Mixing Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on an Analog SSL Console - GoPro POV
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- This is not an official mix, this is just for fun.
Song: Don't Stop Me Now
Artist: Queen
International Mix Engineer, Daniel Duskin, has over two decades of experience working with world-renowned artists and mixing thousands of songs worldwide.
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This was a brilliant watch. Amazing job. Yeah we can do it all in the box now with infinitely less cost and while we can argue for days about whether or not that can sound better,, worse or equal one thing is more sure - it's nowhere near as fun as this. Surely that's the point right - every stage of creating art should be a joy
My FAVE Queen song. always gets me pumped. Mixing this on a remust have been a blast!
So well said.
You don't have this result in the box
Jason shaw, U don t have rhis rich and euphonic result itb,..wash your hears:)
yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Joy is so underrated. We as humans work tirelessly to create convenience, while simultaneously robbing ourselves of joy.
Amazing how humanity has invested time, money, brains and effort just to create something that manipulates vibrations so it sounds "pleasant" to the ears.
Best comment 👌
i thought this same exact thing on an acid trip a while back, humanity is such an amazing thing
The wiring in that mixer is more complicated than rocket science.
The way you fattened up the kick and snare compared to the original mix really brings this song into the next century. Love it.
The bass is so fat my man
@@se-ku3op T H I C C B A S S
every Bass needs to be at least as fat as yo' mama!
Too, bad that wont work on record labels.
These Comments made my day, hahahahahahaha
2:26 Applies magic
2:29 Applies more magic
2:57 Magic rack is magic
This is the most accurate comment in this video
Hell fucking yeah!!! There's a FATSO EL7X Compressor, then a NEVE 33609 Stereo Compressor and 2 Pultec EQP-1A. Am I right?
Yes! The magic at 2:57 gave it the push across the cliff, this one goes to 11 !
Interesting to hear a modern mix of this track, it literally sounds like it was recorded last week. More wider & bottom end.
Cueboyd Fat bottomed mixes make the rockin world go round
@@jimjamkillsnerds fat bottomed mixes are cliche
@@F0nkyNinja anyone with "ninja" in their username are cliché and overrated
@@muziqfreek anyone who calls something overrated is edgelord
@@SatEight dafuq you talking about bellend?
This demonstrates the importance of good source material.
I'm proud of saying I can finally understand what he is doing
I don't :(
@@leandroisaac2000 mostly leveling, EQing, Wideing Channel's like the Solo Guitar or Background vocals to take more space in the mix and soloing stuff from the mix to see what needs reverb or eqing, running it into some racks to give it more compression, Overdrive, Stereo Enhancer Etc.
I learnt instantly things that I have been wondering about audio mixers for ages, what is the use of soloing everything and send channels why what? Obvious I know but I have never seen a studio mix happen.
I occasionally do live mixes but I am an embryo in comparison.
Just watching it made total sense. Thank you.
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hats of to this guy. as a live and studio sound engineer i honestly have to say that mixing like this is a rare skill nowadays.
I want all of Queen's back catalogue to sound like this. Which would probably take you around 15 minutes.
Here I am again. Watching this for the 100th time and just applauding with tears in my eyes at the pultec moment.
I love how virtually all of those console setups have a Lexicon 480L sitting somewhere nearby.
I love watching people mix, especially analog mixes, for some reason its satisfying me for me
Why does that laptop stand have lights and names all across it?
:)
Lol
It took me a while to understand this comment hahaha
Oh I get it lol
It's an old laptop stand from the 2000s when they thought you need lights to make laptop stands look cool
What a mix! Makes it sound like the track was recorded yesterday.
every step he makes im like this cant sound better and everytime he prove me wrong. MINDBLOWING
Simply amazing how analog boards sounds. It has a life of its own.
Even if it wasn't analog, there should be an appreciation for the process.
Most folks do a lot of talking with a bunch of expensive gear behind them and by the time they’re done rambling you’ve already mixed 2-3 songs! Good shit man!!!
Well, this song was already established, before Mr. Duskin here could even turn a knob on a mixer. Still, great work
Or they'll just write an audio book, instead of working
What amazes me is that.. Just the raw tracks and the performances are so amazing, and you can really tell how big of a difference getting the best sound you can at the source can make
I’m not sure why but when the guitar solo came in, a lump appeared in my throat. Your passion and love for what you do is extremely inspiring man, thank you for sharing this. I had fallen out of love with the idea of this being my career, but this gave me the fire to jump right back in, thank you sir
Wow, thank you!
