'Dad Rock' and how we keep computers from ruining stuff
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Gosh, I like this genre "I am sharing some random interesting thoughts on different unrelated topics" so, so much. It really inspires to indulge in your curiosity more.
Same! A big reason I like Adam's videos is because I like his persona
@@fulicious2991agree. Fortunately I also share hobbies with Adam (namely aquaria, despite never owning a fish in my life), so even if I didn’t like his persona I’d still be a retaining viewer. But I could listen to him make journalistic videos about anything and tune in. Not sure why my brain loves Adam’s persona so much, but not complaining!
vsauce reincarnate
Atomic shrimp is brilliant at this :)
I mean, that's literally how this channel started! That's what UA-cam was originally for. And the best channels, not the most popular, but the best, are still are like this
Not a declining Internet personality! One who’s settling into a niche they both like and have good work-life balance with :)
100%
Absolutely
Chasing the social media low-attention-span bag is and always has been lame. Niche creators are the future
this 100%
100%! He isn't as mass-appeal anymore, but if you like Adam Ragusea you REALLY like the direction he's taken his channel
Alright, waiting for @RickBeato to drop a family recipe video
LOL
YES
why i season my instruments, not fl studio
why i REASON my instruments…?
Why I play on time, and I don't quantize
Why I fruity loop my instruments, not my studio
"Why I season my vocals, not Melodyne"
Fun fact: Butch Vig (Nevermind producer) basically scammed Kurt Cobain into multi tracking guitars and vocals. He was basically lying and saying it didn’t sound right and they had to re record the track all the while he was tricking Kurt (who famously hated multitracking overdubs) into the playing the same part multiple times, and then Butch mixed it all and that why Nevermind sounds like a HUGE record and not a punk rock record lol.
In an interview he said he convinced him to double track vocals (which he apparently hated) because that's what The Beatles did, and Kurt loved the Beatles. Played him like a fiddle lol
the songs were actually mixed by andy wallace, butch vigs mixes are out there aswell, but the wallace mix is on the record. I find it pretty striking, butch's mix sounds like the 80s to me, while andy Wallace's mix sounds distinctly more modern
... And it worked. 🤷 The record would have been significantly worse and less successful had Cobain gotten his way. Producers exist for a reason.
@@genejas So I guess Butch mainly handled the recording part (which includes convincing Kurt to double-track), and then handed over the mix to Andy?
@@ippotsk essentially, the label may have had some influence on picking wallace but yes
Adam doesn’t know about King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and it shows.
scrolled to find this comment
You cant just say Rattlesnake 42 times in a row....
What does this mean I don’t know them either
@@sleepyeevee6299 Watch me!!
King Giz blows
holy shit, his basement's character growth needs its own show
dang, i wasn't ready for dadam rockgusea
This guy is smart, jacked, can cook AND play multiple instruments. I swear to god if you can also ride a unicycle and juggle then youre better than me I'm every way
No offense, but a stereotypical clown would perfectly fit the description you gave of yourself:
Not smart = Goofy
Not jacked = A potbelly is classic clown fashion
Only plays one instrument = A horn
Rides unicycle and juggles (explains itself)
And if i had to justify the cooking part, comedically throwing cream pies in peoples faces could count as "being bad at cooking"
He is quite literally my idle
Just listened to the first 30 seconds.... Is this the midlife crisis era of Adam's Videos? Either way, I am here for it. Keep making videos about what you love bud! Talking about what you are interested in will always make your videos better.
Adam got the money from the food videos and is now free to do whatever hobbies he feels like doing. If this is what a "crisis" looks like, then I wanna have that crisis too lol
Hard to know when we only see like 1% of his life, but it feels like he's making time for the stuff that the UA-cam production schedule took up in the past (having the money helps lol). Or he's always been into random hobbies like this and this is just our chance to see them on video. Either way, I think casual declining semi-retired UA-camr Adam is killing it
Not declining! Reclining!
