Canadian recording engineer and producer Mark Howard's new book Listen Up! is a lively and revealing read.
Neil Young only records in the three days before the full moon. Robert Plant does not want to sound like Phil Collins. Joni Mitchell likes to listen to her music through her television, on the Dolby Surround setting. For herReading the lively and revealing new bookby Grammy-winning Canadian recording engineer and producer Mark Howard , one is struck by the peculiar and particular needs of the A-list artists while they make their records.
'Neil only records in the three days before the full moon. It takes six months to make a record,' Howard recalls.. David Crosby had produced it, and it was supposed to be just her voice and an acoustic guitar. But David added a second acoustic to double her parts. She hated that – she’d been living her whole life hating this record. My job was to remix the album, with just the single guitar. She doesn’t like to leave her house, so I set up my studio in her living room.
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