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    Posted: September 30 2014 at 15:38
Here's one for the Tech heads. List the best Prog album producers and/or engineers and their particular albums you like. And list what you like about the producer's or engineer's work.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2014 at 15:44
Eddie Kramer for his outstanding work as engineer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He also mixed the songs. Everything that's important to hear in a Hendrix song, you will hear. His early subtle stereo panning and unobtrusive use of volume is what makes a song like Along The Watchtower really standout.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2014 at 09:51
No takers for this thread so I'll throw in a one. Terry Brown for his early work with Rush and helping Queensryche with their bid to go prog metal on Operation Mindcrime and the follow up album Empire.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2014 at 09:46
Still no takers. LOL  Ok, then. David Hentshel for his crisp production on many Genesis albums, especially And Then There Were Three with great ADT used for Collins chorus and his big sound on Renaissance's A Song For  All Seasons album, that made some of the lesser songs better than they were.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 18:30
My favorites:  Trevor Horn,  David Hentshel, Rhett Davies, Brian Eno (not a prog producer but a great one), and Todd Rundgren.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 19:19
The first that springs to mind is former Beatles engineer, Geoff Emerick, who was the mixing engineer for Triumvirat's Spartacus album.

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Producer Peter Hauke, who was with Bellaphon Records, and produced progressive artists like Nektar, Pell Mell, and Dzyan

Producer/Engineer Conrad "Conny" Plank, so important in the emerging German progressive movement, so many involvements, what comes to mind is the Eloy debut and Helmut Koellen's solo record, but there are countless others.

ECM Producer Manfred Eicher, mainly a jazz label, with some progressive artists I like such as Terje Rypdal and Eberhard Weber.

Producer/engineer Eddie Offord, who worked with Yes and ELP, among others. (like the Andromeda debut album)

I don't know how to technically describe what they have done, but it works wonders for me as far as appreciating their art.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 19:34
Phil Spector.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 21:10
For producers/engineers/mastering/mixing specialists......
 
Nick Davis
Bob Ludwig
Chris Kimsey
Terry Brown
Greg Calbi
George Marino
Ted Jensen
Alan Parsons
Steven Wilson
Robert Srzedniccy
Jens Bogren
Dave Meegan
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 21:23
Danger Mouse will always be my one and only, but here are more phenomenal producers:
Chris Thomas
Nigel Godrich
Todd Rundgren
Rick Rubin
Phil Spector
George Martin
I could go on and on...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 21:25
how about
bob clearmountain
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 01:54
Eddie Offord (ELP and Yes)
Steven Wilson (sh*t loads of stuff)
I also like to give a shout out to Peter Collins for his impressive work on Rush - Power Windows but its probably less well known that he produced the IQ album Are You Sitting Comfortably? and did a fine job.
 
after that I'm struggling as I don't know that much about producers/engineers without looking them up
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 03:52
Nick Mason did a great job at Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom, Gong's Shamal and Steve Hillage's Green.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 15:57
Have to give the award to Eddy Offord.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 17:34
Originally posted by The Sloth The Sloth wrote:

Have to give the award to Eddy Offord.


was there anyone else? LOL

This thread has *geek alert* written all over it... you get the 'prog geek' tag for a day at PA's if you could or did name more than 3 OTHERS than Eddy Offord. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 18:26
Shel Talmy: Pentangle and Roy Harper, Peter Sinfield: KC and Roxy Music and Thom Allom: Strawbs.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 18:52
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by The Sloth The Sloth wrote:

Have to give the award to Eddy Offord.


was there anyone else? LOL

This thread has *geek alert* written all over it... you get the 'prog geek' tag for a day at PA's if you could or did name more than 3 OTHERS than Eddy Offord. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2015 at 12:02
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:


For producers/engineers/mastering/mixing specialists......
 
Nick Davis
Bob Ludwig
Chris Kimsey
Terry Brown
Greg Calbi
George Marino
Ted Jensen
Alan Parsons
Steven Wilson
Robert Srzedniccy
Jens Bogren
Dave Meegan


Bingo!! I know that you, Jose have heard the goods.

Agree with this list tenfold!

I will just add a few that have struck me well lately.

Arien Lucassen. This guy is no slouch! He really knows how to produce and mix an album.
The electric Castle is a great example. Perfect tonality of strings. You hear them shimmer with such vibrancy. ;)

Phil Magnoti-- (fates warning). This guy knows how to treat vocals. Never harsh with any Hashy sibilance.

Andy Jackson-- this guy epitomizes how to lavishly produce an album beautifully.
Good example. Fields of the Nephilim's ELIZIUM. It's perfect.

Trent Reznor and Alan Moulder-- dear god these guys know what they are doing. The way they treat piano and acoustics, album mixing for industrial electronic music. None much better. Zero noise floor.

Francois Kevorkian-- one of the best mixers in the biz. An absolute perfectionist.
Good example is Depeche mode's VIOLATOR.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 08:27
Always loved the production on the Tom Fuller Album.. Probably not as well known but worth a mention I think

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 10:47
John Acock who Steve Hackett chose to co-produce his first seven albums. A good, lush, wall-to-wall sound because of it. Not to be confused with John Alcock, producer of Thin LIzzy's best duo, Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2015 at 12:24
Peter Van Riet.

Excellent work with Pendragon.

Karl Groom of threshold for remastering the Twelfth Night live album (Ljve and let live.)
It's sounds more than bearable because of him. Not bad given the album was originally a 2 track recording.
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