Building an Iconic Sound: Portishead's Geoff Barrow

As one-third of Portishead, Bristol-based producer Geoff Barrow has used the mixing board as an instrument to arrange haunted electronics, percussive cast-off, and furrowed laments. He's also produced "traditional" records for bands such as The Coral and The Horrors, helping to hone rough ideas in the studio with instructions of "half of a little bit, or a whole lot of it," as he describes his informal way of applying EQ, compression, and other things. However, with his recent turn as drumm...

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