Will Yip • Page 2

superheaven (and daylight) were pretty bad
There was like a year I saw them like five times on a bunch of bills lol

 

Praying he gets the next Circa record right.
Let those guitars breathe.

 

I don't have much of an ear for production but I love enough albums in this thread that seeing his name on an upcoming release certainly doesn't hurt my anticipation.

 

Best way to develop an ear for it is listening to albums praised by audiophiles and learn how to pick apart a mix. Like take Steely Dan's Aja for example, the production on that is legendary. You can literally isolate any instrument in the mix with ease, everything is balanced. Mixing your music can help with that too from personal experience.

 

hmm, i will check that out. thanks for the tip!

 

The RATM self titled is also held in that sort of regard. Still incredible how modern it sounds

 

Good call. Yeah, that album, from sound to message, is still relevant.

 

Idk if the production is worth griping about, but I do like Hostage Calm's Die On Stage.

 

Who wants to make a chronological YIP Spotify playlist. :)

 

feel like Charmer, Hyperview, Shame, and Rooms of the House were the best at mood and atmosphere and I appreciate that a lot. I like Keep You a lot too. I flip on how I feel about Pale Horses because I think the production is great and it works really well for those songs, but I feel like the vocal affect or whatever it is that's used to contrast some of Aaron's screaming sometimes didn't pop as much as I wanted them to.

The biggest time I didn't like his style was on the second Balance album and it wasn't the worst thing in the world, it just bothered me a bit on repeat listens after talking about it with some people on here. Feel like it's just at the same volume a lot of the time

 

Def the worst one I've heard.
Guitars are just a blur...which is such a bummer because there is some really cool shot going in.

Still really like the album despite the production errors

 

This is pretty much how I feel about it. I didn't even know they had three guitarists til right before the newest album I think bc it's hard to tell stuff apart. But live those songs hit harder which was cool. I like the way the vocals sound on that album though

 

FWIW, Will didn't mix that record. Brad Wood did.

 

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT bc I used to have this problem w Diary a lil bit before I got the remaster. The biggest grower.

 

my friend works for an audio company and apparently in the audio industry there's a list of songs with perfect production they use to evaluate audio equipment. I know RATM is on that list. I think something by Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys is on it too

 

That leant surprise me at all haha, it sounds so perrrrrfect

 

Everybody is going to heaven is a record I really love.

 

citizen would be a decent band if they were able to make hooky songs (youth) and interesting sounding music (EIGTH) at the same time

 

I find EIGTH hooky in a different way, songs are real dark but I think they are actually pretty catchy. besides like Ten that song isn't catchy at all, just sort of weird, but I like it

 

Is it the singer? I thought it was the guitarist, or is there something else I don't know about?

 

Anyway, I love a lot of records Yip has worked on. Rooms of the House, Die on Stage, Peripheral Vision, After the Party, and Light We Made are some of my favorites.

 

it's the lead guitarist, he's scummy as hell.

 

Thought so, just making sure there wasn't something else I wasn't aware of.

 

Oh sorry, I actually didn't know. That's a shame still.

 

A Look into the Future of Producer Will Yip's Studio 4 | Pitchfork

Found this write up from a few years ago