I'm becoming addicted to this channel after watching you produce the death metal session! Have you done anything on how to make a lead guitar sit nicely in metal - so it cuts through but doesn't sound like an added extra? Thanks again.
great to see this. I record bands of all styles - from heavy rock to jazz to country and everything inbetween - always all in one room with baffles between the amps and the drums. nothing like that vibe and it's quick - as long as the band is well rehearsed and the arrangements are sorted. Go Kristian!
The more I’m learning at Kohle Audio Kult the better the academy and its courses become. There is so much going, so much great stuff I have never seen anything else at any other online academy. Kristian and Warren are doing marvellous work on developing Kohle Audio Kult in all the possible ways. Really the best place to be for anyone who wants to be good at producing metal!
There's a video of Iron Maiden recording whilst playing together. I remember when we recorded a song in a studio in 80's. It had two studio engineers in the same room and some members of another band watching. The room was untreated and during the middle of the song someone walked in the room through a fire door. We all looked in that direction thinking wtf. We paused for a split of a second and carried on playing the song to the end. The timing of the person walking in couldn't have been better. That tiny pause in the song gave it a new dimension, and it fitted perfectly. The song was better with than without the pause. Very dynamic and breathing. All analog recording to the tape, nothing digital.
@@Producelikeapro All the thanks is to you Warren. So very generous of you to share all this knowledge & experience you have obviously worked so hard to acquire over your distinguished career. You deserve a Grammy for music tech education!
A cool trick I picked up from listening to Jack Shirley interviews is to put the band closer together and leave space behind the drummer for room mics. That way you can record without headphones and and still have pretty good isolation in close and room mics
It would be awesome if you guys could explore 1) Controlling Dynamics 2) Getting the Low End right 3) Getting Control of the Low Mids on Guitars without sacrificing clarity 4) Vocal Processing (EQ, Compression, De-essing etc) 5) Drum/2 Bus choices & 6) creating excitement and clarity. All of these things being within the context of Metal Mixing & Production would be awesome!! 😎🔥
It sounds raw and huge. Awesome guitar+bass sound. The cymbals are quite subdued, and don't cut through the wall of guitars though, but that's kind of understandable, because probably there was quite a bit of guitar sound in the overheads.
Lovely way to do some rockin' rock recording, for a change. Well done! 👍👍👍 When you told the bass player "You can be louder" - that's love for life, you're producing whatever band he's in til he's 90 years old! 😉 BTW nice to see you didn't go too fussy on preampomania, looks like you used the console a lot... BTW2 the studio may be "vibey", as you said, but the gloomy tall guy lurking behind you (owner? assistant?) has a certain Frankenstein-not-happy-to-be-on-camera vibe. Very metal!? 🧛🏻♂️😂 Smile, FFS, it's all good publicity for your studio, and they're making music in it, not seting it on fire! 🤷🏼♂️😉
For live on site vibey recording the motu ultra lite mk5 is a tiny workhorse. Better drivers than audient and way smaller. Every venue has a mixing board I can just patch in. Been around for a few years and it's amazing....
Can you explain what is the difference on the drivers? I just plugged it in and it worked straight away, didn’t any issues. Can you explain driver issues you had with Audient? Thanks
I use a windows machine and Motu writes their own drivers. Audient uses thesycon drivers for windows, I don't think they need any for Mac. Motu has the second best drivers out there right behind RME for performance/stability but nothing wrong with audient. always tradeoffs in any gear decision . Thesycon writes a lot of windows drivers... I use them on my black lion revolution and though they aren't as quite stable as the motu they preform fine. I haven't used the audient gear but I I nearly grabbed an id14 nk2 a few years ago. Grabbed the black lion instead. I'm sure they are all fine but for a bulletproof live rig I grab the motu mk5. 24 tracks. It's half a rack space so awesome fly rig. Audients auto leveling is a great idea though.... Especially for on the fly live recording.. trade offs as the evo has all those preamps but man is the gear so much more evolved than the 80s when I started.
