Music Production Sins of the 1980s We’re Still Paying For Today

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00:00Music production sins of the 1980s we're still paying for today.

00:05Number 5. The Fairlight's orchestral hit. One sample to rule them all.

00:10Peter Gabriel's Fairlight CMI's Orch 5, an absurdly costly sample, became universal dramatic shorthand,

00:18saturating pop, hip-hop, and film with identical stabs.

00:22Number 4. DX7 Electric Piano, The Sound of Everywhere.

00:26Yamaha DX7's electric piano preset dominated pop.

00:31Once futuristic, it became cliché as producers clung to factory settings.

00:36Number 3. Excessive Reverb, Swimming in Digital Oceans.

00:40Lexicon 224's lush digital spaces inspired excess, drowning vocals and snares in cavernous tales.

00:47Modern producers now subtract.

00:5080s power ballads were infamous for overusing reverb, with snare drums that rang out endlessly.

00:55Modern producers now focus on removing reverb, reacting against that more-is-more approach.

01:02Number 2. Gated Reverb, The Phil Collins Disease.

01:07Phil Collins popularized Gated Reverb's explosive snare.

01:11Studios chased it across genres, installing SSL consoles to replicate.

01:16Number 1. Drum Machine Overload, When Robots Ruled.

01:20Lindrum and Oberheim DMX standardized rhythm with pristine, rigid samples, draining human feel, even ensnaring groovemaster prints.