@@yourguysheppy Oh, I love it for sure!
this isnt a midlide crisis, this is how you avoid a midlife crisis
Adam is the most millennial gen xer on youtube
"my people are smart" is like... really reflective of how respectful Adam is to the audience and that's super cool
42 year olds in 2024 were born in 1981-1982 and hit adulthood right around y2k, isn't that like xennial/early millennial by most definitions?
@@DenalyMin Yea true he's smack dab in the middle. I find him far more relatable than regular gen xers.
@DenalyMin yeah. I'm 40, my husband is 43. Adam is right in our age group. We are xennials. We drank from the hose and walked ourselves home from school to do homework and chores in an empty house, but also learned typing on weird little keyboards with tiny black screens and green text. We set the first records for Oregon Trail that our younger siblings and cousins had to beat, but our older siblings and cousins didn't understand what was so interesting about doing math problems to die of dysentery.
It's a weird little micro gen that got to be the first to dive into the new tech stuff, but there's not a million incriminating pictures of the incredibly dumb stuff we did.
@@ThisIsATireFire40 here too! Yeah growing up in the mid 80s/early 90s was such a blessing!! We got to discover and learn about all the computer associated technologies young enough to feel at home using them now yet old enough to not have them f up our brains like the younger generations 😂
Why I dad my rock, not my children.
> As a 42 year-old white suburbanite who's also very very basic I am of course into music that consists of loud, distorted guitars."
I feel simultaneously seen and called out.
I had this same exact thought!
Same
Was literally mowing my lawn with Vitriol in my headphones when this dropped 😂
Tbh I couldn't tell much of a difference between the compressed and uncompressed samples, I even grabbed a pair of headphones to have a better chance, but still. Maybe it's the youtube audio compression that makes them sound similar? Or maybe I'm just slowly going deaf
They're not audiophile headphones, but I'm on some decent, dedicated headphones as well and wasn't able to pick up much of a difference either. I would also think UA-cam's compression is at play here.
I could hear the difference on phone speakers lol. Mostly just sounded louder overall though
so something that's very commonly confusing is that there are 2 completely different things both called audio compression.
the type that youtube or any streaming service does is data compression - it takes unnecessary, redundant, imperceivable information out of the audio (or video) and leaves only the necessary parts. these are advanced digital algorithms and weren't widespread until MP3s and digital TV came out in the 2000s. if it's working right you shouldn't be able to perceive it at all.
dynamic compression, on the other hand, is like giving a guy with really good reflexes a volume knob and telling him to turn it down when he hears something loud, then when it gets quiet, turn it back up again. these have been used basically since the dawn of audio. there's a lot of different parameters that go into it. there can be very subtle compression or very intense compression
I could, but the ENT says my hearing would be abnormally extremely good for a 15 year old, it's so weird on a 40 year old that they ran the test 3 times.
And as an audiophile all I can tell you is that uncompressed sounded much crisper and defined and is definitely my preference and super compressed sounded muddy, less dynamic, more boring.
I couldn't hear any differences the whole video, I'm listening on what I thought were pretty good TV speakers but now I'm not sure lol
I fell down the "audiophile" rabbit hole and peaked at purchasing a $320 MSRP (+ Swedish import taxes & fees) pair of in-ears and, boy.. Yay, they sound absolutely INCREDIBLE and have taken music to a whole new level for me, but also.. they really expose poor mixing & mastering, and the rock & metal genres are often REALLY bad in this respect. Even music you normally love can become unpalatable because it's just a bloated wall of noise with no separation or nuance, a contrast that becomes really apparent when you compare it with really well mixed metal (I'm looking at you, Toxicity by SOAD. It's a thing of beauty). On the other hand, music that is probably frequently perceived as a shitty muddy pile of noise, like Slipknot, is actually really well done and sound incredible with decent equipment.
Yep, it makes so much difference.
And if you take care of them, a $300 pair of headphones will easily last 10+ years so it’s not that expensive in the end.