I've always recorded live, or tracking drums with everyone in the room and then record other instruments later. Metal nowadays is weak and production really sucks, luckily we are still strong in the underground & there is raw and very brutal production. I'm sorry but blending samples with real takes is really bad, even if sounded cool in the 90's, which all prods sounded the same, real takes with bands rehearsing their songs all together and jamming, that's the key!!!
I know the whole human feel thing seems to be a big topic. I'm 37 and grew up while Slipknot, All That Remains and Killswitch were huge. I was more influenced by Pantera, Slayer, and Morbid Angel. Having said that, even 90s Pantera sounded better than this. Recording live is fine but if it can't even compare to 90s studio metal then what's the point?
What other aspects of Metal would you like us to explore? Comment down below!
I'm becoming addicted to this channel after watching you produce the death metal session! Have you done anything on how to make a lead guitar sit nicely in metal - so it cuts through but doesn't sound like an added extra? Thanks again.
I'm interested in anything in genre you care to share, fascinating for me coming from an Americana background.
@@matty_mcmattface that’s a great question! I’ve got to a video on that now!
@@davidallenhammond2777 thanks ever so much my friend!
A session with some black or death metal band would be awesome!!
Thank you so much for having me Warren!
Let’s make Metal sound raw again! 💪🤪
You Rock my friend!!
Ganz geil.
@@st33Npuist vielen Dank
Warren, I love how you use your channel to promote other people in your industry.
Thanks ever so much! Yes, it’s really important to bring us all together!
great to see this. I record bands of all styles - from heavy rock to jazz to country and everything inbetween - always all in one room with baffles between the amps and the drums. nothing like that vibe and it's quick - as long as the band is well rehearsed and the arrangements are sorted. Go Kristian!
Yes, capture the magic!
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The more I’m learning at Kohle Audio Kult the better the academy and its courses become. There is so much going, so much great stuff I have never seen anything else at any other online academy. Kristian and Warren are doing marvellous work on developing Kohle Audio Kult in all the possible ways. Really the best place to be for anyone who wants to be good at producing metal!
the best for metal is URM academy
Oh man that sounds great. The room is sooo important for the sonic outcome.
Absolutely!
Thank you Kristian and Warren !
Thanks ever so much Audrey!!
There's a video of Iron Maiden recording whilst playing together. I remember when we recorded a song in a studio in 80's. It had two studio engineers in the same room and some members of another band watching. The room was untreated and during the middle of the song someone walked in the room through a fire door. We all looked in that direction thinking wtf. We paused for a split of a second and carried on playing the song to the end. The timing of the person walking in couldn't have been better. That tiny pause in the song gave it a new dimension, and it fitted perfectly. The song was better with than without the pause. Very dynamic and breathing. All analog recording to the tape, nothing digital.
It makes sense to try things like that.
Marvellous
Thank you Warren and thanks a bunch Kristian! A marvelous introduction to your process, and very timely for me.
Thanks ever so much David!!
Awesome Kristian, the sound from the recording was brilliant. Big thanks to the PLAP team
Thanks ever so much Joey! You Rock!
These tracks give me hope for the future of metal. Most new metal sounds like it belongs on a super hero movie soundtrack.
That’s great to hear! Thanks ever so much for sharing
Great video thanks Warren & Kristian
Thanks ever so much Matty!!
@@Producelikeapro All the thanks is to you Warren. So very generous of you to share all this knowledge & experience you have obviously worked so hard to acquire over your distinguished career. You deserve a Grammy for music tech education!
@@matty_mcmattface you’re very kind! We did win the TEC Award for Audio Education
That was fun as hell to watch! Good Job!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This sound is absolute killer!
Agreed! Kristian is the man!
ohhh yes !!!
@@andreirlmeier amazing!
