I'm a huge Metallica fan. Even though I'm watching the video six years after it was released... it's fantastic to hear every detail brought out by you. Here from Brazil, my congratulations.
I know it's easy for people to kind of groan at the Nickelback stuff, but really the production on Silver Side Up is fantastic, especially the drum sounds. Still totally holds up today. Super, super polished and sounds extremely modern. The word underrated gets thrown around a lot, but I really think Randy Staub is very underrated as a mixer. Didn't know he mixed Black Gives Way To Blue, that's very cool to know!
I remember Devin Townsend (a brilliant producer in his own right) saying that he was struggling with a mix and had the idea of bringing Randy Staub in to help him sort it out. But he then found out that Staub's fee to mix one song was basically the entire album's budget.
This is really interesting. I have the Metallica making of DVD so this is kind of the icing on the cake. Re: Kick samples; David Guetta can be found in this format talking about production tips, getting your kick right and then sticking with it, lots of stylistic aspects to be found with top producers and engineers in addition to the musicians on the records. Nickelback... loved their Wembley gig I went to a while back, and a super polished sound on their albums for sure. Great video Rick, love your channel, just super informative and so smart. Inspiring. Thanks!
Hi Rick great vid. Thanks for sharing. I remember from some old Guitar World mags James' clean tone from Sandman was his White Explore through a Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus+ a direct recorded Gretsch White Falcon. His main distorted tone was the White Explorer into a Mesa Boogie Simul-class Mark II. He said they did three dubs:hard left,hard right and one up the middle. Kirks lead tone was a Bradshaw preamp "for the lows and mids and a couple of Marshalls for nice clean highs"
Never seen this channel before, I found it because I was investigating Randy Staub and damn......what an amazing job, you made me appreciate it even more and you have golden ears! amazing video, you have gained a new suscriber
Opeth's Pale Communion may be one of my favorite sounding albums of all time next to Royal Scam by Steely Dan. Every instrument is so easy to isolate with your ears in the mix and pick out to listen to.
Hey Rick.....Queensryche "Mindcrime" album has to be one of the most ground breaking and ahead of it's time mixed and produced albums of all time. Landmark album.
I just found your channel and am I grateful for you sir!! Funny, you brought up several albums im personally familiar with. This helped to point out why I like these albums and not some other stuff from the same people. Engineering. I am an amateur engineer but one day, with enough practice I WILL be this good. These little things help me to understand why that is and where I need to go with it all. Thank you so much Rick!!!
Black gives way to blue stood up to me as a great mix right away!. Clarity, definition and very punchy. Guitar sound amazing, bass maybe a bit too much at times and hi hat on your face for example om "check my brain". Definitely something to be guided by. Wish you could analyze a track from that record Rick.
24:40 - fkkin a. James voice is insane. Especially after all these years this album still stands out. Can't beat the good stuff. Just like far beyond driven :)
Another great video, thanks for sharing your information from your personal chats with these great mixing giants! I always learn something from your channel...Regards!
Rick Beato Can you please do a music production or mixing technique explained video on Kevin Shirley or Andy Sneap or Colin Richardson 3 of my favourite producers and dont ignore me this time
@@sarahtonin4649 A fatter kick without the "click" would probably be too muddy in the mix with all the distorted guitars and bass going on. I don't mind it, I can appreciate all kinds of genres and mixing techniques.
These videos are OUTSTANDING! Thank you SO much! Got a bunch of engineer buds who are getting a kick out of these as well. Would LOVE to see Jimbo Barton....but I'm DYING for a Toby Wright vid!!
Yes yes yes... PLEASE Tchad Blake... He is one of my heroes. Particularly any of his work with Soul Coughing, Tom Waits, The Blake Keys, or AM by the Arctic Monkeys (such massive drum sounds on that record). These videos are great. As soon as I have free capital I am going to become a patron. Currently I am putting all my money into construction on my first recording studio (not just a home set up)... Dream come true. Also... I would LOVE a video on Nigel Godrich too... His sounds and particularly his imaging are like a magic trick. Everything sounds full and up front but nothing fights each other for space.
