“A lot of [“Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This”] was trying to create as much space as possible so that Annie’s voice sounded crystal clear, pure, and not drowned out. But making sure the backing track still sounded incredibly powerful. A lot of that has to do with literally not having anything in the stereo picture on top of each other, as well as looking at the difference of frequencies and not having the cymbals or the hi-hats from a drum machine be on the same frequency as, say, an electric guitar within the limited tracks we had.”
“To this day, I don’t make any demos, and never have. If I had something on the Portastudio, it was bounced onto the eight-track and that was part of the master. And whoever I work with, I will not make a demo either. I think when you make a demo, often you capture some spark of brilliance and then you try and recreate it again, but it starts to fade away. I might then add to it, change it a bit, edit it about, but the thing that first came out is always in it. The record label often will say to me, ‘Do you have any extra demos that we could put as special tracks?’ And I’m like, ‘No, we just have other songs!’”
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