He killed the radio star

 

the funny thing with janet jackson's rhythm nation was that the producers/soundtechs walked out during the mixing and mastering of the album leaving 2 managers from the record company with their hands in their hair and deciding to see what they could do, after a couple of hours, nights, days janet walks into the studio and is like hey i like this sound, let's keep it like this and they published the album

 

@ ca5plays,

Finally you have an answer to a part of your question :

Albums featuring the SP-1200
Some albums that were produced utilizing this machine include the following (scroll down till the end of that list) :

• • People Under the Stairs - "The Next Step"
  • Johnny J - "2Pac's Producer"
  • Alan Braxe - The Upper Cuts
  • PNS - 12 Bit Soul
  • Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
  • Pete Rock - INI, Soul Survivor, PeteStrumentals
  • Lord Finesse - The Awakening, The SP1200 Project
  • Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote
  • Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown (In this case, the first LP in to use the SP-12 Turbo).
  • Geto Boys - The Geto Boys
  • EPMD - Strictly Business
  • Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
  • Jel - 10 Seconds
  • Main Source - Breaking Atoms
  • Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
  • Nas - Illmatic
  • on Madlib and MF DOOM (as Madvillain)'s album Madvillainy, Madlib was holding a SP-1200 in his hands on the back cover.
  • BS 2000 - Nobody Beats BS2000
  • El Da Sensei - Relax Relate Release
  • Aesop of Living Legends - Black Libra
  • Kid Koala - 12 bit Blues
  • Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
  • Thomas Bangalter used an SP-1200 for most of the releases on the Roulé label, such as Trax On Da Rocks, Spinal Scratch and Trax On Da Rocks Vol. 2
  • Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

 

You're absolutely right to refuse for the 'Album Version' (recorded and enginereed by the gigantic 'Bruce Swedien'), but first of this, and as often, it exists one (or some) 'Demo(s)' prior to the final version which is included in the 'commercial' Version(s) of some Albums...

Check, and above all, listen to the sound of the 'Drum Beat' on the following 'Demo' from 'Billie Jean' ('Home Demo' from 1981) :

And for the official 'Album Version' (this recorded and engineered by 'Bruce Swedien') which your statement is perfect ! below you'll find all the details :

"The drums on this track are great - I had a wall of gobos set around the drums which helped the separation quite a bit. I had an SM57 on the snare, RCA 77DX on the hat, [Neumann] U67 on each of the toms and I used a Sennheiser on the kick drum - I can't remember exactly which one. And then a pair of U67s for the overheads and that sounded pretty clean."

According the words of 'Bruce Swedien' himself...

 

Last edited: Jul 21, 2016