A cool trick I picked up from listening to Jack Shirley interviews is to put the band closer together and leave space behind the drummer for room mics. That way you can record without headphones and and still have pretty good isolation in close and room mics
It would be awesome if you guys could explore 1) Controlling Dynamics 2) Getting the Low End right 3) Getting Control of the Low Mids on Guitars without sacrificing clarity 4) Vocal Processing (EQ, Compression, De-essing etc) 5) Drum/2 Bus choices & 6) creating excitement and clarity. All of these things being within the context of Metal Mixing & Production would be awesome!! 😎🔥
That was amazing!
Thanks ever so much
It sounds raw and huge. Awesome guitar+bass sound. The cymbals are quite subdued, and don't cut through the wall of guitars though, but that's kind of understandable, because probably there was quite a bit of guitar sound in the overheads.
Thanks ever so much Rok!
So cool!
Thanks ever so much
Lovely way to do some rockin' rock recording, for a change. Well done!
👍👍👍
When you told the bass player "You can be louder" - that's love for life, you're producing whatever band he's in til he's 90 years old!
😉
BTW nice to see you didn't go too fussy on preampomania, looks like you used the console a lot...
BTW2 the studio may be "vibey", as you said, but the gloomy tall guy lurking behind you (owner? assistant?) has a certain Frankenstein-not-happy-to-be-on-camera vibe.
Very metal!?
🧛🏻♂️😂
Smile, FFS, it's all good publicity for your studio, and they're making music in it, not seting it on fire!
🤷🏼♂️😉
For live on site vibey recording the motu ultra lite mk5 is a tiny workhorse. Better drivers than audient and way smaller. Every venue has a mixing board I can just patch in. Been around for a few years and it's amazing....
Can you explain what is the difference on the drivers? I just plugged it in and it worked straight away, didn’t any issues. Can you explain driver issues you had with Audient? Thanks
I use a windows machine and Motu writes their own drivers. Audient uses thesycon drivers for windows, I don't think they need any for Mac. Motu has the second best drivers out there right behind RME for performance/stability but nothing wrong with audient. always tradeoffs in any gear decision . Thesycon writes a lot of windows drivers... I use them on my black lion revolution and though they aren't as quite stable as the motu they preform fine. I haven't used the audient gear but I I nearly grabbed an id14 nk2 a few years ago. Grabbed the black lion instead. I'm sure they are all fine but for a bulletproof live rig I grab the motu mk5. 24 tracks. It's half a rack space so awesome fly rig. Audients auto leveling is a great idea though.... Especially for on the fly live recording.. trade offs as the evo has all those preamps but man is the gear so much more evolved than the 80s when I started.
apart from german beer, there are also very good breweries in the czech republic
Absolutely!!
a note for Kristian Kohle 😅
@@andreirlmeier absolutely! I’m pretty sure Kristian knows all about Czech beer! 😂he loves his beer
Metal music and beer is a coincidence. at big festivals they first build the beer stands and then the PA system. I sent you an email warren
During mic check for drums, what did the drummer hear in his headohones? 🤔
Pink noise and Pink Floyd.
😉😉😉😉
who is the band? which studio is it? cheers!
hi hello
Hello!
"but but but ssl pre amps man..... those arent supoosed to sound good.....🤯......... " 🤣
Haha some of the greatest sounding albums of all time were recorded on SSL’s
@@Producelikeapro 😇
I've always recorded live, or tracking drums with everyone in the room and then record other instruments later. Metal nowadays is weak and production really sucks, luckily we are still strong in the underground & there is raw and very brutal production. I'm sorry but blending samples with real takes is really bad, even if sounded cool in the 90's, which all prods sounded the same, real takes with bands rehearsing their songs all together and jamming, that's the key!!!
I know the whole human feel thing seems to be a big topic. I'm 37 and grew up while Slipknot, All That Remains and Killswitch were huge. I was more influenced by Pantera, Slayer, and Morbid Angel. Having said that, even 90s Pantera sounded better than this. Recording live is fine but if it can't even compare to 90s studio metal then what's the point?
Nu Metal is boring, starting with the song. Bring back the organic elements and energy.