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SACRIFICE's Rob Urbinati discusses the band's comeback album, The Ones I Condemn, in a new interview with Explicity Intense. An excerpt is available below:
Q: Most Sacrifice fans know that you prefer the pure sound in your recording, versus the digitally enhanced sound. Do you think that albums like The Ones I Condemn will bring back that sound in recordings?
Urbinati: "I hope so. I hope it at least gets even a couple of bands to do it. Just because, I think now too many albums sounds the same. With the whole drum triggering and editing thing, for me, it makes things sound too mechanical. There’s no humanity. There’s no emotion in it anymore. I don’t think people have a grasp of how much music is edited, even guitar. I mean guys can go in now and play a riff once and repeat four times on the computer and that’s that one bar…done. You know, they don’t even go in and play the whole guitar track through anymore. And when I hear this stuff and see it happening, really, I just hate it.
The thing is, the temptation is too great...when you’re in the studio and your drummer maybe speeds up or slows down a bit, or hits something a tiny bit off. We didn’t even go in with a click track, just because we didn’t even want that temptation there to fix it. We wanted to go in and record and make it sound like people were actually doing it. ‘Cause otherwise you might as well go in with a drum machine. That’s all I hear on recording now. It sounds like a drum machine. Even if I was a drummer I wouldn’t allow that.
It’s appreciated by the fans…the real sound.
Well I’m glad! (laughing) Because I was wondering when we decided to go that route, if people actually would appreciate it. But yeah, it sounds like people do. I even hear from musicians saying 'Thank God somebody’s willing to do this.'"
Q: Do you think the iPod generation can carry the torch?
Urbinati: "The whole digital thing is great. It’s not like the old days where you have to carry around a ghetto blaster and your pockets were full of cassette tapes and stuff. I’m hoping people will still want some kind of physical thing they can hold in their hand. Because the unfortunate thing about the iPod shit is, it seems like people grasp maybe two songs off of an album, that’s what goes onto their iPod. There’s no whole album experience anymore. There’s no putting on a record and listening to the whole thing. I’m guilty of this too. I’m just hoping this vinyl thing comes back and comes back in a big way, where people will actually buy it and it won’t just be the iPod."