Favorite Album based on instrument tone.

[jackbauer114]

Whats your favorite album based on the sound of the instruments individually (including voice)

Mine is:

Guitar: 6DOIT
Bass: FII
Drums: ToT
Keys: FII
Voice: IAW, defiantly.

[Jamesman42]

Voice: IAW, defiantly.

You rebel.

Guitar: BCSL
Bass: FII
Drums: SDOIT
Keyboard: IaW
Vocals: IaW

[EmilSumm]

Guitar: BC&SL
Bass: I&W
Drums: I&W
Keyboards: Awake
Vocals: Awake

[LTE]

Hm..

Vocals: As much as James awesomeness is apparent in anything pre-injury there is just something about the slight reverb/delay on his voice in SDOIT and Octavarium.
Guitar:FII or SFAM (Mk IIc+ and Mk IV FTW!!)
Bass:Probably SFAM
Keyboard: SFAM again (the mixing on it is perfect)
Drum: SFAM or ACOS (I love the snare on ACOS)

[BlobVanDam]

Vocals - IaW or SDOIT
Guitar - FII or SDOIT
Bass - IaW or SDOIT
Keyboard - SFAM or SDOIT
Drum - FII or SDOIT

That wasn't intentional, honestly There's a reason SDOIT is my favourite DT album

[Portrucci]

Vocals - Awake
Guitar - Awake
Bass - FII
Keyboard - Awake
Drums - Awake

Damn it, I just love the production on that album 

[Rafael Guerra]

Vocals - Awake...i mean...yeah, c´mon.
Guitar - SDOIT...misunderstood, glass prison, test that stumped them all, war inside my head...and the list goes on.
Bass - Systematic Chaos...controversial, but the bass has a very interesting function in songs like ITPOE part 2. and the intro, amongst other songs in the album, I want to give a honorable mention to FII though, its very powerful in there.
Keyboard - Octavarium...the album requires from Rudess many interesting lead sounds as well as the sole piano, it shows a good range of his sounds and techniques. Honorable mention to SDOIT, where he samples the whole orchestra in the Oasys (i think).
Drums - Train Of Though...as a more heavy album, i find the drumming to be very intense.

[sonatafanica]

Vocals - Images and Words
Guitar - Systematic Chaos
Bass - Train of Thought
Keys - Awake
Drums - Falling Into Infinity

[Adami]

Vocals - Awake
Guitar - Awake
Bass - Awake
Drums - BCSL
Keys - Awake

[Global Laziness]

Vocals - Images and Words
Guitar - Awake
Keyboards - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Bass - Falling into Infinity
Drums - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

[ResultsMayVary]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

[Global Laziness]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

Why? I've heard almost nothing but complaints about it (specifically, the apparent lack of audible bass through much of the album) and I tend to agree with it for the most part.

[ResultsMayVary]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

Why? I've heard almost nothing but complaints about it (specifically, the apparent lack of audible bass through much of the album) and I tend to agree with it for the most part.

I can hear the bass through my speakers fantastically and I picked it because it's a tone I like and i think it's his best tone on any album so far. You can call me whatever you want but i think it's badass. Just saying.

[Global Laziness]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

Why? I've heard almost nothing but complaints about it (specifically, the apparent lack of audible bass through much of the album) and I tend to agree with it for the most part.

I can hear the bass through my speakers fantastically and I picked it because it's a tone I like and i think it's his best tone on any album so far. You can call me whatever you want but i think it's badass. Just saying.

I misread that as "you can call me whenever you want" at first and I got pretty excited.

[PlaysLikeMyung]

Guitar: Not sure
Bass: FII or Awake
Drums: Don't really pay attention to the drumming
Keys: I&W
Vox: Awake

[BlobVanDam]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

Why? I've heard almost nothing but complaints about it (specifically, the apparent lack of audible bass through much of the album) and I tend to agree with it for the most part.

I can hear the bass through my speakers fantastically and I picked it because it's a tone I like and i think it's his best tone on any album so far. You can call me whatever you want but i think it's badass. Just saying.

I can hear it fine too. It's a bit too low on AROP and TBOT, but for much of the rest of the album it's basically cranked. Anyone who can't hear the bass on ANTR or TSF is basically deaf.

[Global Laziness]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

Why? I've heard almost nothing but complaints about it (specifically, the apparent lack of audible bass through much of the album) and I tend to agree with it for the most part.

I can hear the bass through my speakers fantastically and I picked it because it's a tone I like and i think it's his best tone on any album so far. You can call me whatever you want but i think it's badass. Just saying.

I can hear it fine too. It's a bit too low on AROP and TBOT, but for much of the rest of the album it's basically cranked. Anyone who can't hear the bass on ANTR or TSF is basically deaf.

I was already aware of your opinion on this matter, so my question isn't specific to this post, but I gotta ask: Have you been getting angrier lately or is it just me?

[BlobVanDam]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

Why? I've heard almost nothing but complaints about it (specifically, the apparent lack of audible bass through much of the album) and I tend to agree with it for the most part.

I can hear the bass through my speakers fantastically and I picked it because it's a tone I like and i think it's his best tone on any album so far. You can call me whatever you want but i think it's badass. Just saying.