In-ears are a complete waste of money if you want top-tier audio performance. You need over-ear cans for that, like big planar magnetics.
@@Cooe.not true. There are lots of situations where big over ear headphones are not appropriate and in those cases I’d rather have good quality in ears than cheap crappy ones. You can get incredible sounding in-ears, even if you can probably get better sounding over-ears at the same price point.
You could follow your logic and say that it’s a complete waste of money to buy big over ear can because you can get big floor standing speakers that are better. That would be a silly argument, just like it’s silly to say that it’s a waste to get in-ears because over-ears exist.
@@pieflies Not appropriate always? Sure! Serious audiophile music listening is an at home activity. But IEMs will NEVER have the sound quality of high-end over-ears. Driver size is CRITICALLY IMPORTANT to sound fidelity. Even the best IEMs PALE in comparison to quality planar magnetics ala HiFiMan's or Audeze's or high-end dynamics like Focals. Do high end IEMs sound good? Of course! Do they sound as good as equivalently priced over-ears? Not even close. 🤷
I love that you brought up SOAD's Toxicity as an example of a really well produced rock because a lot of people think that era of rock was what killed the genre's popularity. But their stuff has held up REALLY well and you can tell they put a lot of passion into it.
12:42 The thing is, that incentive isn't actually there anymore -- Spotify has effectively ended the loudness war by normalizing the volume of all the music on its platform. The problem is that the music industry spent the last 30 years producing and mastering every album knowing that it was going to be compressed to hell so it's basically just habit at this point
That might explain why rock and especially pop punk made a comeback.
I like the clarity in minimally layered music. It's like being able to taste every ingredient in a dish, or seeing individual brushstrokes in a painting. Really feeling the hand of the artist.
The first time I realized that the electric guitar isn’t the problem itself for me but the style of playing was when I first heard Santana. It felt like seeing colours for the first time if that were for electric guitar and I love being able to hear the intention behind its simplicity.
Rock started to decline because good rock bands aren't being picked up by giant music production agencies. Good rock is still out there but it's not as internationally viable as Pop.
Phone speakers make nearly everything unlistenable, to be honest.
And yet half of every concert audience has to have their phones out to film it…….it will sound shit, you’ll never rewatch it and you’ve just spent money to become a cameraman 😂
Phone speakers have gotten really quite good lately, mostly due to DSP I'm guessing
@@TedBarton91 it sounds pretty decent, but not all mics and speakers are on the same
"I'm sick of metoo"
- Adam Ragusea, 2024.
“GET HIM!”
Came here looking for this comment 😂
Ytp bout to have a field day
This will never be used out of context
Adam you gotta try screaming or adding some effects or something you need some more interest in the vocal parts i think. They’re just a little too clean for the distorted style you’re playing.
seconding this
Yes! Yes! Metaaaaaaal!! Some, there's no need for much, some power in that soft and beautiful voice!!
Idk about *screaming.* Maybe pushing into Jawbox territory would suit his voice? Idk I wasn't alive in the 90's but I don't think for this style he needs to do more than compress it and give his delivery enough support to start breaking a little. A major change in the singing seems like it would take away from the quirked-up vibes.
Clean singing has a place. If anything his music from the previews sounds more mathrock esque which is typically instrumental. But yeah some screaming here and there could be cool.
No the screamo phase of the early 2000s ruined rock. No screaming please
My wish for more music-related Adam Ragusea videos has been granted in the best possible way. Love it.
Agreed
Oh no, Melon is gonna come for you 😂
We need a Fantano and Adam Ragusea collab
@ssheersh we really, really dont need that.
Instead of a traditional review he’s gonna do a voice over with him cutting and eating melons as b roll
@@JusufBideovic Yes we do. Melon already does cooking on his channel
I’m so grateful that Adam didn’t Flanderize himself as time went on in the internet. There’s so obviously a timeline where he’s CONSTANTLY screaming, every video being some kind of “NOOO!” Joke. So many people on the internet find a thing that millions of people like and just KEEP DOING IT, and I’m so glad Adam is still just… himself.
