Baby, They’re Wrong

#damn this is how mercy and dig down were for me #the studio versions just don't hit the way the live versions do

Mixing With The Masters is a series where music producers go through mixing techniques used in the studio to record various iconic albums and songs by artists. I believe it's a paid thing, but their YouTube has a few sessions and clips available to the public, and they've sat down in the past with Chris Lord-Alge, a mixing engineer who worked on The 2nd Law and later on the Rome live DVD. There's a clip of him talking through mixing Survival.

And further on mixing Muse live, here's a whole series their FOH equipment provider of choice, Avid (guys that made the ProTools software and a much of mixing consoles) did with the Muse FOH Marc Carolan, who has been mixing Muse's live sound since 2001, on their equipment and what it's used for live. All these posts are basically me nerding out, allow me! Linked is the full playlist on YouTube (here if the embed doesn't show you the full list)

They started the band under the name Rocket Baby Dolls, and Bellamy describes them as “looking like the Cure, but sounding like Rush. Call it progressive goth.” It was mainly an instrumental band, but after winning a contentious Battle of the Bands contest and getting a good response from the judges, they began to focus more on songwriting. “We wrote hundreds of songs,” he says, “but it wasn’t until I was 18 or 19 when I began to express myself more and be more confident to do that. I wound up as the lead singer by default. There was no one else in the town that wanted to sing. Back then, it wasn’t really cool to sing falsetto because Nirvana and all that stuff was in. We saw Jeff Buckley do a concert, though, and he wasn’t scared to be a high-voiced male. I think that helped me open up and not be afraid to use a more expressive and emotional vocal style.”

Cryogen and The Sickness In You & I are easily my favs off the album, in terms of “I will replay this for HOURS”

Aww :’) they just all love eachother soo much.

Happy belated bday to Matt!!!