Rare & Obscure Gear (Blackbird Studio Tour) - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2018
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While we were in Nashville for the Produce Like A Pro Academy Masterclass, we had a chance to take a tour of the wonderful Blackbird Studios! We've done tours of this studio in the past, but this year Mark Rubel gave us a more in-depth behind the scenes look starting from the hallway that leads to studios C & D.
This hallway is filled with a lot of the “overflow” gear which tends to be very obscure/rare- like the LA1D, which is a special 1176 custom build for the state department. It has no adjustable attack or release and it is optimized for Arabic! We don’t know how many of these were made because they were all made for the government.
As far as the studio goes, John McBride wants the clients to have access to “every coloured crayon.” They don’t want a client to feel like they’re compromised because they don’t have some access to the sonic pallet, and that’s why they have all of this gear!
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I think it's amazing that they "collect" all this amazing gear to still have it be heard on records instead of ending up in some collectors showcase!
Very well put Chris!!
Hi Friends, while we were in Nashville at John McBride’s Blackbird Studio for the Produce Like A Pro MasterClass the marvellous Mark Rubel, who runs their amazing Academy there gave us a guided Tour. Check out the Studio, it’s Gear and the School and please let us know what you think!
Amazing studio!!
4 years later and I'm still amazed at these videos! They definitely kept me entertained and dreaming through the pandemic and still enjoy them today. Amazing content and tha k you Warren and of course your amazing team sir. 👏
A truly amazing Studio with great people running it! Thanks Warren!
Yes, great people, great studio!
Listening to music in Studio C at Blackbird is the most amazing this I’ve exams experienced in my life
I know! I agree! Such an incredible experience!
Haven't watched it yet, but just from the title is this probably the best video on youtube!
Daily Drum Lesson haha thanks ever so much my friend!!
I'd be in way over my head in a place like that but it was surely enjoyable taking the virtual tour and hearing someone with incredible knowledge just talk about everything in each room. Thanks for the video
Wow! Such history in this video. I could literally live in these rooms (especially Studio A and F)
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Only negative thing I have to say is that the video is way too short. Amazing studio, amazing people, amazing gear! Thx for the insight!
Josef U. Yes! I agree! There’s a much longer version inside the Academy!
beatles blasting through.. beautiful
Yes Sir! I agree, beautiful!
What a treat! Thanks, Warren
Malcolm Palm you’re very welcome my friend!!
That was absolutely cool!
Thanks ever so much! I had an amazing time!
My list of things to buy has just got bigger ..by a fair amount too. Another great studio tour ...thanks again Warren and team ... and of course Blackbird studios.
King Belsey haha indeed! Every time I go to Blackbird I fall in love with the studio and All the tear in there!!
Thanks for letting us be there
too.
You're very welcome my friend!!
Thank you for sharing this. I've been to Memphis, Nashville, Chicago and so many other places where there are fantastic studios and I've always wanted to take a tour. So good to see that they have adjusted to the way things are and found a way to keep in business. Really great to watch this. Thanks
Thanks ever so much Michael!
OH MY GOD I’m speechless 😲 All that gear....
I agree 100% Martin! Truly amazing!
I love it Warren!!! It was rather obscure, but contradictional : not too...;) The castle of blackbird full of ...pure gold...:)
Jeroen Simons thanks ever so much my friend!!
Thank god a new video! I needed something to watch while I air out my studio/office space. It's a good 98 degrees here in Vermont, USA.
I really enjoy these sort of videos, what if you had a "Time Travel" segment of some sort?
What were you guys producing and recording with in say 1985 or something? 1994 when I was born?
Could you possibly set up something that would resemble your home studios back in the day?
At least some of the equipment used, maybe try and mix on some old equipment.
Thanks again for all your great videos!
MVD Beatz what a truly amazing idea!! Thanks ever so much my friend!!
Geez! Sorry to hear that!
Brilliant, and I am really jealous of the guys that took the tour. Being in Australia. in the middle of nowhere from a world perspective, its hard to get to these things. Fantastic video, must have been a great experience.
and Warren had to grab a guitar ...he just had to do it. LOL
Isaac Pizarro I just can’t help myself!! Hahah
Sounds fun! Here's to the friends who understand why we can't just not pick up a guitar. 🙂🌷
Audrey Sims hahaha yes indeed!!
Mark is the man!
Saw the full version on PLAP last week and its great! Thanks Warren
Thanks ever so much my friend!!
The wonderful Mark Rubel. Lucky to know the man
Tiki Tom Toms & The Pineapple Beach Party agreed! He’s such an amazing guy!!
I’ve been watching your videos a lot lately and it’s always a great to see my old friend/mentor. Mark definitely taught me tons about music and recording. Keep up the inspiring work!!!
I love being able to feature Mark! He is a true Gentleman and I feel blessed to call him a friend!
5:38 -- cool piece of gear, but unless Blackbird has customized their Echorec, there is no way to adjust the delay time. The four heads around the platter are in fixed positions and can be switched on/off by way of the front knobs, but there is no way to vary the speed of the platter. I love these machines and have owned probably 12 of them since the early 1990's. I'll put of a video of my most recent one at some point in the near future, but part of the charm is that there is NO variation on delay time, and you are "stuck" either dealing with what the machine spits out, or varying the tempo of the song you play. Pink Floyd's use of it was brilliant in that the wow/flutter is what gives those amazing waves of spiral dreaminess... on anything. Great pieces of kit!
