• Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters....Played simultaneously by 1000 musicians
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[QUOTE=Scientwist;48342547]If you've never heard [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzzPQJH2YF8&spfreload=10"]Everlong[/URL] your life is not complete and may never be. IMHO it's the best song of all time.[/QUOTE] From what I've seen of them they tend to open gigs with Everlong and holy shit is it awesome live. To be honest the entire album is pretty fucking great.
The Pretender is one of the greatest fucking rock songs of all time. If you haven't heard that song and experience the buildup of tension, and then the kickass release, you're missing out.
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[QUOTE=geogzm;48336701]what i want to know is how the hell did they mix this thing[/QUOTE] Not as difficult as it seems from what I can see, there seems to be a load of suspended omni microphones between the drummers, guitarists and bassists every couple of meters, plus all the vocal mics. Can't have been more than 65 inputs, you can see that small centre band are mic'd up properly, but the rest is just picked up by ambient mics. so it was mixing the initial band and then adding the vocals and the ambients
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