I can hear it fine too. It's a bit too low on AROP and TBOT, but for much of the rest of the album it's basically cranked. Anyone who can't hear the bass on ANTR or TSF is basically deaf.

I was already aware of your opinion on this matter, so my question isn't specific to this post, but I gotta ask: Have you been getting angrier lately or is it just me?

Did that post come across as angry? Perhaps the last sentence came across as confrontational, but it wasn't intended to come across harshly. Not sure about any other posts, although I haven't been posting as much the past week or so.

[Global Laziness]

Confrontational is probably a better term to use for the most part. And I actually meant over the last month or so.

[SystematicThought]

I thought the bass was okay on BC&SL. Especially in The Count of Tuscany right before the guitar-keyboard part. However, when I listened to the stems, I couldn't believe it was the bass I was hearing. It sounded extremely distorted, though it sounds okay on the album.

Anyways
Vocals: Images and Words
Guitar: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Bass: Falling Into Infinity
Drums: BC&SL
Keyboard: Octavarium (mainly because of Octavarium's intro)

[Scard]

Guitar: 6DOIT (BCSL is almost tied, but not quite)
Bass: SFAM
Drums: 6DOIT
Vocals: Awake
Keyboards: Awake

[tri.ad]

Vocals: Images And Words
Bass: Images And Words
Guitar: Awake or FII
Drums: Awake or FII
Keyboards: Can't really pick one.

[Mladen]

Guitar: Six degrees of inner turbulence
Bass: Images and words
Drums: Scenes from a memory
Keyboards: Scenes from a memory
Vocals: Awake

[bmc]

Voice: IAW, defiantly.

You rebel.

i see what you did there. i was about to do it myself.

[Ben_Jamin]

Vocals: Awake
Guitar: SFAM
Bass: SDOIT
Keyboard: SDOIT/I&W
Drums: Systematic Chaos

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

Bass: Awake
Guitar: Awake
Keyboard: Awake
Drums: Awake
Vocal: Awake

Nuff said.

[Amoniz]

Keyboards: 6DOIT   (-> Blind faith)
Vocals: Awake       (-> Scarred)
Drums: FII             (-> Lines in the sand)
Bass: SC               (-> ITPOE Pt2)
Guitars: BC&SL       (-> TCOT)

[Marvellous G]

Keyboard: FII
Vocals: Octavarium
Drums: SFAM
Bass: FII
Guitar: SDOiT or SFAM

[ACID_FOX]

Vocals: Awake

Guitar: Systematic Chaos

Bass: Falling Into Infinity

Keyboard: Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

Drums: Six Degreed Of Inner Turbulence

   I hated the sound of the guitar on BC&SL, ruined the album for me personally

[ZBomber]

Vocals: Images and Words
Bass: FII
Guitar: SFAM
Drums: SFAM
Keys: SFAM or 6DOIT

[Jamesman42]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

Why? I've heard almost nothing but complaints about it (specifically, the apparent lack of audible bass through much of the album) and I tend to agree with it for the most part.

I can hear the bass through my speakers fantastically and I picked it because it's a tone I like and i think it's his best tone on any album so far. You can call me whatever you want but i think it's badass. Just saying.

I can hear it fine too. It's a bit too low on AROP and TBOT, but for much of the rest of the album it's basically cranked. Anyone who can't hear the bass on ANTR or TSF is basically deaf.

Giving it some thought, I honestly think that some people don't know how to pick out the bass in music. I once didn't know how to do it all the time, either.

[LTE]

Based on the posts so far, it seems like Awake and SFAM are DT's best mixed albums. Although id throw SDOIT in there as well.

[ReaPsTA]

Guitar - BCSL (I love the tone on this album)
Bass - Train of Thought (The low end on this is so beastly. Shame the top doesn't come through more like on the demos)
Drums - Live at Budokan (Am I allowed to do this?)
Keyboards - Awake (This was tough)
Vocals - Awake (This was not tough)

[BlobVanDam]

Guitar: ToT
Bass: BC&SL
Drums: ToT
Keys: SFAM
Voice: Awake

Why? I've heard almost nothing but complaints about it (specifically, the apparent lack of audible bass through much of the album) and I tend to agree with it for the most part.

I can hear the bass through my speakers fantastically and I picked it because it's a tone I like and i think it's his best tone on any album so far. You can call me whatever you want but i think it's badass. Just saying.

I can hear it fine too. It's a bit too low on AROP and TBOT, but for much of the rest of the album it's basically cranked. Anyone who can't hear the bass on ANTR or TSF is basically deaf.

Giving it some thought, I honestly think that some people don't know how to pick out the bass in music. I once didn't know how to do it all the time, either.

Sound system also makes a big difference. BCASL has a bit of a weird frequency mix. On worse sound systems the bass hardly comes through, but on anything better it seems to be cranked. You'd think that means that the bass is primarily really low frequencies, but yet I can still hear the tone of the bass and the attack quite clearly, so I don't really know how to explain it.

[Perpetual Change]

Guitar- BC&SL by a million miles
Keyboard- Hm.  Scenes?
Vocals- IaW
Drums- Awake or 8va
Bass- FII