My Interview For EQ Magazine
February 1, 2008 by Colin FairbairnSeveral months ago I was interviewed by EQ Magazine for my work on the Toca album and it’s finally been printed in the February 2008 issue.
View the article online at eqmag.com:
http://www.eqmag.com/article/toca-producer-colin/feb-08/33401
Or click the thumbnail image below for a full size scan of the article from the printed magazine:
There are a few inaccuracies with the article which I’d like to note here. The article implies that I was the sole “producer” of the music whereas in reality the production should be credited mostly to the band members themselves. Generously, the band had fought their label to get me credited as a co-producer due to my heavy involvement in the production of their songs, but the label wanted to credit themselves instead… as a result, on the record itself I actually only received mixing and engineering credits. The article also uses two of my photographs and captions one of them as “Ceschi Ramos recording guitar…” when in reality, the person in the photo is a friend of Ceschi’s who isn’t even in the band!
Some of the quotes are also sort of funny and not really what I said. It’s really weird to read something like this because it’s ALMOST what I said but run through some sort of weird filter. The article says the album was mixed on a laptop, but that is obviously not the case. The entire thing was done on two different HD2 Accel systems and what I was trying to convey was that the track counts were so large (sometimes over 150 tracks!) that the systems were being maxed out and that I had to go through a difficult learning curve working without a console.
Anyways, I’m very flattered to be included in the magazine and I hope that you enjoy reading the interview. I wish they would have given more credit to Ceschi, Tommy, Xolo, David, Danny, and Max, but I guess because this is a recording magazine they were only interested in the more geeky aspects of making of the record.