Interview with Kevin Gray, Mastering Engineer
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- I talk to Kevin Gray (!) of Cohearent Audio about mastering, sourcing, the future of vinyl and his incredible body of work.
Kevin Gray bio: www.cohearent....
Ben Rankins' excellent channel that I mentioned in interview: / @benrankins4446
Give Kevin Gray The Beatles, Zeppelin and Pink Floyd master tapes!
Very nice discussion. Thanks for taking the time to do this. I learned a lot.
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aging hippie
This is the best interview I have seen in awhile. You made it very comfortable for Kevin and your knowledge and insights shown thru.
Thanks, that's kind of you to say, glad you liked it!
What a great dude. If we could clone a guy. Kevin Gray gets my vote.
Awesome interview with one of the best,Its been great to watch over a couple of days this and the one with Chad is awesome many thanks for getting him to open up regarding his punk history I wasn't aware of it, He did so many WOW!!. Cheers again from Australia.
Thanks Darren! It's been a few weeks now and I still can't believe he said "yes." I feel his jazz stuff is plenty well known and I wanted to highlight other stuff he's done that's just as brilliant and is closer to my heart. Luckily, he was game.
Analogue has become an "option" rather than a "obsolete" process! There are artist in the modern Era that are recording their music on Analogue tape! Given its very few, but tapes are being made for that option!
Fantastic interview and I am so glad you set this up. You asked a lot of the questions I hoped would be asked when Chad, Michael, and Danny chatted with him. I am glad you asked about sourcing in particular. His answer was exactly as I expected but I am glad you asked regardless.
Really cool that you saw this and commented. Your excellent "Mastering of Puppets" episode was the first VC video I ever saw, a couple years before I knew there was a VC and started watching videos more regularly. I actually referenced it in my interview with Chris Bellman a couple weeks ago (but confused it with Ride the Lightning in the moment).
Anyway, glad you dug this. It definitely came from not hearing the questions in those other interviews that I was really curious about. I'm very lucky he was game to talk to someone that doesn't have a huge viewership and I'm thrilled with how it turned out.
Thanks a lot for this. Super interesting!
You're welcome, glad you liked it 👊
Kevin loves that green shirt 👕! Kevin grays da man!
Phenomenal interview. Thank you.
Glad you dug it, was a real treat to talk to him
Excellent interview, congrats
Thanks Tim, still processing that it even happened!
Love this interview you asked some great questions it was very cool for Kevin Gray to do an interview. Kevin Gray is definitely one of my favorites and also you have an awesome grasp on the different pressings and mastering engineers big kudos to you also thanks this was awesome take care . Lovellandrew
Thanks a lot, I'm glad you liked it!
Lovely interview... Also nice to see the discussion cover genres other than jazz. I think my favourite Kevin cut is Sparklehorse's "It's A Wonderful Life", from back in the era when vinyl was imagined a dead format and Capitol had licensed the LP release to an indie label (Devil In The Woods, 2001). Really long record, too. Cut DMM to a single LP and - respectfully - superior to the VMP reissue cut over three sides by Ryan Smith.
That's interesting. I'm not aware of him ever having done DMM. I wish I would've known about that one at the time, I would've asked him about it.
Talking about something other than jazz was a big part of my motivation. There's jazz I like, but I'm a rock and roll guy and that's what I wanted to talk about. Thanks for watching and chiming in!
Congratulations on the interview, really interesting. I didn’t know that The Clash and The Damned had got the KG treatment, really interesting. Thanks 🙏🙏
Thanks! Yeah, the KG cuts of those albums are out of this world.
Another great interview and I’m glad you brought some attention to the excellent work he did for Drastic Plastic.
Thanks Andy! I still can't believe he said yes. I think landing this interview made it easier for others to say yes to me.
Another mastering engineer interview coming Friday morning.
SCOOP! Good job. Nice video!
