Billy Anderson

Billy Anderson is an American record producer , sound engineer, and musician . Anderson became known in the 1990s as a sound engineer and producer for metal , grunge , alternative and hardcore punk . He has since worked with a variety of different bands such as EyeHateGod , Mr. Bungle , Neurosis , Sick of It All , Fantômas and Sleep as a producer and has acted as a guest musician with bands such as The Melvins , Agalloch and Orange Goblin . He is also a member of the bands Blessing the Hogs , The Men of Porn , Solodolor and Good God .

Early holdings

At the beginning of the 1990s, Anderson acted as a sound engineer for Californian punk bands . With the albums To a Frown by Buzzov • en for Roadrunner Records and Sleep's Holy Mountain by Sleep for Earache Records , 1993 saw the first production activities in the spectrum of Doom Metal . In the same year Anderson acted as a sound engineer and co-producer of the The Melvins album Houdini for Atlantic Records , for which he also recorded various bass tracks. In the following years he worked for both indie and major labels . For the Warner Music Group and its subcontractors, he produced the sick-of-it-all album Scratch the Surface in 1994 and the Mr. Bungle album Disco Volante in 1995 . He worked for Roadrunner Records in 1994 as a sound engineer on the Buzzov • en album Sore and as a producer for Relapse Records in 1996 on the Neurosis album Through Silver In Blood and on the Brutal Truth album Kill Trend Suicide and for Century Media on the EyeHateGod album Dopesick .

Working method

Anderson prefers direct recordings. He deliberately refrains from using headphones and digital recordings and only digitizes the analogue recorded soundtracks after the recording in order to process and mix the recordings with professional equipment. In his opinion, the dominant use of technical equipment would lose the feeling in the pieces.

"For me, mood and energy are far more important than that every tone is flawless and isolated."

- Billy Anderson

He preferably creates reverb effects of the drums by re-recording a recording of the desired drum track played through a PA system in the recording room. The desired distortion is varied by adjusting the distance between the loudspeaker boxes and the microphone . Anderson used the method, described as particularly organic, for the neurosis albums Enemy of the Sun and Through Silver in Blood , for the self-titled debut of the band Fantômas and Surrounded by Thieves by High on Fire .

As an important basic idea of ​​the collaboration, Anderson describes the idea of ​​seeing oneself as part of the respective band. Another relevant factor in his way of working is the constant attempt to show the musicians the expected game.

“I'm not going to explain to anyone what to play unless I can at least sit down to try it myself. I've seen sound engineers and producers trying to explain to someone how to play, even though they couldn't even begin to hope they could do it themselves. That seems pretty hypocritical to me. I can't play everything but at least I try to clarify the idea ... "

- Billy Anderson

Participations (selection)