Really cool to hear that he did Black Tie White Noise with Bowie. It's an incredibly underrated record with great sonics..Lester Bowie and David, a record that is heavy in some ways, but sonically sounds like it's reaching for the ears of the NPR audience (don't get me wrong, I adore, this album, but I love jazz, jazz guitar, Nile Rodgers, Reeves, II'm in heaven as a guy who grew up learning to play Joe Pass [mostly listen in awe]). It reminds me sonically more of something I would imagine coming out on Blue Note if they had been "wilder". I see him credited as remixer...wonder what the story on that is? First Bowie record with Reeves Gabrels too (not counting Tin Machine, of course). Thanks for all the work you put into these videos: they're truly appreciated.
this is cool. I read somewhere though that the vocals on the black album were not double tracked. I read an interview with James he said every album before he had double tracked all the vocals and Bob did not want to do that with this album stating that he believed it would be more like a live show etc. As far as i know they used a splash of chorus on the main vocal
Yeah, especially in this song there doesn't seem to be any double tracking, there's small bits of vibrato and grit that would be cancelled out with double tracking, the vocals are way too precise to be double tracked, and james definitely isn't that consistent with tracking (since a lot of that grit comes from grating your vocal chords and it's a kind of in the moment thing) What you suggest with chorusing and reverb sounds way more likely.
It's definitely double tracked in lots of parts, You can hear the tails of the takes ending at different points becasue they didn't have pro-tools to sort these minor errors.
You know what. After watching a couple of your videos, I think I would absolutely love to be a music producer. It sounds like such an interesting and fulfilling career.
I have a nearly photographic memory...well, i used to. Im older now. I used to read the liner notes of every album, listening on my stereo. Rick, I cant tell you how cool it is to see the videos about producers, whose names I know because of liner notes from my album collection as a teen in the 90s. Thanks again. I love your channel, and I love learning all this great stuff!
Just realized that this video was done six years ago, so this may have already been covered, but the main vocal isn't actually double tracked. Bob Rock has talked about that quite a few times and mentioned he single tracked the main vocal. Which I think further speaks to Bob and Randy's skills with the engineering and mixing.
@@TeeDub96 he meant to ask, how was he able to get the individual drum tracks? Like where can you isolate the kick mic, snare mic ect? I never knew you could get them
@@shamicentertainment1262 for Metallica I have only ever found the individual drum tracks for Enter Sandman. I don't believe you can get them for any if their other songs. I don't remember where exactly I got them but searching for it online should eventually lead you there.
Hey Rick, is there any way you’d be able to do a breakdown of Appetite for Destruction like you just did here? Your channel is incredible and thank you so much for all the knowledge!
Randy knew about the the WoW effect because of windows mediaplayer, the player had this effect and so he called the company to see if the had a hardware version of it here you can find some info www.soundonsound.com/people/randy-staub-recording-evanenscences-what-you-want
interesting...that seems to make two diametrically opposed camps of guys in regards to mixing volume guys like chris lord alge, i believe dave pensado and a few other big names i've heard over the years like to mix at really low levels...the stated benefit being that if you can build the excitement at low levels, it'll translate big time to louder situations...i suppose their ears, techniques, etc are dialed in to the point where they can identify harshness regardless
definitely. i was always a quiet mixer. i liked spending most of my time balancing quietly on ns10s or proacs. brendan o'brien mixed some tracks for me and he was...loud. like, super loud...the whole time. sounded amazing...but i had to take breaks from the volume.
I do not hold Metallica’s riffs in high regard (aside from Cliff’s stuff) at all and I think the riffs on this album pretty much, suck too, but, Jim’s voice is the QUINTESSENTIAL sound. His voice isolated is even MORE fucking incredible and I hate, loath 95% of everything this band does. I would love to hear how Jim went from yelling on the puppets tour to the voice on justice and further refinement on the black album…. Fuck! This is incredible! How do people not spend time on his vocal tone?
back in the days of analog tape, we'd often trigger a forat sampler playing drum samples from tape. usually engineers would gate the kick, snare and even toms...and send those gated signals into the forat. the forat f16 could trigger samples from MIDI or from trigger inputs, like electronic drum pads, or in this case...the actual audio from the drum tracks. it was a bit sloppy, and sometimes you'd have to punch in parts if a trigger was missed, but it worked surprisingly well. then when protools came around, you could then lay in samples right on another track to match the transients of the audio tracks.
Drum machines have been around since the 70s and triggered samples were used extensively in the 80s. It's a little easier to do these days, but it was entirely possible, even way before the Black Album.
Rick, this is a fantastic series! I enjoy seeing you explain the sounds and techniques used. Would you be able to cover British producer / engineer Chris Tsangarides? He worked with Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Gary Moore.
