Originally Posted by evolusean
I'm not at all worried about the composition and lyrical quality. Like everyone has been saying, Ayu has a backlog of songs that she can use, they just need to be recorded. Most artists prepare many, many songs for an album (sometimes in the neighborhood of 40), and then cut that number down to the best. Ayu is constantly being handed tapes of melodies, and she most certainly has lots of lyrics already written, just waiting for the right tune.
Even if that WASN'T the case, based solely on the fact that without songs, there is no album to begin with, Ayu and the Avex squad wouldn't even DARE to go ahead producing a full album if everyone wasn't absolutely convinced that it was a feasible task.
And even saying THAT, for this emergency case, Ayu is definitely going to have some of her favorite, best-working people at hand. I doubt many risks are going to be taken, but that means we'll get a lot of good stuff just based on (1) the people bound to be involved and (2) their history working with Ayu.
And having said THAT, making music is just what they do. It's their thing, it's their life. It's not like they have to work at the grocery store 9-5, and then head to the studio all night. It's what these people spend all day, all night thinking about.
The one and only thing I am concerned about is the mixing, because that is the sort of thing you really can't rush. That's why most songs take a while to finish recording. If you've got the song written and composed, good. If you've got the arrangement, good. If you've got the vocals recorded, good. But because each of those things are done in pieces by 5-20 people, the mixing needs to be careful. They say that after being in the studio and completing the first draught of a song, to always let it sit for a few days or more, until it is completely out of your head. Then you can go back in to the studio and have an objective ear when you are mixing and editing it. Then you can hear the "what was I thinking?"-parts that somehow sounded excellent to you the moment you made them. Then you go back in and re-record and/or re-arrange what you need to. It is nice to let a song ferment, so to speak, so you can really objectively be nit-picky with it and make it perfect.
But even so, I highly doubt anything will have BAD mixing, based on the raw fact that Avex has some of the most polished producers and mixers in the industry. Even on their bad days, they do better than most. And I dare say Ayu gets the best of that company.
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25th October 2006, 12:33 AM
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