TOOL ('nuff said)

Posted on May 05, 2002 08:28 pm
tbone
Member Since: Apr 30, 2002

hey people...
i was listening to aenema, (one of the band TOOL's albums, for the uninitiated), and was thinking about the use stereo in the recordings. its my favourite album ever, and i was without it for like a year and i just got it back recently and listened to it with my AKG's and realized there was much more to it.
back to my point...for alot of the time, the guitar is center in the mix, with the bass and the bass drum. it's weird, cuz normally people pan the guitar tracks or double them. and i realized they made up for the possible lack of 'stereo' by having danny's huge drumset panned all the way around your head. then, when a song gets REALLY heavy, bam! the guitar track is doubled. i thought it was an interesting way of doing things. i normally don't like the guitar dead center cuz it ends up sounding a little weak, but in this case it actually adds alot of depth.
for those tool fans, check out 46 and 2 cuz its a perfect example. listen to the first chorus (the guitar is dead center) then there's a slight rest and the verse comes in, but the guitar is doubled. its a good use of stereo imaging, i would say, in a very basic way.
later y'all

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