I'm sure you get a million requests but have you ever noticed that 311's best albums are all produced by the same guy? Would love to hear your take on that. Blue album, From Chaos, Don't Tread on Me. Maybe Transistor too, not sure. Random I know but I feel like you would appreciate what's going on there :)
Just found this, and I went to your patreon to find the files. I see you're moving away from Patreon, and I can't find the files there. Is there somewhere else I can find them?
I always thought Randy was the man, head and shoulders above the rest of the well known mixers. Like them or hate them, All The Right Reasons (Nickelback) is one of the best sounding albums I've ever heard.
Apparently-at least according to the rest of the band (and they notoriously picked on/singled Jason Newsted out)-the rest of the band was having issues with Jason playing exactly what the rhythm guitar was playing on the bass on _AJFA._ They were used to Cliff Burton who not only came up with rhythmically unique basslines but _contributed to the actual songwriting_ in a big way. Jason probably made it a point to try to come up with more unique basslines on the _Black Album_ as a result.
I love your work!!! Is it going to be possible for you to make a video with Nigel Godrich's mixing techniques? I'm very interested in RADIOHEAD's sound. Thanks a lot!!!
I've always thought the drums in Home by Three Days Grace were extremely powerful. The song in general is actually fairly explosive for a Three Days Grace song.
There is actually a reference to Pro Tools NOT being used on a particular vocal line during the song Nothing Else Matters in the documentary A Year And A Half In The Life... The making and touring of the black album. Stretched those VHS tapes out watching it for a year and a half straight. Proof it existed and was used in 90-91. I may be mistaken but I thought it was around and used on Dr. Feelgood album. Beta testing versions of it?????
Love the part where you said "Tobad Jason isn't in the band anymore" Got so much slam defending him because he like playing with a pick or some idiot stuff like that. But that is mostly said by people who never recorded a bass track in thier life. Jason is an amazing tight bass player, which is one of the most important things about playing bass.
Great Great breakdown Rick! Do you think there is some pitch correction on any of those vocals? Also watching this 6 years later! Cheers and Happy Holidays from Montreal !
It sounds almost like there’s a linear phase eq engaged on those drums. It’s like a ramp up to the transients. Was that even a thing during during the time of the Metallica record.
Great disection - thanks for doing this... Would it be possible to hear the music direct from your soundcard / interface, rather than through the room mic?
Rick, I have been recording into Logic Pro X using a Fractal AXE FX. Since I have others in the house, I cannot blast an amp. Do you feel using Fractal or Kemper can give you pro level recordings?
I'm a huge Metallica fan.
Even though I'm watching the video six years after it was released... it's fantastic to hear every detail brought out by you.
Here from Brazil, my congratulations.
I know it's easy for people to kind of groan at the Nickelback stuff, but really the production on Silver Side Up is fantastic, especially the drum sounds. Still totally holds up today. Super, super polished and sounds extremely modern. The word underrated gets thrown around a lot, but I really think Randy Staub is very underrated as a mixer. Didn't know he mixed Black Gives Way To Blue, that's very cool to know!
I remember Devin Townsend (a brilliant producer in his own right) saying that he was struggling with a mix and had the idea of bringing Randy Staub in to help him sort it out. But he then found out that Staub's fee to mix one song was basically the entire album's budget.
do you happen to remember which record or project that was for?
@@wheresallthezombies I think it might have been 'Transcendence'.
The vocal performance on the Black album is terrific for a metal band.
LOVE Randy's work! so cool to hear those tracks isolated! great video Rick!
Thanks Rocco!
I discovered your channel last month, it has become one of my favorites. Thanks Mr. Beato for sharing your wisdom.
This is really interesting. I have the Metallica making of DVD so this is kind of the icing on the cake. Re: Kick samples; David Guetta can be found in this format talking about production tips, getting your kick right and then sticking with it, lots of stylistic aspects to be found with top producers and engineers in addition to the musicians on the records. Nickelback... loved their Wembley gig I went to a while back, and a super polished sound on their albums for sure.
Great video Rick, love your channel, just super informative and so smart. Inspiring. Thanks!
