Re: (TV) Clean tone/Beat Willie to Death/ Leo Threatens To Write Essay on "Dreamtime's" Genesis & Production/Q for Maurice

["Dan Jones" <dnljns@hotmail.com>]

"maybe I'll just ask Verlaine, himself, at the Bowery Ballroom Sunday; I'm 
sure he'd love to discuss production values with a fan"

Speaking of the BB gig are the NYC list memebers going to meet up before the 
gig? I'm definitely going and it'd be fun be to get together.

Production Values w/ Verlaine, Leo? He'll probably just tell a few 
half-truths:-) Anyway, I wanted to be a studio engineer before I became the 
fanstatic trade journo I now am, I still like to do the odd bit of home 
recording, so I'm into all this stuff:

I believe the Dreamtime album was recorded 'hotter' to tape than the other 
Tom Verlaine/Television albums, I also reckon that Verlaine used a lot of 
the studio delay lines and harmonizers - you can hear that on tracks like 
'Penetration' and 'Down on the Farm' where there are "small-room" echos on 
the guitar.

I also know he used a Fender Twin reverb amplifier (which is very loud and 
therefore difficult to crank into overdrive like his smaller Danelectro 
amps) and a Sam Ash Fuzzola fuzz pedal (probably for the chorus riff in 
penetration). I expect that he used the more trebely sounding Fender Jaguar 
a lot on these recordings which also helps account for the more upfront 
sound on the tracks.

I must say I think that an album is only really a snapshot of what songs 
sound like at a particular time. Bottom line, if its a great song the 
production sound not matter too much and I think every TV album has its 
share. Verlaine's songs always go unexpected ways in live performance 
anyway.

D


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