Nice to see the BBE Maximiser's on the shelf 😍
Andre Brown lots of people love them!!
Produce Like A Pro Sadly I've never actually used the real thing but used the Plugin version for 3-4 yrs. Looking fwd to the real magic!
Cool tour Warren! Thanx
Bob Baumeister thanks ever so much!
Wonderful stuff. I would love to spend some serious time there!
Hope you had as much of a blast at Queen as you were looking forward to and then some, Warren!
Hey Aaron! Queen hasn't happened yet! I'm very excited for it!
@@Producelikeapro Ah, my mistake. I do imagine you are and I must admit to a bit of envy! ;-) Enjoy!
They have a Queen movie coming out. Bohemian Rapsody, its going to be an amazing movie.
@@jnws30 I did hear the title and that it was in the works, but that was it. No details. Very much looking forward to seeing it and hoping it will do Queen justice.
@@aarondoering4613 there is a trailor on you tube.
that console is insane
Truly insane my friend!!
ah yes John Mellancougar
Derek M ...camp! Haha nice spot!
But seriously awesome video .. what an unreal gear collection. Out of all the Classic Albums though, Kings of Leon Only by the Night is probably my favorite sounding record recorded here.
Derek M oh, right that’s the guy who’s friends with Eddie Valen right? 😂
I spy my good friend Christian being an awesome intern for ya!
Yes! Christian and everyone else at Blackbird is truly wonderful!
"This console is so Star Trek." That's what I think whenever I see any of these big ol' mixing consoles. "These are the voyages of the starship [dramatic pause] Blackbird…"
Adam Fox haha yes indeed my friend!!
So you've been to Disneyland, right? It looks like Disneyland. I want to be there. Forever.
haha!
deepersight777 it IS Disneyland my friend!!
Everybody looked impressed and happy at the same time. Of course it is! Thank you for sharing these moments with us!
deepersight777 you’re very welcome! Glad to be able to help!!
Great stuff, as always. It's kind of sad to think that, with the demise of the supergroup, nobody is going to get an extended period (a couple of weeks) which they could use to really explore the sonic options afforded by some of the really obscure gear they have. The fact they still have all that gear in one place, and have started tours and their academy to get people to see it, is something to be very thankful for.
Did the "poly-cylindrical reflectors" work, as a concept? I'm guessing not really, as you don't see it used? I only ask, as I once decorated a modular trade-show stand with split 4 inch bamboo poles to make it look like a stoner's idea of a beach-hut. Having an excuse to do the same to my little home recording shoe-box would be great!
awesome awesome awesome!
Eric Gonzalez thank you thank you thank you!
I could live there.
SERVICE THE SOUND STUDIO me too!!
Thanks for sharing!
Andre Brown thanks ever so much my friend!!
Produce Like A Pro always got a ear & eye for your uploads. Will have to have my music processed by you one day. Have a great weekend
Is this a tour that happens often, or is this a one off? If I ever get down to Nashville Id love to tour this facility.
Man what I wouldn’t give to hear that tape of the faces
John Core I know!!! So amazing!!
This place is ... I think I'm missing the word! Awesome doesn't do it justice. Amazing? Not good enough! But the most impressive part is probably a very profane: They survive in the modern world! By the way, do they have one of the Martian Strats I keep reading of on the interweb? 😜 I'd love to see that place! Really!
HI Jürgen! Thanks ever so much my friend!!
Hey Warren, just had an idea. The remix competition you did was just awesome. What if you also did a "song writing" contest? We all send you are songs and you pick the top three. I think it would be amazing for songwriters to have a chance to get props and critiqued by you. Just a thought.
Do they rent rooms? 2 square yard to throw a mattress on the floor would be fine :P
Haha I hear you Maarten!
“Hurt so good” by the one and only John MellenCougar.
I caught that to
Ronnie Parfait haha yes indeed!!
Nick Winfield Good spot my friend!!
The inevitable bang when you try to quietly put an acoustic guitar safely back and it bounces off something on your belt.
Yep...this is gonna help me sell my binson...
haha!
The Nashville Municipal Auditorium.
Thanks for your comment!!
15:33 - definitely would not have been 1977, as The Faces broke up well before then and didn't tour after '75 ... however! If you'd like to see actual footage of a recording in that room during the early 1970's, when they still had the cathode-ray meter bridge, check this video here:
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13 rappers with fruity loops do not like this video!! Thank you for this, was a great walk through of some very cool shit!
Neato. I just want a decent microphone.
That's all you need Nick!
@@Producelikeapro yeah, I want to record my daughter on violin but alas, no mic.
Nick Winfield I would recommend the Lewitt LCT140 it’s inexpensive and sounds amazing! I’ve used it on the violin! Also for a little more Lauten make a great inexpensive small diaphragm mic that works great on the violin!
@@Producelikeapro cool. Thanks for the advice. Cool to have a world class producer giving me advice. Thats a lot better then the average dude at guitar center. How is that mic for vocals?
Thanks Nick! It would be ok for vocals, however I would probably get a larger Diaphragm Mic, the LCT 240 is very inexpensive and sounds great for the money! Again I really like the Lauten Audio and Roswell mics as well!
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Thanks ever so much