Josh weisman XD
Melon, we know you are here
I love listening to Adam Ragusea talk about technical music stuff, especially since that's his original background.
Wait really? Thats cool
as a 25 year old zoomer, Dad rock is what i was born and raised on.
they day Chris Cornell died the world grew far, far darker.
Rock on, Adam
Why I season my Rock n Roll and not my food
maybe i'm just dumb to ask this, but… headphones?
Yeah I was thinking the same thing
The headphones that were used as digital music started to become the norm were in ears with small drivers that couldn't really do big bassy tones. That's part of why electronic music and bright pop became mainstream in that time. Nowadays we have earbuds with dual drivers that can somewhat recreate the bass that a full speaker would create.
A lot of people will just listen on their phone speaker, enough to be the dominant culture. If not that, then the free earbuds you get with your phone.
Its a very different consumption of music compared to people in the 80s/90s listening on a stereo system
Ever since I began following you (on YT, not around your neighborhood), and learned your background, I've been patiently waiting for this. I can't wait to get the full dose of Dad Rock, of which I'm a big fan.
Rock on brada!
Have you looked at the things 99% of people use as headphones ? Its overpriced brand trash or overpriced apple not so trash but made for a very different experience or cheap trash.
20:17 "keep going, my people are smart" 🥺
5:23 So you are saying the Harmonies have too much going on when you add a guitar(or 2) to them, and with Van Halen's record, you like that the Guitar is part of the Melody, which allows the Bass to reside better in the Harmony? I have noticed similar, with some songs where I didn't even realize there was a bass throughout the song.
I disagree with the phone speaker hypothesis. Most music is consumed through very high quality ear/headphones that weren't available, other than at great cost, 20 years ago
Yeah I feel the same way. Who actually listens to music on phone speakers or a laptop? Most is probably played in a car or while wearing headphones.
Yeah, something he didn't really touch on was the rise of rap music, specifically trap which is a very bass-heavy genre. A lot of those songs sound really bad without the 808s.
My guy Adam is gangster
Adam: yikes, did you hear how bad this was?
Me: I'm most certainly listening to this through a tiny speaker, what did you expect me to hear?
Right? Unfortunately no matter how many times I listened to 7:20 to 7:45 I couldn’t hear any difference 😂 Maybe I’ll try again with headphones after I get home.
i switched to propper headphones for that section, and after ages of tinny phone speakers i honestly liked the no bass version slightly more
The first Black Sabbath album was recorded in 1970 in 24 hours on a tiny budget, and it still sounds better than most rock albums coming out these days
I read somewhere once, can’t remember the band name. They said something to the effect of…we recorded our first album in 3 days, now it takes 3 weeks to get the sound of the snare drum down.
I want to say it was Metallica but could be incorrect.
Caspar David Friedrich pfp detected, opinion respected
In defense of "modern rock", most albums that came out in 1970 also did not sound as good as Black Sabbath
Paranoid sounds even better and to me beats the production of 99% of metal/rock records
Yeah but they doubled the guitars pffffft
Thanks a lot for sharing Adam! While you can't control whether people like your music a lot, no one can deny the work you put in to it and that you dared to express yourself. Hope you're proud of your work--if it means anything to you, I'm proud of you!
Compression is not just a one dimensional thing. You can let transients through with the attack knob and create more rhythmic feel with the release knob. The tone and color certain compressors can give sounds extra flavor and excitement. Not to mention stuff like multi band and parallel compression which offer their own perks. Maybe you would want to explore parallel compression and/or slower attack times for more natural sound. Compression isn't a bad thing and even your favorite dad rock albums are soaked in it. there's a reason why its used so much and that's because its another dimension to shape your music and add cohesion between its elements. compression is one of the last things an audio engineer fully masters because it takes time to trains your ears. To listen to the subtle differences that end up contributing to the feel. I think your vocals especially could use more compression to add presence as it's getting lost in the mix. No offense, your voice doesn't have the grasp and quality of someone like the leads on those two albums, so it could use some help. Sorry for the rant but mixing and mastering is an art in itself that takes years to learn. There's a charm to old songs but modern mixes are just sonically better and more accessible.
