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yes and to make more silly generalizations:

the brits like to listen to records and think:

Jeeves, that is quite a perplexing flanger setting you have there!

and the americans like to listen and say:

ya, baby, I feel that, I can shake my butt to that...

I was talking to the engineer from England who worked on some nine Inch
Nails and some Billy Corgan stuff and he said "Brit music and engineers lack
the idea that lots of bass in music can be good for the feeling of the music
even in an intellectually stimulating musical setting"... now there's a
crossover guy for ya... a brit who lives in the US.... hmmmm

tk brooklyn, NY


> 
> Re: British bands
> 
> Traditionaly there used to be to schools of recording engineers, the British
> Over-produced and use much more extreme FX, processing, non-traditional
> techniques than there conservative American cousins,  so there is the
> British EQ, Brian Eno, Depeach Mode, The Beatles.... Americans traditionally
> are more inclined to the purist school, unplugged, jazz, and compressed
> rock, dry alternative  "well except for the Elvis reverb king ".... Anyhow I
> think the rise of computers and globalization are showing there trends,
> considering that calkwalk can have fancy FX your average garage band is
> experimenting with filters, modulations and such, long are the days when
> congas were considered exotic
> 
> ! > That there is something more organic, authentic, and gritty
>> about American music.