Hi Rick great vid. Thanks for sharing. I remember from some old Guitar World mags James' clean tone from Sandman was his White Explore through a Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus+ a direct recorded Gretsch White Falcon. His main distorted tone was the White Explorer into a Mesa Boogie Simul-class Mark II. He said they did three dubs:hard left,hard right and one up the middle. Kirks lead tone was a Bradshaw preamp "for the lows and mids and a couple of Marshalls for nice clean highs"
I watched the black album VHS 100's of times as a young man. Such tedious work back then; Ppl today couldn't handle it
Never seen this channel before, I found it because I was investigating Randy Staub and damn......what an amazing job, you made me appreciate it even more and you have golden ears! amazing video, you have gained a new suscriber
Its really really nice to hear how edited the vocal tracks are but at the same time the takes are amazingly well performed. Go jamesssssss
Rick. Amazing man. Thank you. I absolutely love staub's work on the black album, load and reload for Metallica. :)
Thank you, my friend. :)
Opeth's Pale Communion may be one of my favorite sounding albums of all time next to Royal Scam by Steely Dan. Every instrument is so easy to isolate with your ears in the mix and pick out to listen to.
Hey Rick.....Queensryche "Mindcrime" album has to be one of the most ground breaking and ahead of it's time mixed and produced albums of all time. Landmark album.
Mindcrime wins with the songwriting, but Empire wins with the mixing in my opinion. Empire is one of the greatest sounding albums I've ever heard.
is there a way I could get the kick and snare samples ? it seems like the patreon page is down ! , good video ♥
I just found your channel and am I grateful for you sir!! Funny, you brought up several albums im personally familiar with. This helped to point out why I like these albums and not some other stuff from the same people. Engineering. I am an amateur engineer but one day, with enough practice I WILL be this good. These little things help me to understand why that is and where I need to go with it all. Thank you so much Rick!!!
Black gives way to blue stood up to me as a great mix right away!. Clarity, definition and very punchy. Guitar sound amazing, bass maybe a bit too much at times and hi hat on your face for example om "check my brain". Definitely something to be guided by. Wish you could analyze a track from that record Rick.
Honestly to me it's very sterile
24:40 - fkkin a. James voice is insane. Especially after all these years this album still stands out. Can't beat the good stuff. Just like far beyond driven :)
Could you maybe to the same for a pantera record?
Awesome!!! Thank you so much Rick!
I loved and still love that sound!
You have so much good videos that I dont know what order to watch these in HAHA
Please, do a Chris lord-Alge Mixing Techniques!
Compress the f%^# out of everything.
You'll be 90% of the way there.
@@bradylasserre9320 😂😂😂
Another great video, thanks for sharing your information from your personal chats with these great mixing giants! I always learn something from your channel...Regards!
Randy Razorblade
Thank you! Jeremy :)
Rick Beato Can you please do a music production or mixing technique explained video on Kevin Shirley or Andy Sneap or Colin Richardson 3 of my favourite producers and dont ignore me this time
@@sarahtonin4649 A fatter kick without the "click" would probably be too muddy in the mix with all the distorted guitars and bass going on. I don't mind it, I can appreciate all kinds of genres and mixing techniques.
These videos are OUTSTANDING! Thank you SO much! Got a bunch of engineer buds who are getting a kick out of these as well. Would LOVE to see Jimbo Barton....but I'm DYING for a Toby Wright vid!!
Great suggestions!
Yes yes yes... PLEASE Tchad Blake... He is one of my heroes. Particularly any of his work with Soul Coughing, Tom Waits, The Blake Keys, or AM by the Arctic Monkeys (such massive drum sounds on that record). These videos are great. As soon as I have free capital I am going to become a patron. Currently I am putting all my money into construction on my first recording studio (not just a home set up)... Dream come true. Also... I would LOVE a video on Nigel Godrich too... His sounds and particularly his imaging are like a magic trick. Everything sounds full and up front but nothing fights each other for space.
It must be equally as hard to recreate all that " Wow " effect and all that great studio mixing into the Live environment , but they do it. Amazing.
Like it or not, we wouldn't be talking about Metallica if it weren't for this record. Very important technique on this album. Thumbs up!