1:26 Who listens to music on their phone's speaker?
Think about short form content, adverts, anything on social media really. We're exposed to a lot of music that we don't realize
I thought exactly the same a few years ago! And I was surprised to learn that many people nowadays just consume media through their phones, a d whenever they don't have their headphones they just resort to listening on their phone speaker. I think it's a matter of convenience, but also there are a lot of people that just like music from the tiny speaker! For me that's soooo alien, but I guess everyone has their own experience!
Not anyone actually listening to an album. I think Adam far overestimates how many listen to songs on their phone speakers.
I love guitar rock and REM, but having REM next to Van Halen is funny lol
Man I absolutely agree that you are a talented writer of music. Your guitar riffs in particular make me think of some of my favorite bads like Spitalfield and The Audition--some great bands that were unique enough to fly under the radar and went relatively unnoticed. Defninitely my style. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
Adam sounds like Eddie Van Driessen. "Men have feelings too. May I share mine with you?"
(Joking in a friendly way!)
Hey Adam!!! Young person here who is still interested in guitar music, and has been learning the art of recording for +6 years now!!
For tracks that you're limiting to just 1 guitar, I HIGHLY recommend checking out Steve Albini's tutorial on recording electric guitar. His channel is his studio's name, Electrical Audio.
The basic jist is two just two microphones with different qualities (generally a condenser and a ribbon in Steve's use case) and pan them hard left and right. That way you have some wide stereo image, while also keeping to one distinct guitar performance.
This has been my go-to technique since I learned about it :)
Anyways, congrats on the new record!!!! Can't wait to stream it!!!!
As long as your favorite music genre isn't "bro country," you be you.
No lie, music is even more interesting to me than food. I could watch videos like this all day. MORE PLEASE!!!
I’ve talked to my friends about “Mom Rock”. It’s just the music all our moms listened to while driving us to elementary school
Features Matchbox 20, Goo Goo Dolls, Kings of Leon etc.
The Bernoulli Effect has very very little to do with airplanes flying. That's a myth. Lift is what makes planes fly. On another note, you should release that entire video with Elizabeth. I would like to see that.
I don't think it's the playback machine. "Back in my day", we had new-fangled transistor radios with a tinny speaker and that crappy one-ear earplug. And yet we got the Beatles, and Stones, and the Who, and the Mamas and Papas, and &c. You hit the nail on the head about the humanity that lives in the imperfections. Sometimes it's genius, sometimes it's craptacular, but it's always human. Compression and autotune are my big annoyances with music followed very closely by the excessive layering. It was bad enough with the old "Wall of Sound", but now, combined with the compression and autotune, music has gone from a dynamic and imperfect auditory stew-y mix to an overprocessed forkful of soup -- usually without all the herbs and spice to make it memorable. But, I'm an old fuddy-duddy, so what do I know (I mean, we also had Disco Duck)? And get off my lawn!
Bass'd!
Quite a lot of bass players online say you should get a compressor pedal, and so I have one, but I very rarely use it, I want my dynamics!
I hope it works out for you, people crave authenticity these days, so it might. I leave my mistakes in, and people don't seem to mind... The time when I stop making mistakes is the time when I stop learning, so then I'll move onto the next thing, but I don't think that will be for a while yet
Best statement @ 21:35 : " you don't pay anything for music now, so you can't feel ripped off, isn't that great" 😅😅
I enjoy this variety show era. Looking forward to an update on the pizza shop launch
I didn't expect a cameo from The Charismatic Voice! Love her.