Thanks! Wow, Technical Ecstasy avi 🤘
@@brokewithaudiophiletaste6076 Kevin Gray should really write a book about these things. It's such a limited circle of people who knows this stuff. I find it fascinating although I'm neither a vinyl freak or audiophile. I've always preferred CDs since I first got my hands on one in the late 1980s, and still do.
Congrats on scoring such a great interview and it was a great discussion. I really enjoyed it. Amazing for such a new and small - at this stage - UA-cam Channel.
Thanks Glenn! Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised he said yes to the interview. He's fortunately very easy to talk to and I'm happy with how it came out.
Wow! Great interview and a bit blown away that you asked Kevin a question that we talked about in the comments a while back. You're a champ! Really interesting topics. Fantastic stuff.
Thanks Ben! Yeah, what you brought up was an angle I hadn't really considered before, so I was really curious what Kevin had to say about it. Also I'm just happy to do what I can to draw attention to your excellent channel.
@@brokewithaudiophiletaste6076The other thing I noticed is the repour you two seemed to have from the start. It seemed as though Kevin would've enjoyed talking with you for another hour...again well done on a great interview.
The bombshell occurs at 6:99 when Gray states that the labels themselves asked mastering engineers, and one would assume reissue labels, not to disclose the digital source of the remaster. That implies that MoFi was following label orders at risk of losing access if they refused to participate in the deception
Well, they asked him not to talk about sourcing at all, whether it's analog or digital. For me, in hindsight, it was huge when he said that Sony wouldn't send tapes to the west coast anymore. Maybe that was public knowledge, but that was the first I'd heard of it. If I had connected the dots, I could have deduced that, at minimum, the MoFi Dylans and Miles Davises must have been digital...or if analog a tape copy of the original master. I can imagine that the secrecy is ultimately being decreed by the label, though, and from MoFi's point of view, they're maybe out of business if they go the "analog or nothing" route. I mean, Kassem has found a way, but he's also not doing new cuts of Sony-owned masters as far as I know.
Yeah!! Kevin Mutha F'n Gray!!!!!
What a treat THIS is!!!
So glad you asked him about Drastic Plastic.... It's so strange and cool that he even touched that stuff! The Cramps, Death in June , too?!?!?
He also did Shabazz Palaces' first album " Black Up" on Sub Pop , which no one ever talks about. It's my best sounding Hip Hop lp. What an honor! Congrats! He's really modest about his brilliance.
Yeah, total treat for me too. I just did the interview a few hours ago and published right away. Thought about holding onto it for a bit, but I have no idea what the ideal time to publish would be so I just went for it. I'm still abuzz about it. I'll have to check out that Shabazz album
@@brokewithaudiophiletaste6076 If you don't mind me asking, how long did that take to negotiate/ orchestrate? In my mind Mr. Gray is working 'round the clock! It was funny to hear him say he "has all the time in the world"! Lol.
@@rainbowheart2728 it came together pretty quickly. We were going to do it last weekend, but he ended up having to work, so it was postponed until this weekend. I reached out to three different engineers. I thought the other two were more likely and Kevin was a hail Mary. Ended up being the opposite. One of the others said thanks but he hates interviews, the other never replied.
good interview
Great Interview … enjoyed it !
Thanks! Kevin was fortunately very easy to talk to.
wow ! i saw that interview yesterday and .... so cool and so much in detail and so many informations i never heard of and so interesting and well done .... and many things were over my head, cause i am " just a jazz pianist" who is not so familiar with the recording business things in the USA and the technical side. but i know enough to get the points you talk about. what a great coversation you had ... with the maestro kevin gray ......
