TRIVIUMを別角度で検証する
ここ数年で音楽の聴き方が随分変わって最近はジャズやクラシック、プログレッシヴ・ロックが大半を占める様になってきてますですが久々にメタル、トリヴィアム『The CRUSADE』をトレイに乗せましたうんうんいいです。いいもんはいいです。ヴォーカル入りの音楽を聴く事がめっきり減ったんですが、熱いメタルヴォーカルはいいですね~。で、購入当時から感じていましたが、このアルバムはメタルにしては音が良い。ではではタイトルにある別角度からエンジニアスタッフから探ってみようと思います、というわけであんまり見る人いないかも知れない、国内盤では端折られている場合すらあるライナーノーツの後ろに書いてあるクレジットを拝見produced by TRIVIUM and JASON SUECOFほほ~、JASON SUECOFという方、ヤホーで調べてみました2003 And the Blood Runs Black Summon Engineer, Mixing 2003 Ember to Inferno Trivium Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Mixing 2003 Rise to Power Monstrosity Engineer, Soloist 2004 Fractured Capharnaum Guitar, Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Soloist, Group Member 2004 Gone Forever God Forbid Guitar (Electric) 2004 MTV2 Headbangers Ball, Vol. 2 Various Artists Mixing 2005 Ascendancy [Clean] Trivium Producer, Engineer 2005 Ascendancy Trivium Producer, Engineer 2005 Gold Becomes Sacrifice Cannae Producer, Engineer, Mixing 2005 IV: Constitution of Treason [Promo] God Forbid Guitar, Programming, Producer, Engineer, Soloist 2005 IV: Constitution of Treason God Forbid Guitar, Programming, Producer, Engineer, Soloist 2005 Roadrage 2005 [DVD] Various Artists Producer 2005 Roadrunner United: The All Star Sessions Various Artists Keyboards, Engineer 2005 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown [DVD/CD] Original Soundtrack Producer 2005 Trilateral Progression Neuraxis Mixing 2005 Until the Bitter End Rick Renstrom Pre-Production 2006 Ascendancy [CD/DVD] Trivium Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Soloist 2006 Beauty and the Breakdown Bury Your Dead Producer, Engineer, Mixing 2006 Black Tie Affair Failsafe Producer, Engineer, Mixing 2006 Crusade Trivium Producer, Engineer 2006 Life in Ruin If Hope Dies Producer, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing 2006 MTV2 Headbanger's Ball: The Revenge Various Artists Producer 2006 Underworld: Evolution [Original Soundtrack] Original Soundtrack Producer 2006 What Have We Become Seemless Producer, Cabasa 2007 Last Kind Words DevilDriver Producer, Engineer 2007 Nocturnal The Black Dahlia Murder Mixing 2007 Resurrection [Bonus DVD] Chimaira Keyboards, Producer, Sampling 2007 Resurrection Chimaira Keyboards, Producer, Sampling 2007 Road to Bloodshed Sanctity Producer, Engineer 2008 Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow [Clean] Sevendust Engineer 2008 Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow Sevendust Engineer 2008 Dystopia Beneath the Massacre Mixing 2008 Maniacal Sworn Enemy Guitar 2008 Overcome All That Remains Producer, Engineer 2008 Packaged Goods Collector's Edition Sevendust Engineer 2008 Prevail [CD/DVD] Kataklysm Guitar, Mixing, Soloist 2008 Roadkillers: Dir en Grey Selection Various Artists Producer 2008 Total Brutal Austrian Death Machine Guitar, Soloist 2008 Very Brutal Christmas Austrian Death Machine Guitar 2009 Absence Luna Mortis Producer, Mixing 2009 Concealers Daath Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Sound Design なるほどなるほど、近年活躍するメタル・プロデューサー、エンジニアですね。