Im in with you on this Mr Ragusea, you deserve a dadrock holiday from the food topic
love the video but I didn't head the difference(im using headphones)
Every now and then I forget Adam was a music guy before he was a food guy
Adam where's the bodybuilding video
Rock'n'roll sure used to be a young man's game. But I don't think rock'n'roll is "Rock'n'Roll" anymore, not in the way it used to be.
Now it is art, nostagia and therapy all baked in one. Nothing bad about that, and certainly not age-restricted. Anyway, I loved those guitar lines, well played and well composed!
ROCK ON🎉🎉🎉🎉
Multitracking doesn't necessarily have to mean hating and neglecting the bass part. Also multitracking doesn't even have to mean playing something that's dead simple. You can easily search up the isolated guitar stem for Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne. Not just the rhythm track is doubled, but the guitar solo and leads too! Part of why some of the high notes sound kind of harsh and dissonant during the main solo is that Rhoads is playing slightly different guitar leads, often which aren't harmonized in thirds, but in seconds (both major and minor)! However the bass is still very prominent in the mix on Crazy Train, is it not?
Double the vocals and that chorus the second with a little higher pitch, put a big muff on the bass
Tbh adam I really like you but theres super awesome rock music coming out every year you just have to look in the right places
Tru
0:43 please don’t become that guy. Don’t apologize for your existence
I think the bigger issue in the declining cultural relevance of rock run far deeper than production and technology. First, rock seems to just have largely run out of new ideas as can be seen when the headliners at the big festivals are the same as they were 20-30 years ago and some of the most touted new acts are neo-revival groups like Greta Van Fleet. Second, the continued rockification of country music; if you're a talented guitar player without the charisma to front a band of your own, you'll have a much more stable and productive career as a hired gun in Nashville than banging out half-empty shows at 100 cap venues. Third, changing economics of the music industry that have made bands less financially viable and led to a near total emphasis on solo acts.
"nooooo you're wrong, rock ain't dead!!! You have to look elsewhere!!! Rock is more alive than ever, it's just not mainstream!!!"
Yeah then why do every time people show me a modern rock band, it sounds like nu metal or some shi you could hear back in the 2000's?
Where are the new ideas that keeps it from being dead?
I'd blame the first on the latter two rather than count it as a cause in its own right. If the economics were right for there to be more rock bands you'd naturally get more new ideas in rock.
@@the-sillycate If you're talking about rock specifically, I agree, but if you extend this to include metal I wholeheartedly disagree. Metal has exploded and has so many subgenres exploring wildly different territory. You don't even have to search for obscure groups (Gojira opened for the Olympics).
Back to rock: Part of why so much of the new stuff sounds like a rehash of old stuff or like nu-metal is because that's what's popular. Metal has largely taken over the market share that used to be dominated by rock bands. So to adapt most modern groups either copy what made the old bands great or they borrow to heavily from metal and other popular genres (like rap) and you get nu-metal.
@@RecliningWhale I see, and it makes complete sense. Thank you for the clarification!
I'll take a look into modern metal subgenres then.
If midlife crisis had a youtube channel.
waiting for him to start reviewing used sports cars with 50k-100k miles
it's awesome
It's kind of the exact opposite of a crisis, really
Limitation breeds creativity. Simple as.
Or more specifically, *not* being limited, makes you do worse quality work.
Metal is in a golden age right now, it’s the perfect Goldilocks between being underground enough that normies leave it alone, but popular enough for bands to make a living doing interesting things. When a like An Abstract Illusion comes out of left field and wins Album of the Year at places like Metal storm, you know the scene is thriving. Also there is a huge 70s-80s revival scene happening right now especially in places like Sweden with bands like Enforcer, Graveyard, and Blues Pills.
More evidence that cooking and music (or at least orchestration and mixing) are secretly the exact same art.
You write really nice guitar riffs. Really interesting melodies.