Really cool to hear that he did Black Tie White Noise with Bowie. It's an incredibly underrated record with great sonics..Lester Bowie and David, a record that is heavy in some ways, but sonically sounds like it's reaching for the ears of the NPR audience (don't get me wrong, I adore, this album, but I love jazz, jazz guitar, Nile Rodgers, Reeves, II'm in heaven as a guy who grew up learning to play Joe Pass [mostly listen in awe]). It reminds me sonically more of something I would imagine coming out on Blue Note if they had been "wilder". I see him credited as remixer...wonder what the story on that is? First Bowie record with Reeves Gabrels too (not counting Tin Machine, of course). Thanks for all the work you put into these videos: they're truly appreciated.
this is cool. I read somewhere though that the vocals on the black album were not double tracked. I read an interview with James he said every album before he had double tracked all the vocals and Bob did not want to do that with this album stating that he believed it would be more like a live show etc. As far as i know they used a splash of chorus on the main vocal
Yeah, especially in this song there doesn't seem to be any double tracking, there's small bits of vibrato and grit that would be cancelled out with double tracking, the vocals are way too precise to be double tracked, and james definitely isn't that consistent with tracking (since a lot of that grit comes from grating your vocal chords and it's a kind of in the moment thing)
What you suggest with chorusing and reverb sounds way more likely.
To say that there's none at all is possibly wrong though. For example at the "take my hand" parts at the end are definitely double tracked.
It's definitely double tracked in lots of parts, You can hear the tails of the takes ending at different points becasue they didn't have pro-tools to sort these minor errors.
13:00 I have heard from people in hearing health that your ears tolerate sounds that you like at a much higher volume than sounds that you don't like.
Those 'Black Album' drums still kick my ass to this day.
Samples used, wow did not know that, Mr Beato is very interesting as always!
You know what. After watching a couple of your videos, I think I would absolutely love to be a music producer. It sounds like such an interesting and fulfilling career.
I have a nearly photographic memory...well, i used to. Im older now. I used to read the liner notes of every album, listening on my stereo.
Rick, I cant tell you how cool it is to see the videos about producers, whose names I know because of liner notes from my album collection as a teen in the 90s.
Thanks again. I love your channel, and I love learning all this great stuff!
Loved the video! You got yourself a subscriber and a FAN!
Just realized that this video was done six years ago, so this may have already been covered, but the main vocal isn't actually double tracked. Bob Rock has talked about that quite a few times and mentioned he single tracked the main vocal. Which I think further speaks to Bob and Randy's skills with the engineering and mixing.
where on this ungodly earth do you get Metallica multi tracks?
bunyigitar.blogspot.ru/2014/03/metallica-multitrack-stems.html
They are super easy to find. I have tons of them just from searching the internet.
@@TeeDub96 he meant to ask, how was he able to get the individual drum tracks? Like where can you isolate the kick mic, snare mic ect? I never knew you could get them
@@shamicentertainment1262 for Metallica I have only ever found the individual drum tracks for Enter Sandman. I don't believe you can get them for any if their other songs. I don't remember where exactly I got them but searching for it online should eventually lead you there.
They have all been taken down? None of the links worked for me. I don't think it is possible, you have to be some kind of internet ninja... Too bad.
I believe on the kick drum, they also used subs in the live room to direct some low end into the overall sound of the kick drum.
Awesome video!Thanks Randy.
Rick, thank you so much for this content and for your work!
Very interesting and nicely delivered! Thanx!
Thank you so much Rick for your videos!
They called him Randy Razorblade.
Love your Videos!
Cheers, Flo
Randy's nickname was "Randy Razorblade" \m/
Hi Mr Beato, What about a rundown on the legendary Daniel Lanois?
Very cool videos, also the Andy Wallace one. You have some serious knowledge. I would love to see a video like this about Tchad Blake.
I plan to do a Tchad one soon :)
Really dig the video, man! Good stuff. Would love to see a video on Joey Moi
These are the best Rick. Thank
You.
RANDY IS AMAZING
Hey Rick, is there any way you’d be able to do a breakdown of Appetite for Destruction like you just did here? Your channel is incredible and thank you so much for all the knowledge!
Oh God, James!!! Wow! Randy for president! \m/
Randy knew about the the WoW effect because of windows mediaplayer, the player had this effect and so he called the company to see if the had a hardware version of it
here you can find some info www.soundonsound.com/people/randy-staub-recording-evanenscences-what-you-want
interesting...that seems to make two diametrically opposed camps of guys in regards to mixing volume
guys like chris lord alge, i believe dave pensado and a few other big names i've heard over the years like to mix at really low levels...the stated benefit being that if you can build the excitement at low levels, it'll translate big time to louder situations...i suppose their ears, techniques, etc are dialed in to the point where they can identify harshness regardless
definitely. i was always a quiet mixer. i liked spending most of my time balancing quietly on ns10s or proacs. brendan o'brien mixed some tracks for me and he was...loud. like, super loud...the whole time. sounded amazing...but i had to take breaks from the volume.
