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Ted Templeman (producer) : I'd never work with Van Morrison again as long as I live, even if he offered me $3m in cash. I aged ten years producing three of his albums. He's a marvellous talent, a fantastic singer - but he's fired everyone who's ever worked with him. All his producers, his managers, his attorneys, his wives, his kids. He's so unpredictable.
He has absolutely no concept of the recording process. To him it was just bass and treble controls. I did a rough mix of Tupelo Honey - a 20-minute mix. He came in and wanted to hear the acoustic guitar, so he pushed up a fader and the hiss came up with the sound.
I came down to LA and worked for two days on a beautiful mix, but Van insisted that we put out the other, rough, mix. And the rough is what's on the album.
About two weeks after the album came out, Van called me up in the middle of the night and said, "Hello, Ted? You know, you were right about that mix. I almost cried."
(Source : http://dgans.com/writings/templeman/templeman03.pdf)
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He has absolutely no concept of the recording process. To him it was just bass and treble controls. I did a rough mix of Tupelo Honey - a 20-minute mix. He came in and wanted to hear the acoustic guitar, so he pushed up a fader and the hiss came up with the sound.
I came down to LA and worked for two days on a beautiful mix, but Van insisted that we put out the other, rough, mix. And the rough is what's on the album.
About two weeks after the album came out, Van called me up in the middle of the night and said, "Hello, Ted? You know, you were right about that mix. I almost cried."
(Source : http://dgans.com/writings/templeman/templeman03.pdf)