I just realized recently how funny it is that the determining factor of certain qualities of a music production stage/process usually comes from the last stage/process. For example, how loudness and punch in mastering, usually comes from good mixing; how good arrangements, instrumentation, usually comes from good songwriting, and in this case of the video, how good sounding mixes, usually comes from flawless performances
Mixing on a board like that is an art form... a dance... only the great studios choreograph the perfect mix. Excellent.
In 10 years of UA-cam surfing and 16 years of FOH for all kinds of venues I have found a perfect video.
Love every second.
OMG when he turns on the Pultec!! 2:58
Bass mode:ON!!!
What did he switch in at 2:30? That was a step change too.
@@PurpleTT99 NEVE 33906.
what does that unit do? EQ+compression?
@@jugobugo Pultec is EQ, uses tubes and sounds very F A T and B R O A D
If Freddie had all this technology now, imagine what Queen would have sounded like! This mix brings the song to a new plato.
John Bovinette freddie didn’t need new technology it should have stayed that way
It's funny you say that, literally 90% of what's used here comes from the 60s 70s and 80s. The console itself uses a channel strip design that's almost 20 years old.
Wow dude... you are fast as hell. This is an amazing example of why to get an analog console rather than working all in the box.
This is ASMR for sound engineers.
(or should that be ADSR :thinking:)
Love this mix. Wish the re-mastered song on Apple Music sounded this punchy.
It should, is it an Apple Digital Master?
He kicked on the 33609 and I was like "OH." Then he threw on the Pultecs and I went "OHHHH." Sonic bliss. Great mix!
I am a fat guy, and I can confirm that lol
This is amazing.... no talking, just mixing - and the end result is mind-blowingly better than the original mix. Really shows how far music technology has come
I've never heard that silent "whii" at around 06:57. It's audible in the actual mix too! I will never unhear this!
this guy needs to do all of the remasters and re-releases. absolutely brilliant sound.
This became "THE" video to show parents and relatives what I actually do. Thanks, man!
HELL YEAH!
tbh its sounds a lot cleaner than the 2011 remastered, the instrument just sounds more real
And this is just the mix, it’s missing the mastering!
Iñaki Hernandez it barely even needs mastering in this case.
That's because the new "remastering" crushed the dynamics with compression.
@@sjsh5837 if you are mastering for streaming platforms these days you would like to preserve some dynamics or the algorithm will lower the overall volume of the master. Since conversion to loosy formats tend to add distortion artifacts to tracks (I guess that's the reason).
@@MertensHelbelga I really hope they push that more aggressively, had some amazing albums come out recently that are completely brickwalled.
one song: one hour of recording 10 minutes of mixing, so 1,5 hour of completion of song.
13 songs on Jazz album.
The whole album completed in 20 hours.
Great job.
My man, those Pultec Tube EQ engaging are the moment this song goes from great to AMAZING. I absolutely love this mix, and the video you put together for it. Please keep this coming! Saw you on Facebook and loved every single second of it.
where do you think the pultecs are pluged in? maybe in the master track?
i think master track, you can hear they bump up all instruments
@@oinkooink i can confirm the klark teknik are like adding magical stardust to anything, you dont even need much skill to have them improve your sound
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As someone who's mixing down an orchestral version of this song, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's always the same with classic tracks - the faders all seem to end up around unity. The engineers really knew what they were doing!!! I bet they were all EQd well before they hit the tape.
That's how things were back then. They could afford to be in the studio long enough to finish the mix before it hit the tape. Today things must go faster, no money for renting expensive studios, so most mix work is done afterwards in cheaper mix studios. Today's engineers could probably do the same if they had to (i.e. do the mix right at the recording session), I don't think today's engineers are necessarily worse.
On most classic songs' multitracks, I've found that to be the case. It's almost a case of EQ and sometimes reverb being printed to tape and any EQ or compression added after the fact ruins that careful balance.
I printed FX, EQ and compassion, etc. on every session, with the goal of making everything as close to the final mix in mind, as possible. But, you have to know what you want in the end, before you begin.
@@mjklein you worked on this session? I suppose with tape, you don't exactly get back what you put in, so you need to understand how to use those limitations advantageously. What type of tape was typical for that era?
@@Richard_P_James oh no, I didn't mean to give you that impression, my apologies. I was active in the Boston area in the 80s and 90s. In those days engineers were expected to be able to know the intimate functions of four or five different types of recording consoles and recording machines, not to mention tons of discrete hardware outboard gear. A good tape machine is actually quite transparent, with the exception of hiss which we dealt with by running at +4 or +6. When I'm recording these days in the digital domain, I often chuckle because I'm recording at -12, which would've given me a lot of problems on analog tape with an analog mixing desk. The one advantage of analog tape is the compression effect when you hit it very hard. It distorts, but it's a very beautiful musical type of distortion, that you commonly hear on snare drum tracks. Probably the most common tape of that era was Ampex 356. Agfa also made several fantastic tape formulas, but often they shed the oxide too readily. In the new Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the scene where they are in the studio cutting Brian May's guitar solo, features a 3M M79, 24 track recorder with Ampex 356 on it. Probably half of those sessions I did in those days were done on an M79. It's a great sounding machine, and very fast on punching in and out, but the transport is known for having problems. More than once it spilled tape all over the control room, requiring us to spend about an hour respooling it by hand!
