antiboredom101

Test run:

The Postal Service


30 Seconds To Mars


My Starving Lion


On a professionally detailed level, what producing/effects similarities can be pointed out by listening to these three similar "sounding" groups?
What do you pros think? Are they using the same stuff? what are they using?

As mentioned before, I do allot of genre naming(dubbing)
for personal and professional reasons. (it's a side job)

So in the world of sound mixing, which I am only limited in experience.
Can active preamps, plugins, compressors...etc
be accurately pinpointed by listening to a finished
track by an artist or group without actually contacting
the studio?

What I'm getting at is putting together a list that finds common
points between genres and their sound recording/producing
mastering processes. Including any commonalties in audio-programs,
mics, effects(tweaking, inverting..etc).

Basically, an extremely detailed "producers/engineers genre tuning" list.

I think once complete, this could be a useful quick reference tool to
focus an artist to a genre and/or find a way
to label an eclectic artist. It would also give producers a tool
to make their process more effective in achieving "this sound" or "that sound".

Would putting something like this together help "dubb" artists/genres more effectively?