EQ Magazine - August 2008 - (Page 20) Here I Am Again or all the effort put in to recreating the glorious sound of Green’s Memphis-era recordings, ?uestlove, Nichols, and the engineering team were equally concerned with making Lay It Down palatable to a younger crowd. “To a generation weaned on hip-hop and massive pop production, drums are more of a foreground instrument than they were in the past,” Nichols states. “So people grab drum breaks from old records, put a bunch of compression on them, and when all the instruments fall out, the drums sound huge. No one would have processed drums like that on the original recordings because it wasn’t in vogue. But now, for bands like the Roots, that’s the standard approach. We had to partially adopt that approach to update the album’s sound, and have the drums sound like hip-hop drums.” “It’s all about the drums and bass,” adds Smeltz. “I made them sound really modern, and then I pulled them back into a classic Al Green mode. For a project that integrates sounds from F ?uestlove (foreground) pulls the highs back while Green (background) watches on. recognize. Bleeding sounds can glue things together that way. These days, everything is separated, and it can sound really cheesy.” Jimmy Douglass—whose credits go back to early Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding recordings—came in at the mixing stage, and he was thrilled when he heard sounds that took him back to the days he worked under legendary producer Tom Dowd. “Pretty much every instrument leaked into Green’s mic,” Douglass says. “That gave me the inspiration to mix like an old fool—it got me all excited and crazy!”
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