The Jazz LP is often said to have not been very well produced/mixed in comparison to their other releases but this sounds phenomenal. Would love to have a full remixed version.
Amazing work. Although the original mix is very good, brilliant, considering it's age, when I switched to it, almost felt off my chair. Would like to have your mix in wave file!
I grew up on analog all through the 1980s. I am planning a 4000 square foot home studio after 33 years away from music. I have been researching if I should go modern or go old school. This video really makes me want to go with what I know. Old school.
There's a few places you can find the multitracks online and they're incredible, so well recorded you can pretty much throw the faders up at unity and you're close to the final mix immediately. The individual performances are unbelievable, and some of the sounds are surprising too. There's a lot of distortion on the bass, drums are typically just OH's kick and snare and the toms are still massive (they were probably miked, mixed into the overheads and bounced to 2 tracks), and being able to hear the harmonies and backing vocals raw is frankly mind blowing.
Those multitracks might not be the raw recording. I believe they could have bounced their mixed tracks to a tape, so it sounds good out of the box when we get it. Just my assumption.
Where?
@@evlkv They're definitely bounced, but in many of them you can hear bits that didn't make the final mix, edits and chatter. Some have effects bounced with them (echo/reverb) but most are dry, many are stereo pairs of guitars but you also have pairs of tracks that have different things on them (guitar solos, vocals, percussion etc). Bouncing was a key part of Queen getting the multilayered sound they achieved, so I believe these are probably the stems from the mix sessions. Search for PiotreQrmx and you should find them.
I hear the term "bounced" alot just never got it, what does it mean?
Pre processed direct from DAW to WAV file
It looks like you’re prepping a plane for landing
😂
no, he corrects the rocket flight
all studio mixer knows , mix Quick and make strong decisions. thats why he is so fast like a pilot ;)
Wow, I’m a self taught producer and aspiring rock musician. I love mixing on my laptop and have learned to be quite competent, but this, this is a real art. I wish I had the know how and resources to do it this way
I just did a A/B between your mix and the album version.... and WOW!!.... this just slams. Well done.
Every year I come back to this video to motivate myself. It's a pleasure to hear all the analog gear doing its awesome work for music.
thanks so much for this viceo
a man, his hands, his fantasy, a super mixer console, fantastic music ... freddie, whaooooo .... but this is heaven on earth ? B R A V O !!!! 🙌
And to think Sgt. Pepper was recorded on four track and bounced to reels and mixed. This is mix is incredible.
Really cool video! Adding a few captions or youtube annotations that narrate the mixing moves- especially on the outboard- would really be valuable as well. Thanks for making this!
The guitar solo was always fantastic. But you can literally hear the pick attacking the strings now clearer than ever. Just one of the amazing things about this mix. I bend the knee sir.
UA-cam recommended this way too late, I should have known about this by now. This is the CLEANEST mix of Don't Stop Me Now I've ever heard. The ONLY complaint is the fade out is a little to quick at the end, other than that, this sounds like what the final cut should have been. The flashing levels and bouncing VU meters on top of that warm and punchy sound are just ecstasy. An excellent mix of a wonderful song, done on beautiful equipment by a master technician.
Freddie’s voice is so strong and cuts right through everyday. Was an amazing talent
He's using a analog mixer in 2018: huzzah a man of quality
incredible how you passed from a squashed mix to an open/equilibred mix, i liked that approach
Someone should CC or write footers in the video explaining what he's doing at every step
@@fluffed_coyote1487 well for a lot of people who aren't familiar with music don't really understand what mixing is, putting captions can help them understand that even increasing the volume of the bass can drastically change a songs feel.
Pressing buttons and screwing knots. Nothing more to worry about :D :D
@@CZghost it's a little more complicated than that
@@mitegai3027 have was joking hence the:D face you dim wit
1. Mix the song
You're welcome.
There is something beautiful and inspiring about this. I only have the vaguest notion of audio production and I have no idea what most of the things you are doing actually do, or why one tweak or another is necessary or desired, but still to just watch you fly through this electronic jungle like a leaping lemur was just great.
this literally made me tear up, holy cow. You don't see this kind of work flow often at ALL!
ohhh its sounds so warm and soft, i like it very much
Nothing can beat mixing on an analogue desk and using eq on it! Such a big difference from doing it in DAW! Pleasure to watch! 😍❤️
Brian May is the king of guitar tone, feeling, taste, approach, what a guitar solo ! there's a slight phaser on it ! good job mister, a fresh mix, sounds so lively !
