We had already visualized what we needed, so we did that as we went along. There is the artistic reason: People play differently when they hear the effect and are playing to it. Summary. Now I can see the connection with the Beach Boys and the Four Seasons. It was very left of center. With Local H, we knew the running order of the album before we even started recording, so we could work out our segues. With Queen, the whole idea of big vocals were taken to outrageous, operatic levels. I subsidized my pay by being a race car mechanic, which I actually thought was great fun anyway. “Good Times Roll” is a classic one for that. Entdecken Sie Veröffentlichungen von Roy Thomas Baker auf Discogs. See, the radio station’s compressors will react to actual volume and turn the music down. This was not exactly a cool idea. We check back to the tape to make sure that we’re not over-saturating. Dual Shower Is So Fantastic! Roy Thomas Baker produced Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and, if nothing else, deserves his place in history merely based on that brilliant, pristine, and utterly perfect track. Then we went out to eat dinner." If you really listen to it, the ballad starts off clean, and as the opera section gets louder and louder, the vocals get more and more distorted. Moved to Trident Studios. https://queen.fandom.com/wiki/Roy_Thomas_Baker?oldid=4328. Although born in London, England, he now splits his time between his homes in L.A., Europe, and his recording studio in Arizona. Especially when I’m mixing the drum rides-I would whack them up so loud that they would saturate the mixing board and then they would saturate the tape machine. I would run into the Sex Pistols, because they were working over at Wessex. As long as you know up front that a certain song is destined for radio and MTV, you should come at it straight out of the gate from the beginning in pre-production. [Laughs]. He got his start at Decca Records in England at the age of 14 and later at Trident Studios, where he was fortunate enough to work under such producers as Gus Dudgeon, Peter Sullivan, Tony Visconti and Ken Scott. Listen to music from Roy Thomas Baker like Gotta Get Out Of This City, Fingers & more. I think I was paid the equivalent of 12 pounds a week; no overtime, nothing. That’s true with all the great bands, even ones that have been around for hundreds of years, like the Stones. What music helped form your tastes growing up, and what elements of that have carried over into your work? The thing that I loved was the way American blues went over to England and got bastardized with artists like Clapton and the Stones, and then went back to America. I don’t look at meters. The only thing different is the end of “Killer Queen” is actually real tape phasing. What would you say is a primary guiding philosophy behind your production work? It was basically a joke, but a successful joke. I love segues, because I like records to be continuous and it gives me a good excuse not to turn off the music and put on something else. When Roy Thomas Baker was the age that I was when I started discovering RTB-produced records, RTB was producing records. From what I understand, you’ve startled more than a few “proper” engineers with your methodology. That was a post-production decision. It is technically distortion, but it is also bringing out those nice third and fifth harmonics that you want to hear. What things did you do to help ensure that effect? Find the perfect Roy Thomas Baker stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. The information is not available. Yet Baker, who made his name with Queen and the Cars, is nowhere near a one-trick pony and his flawless production has also helped the likes of Journey, Cheap Trick, Ozzy Osbourne, and countless others. Roy Thomas Baker. I loved the stuff that was being done by Bob Crewe and Phil Spector. Fans of his work will want to look for upcoming releases by Local H, Other Star People and Caroline’s Spine. You voice the parts and arrange the instrumentation that you use right at the very beginning. Roy Thomas Baker. For the technical people, who may want to know, the end of the song was much heavier because it was one of the first mixes to be done with automation. When they sing those words, it’s huge and then it’s gone, and everything is back to sparse again. Roy Thomas Baker (Born Hampstead, London, England) is a multiple award-winning English music producer, songwriter, arranger and Recording Academy Governor, who has produced Platinum and Gold certified pop and rock records from the 1970s to the present. Profile: Producer, active 1970's to the present. www.roythomasbaker.com But late-’80s American rock and pop held little interest for him, so he found himself spending most of his time back in Europe, where he produced a number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed releases, including discs by The Stranglers, Chris De Burgh and T’Pau, whose chart topping album and singles remained on the European charts for over a year. En­cour­aged by music pro­ducer Gus Dud­geon he soon moved to Tri­dent Stu­dios, where he worked with Dud­geon, Tony Vis­conti, Mick Jag­ger and Keith Richards, Frank Zappa as well as record­ing artists like The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Who, Gasolin', Nazareth, San­tana, The Moth­ers of In­ven­tion, Be Bop Deluxe, Free and T.Rex. You can hear what was inspiring me as a producer, to inspire bands I was working on to do that, or connecting me with the bands that were good at doing that. Roy Thomas Baker produced Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and, if nothing else, deserves his place in history merely based on that brilliant, pristine, and utterly perfect track. It started off as a ballad, but the end was heavy. What made it funnier was disc jockeys played the segues even more on that album. Much of your production work draws from the best of American and British popular music idioms. Obviously, after a