year	Interpreter	album	Label	production	Sound engineering	Musician
1991	Jawbreaker	Bivouac	Tupelo Records	Yes	Yes	No
1991	Helios Creed	Lactating Purple	Amphetamine Reptile Records	No	Yes	No
1992	Consolidated	Play More Music	Nettwerk Records / IRS Records	No	Yes	No
1992	Consolidated	Warning: Explicit Lyrics	Nettwerk Records / Capitol Records	No	Yes	No
1993	Clutch	Transnational Speedway League: Anthems, Anecdotes & Undeniable Truths	Atlantic Records	No	Yes	No
1993	Buzzov • en	To a Frown	Roadrunner Records	Yes	Yes	No
1993	Sleep	Sleep's Holy Mountain	Earache Records	Yes	Yes	No
1993	J Church	Quetzalcoatl	Allied Records	No	Yes	No
1993	The Melvins	Houdini	Atlantic Records	No	Yes	Yes
1993	Jawbreaker	24 Hour Revenge Therapy	Tupelpo Records	No	Yes	No
1993	Buzzov • en	Sore	Roadrunner Records	Yes	Yes	No
1993	Surgery	Shimmer	Atlantic Records	No	Yes	No
1993	Neurosis	Enemy of the Sun	Alternative tentacles	No	Yes	No
1995	Acid King	Zoroaster	Sympathy For The Record Industry	No	Yes	No
1995	Mr. Bungle	Disco Volante	Warner Music Group	Yes	Yes	No
1996	Neurosis	Through Silver in Blood	Relapse Records	Yes	Yes	No
1996	Swans	Soundtracks for the Blind	Atavistic Records	No	Yes	No
1996	Red House Painters	Songs for a Blue Guitar	Island Records	No	Yes	No
1996	Unsane	Sick	Man's Ruin Records	No	Yes	No
1996	¡TchKung!	Post World Handbook	Tim / Kerr Records	Yes	Yes	Yes
1996	Brutal truth	Kill trend suicide	Relapse Records	Yes	Yes	No
1996	7 year bitch	Gato Negro	Atlantic Records	Yes	Yes	No
1996	Secret Chiefs 3	First Grand Constitution and Bylaws	Amarillo Records	No	Yes	No
1996	Dale Crover	Drumb	Man's Ruin Records	No	Yes	No
1996	EyeHateGod	Dopesick	Century Media	Yes	Yes	No
1997	Altamont	Wanted Dead or Alive	Man's Ruin Records	Yes	No	No
1997	Brutal truth	Sounds of the Animal Kingdom	Relapse Records	No	Yes	No
1997	Kiss it goodbye	She Loves Me She Loves Me Not	Revelation Records	Yes	Yes	No
1997	Damad	Rise & Fall	Prank Records	Yes	Yes	Yes
1997	Dead and Gone	God Loves Everyone But You	Alternative tentacles	Yes	No	No
1997	Acid King	Down with the Crown	Man's Ruin Records	No	Yes	No
1998	Tribes of Neurot	Rebegin	Invisible Records	No	Yes	No
1998	Unsane	Occupational Hazard	Relapse Records	No	Yes	No
1998	Altamont	Civil War Fantasy	Man's Ruin Records	No	Yes	Yes
1998	Buzzov • en	... at a loss	Off the records	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Bongzilla	Stash	Relapse Records	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Rocky Roberts	Stasera Mi Butto	Belle Voci	No	No	Yes
1999	Sleep	Jerusalem / Dopesmoker	London Records Rise Above Records Southern Lord Records	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Mr. Bungle	California	Warner Music Group	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Fantômas	Fantômas	Ipecac Recordings	No	Yes	No
1999	Lost Goat	Equator	TeePee Records	No	Yes	No
1999	Ratos de Porão	Carniceria Tropical	Alternative tentacles	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Acid King	Busses Woods	Man's Ruin Records	No	Yes	No
2000	Orange goblin	The Big Black	The Music Cartel / Rise Above Records	Yes	Yes	No
2000	High on fire	The Art of Self Defense	Man's Ruin Records	Yes	No	No
2000	Damad	Burning cold	Prank Records	Yes	Yes	No
2001	Alabama Thunderpussy	Staring at the Divine	Relapse Records	Yes	Yes	No
2001	Cathedral	Endtyme	Earache Records	Yes	No	No
2001	Converge	Deeper the Wound	Deathwish Inc.	Yes	No	No
2002	Sourvein	Will to Mangle	Southern Lord	Yes	Yes	No
2002	High on fire	Surrounded by Thieves	Relapse Records	Yes	Yes	No
2002	Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine	Rampton	Southern Lord	Yes	No	No
2003	Weedeater	Sixteen Tons	Crucial Blast	Yes	No	No
2004	The Men of Porn	Wine, Woman and Song	Small Stone Records	Yes	Yes	Yes
2004	Orange goblin	Thieving from the House of God	Rise Above Records / Metal Blade Records	Yes	Yes	Yes
2004	Cerrito	Love Me Forever Today	Checo Records	Yes	Yes	Yes
2004	Crisis	Like Sheep Led to Slaughter	The End Records	Yes	Yes	Yes
2004	Ludicra	Another great love song	Alternative tentacles	Yes	Yes	No
2005	Sons of Otis	X	Small Stone Records	Yes	Yes	No
2005	Buzzov • en	Welcome to Violence	Alternative tentacles	No	Yes	No
2005	Om	Variations on a Theme	Holy Mountain Records	Yes	Yes	No
2005	Blessing the Hogs	The Twelve Gauge Solution	Goodfellow Records	Yes	Yes	Yes
2005	Primordial (band)	The Gathering Wilderness	Metal Blade Records	Yes	Yes	No
2005	Scarp	requiem	Alternative tentacles	Yes	Yes	No
2005	Acid King	III	Small Stone Records	Yes	Yes	No
2006	Giant Squid	Metridium Fields	The End Records	Yes	Yes	No
2006	Om	Conference of the Birds	Holy Mountain Records	Yes	Yes	No
2008	Blood ceremony	Blood ceremony	Rise Above Records	Yes	Yes	No
2009	Cattle decapitation	The Harvest Floor	Metal Blade Records	Yes	Yes	No
2010	Årabrot	Revenge	Fysisk format	Yes	Yes	No
2012	Obelyskkh	White lightnin '	Exile on Mainstream Records	Yes	Yes	No
2012	Amenra	Mass V	Neurot Recordings	Yes	Yes	No
2012	Witch Mountain	Cauldron of the Wild	Profound Lore Records	Yes	Yes	No
2014	Agal hole	The Serpent & the Sphere	Profound Lore Records	Yes	Yes	Yes
2014	EyeHateGod	EyeHateGod	Housecore Records	Yes	Yes	No
2014	Atriarch	An unending pathway	Relapse Records	Yes	Yes	No
2015	Leviathan	Scar Sighted	Profound Lore Records	No	Yes	No

Individual evidence

1. ↑ credits. allmusic, accessed on August 15, 2014 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Roman Sokal: Billy Anderson - The mysterious Bay Area guru of sound. TapeOp, accessed August 15, 2014 . 
3. ^ Roman Sokal: Billy Anderson - The mysterious Bay Area guru of sound. TapeOp, accessed on August 15, 2014 : "To me, vibe and energy are way more important than every sound being pristine and isolated." 
4. ^ Roman Sokal: Billy Anderson - The mysterious Bay Area guru of sound. TapeOp, accessed August 15, 2014 : "I am not going to tell somebody what to play if I couldn't at least sit down and attempt to play it. I've seen engineers and producers in situations telling somebody what to play and they couldn't possibly hope to even pull it off. It's very hypocritical to me. Not that I can play everything but I try to at least demonstrate the idea ... "