Matt Heath's List: Daft Punk Assignment 3/14

• challenging almost all current preconceptions about the way in which music is made
• Mainstream music press reviewers
• made an exception for RAM
• amazing level of detail
• The album was more than two years in the making, spread out over five years, and the result of this gargantuan investment of money, time and effort is that Random Access Memories is, even when heard in lo-res digital formats, arguably the best-sounding album of the 21st Century so far.
• the use of high-end recording studios full of analogue equipment
• Daft Punk left-hand man Peter Franco, who was one of the album's engineers
• return to analogue gear
• received a Best Electronic Album Grammy Award for his engineering work on the resulting live album, Alive 2007.
• Franco
• So for this album they went on a journey to understand what analogue does.”
• "We were doing lots of tests with analogue tape,”
• like record into Pro Tools and then transfer the material to tape, at various different levels, and then bring it back into Pro Tools.
• during the first recordings with live musicians, Thomas and Guy-Man also decided to stay away from using plug-ins.
• [Sequential Circuits] Prophet 5, [Roland] Jupiter 6, Juno 106, Yamaha CS80.
• some reverb, mostly from an EMT 140 plate, and occasionally the EMT 250
• On 'Get Lucky',
• I used the EMT 140 on the orchestra, but I'd also recorded it with the live chamber at Capitol for natural ambience.

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