Danke Andreas! Ich finds cool, dass dieses Video auch nen Pianisten in Berlin erreicht hat! (Ich kann zufälligerweise Deutsch sprechen 😉)
@@brokewithaudiophiletaste6076 oh wow ...... dann hoffe ich du machst mal ferien in berlin. ich spiele hier z.b. jeden montag im Jazzclub A-TRANE. sag dann mal hai ! ......... und ich schau bestimmt wieder in deinen kanal, wenn du das nächste coole interview machst. BERNIE GRUNDMANN scheint ziemlich kommunikativ zu sein, wenn man seine interviews hört. vielleicht ist das dein nächster kandidat. alles gute und happy oster weekend ....... andreas
@@AndreasSchmidtHappens wenn ich mich wieder mal in Berlin befinde, sag ich auf jeden Fall hai! Das nächste Interview erscheint sogar morgen früh. Ich hab vor, zu versuchen, mit dem Kollegen vom Herrn Grundman zu reden, und zwar Chris Bellman. Mal schauen, wozu er offen ist. Meiner ist ja noch kein großer Kanal und nicht jeder will mit mir reden.
@@brokewithaudiophiletaste6076 ah, dann schau ich am wochenende rein bei dir. und ja, Chris Bellan hab ich mal in videos mit mister Grundman gesehen. bin gespannt, ob das blei dir klappt. aber ich glaube das wird super werden, weil du wirklich ganz präzise und interessante Kommunikationen mit mister gray hattest. ... up and coming channel ..... PS: kennst du das interview video mit ROY DUNANN ..... nicht soooo viel informationen in der stunde vom video, aber ein underground Tonmann im einzigen video interview. ( ich hab von CONTEMPORARY RECORDS ca. 40-60 original ausgaben mit roy dunann am sound ... jazzzzzzz ...... )
@@AndreasSchmidtHappens Danke für deine Komplimente! Ich bin kein richtiger Jazz-Typ, doch intressiere ich mich für Jazz aber, und meine Jazz-Sammlung wächst allmählich zu. Dass gegenwärtige Neupressungen von solch unglaublicher Qualität sind schadet natürlich nicht. Also Dunann habe ich noch nicht gekannt, aber we scheint ganz wichtig in der Jazz- und überhaupt Musikgeschichte zu sein. Ich werd mal nach dem Interview suchen.
Ian, even Rush's Moving Pictures were recorded digitally, 16-bit 48kHz, before Signals.
I believe it was recorded to analog tape, but learned after this talk that it was mixed to digital, just like Signals.
How I just put it isn't even quite right. As I understand it, they recorded to tape, mixed to tape, then transferred to digital before it was cut. That's what they did for MP, Signals and P/G before switching to digital recording with Power Windows
@@brokewithaudiophiletaste6076 ADD I assume then. Do you have the Super Deluxe boxset?
@@rabarebra no, I previously had one of the 2015 reissues, which I thought sounded great, but then I got an original Bob Ludwig cut and I think that's even better
@@brokewithaudiophiletaste6076 I have the Super Deluxe and an original NM Masterdisk Bob Ludwig cut (very nicely taken care of throughout the years). The latter really sound astounding.
There is a book with the Super Deluxe I might read which has all of this info about the recording of the album. Hence why I asked if you had it. I'm usually too lazy to go and get the content out of my boxsets. But I have read it once, why it is a bit vague in my mind. Blah! 😂
hi ian so the blue note classic LPs are cut from the analog tapes or just mastered from them as depicted in the hype sticker🧐
Yeah, wording on hype stickers and covers is so hard to decipher. I'm confident that Classic Series LPs are AAA, but I can't prove it. It's just like the Kinks Lola that Kevin and I talk about here. Sticker just says "Re-mastered from the original master tapes". Kevin confirmed that he cut from the tapes, but you wouldn't know that from the sticker wording.
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Great stuff! Stumbled onto your channel thru Baraka. Keep it up! I subbed and followed on Twitter..Thanks for the follow back! I post my finds on IG, are you on there? So many great cuts of Kevins...That Saxophone Colossus is impeccable. I have his Who's Greatest from the 80's on MCA which you can usually find cheap...excellent as well. In fact out of the 50 or so albums I have cut by him, I am not sure there is a stinker in the bunch...he is a treasure!
Cool, thanks, welcome! I'm not on IG.