584
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqNDYvsOZkc
Truly the work of a genius...

>>71153492
came here to post this
i mean yeah he doesn't master the shit but it's no coincidence

>>71152731
the account of one of the biggest hacks on the planet isn't really worth much though, is it?

>>71153625
i don't think he's lying at all though, go watch some videos of rubin """"working"""" on albums in like the last ten years and you'll probably see some of what he's talking about

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>>71152536
He's done work on classics but just listen to Californication and tell me that shit sounds good, I dare ya.

>>71153688
and i should add, this especially applies for metal albums from what i've seen

>>71153688

Just because he has strange working methods doesn't take away what he's done. run-dmc, beastie boys, public enemy, Neil Diamond, Slayer. The list literally goes on and on.

>>71153727
it sounds strong on cheap car stereos, earbuds, and laptop speakers, that's the important most thing =^)

>>71152543
your mom knows a lot about reducing

>>71153739
i totally agree, and corey taylor in that quote recognizes as well, that's why he called him a shadow of his former self, which i think is blatantly obvious even if we might disagree on how badly so

>>71153780
I'll reduce your face in a minute you knob

>>71153727
Great album but the production sounds fucking awful.

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*blocks your path*

>>71155863
that album is just awfully mastered

>>71152536
Corey Taylor said they hired him for a lot of money and that he would only occasionally come to the studio, lie on the couch and eat a bag of chips

>>71155996
source because that sounds false af

>>71156046
I read that in some interview but don't remember which one

>>71156062
Nice lies fucko

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>>71155996
>Corey Taylor said they hired him for a lot of money and that he would only occasionally come to the studio, lie on the couch and eat a bag of chips

That's exactly what he does in the Metallica documentary. He came like once or twice and then told them to do shit that made things worse.

Then he masters it into a brickwalled pile of steaming shit.

fsfs

ITT: ppl pretending to know about production

>>71152536
no he's a marketing tool

>>71156643
>ITT: ppl pretending to know about production
How many albums have you produced?

>>71156481
kek fat lazy fuck

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tfw the man responsible for destroying audio quality in American music forever praises a shitty FLAC player for taking a stand against everything he's done with his career

https://youtu.be/xH8I0LUjrqw?t=47

no, he doesn't know how to properly mix and ends up clipping 3/4ths of the stuff he mixes. The best example I can think of is Yeezus, which might have been a 7 or 8 if the nature of the album combined with Rubins producing """""""skills""""""" didnt cause it to clip every 2 seconds.

>>71156720
working on my 4th right now

>>71157176
I'm working on my 6th.

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>>71157218
I'm working on my 282th

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>>71157246
Stop working

The only album in his entire career that he actually improved was Yeezus just because it had such an unconventionally minimalist and borebones production.

>>71157591
Bound 1 is way better than Bound 2

>>71157246
that was a weird St. Vincent concert

>>71153492
That's not his job stupid. He is the producer, not the mastering guy.

>>71157617
is this real

>>71156835
I don't think you understand what mixing is

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>>71156833
>I don't seem to understand the differences been recording, mixing, mastering and even basic production