In the movie 24 Hour Party People, a band tests songs on car radios before releasing them. Anyone know if a real band did this?
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@paulg Motown Records deliberately did this in the '60s, mixing records such that they sounded good in car radios. -
@paulg Hope this link works: it says Motown rigged a special speaker in its studio in the '60s to test car sound. http://books.google.com/books?id=FQSdu0PJ7vkC&pg=PT363&lpg=PT363&dq=motown+%22car+radio%22+mixed&source=bl&ots=qKTOVtjeDa&sig=0JVMZ8I5Sf9ZfzaFRDabnb4COpc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3-X-Ubz2H9CuyAHAsYDQDQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBg …
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@paulg@robresnick and I used to do it. It's something many do, a good test to see if you're hitting the right freqs @ high volumesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg "The first audio engineer" might be a more relevant question; the first band it was done for probably didn't even know about it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg@BonJovi tested slippery when wet demos at a pizza parlor. http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/ultimate_albums/slippery/interview_sambora.jhtml …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg@BonJovi and@docmcghee played demos from Living On A Prayer album to teen girls before selecting final songs for album.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg I recall reading somewhere that The Beach Boys did this back in the 1960s.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Quincy Jones was known to test Michael Jackson's albums on all kinds of players in the 80s. Don't know when he started this practice.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg the Beatles were personally involved in mixing their mono releases in the early 60s and let others mix the stereo versionsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg FM and AM stations are going to run their own compression differently. So a car radio test should incorporate a simulation of that.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Rolling Stones, allegedly - http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=552 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Van Halen did this with their Balance album to sound good in car sound system.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Car test and boombox test are both pretty old. A lot of famous mixers primarily monitor on consumer-grade systems.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg I studied Sound Recording and that was a common technique we were taught - listen/mix for the audience's setup, not the studio's.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg It goes back to the '60s, Berry Gordy at Motown. Music designed for crappy car speakers. Music teacher in '80s talked about this.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg The Flaming LipsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Phil Spector?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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