Who would you like to produce the next Deftones album?

[pinkmaggit]

Matt Bayles, Robert Smith(he could also colab with vocals and guitar on a song), Toshi Kasai, P.Diddy, Steve Evetts, Omar Rodríguez-López, Dan the Automator( I remember some old interview during SNW era where Steph said they worked on some demos with him and he really enjoyed the fact that with Dan the band was sounding more technical.)
And I would definitely favour Terry Date over Shaun Lopez or Nick... I just have the feeling that if they work with Nick again it would be a Diamond Eyes part 2.
DeAndre Cortez Way would also be one great choice.

WTF?? Seriously? Do u know where you're at right now? R u o.k.? This IS a Deftones thread. P. fucking Diddly

it was a joke...

Sure it was 

[pinkmaggit]

As if Timberland producing a Chris Cornell album wasn't enough already.

[DEFinatelydeftones,fsho]

If so...... I apologize. Not funny though

[cEvin Key]

Matt Bayles, Robert Smith(he could also colab with vocals and guitar on a song), Toshi Kasai, P.Diddy, Steve Evetts, Omar Rodríguez-López, Dan the Automator( I remember some old interview during SNW era where Steph said they worked on some demos with him and he really enjoyed the fact that with Dan the band was sounding more technical.)
And I would definitely favour Terry Date over Shaun Lopez or Nick... I just have the feeling that if they work with Nick again it would be a Diamond Eyes part 2.
DeAndre Cortez Way would also be one great choice.

WTF?? Seriously? Do u know where you're at right now? R u o.k.? This IS a Deftones thread. P. fucking Diddly

it was a joke...

Sure it was 

I bet you also didn't get the deandre cortez way, did you?

[pinkmaggit]

Cliff Richard! No sorry that's a bad joke.
I see some ppl said David Botrill - I don't know what to thin of this guy - sure he produced Tool's brilliant Ænima, Salival and Lateralus albums but I suspect those albums would have been great without him, although I'll never know.
What's put me really off this guy, is his production on the most recent Placebo album, Battle for The Sun - it's got some really bad, cheesy production in places. For e.g. there's Tetris like music in the middle of For What It's Worth, which is otherwise a very nicely written track and fake strings all over the album.
In truth I wouldn't want this guy anywhere near a Deftones album.
Rick Rubin and Brendan O'Brian were also mentioned. Brendan is a great producer, he'd be a good choice. Rick Rubin could be really interesting and could work really well - my only worry is that he may make the album too slick and commercial.
What do you guys think of Michael Beinhorn? Like Terry Date he's also worked with Soundgarden and like Terry Date did with S/T, he brought a wonderful dark, gritty sound to Superunknown, which  16 years later still sounds great!
I was also thinking Alain Johannes might be a good choice.
Or else, maybe if P.Daddy/Puff Diddy/Puffy/whatever his name is this week is too busy, the band can ask TImberland to produce.
Oh yes with regards to Terry, I know that when most people think of him they think of Deftones but their was actually a time before I listened to Deftones when I thought of Terry Date I thought of Soundgarden and White Zombie. Don't know if you know but he produced the brilliant 'Badmotorfinger' by Soundgarden and 'Astro Creep 2000' by White Zombie. I've known since way back that Terry was a genius!

[wheresmysnare]

brian eno?

[pinkmaggit]

brian eno?

Not if he makes them sound anything like U2!
Who else has Eno produced albums for?

[wheresmysnare]

Haha yeah I'm not a fan of u2 he has produced for massive attack and depeche mode though and has done a lot of film sound tracks.

[mothraw]

Terry d would be awesome but i dont think that this is going to happen for now.
What about a deftones record produced by deftones-i mean chino produced will havens hierophant and thats a mfcool piece of music

[UrZ*]

I have the same nightmare that deft ones will repeat themselves if Nick is involved again.

Good mixing, good recording techniques and it's all there on DE. I just don't think it fits Deftones. White Pony was is their best sounding work.

It's so diverse acoustically speaking from song to song, but all the choices are perfect and the album still sounds as a whole piece..It's all very subtle.

DE is too clean for them, they're not a pop band. It's a shame though, the song ideas are real good and original (1 to 4 are all NOT 4/4 for example, but feel so organic). It's just to clean, crisp, not enough room..

[Starz]

I think Nick will produce it again for sure but I hope he doesn't mix it again this time as well. I don't know why but I have a problem with people who both produce AND mix the album. It's always good to get a fresh pair of ears imo. Chris Lord-Alge mixed the single version of the 'Diamond Eyes' song which I thought sounded better than Nick's mix. Maybe he could mix the next album... Or just fuck it all and get Terry back.

[pinkmaggit]

I don't know why but I have a problem with people who both produce AND mix the album. It's always good to get a fresh pair of ears imo. Chris Lord-Alge mixed the single version of the 'Diamond Eyes' song which I thought sounded better than Nick's mix. Maybe he could mix the next album... Or just fuck it all and get Terry back.

Agreed - I wish Chris had mixed the entire album.
To my ears the change of the mix from 'Diamond Eyes' to 'Royal' is very noticeable and it really shouldn't have been allowed to be like that.
I've heard Chino say in interviews that DE flows so nicely from one song into the next,  but then straight off the bat, from song 1 into song 2, it doesn't flow well at all because of the huge contrast in the mixes.
Chris and his brother Tom are widely considered the best in the business - why they didn't  just get Chris to mix the entire DE album I just don't know.