certain level, they don’t get any louder on tape. With The Cars, you had this band with a sparse rhythm section and a unique singer in Ric Ocasek, but when the harmonies kicked in, it was a wall of sound. Roy Thomas Baker, Category: Artist, Top Tracks: Lighthouse, Gotta Get Out Of This City, Identity Theft, Fingers, Plans, Biography: Roy Thomas Baker produced Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and, if nothing else, deserves his place in history merely based on that brilliant, pristine, and utterly perfect track., Monthly Listeners: 19, Where People Listen: San Francisco, Chicago, Oceanside, Oviedo, Girard You still need somebody else around to make sure you get the best out of yourself, because you can’t be in two places at once. It’s basically where you do all the dull work for 24 hours for no pay. But in the same way that we had the alterna-music thing in the early ’90s, the end of the ’70s had the punk era. I’m not one of these, “Oh, we’ll cut this and leave the effect for the mix.” I actually record the effects. Was there a pivotal moment where a light went off and you thought, “I want to be a producer”? You may leave a message for the family by clicking here. Baker began his ca­reer at Decca Records in Eng­land at the age of 14. Exactly. roy thomas baker (rtb) multi platinum and award winning music and film producer - +1 (310) 598 [email protected] roythomasbaker He then proceeded to move to the US and set up The RTB Audio Visual Productions' Offices in New York and Los Angeles. [Laughs]. And we mixed the whole of the end section by hand. He is currently the governor of People will not go out and buy a nice drum sound if the song isn’t there. So an alternative copy for radio with these big five-second spacings between each song would be made, as in the case of Journey’s Infinity. My whole thing is, the more different you can sound from anything else around but still be commercially successful is great! Roy Thomas Baker (born on 10 November 1946, in Hampstead, London, England) is an English record and music producer, songwriter, arranger and Recording Academy governor, who has produced pop and rock records since the 1970s. So that was the way we would mix a record. Kaufen Sie Platten, CDs und mehr von Roy Thomas Baker auf dem Discogs-Marktplatz. You can still hear this on the CD. When we first record, we’re always saturating. When Scott, the singer, sang with the effect in his headphones, he could work with it and make the effect work a million times better. The whole idea is to make you sound louder, so that it jumps out in your face. His elegant facility is a three-and-a-half hour drive from L.A. in the foothills of the Mojave mountains, above the shores of Lake Havasu. Roy Thomas Baker is a British music producer and songwriter, famously known for his work on some of the biggest records dating back to the 1970’s. After co-found­ing Nep­tune (Tri­dent's record com­pany), Baker met the rock band Queen. You’ve got to make these decisions up front. We had the plans on how one song would go into another and make the whole album a non-stopping entity. That’s what I do. It was done live. By the mid-’80s he’d become a senior VP of A&R for Elektra; during his tenure there the label signed 10,000 Maniacs, Simply Red, Yello, Peter Schilling and Metallica. What happened was we had VCAs built into a Trident board over at Sarm Studios in London. Except for just basic echo, I tend to also use the effects as we go, when we record vocals. The trick to this has to do with creating apparent volume, as opposed to actual volume. They played the first three or four songs of The Cars’ first album together, too. Every artist would like to produce their own records. So far we have seen rain showerheads and the hand showers, designer Thomas baker wants to give you the benefit of both Roy Thomas Baker (born on 10 November 1946, in Hampstead, London, England) is an English record and music producer, songwriter, arranger and Recording Academy governor, who has produced pop and rock records since the 1970s. www.roythomasbaker.com. Today, Roy Thomas Baker spends most of his time in the U.S. © 2020 MIX is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Roy Thomas Baker (London, 1946. november 10. It gave me Saturdays making sure there were great fuel injectors on these race cars. We had to record it in three separate units. What are your thoughts on that? We drove past a billboard for the Cars’ record, and he said, “If someone had told me a year ago that I would be driving along Sunset Boulevard with Roy Thomas Baker looking up at a billboard of my record that is Number One, I wouldn’t have believed him.” On T’Pau’s “Heart and Soul,” your approach to the rap portions of the song was unique. Discover all Roy Thomas Baker's music connections, watch videos, listen to music, discuss and download. Select from premium Roy Thomas Baker of the highest quality. Roy Thomas Baker. Sometimes the record company initially didn’t like them, not for artistic reasons, but because they thought that disc jockeys would have a problem taking the record off at that point. I was able to put big vocals on a sparse, punkish background, sort of inventing post-punk pop. He began a working relationship that lasted for five albums (Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera and Jazz) and a number of awards – including Grammy Awards and The Guinness World Records for the best single, "Bohemian Rhapsody". We did the whole beginning bit, then the whole middle bit and then the whole end. Roy Thomas Baker produced Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and, if nothing else, deserves his place in history merely based on that brilliant, pristine, and utterly perfect track. His fabulously appointed and well-equipped studio contains hard-wired TLA, Summit and Neve mixers; a rare Stephens 40-track (fine-tuned and maintained by John Stephens) with Dolby SR; and six Tascam DA-88s. 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