First Post!

First things first, this blog i've created is for a school project and in that project I have to talk about ten different sound engineers. This first post is going to be about a more recent release, Avenged Sevenfold's newest album Nightmare and it was engineered by Brent Arrowood. I had never heard of him before just looking him up now, but he did wonderfully on Nightmare, and looking at his previous works he has a sort of distinct style that he goes for, whether or not it's entirely his doing or not.

With Nightmare, Arrowood got pretty close to what i'd consider an ideal sounding album. The rhythm guitars are thick, the lead guitars stand out without sounding too thin, and the bass and drums are pounding. Everything has it's own place, and it sounds like that. He definitely did a great job on the drums. One of my main complaints on a good amount of records are how the drums sound bad and Avenged Sevenfold's previous records are in that bunch. On Nightmare though he fixed them. The bass drum sounds thick and precise, just how i like it.

I also found out that he did the engineering for the movie 28 Days Later, which has a really good soundtrack. Even though the soundtrack is orchestral i can hear the simlarities between Nightmare and it. Besides the style of music being sort of the same, they both have that same feeling of everything having it's own place, which is even more important in orchestral pieces.