Get big AKG or Sennheiser etc… headphones (£50 ish), or maybe use those dangerous jam in ear canal headphones that are not compatible with my tiny no air pass ear canals, although mine allow for auto regulating of pressure through the throat via partial yawning with carefully gentle nasal breathing, useful for flights, so maybe.
9:17 The little bit that sounds good but cannot be reproduced really reminds me of Prince and his When Doves Cry, with its intro guitar riff.
When you look at the chords and you try to reproduce that sound you will notice that it does not quite sound the same.
This is because allegedly Prince recorded that riff first, and THEN wrote the chords for it. Which is not uncommon, but interestingly enough, that specific riff is very difficult to write down in musical notation for one reason or another (I wouldn't know, I'm not a music guy)
It's these little moments of inprov that can make both the greats and the normies feel on the same page. Sometimes you just do something you never expected to be able to do, and you can never reproduce it again.
Just do what Thin Lizzy did and have two world-class lead guitarists in your band at the same time. The guitarmony on _Emerald_ might be my favourite sound in all of rock
I couldn’t resist giving some album recs:
Flight b741 by King Gizzard is a really exciting new album, just a bunch of Aussie boys getting together and playing some old ripper rock and roll.
3D Country by Geese is also incredible, the vocalist has just an insane dynamic range in his voice and it really lends itself to the manic energy of this post-punk/alt country blend
Hearing that REM album takes me right back to my first year of undergrad. Good days.
Adam when he makes a video that only makes sense when you listen to it on studio grade headphones. Someone else mentioned KGaTLW but imo they suffer from the intensive layering albeit retaining the psychedelic summer of love vibe.
Just have to know where to find it. I suggest Ringo Deathstarr
The two guitars thing works really well in grungy tracks like yours when you have a singer that is going for that grungy style. That instantly took me back to Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
All the people listening to this video on tiny speakers will just have to take your word for it :P
Declining into my heart, maybe. Keep doing you, Adam, we're with you
I know nothing about music, especially rock, and just generally the creation of music. I loved this video. I could not really tell any of the differences tbh i'd probably have to dive deeper to understand . Regardless, this video is fantastic. I love it. Please do more!
Also, I love the style of music videos with the live playing- i listen to insaneintherain and PPF and their videos are fantastic.
If over-reliance on compression doesn't feel good to Adam, the Slowed+Reverb world must be a dagger right to the heart.
from Dm7b5 to food science and now back to recording, this was a welcome surprise to be sure!
I think that all this machinery making mordern music can still be open-hearted. But that's just me I guess.
18:24 creed YEHEAYH button
also if you listen to doubled stereo guitars through a mono speaker, if it wasn't mixed right, the two guitar parts can easily negate each other's frequencies, and leave like half a guitar part in the middle in mono
Dacl rock is Linkin park and Korn nowadays
3:43 so much more attractive! 🎵
Singing sounds great Adam!
Not sure i have an ear for music, but my guess would be... your one man band needs a lead singer :)
Your section of "Glue" reminds me of "Pelican"s "Far from Fields", I've heard this sort of music referred to as "Post Metal".
Pelican are brilliant, and even better live
damn i'm early
Muse cover next
Adams never listened to shoegaze
Was going to say, if zoomers like any rock nowadays it's the noisy stuff
@@renovevo what's that?
Adam mbv arc pls
Im sure he has
I got the impression that Adam was referring to rock more than any of its newer subgenres. Otherwise his claim that its declining wouldn't make any sense since Metal (for example) is bigger now than it ever was.
My favorite food youtuber
the yapper is back
Homestuck
idk if my homestuck comments get deleted cuz theyre just homestuck cuz i never get a response
this just in: adam ragusea HATES shoegaze!!!! lol
12:43 I would argue that streaming loudness normalization disadvantages those who overcompress
Rock certainly isn't declining in quality, just exposure.
I love music too adam!!! Record more videos about your music related topics!!!!!!!!
You always simplify everything perfectly!
The Adam Ragusea and Charismatic Voice crossover I didn't know I needed. That's hilarious 🤣