Looking back, i can say that Colin Richardson has been an engineer/mixer that i've grown up with and i owe a lot to him. Colin Richardson is a pretty big producer, mixer, and engineer whose worked for big metal bands such as Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Bullet For My Valentine, and Cannibal Corpse.
Without knowing at the time, when i was first getting into the metal scene Trivium and As I Lay Dying were the two big bands that i was first introduced to and loved. I quickly moved onto other stuff and looking at his resume, i've found out that a good amount of other records i listened to at the beginning of my metal days were mixed by him as well, like Machine Head's The Blackening.
The most noteworthy album that he's done would be Trivium's The Crusade and Shogun. I love those two albums and love the way they sound. The guitars are thick and tasty, the drums are precise and pounding, and the bass fits in perfectly without being buried in the mix. One of the ways people say he gets his sound for the drums is layering 3 different tom sounds to make them sound bigger.
One of the things i like about Colin Richardson is that he's done a bunch of different records, with each band having a different style and he emphasizes that with each band, but if you listen to enough of his work, you can tell that's it's him by the little things, like the snare drum. Everything is just tweaked a little bit in each situation.
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