Which CD you are using as your reference CD?

[tlester]

A faithful CD for years has been Elemental from Tears for Fears.

Anything by Sting/Police
Chevel - Hard Rock
Micheal Smith "Mary, Margret, Pat, and Kate" - Folk
Metalica - Heavy Stuff
The Elms - Killer Guitar
Tom Petty (anything form the last 3 CD's) - Everything... drums, guitar, bass, vocals, BG's, etc...
Anything mixed by Andy Wallace!

-Tom

[narcoman]

errr,

Queens of the Stone age - Songs for the Deaf
The hives - your new favourite band (particularly track2)
The dirtbombs - electra glide in black
a few others as well but those are the main ones that i sit with all the time. especially the hives - so incredibly well mixed and mastered for that garage rock sound. amazing job - no reverbs to speak of as well.

cheers

[bruceup]

David Sanborn and Bob James 'Double Vision'. The first track, 'Maputo' is always the first track I put listen to anywhere. Bill Schnee at his best.

[generator]

I usually ask the clients who they'd like to be mixed or mastered to, as a reference.

Recent requests:

Mudvayne
Good Charlotte
DMX
Hed P.E.
Busta Rhymes
Blink 182
Korn
The Ataris

[D Clarkson]

Aaliyah

[narcoman]

aarrrggghhh Good charlotte. I'm forever hounded by this band...arrrggghhhh#


cheers

[6X 2]

This is kinda obvious, but...

You should pick CDs you think sound great and that you also know very well, i.e. listened to on a million different systems.

I'm using a bunch of cds, but it depends on what the stuff is you're working on.

At the moment:

Bill Frisell: Gone, just like a train
Kenny Wheeler: Angel song
Weather Report: Heavy weather
Henry Threadgill and make a move: Where's your cup?
Norah Jones: come away with me
Coldplay: Parachutes or A rush of blood to the head
The Coral
David Bowie: 1. Outside
Kings of convenience: Quiet is the new loud
Turin Brakes: The optimist LP
Tom Waits: Alice
Jeff Buckley: Grace
Kelly Joe Phelps: Slingshot professionals
Radiohead: Kid A
Aphex Twin: drvqs
Rough Trade Electronic 01 compilation (got loads of great electronic stuff...)

...and so forth and so forth... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

6x 2

[doorknocker]

Originally posted by 6X 2:

Bill Frisell: Gone, just like a train
Kenny Wheeler: Angel song
Weather Report: Heavy weather
Henry Threadgill and make a move: Where's your cup?
Norah Jones: come away with me
Coldplay: Parachutes or A rush of blood to the head
The Coral
David Bowie: 1. Outside
Kings of convenience: Quiet is the new loud
Turin Brakes: The optimist LP
Tom Waits: Alice
Jeff Buckley: Grace
Kelly Joe Phelps: Slingshot professionals
Radiohead: Kid A
Aphex Twin: drvqs
Rough Trade Electronic 01 compilation (got loads of great electronic stuff...)

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">[img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] Cool list! A lot of my faves, too...might check out the ones I don't know....

Here are a few more:

-Dr.John: 'Anutha Zone': produced by John Leckie, amazing low end...even on tiny car speakers and still doesn't sound crushed on a bigger system...

- Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell: 'Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission'
Amazing low end without boom.

-Nils Petter Molvaer 'Khmer'
Molvaer is also featured on 'Radioaxiom'....and you thought ECM records are too 'brainy' sounding.......

-V.M Bhatt / Ry Cooder 'A meeting by the river' : now that's what I call a room sound..... the antithesis of 'stupid loud' mastering.

- Buddy Guy 'Blues Singer'
Brand new acoustic record, killer performance and sound.....It's a tribute to Muddy Waters' 'Folk Singer' record that Buddy played on 40 years ago, they even managed to somehow get the same reverb sound....BTW 'Folk Singer' is a incredible sounding record, the CD reissue is good but doesn't come close to how it sounded on vinyl, IMHO.....

-Radiohead 'O.K Computer'

-The Rolling Stones 'Beggar's Banquet' : amazing new Bob Ludwig remaster, just got a new Sony SACD player, holy **** [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] this sums up rock and roll for me....

-Steely Dan 'Aja' : Best drum/bass interplay and sound I've ever heard.

-'Portishead' : talk about setting a mood.....

- Frank Sinatra: 'In the wee small hours': talk about setting a mood...

-Jeff Buckley 'Grace'
Just so that it's mentioned one more time.....


and plenty more......

Andi

[metaltim]

it seems you heavy music fans out there forgot to mention Tool, specifcially their latest, Lateralus (though aenima is clea nas well)
this is heavy music, with songs that focus a lot on drum and base, at it's finest production.

tim

[Donny]

Ricky Peterson "Night Watch" for r&b/smooth jazz/pop