錚々たる名が並んでますレコーディング・エンジニアにはJASON SUECOFと共にMARK LEWISThe Black Dahlia Murder "Nocturnal" - Engineer Bury Your Dead "Beauty and the Breakdown" - Engineer and Mixing, Self Titled - Engineer Trivium (band) "The Crusade" (UK Top 10 album) and Kerrang! "Master of Puppets" tribute - Engineer Sanctity "Road to Bloodshed" - Engineer Chimaira (band) "Resurrection" - Engineer DevilDriver "The Last Kind Words" - Engineer Adrift (band) "Absolution" - Mixing and additional Engineering All That Remains (band) "Live" DVD - Engineer Roadrunner United "The All-Star Sessions" - Assistant Engineer on all 5 Matthew K. Heafy tracks If Hope Dies "Life in Ruin" - Engineer The Autumn Offering "Embrace the Gutter" - Engineering and Mixing, "Fear Will Cast No Shadow" - Engineer Hellwithin "Shadows of Vanity" - Mixing and additional Engineering Seemless "What We Have Become" - Engineer and Co-Producer Failsafe "A Black Tie Affair" - Mixing Violence to Vegas "Princess to Poison" - Engineer Rise To Ruin "Iron Youth" - Mixing Through You "2006 EP" - Engineering, "2007 EP" - Producer, Engineer and Mixing この方も数多くの新進気鋭のメタルバンドを手がけてる方ですね~レコーディングはフロリダ州サンフォードにあるAUDIOHAMMER STUDIOと同じくフロリダ州のタンパ(野茂、森も在籍した、現在岩村が在籍するタンパベイ・レイズで有名ですね)にあるMORRISOUND STUDIOMixはCOLIN RICHARDSONProduced and/or Produced and Mixed (P or P/M) by Colin Richardson ...Bullet For My Valentine "Scream Aim Fire" album - Sony/BMG P/MBullet For My Valentine "The Poison" album (Gold in UK & Germany) - Sony P/MBullet For My Valentine "Hand of Blood" EP - Sony P/MFightstar "Grand Unification" album (Top 30 Album UK) - Island P/MDevildriver "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand" album - Roadrunner P/MMachine Head "The More Things Change" album - Roadrunner P/MMachine Head "Burn My Eyes" album (Silver in UK, Gold in Australia) - Roadrunner P/MFear Factory "Demanufacture/Remanufacture" albums (Silver in UK, Gold in Australia) - Roadrunner PFear Factory "Soul of a New Machine" album - Roadrunner P/MOne Minute Silence "Buy Now, Saved Later" album - V2 P/MCannibal Corpse "Bloodthirst" album - Metal Blade P/MOverkill "Kill Box 13" album - P/MCyclefly "Crave" album - MCA/Universal PPulkas "Greed" album - Earache P/MCarcass "Swansong" album - Earache/Columbia P/MCarcass "Heartwork" album - Earache P/MCarcass "Necroticism" album - Earache P/MCarcass "Symphonies of Sickness" album - Earache P/MNapalm Death "Inside The Torn Apart" album - Earache P/MNapalm Death "Diatribes" album - Earache P/MNapalm Death "Utopia Banished" album - Earache P/MNapalm Death "Mentally Murdered" EP - Earache P/MHamlet "Hamlet" album - Zero P/MHamlet "Inferno" album - Zero P/MHamlet "Insomnio" album - Zero P/M(字数の関係上一部省略)おお~かなりメジャー級も手がけてますね~PRO TOOLS MixにはMATT HYDEこの方もかなり有名な方のようです。MixはロンドンのMILOCO SUTUDIOS and STRONGROOM STUDIOSMILOCO SUTUDIOSのHPにMATT HYDEの紹介がありますので貼っておきますさてレコーディングが終わると最終工程マスタリングエンジニアはTED JENSENどわ~この人はメタル界だけでなく有名ですね~。世界的に有名なSTERLING SOUNDのチーフマスタリングエンジニアですなんせ宇多田ひかるののエンジニアでも有名な人ですからねまさか宇多田とトリヴィアムが姉弟?従姉?とはね~宇多田ファンにもトリヴィアム聴いてみてほしいですね~(注)聴いたのは輸入盤。国内盤はコンプかけて音圧上げたりするなどの改悪をしている場合ありなので、国内盤同アルバムが良いかは不明