New Monday #81
Happy New Monday, or... Happy Labor Day.
As long as we’re laboring, about a year ago I wrote this: https://korneffaudio.com/new-monday-28/.
It covered Marvin Gaye and there was a chart on EQ’ing ideas. We’re kinda bumping into that EQ’ing thing this Episode.
Sinners
Sinners is a horror flick set in the American Deep South in 1933—the time of lynchings, the KKK, and, evidently, vampires that play bluegrass. And it’s kind of a musical! Definitely worth a watch, and definitely the soundtrack is worth a listen.
Composed by Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson, and cut with a mixture of musicians and actors in a converted church in New Orleans, the music is rooted in delta blues but grows tendrils everywhere, into hip hop, R&B, with strange, dissonant string pads and keyboards, and rhythms pulled from Africa to Ireland.
Watch this scene. Aside from being a visual stunner, it’s a journey down the highway of black music in America. This is SPLENDID composing and filmmaking.
More Listening
The band hates this song and its production—lead singer Ian McCulloch said, "It [still] sounds crap.”
I dunno... I love it. It’s a bit lightweight as a song, but as a production, ay caramba! Amazing.
Lips Like Sugar
If we’re going to seriously listen to things, I want to find the best possible source. To my ears, nothing is beating Apple Music but Amazon Music is a close #2. They have the least signal compression and loudness compensation. This particular song is full of little production tidbits. They’re best heard on Apple or Amazon. Spotify and Tidal both sound overly compressed and bass-heavy. I can’t decide which one is more awful, and I am disappointed by Tidal. YouTube... eh.
ANYWAY, this one is mind-blowing on headphones. Stuff zinging around everywhere. Listen this week, I’ll tear it apart next week.
A Lesson
Some of you might have noticed that we’re putting out tips and tricks for our plug-ins on Instagram. Here, for instance.
This particular trick is on getting more presence out of bass and low-end sounds so they translate better to small speakers.
But in addition to the IG reel, I also wrote more on this particular trick, and you can find it by clicking here.
Short Stuff
Andy and Stewart are suing Sting for a share of the spoils from the royalties for 'Every Breath You Take'. Evidently, the Stingster makes $700,000 a year just from that one song, and the story is the band was going to chuck the song out when Sting said, “Andy, go do a guitar part.” The Andster popped into the studio and did the guitar part in one take, saving the song, and making Sting $700,000 a year. Not sure why Stewart is involved. Read more here.
Bang a gong? No! Rub it with a flumi! Get weird, voice-like sounds. Very cool. I might have to look into the physics of this.
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Have a great week.
Warm regards,
Luke