Back in those days recordings were half the mixing job done, if not even more than the half. So, give a big applause to the recording engineers.
Eyes opening moment when you bring the Fatso and 33609 in. Very beautiful sound, amazing job
Sausage Fattener at 2:58 hahaha Seriously, AMAZING video! Its a pleasure to see how the pros work :D
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hahahah that dada life, I got you
This bit made my sausage fat
It's an actual plugin though haha
Thats how they actually made it;)
I'm learning to use this exact board at school. Amazing!!!❤️👍🏾
honestly it's already sounded good on 2 minutes mark, but then you disengaged the fatso, then the neve comp, .....and the pultec. i nearly cried :))
quality content mate, please keep making more!
Wah ada om Redshift.. Halo oom.. 😁
As an inspiring engineer this video was beyond impressive. I always wondered what it looked like to mix other music besides rap/hip hop. This was just incredible to watch. Thank you
Fantastic modern mix that sounds like it was recorded yesterday. The recording itself was brilliant, of course. Keep up the good work
Awesome stuff! The POV perspective gives some great insight on what it feels like to work with a great board and some sexy ass outboard gear. 💪
Great video! Now it's easy to show people how ergonomic, fast and expressive an analog mixing workflow can be. Thanks for the great vid!
When listening with good headphones, those Pul-Tecs engaged add so much room around your ears. Fantastic!
Do Earth, Wind, Fire,: September Next!
YASS
Oh yeah !!!
Well, if he could find the multitracks for September, that is....
Or bohemian rhapsody
This guys knows his setup by heart like he can do all these things with his eyes closed. Danggg
this video must be included in most satisfying video of all time... amazing...\m/...
I'm always coming back everytime I see your videos on my timeline...this is one of the best channel/idea on the tube...please give us more! cheerz
This is the most exciting mix video I have ever seen, it gave me goosebumps to see & hear this amazing mix evolve into such a gaint & balanced wall of sound...love it!!
It sounds so good. Thank you for your ears.
You want a real challenge? Let's see you try and make Queen sound bad :)
We don't have that kind of technology!
ua-cam.com/video/aS_j0nubKSk/v-deo.html
to make queen sound bad you overdub a terrible cover.
@@Cole-ek7fh Challenge accepted? :D
What about ice ice baby?
It’s always nice to see someone actual mix on a console that knows what they’re doing with analog gear. Great mix
Dap👊🏽🎶
this was simply an experience... my heart is pumping. thank you :)
Amazing to see how a song born! Thanks for sharing this art!
Outstanding to watch you at work and create something beautiful and stunning. A pleasure and a joy to witness. Thanks for giving this to us. Respect my brother ✊🏾
An artist making art. Putting the perfect frame around the picture.
I love listen to mulity track recordings, hearing all the little bits which would be normally cut out like the 1, 2, 3 from freddie before the solo and the odd
ad-libbed bit, this is why recording is awesome
My whole reaction sums up to "I don't know what you're doing to my ears, but I like it. Please continue."
God when he pans the choir, it's super satisfying.
Zeuz Makes Music I watched that part about 20 times
just goes to show how far you can come with a good recording
Equipment heaven. Only thing missing is a Studer 827.
Wow hella modernized feel 💕 You brought out all this clarity and room while keeping everything up to face. Exceeding expectations as usual
Fascinating! It's amazing how much you can learn from hearing each track.
PLEASE mix some more Queen songs!! I've also mixed some Queen songs myself, and same as here, all gain sliders end up almost in unity, they have done an amazing job
that moment when the pultec opens everything up, so satisfying!
I wish you would actually release this version I'd download in a second! I'm in love with the mix!
So many layers in this song! I appreciate what you upload :)
When those Pultec's are engaged WOWZERS!!
It sounds really good man. The kick is a little heavy, not a bad thing, just not what I'm used to having been listening to this song going on 25 years. The part where you soloed the solo made me crazy!!! That tone is probably the greatest thing ever, not just for guitar, ever. Pretty sweet working with such well recorded tracks, nice job!
Best thing I've watched on UA-cam till date. Your workflow is incredible. Not to mention the sight of all that incredible vintage gear!!
Thank you so much 😀
This is just amazing, please do more queen
This mix was a performance in itself! Bravo!
Excellent! Great mix! Loved how much you highlighted the solo, that sound deserved to be highlighted in the original mix.
This is how heaven might look like ❤.
that Pultec touch... love it..!