"I'm the least technical person I've ever met...I hate anything with digital numbers on it. I just go by instinct. It's the same with a new AMS as it is with a synthesizer for me. I never read manuals. I just sit down with the thing for a couple of days and fiddle with the knobs until I figure out what it can do. And get what I like out of it. When it comes to producing too I just go for something that will jump off the record and into people's heads. Again, it's a question of what feels right. I try to make records which have a point of view to express and so you always have to concentrate upon the voice. When we did my album we tried very hard to keep the sort of R'n'B danceability in the vocals you'd expect from a D Train or Gloria Gaynor, but still keeping that Rock conviction you get from Foreigner."
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On being deemed a technical producer in āDan Hartman takes Chas De Whalley to the US of AORā in The Producers (Nov 1985)
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Dan Hartman
Daniel Earl Hartman (December 8, 1950-March 22, 1994) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
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