Man, the Our Lady Peace album he did is phenomenal.
My favorite album .. badass !!!
Best drum sound ever. On the black album, drums are fu**in great. The best. Sad but true snare is REDICULOUS, bad ass
If you're gonna do more of these, i'd love to see one on Joe Barresi!
I do not hold Metallica’s riffs in high regard (aside from Cliff’s stuff) at all and I think the riffs on this album pretty much, suck too, but, Jim’s voice is the QUINTESSENTIAL sound. His voice isolated is even MORE fucking incredible and I hate, loath 95% of everything this band does.
I would love to hear how Jim went from yelling on the puppets tour to the voice on justice and further refinement on the black album…. Fuck! This is incredible!
How do people not spend time on his vocal tone?
Wait so the black album had samples? I always thought there was no samples in the tape days
Yeah, back then it's triggered via MIDI
back in the days of analog tape, we'd often trigger a forat sampler playing drum samples from tape. usually engineers would gate the kick, snare and even toms...and send those gated signals into the forat. the forat f16 could trigger samples from MIDI or from trigger inputs, like electronic drum pads, or in this case...the actual audio from the drum tracks. it was a bit sloppy, and sometimes you'd have to punch in parts if a trigger was missed, but it worked surprisingly well. then when protools came around, you could then lay in samples right on another track to match the transients of the audio tracks.
Drum machines have been around since the 70s and triggered samples were used extensively in the 80s. It's a little easier to do these days, but it was entirely possible, even way before the Black Album.
I saw a interview where Bob rock said that they didn't use any drum samples on Black album. Just A LOT of EQing.
Yes,Bob Clearmoutain snare sample.
I'd like to see you show some graphical EQ8s for different instruments.
I found this channel, amazing informations Congrats AND thanks for them!
Rick, this is a fantastic series! I enjoy seeing you explain the sounds and techniques used. Would you be able to cover British producer / engineer Chris Tsangarides? He worked with Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Gary Moore.
Great find! Thanks for all your hard work!
@8:50... No Ian Thornley. One of my favs, local guy.
great analysis, really interesting
Thank you, Rick!
This was great! Thanks a lot!!
Do a Tom Lord-Alge mixing techniques video! That'd be cool!
I'm sure you get a million requests but have you ever noticed that 311's best albums are all produced by the same guy? Would love to hear your take on that. Blue album, From Chaos, Don't Tread on Me. Maybe Transistor too, not sure. Random I know but I feel like you would appreciate what's going on there :)
Just found this, and I went to your patreon to find the files. I see you're moving away from Patreon, and I can't find the files there. Is there somewhere else I can find them?
@@marijandesin8226 me too, is really frustrating... :(
23:13 SRS Labs "Wow thing" Is there a plugin that does this these days? Was the SRS on Metallica?
I always thought Randy was the man, head and shoulders above the rest of the well known mixers. Like them or hate them, All The Right Reasons (Nickelback) is one of the best sounding albums I've ever heard.
Apparently-at least according to the rest of the band (and they notoriously picked on/singled Jason Newsted out)-the rest of the band was having issues with Jason playing exactly what the rhythm guitar was playing on the bass on _AJFA._ They were used to Cliff Burton who not only came up with rhythmically unique basslines but _contributed to the actual songwriting_ in a big way. Jason probably made it a point to try to come up with more unique basslines on the _Black Album_ as a result.
Wrong. Go watch the Black Album. Bob is what pushed them for more bass
@@jd0879 Bob pushed for more bass volume in the mix, but we're talking about playing technique here.
I love your work!!! Is it going to be possible for you to make a video with Nigel Godrich's mixing techniques? I'm very interested in RADIOHEAD's sound. Thanks a lot!!!
Will do!
Randy Razorblade...I'll never forget that nickname...HAHAHA!
I've always thought the drums in Home by Three Days Grace were extremely powerful. The song in general is actually fairly explosive for a Three Days Grace song.
HOW DO WE PAY YOU AGAIN? This is better than going to school
Scott Burns is a great producer also pretty mysterious
It’s too bad these production vids didn’t get a lot of views....so much great info for us recording/mixing geeks!!
What great content
There is actually a reference to Pro Tools NOT being used on a particular vocal line during the song Nothing Else Matters in the documentary A Year And A Half In The Life... The making and touring of the black album. Stretched those VHS tapes out watching it for a year and a half straight. Proof it existed and was used in 90-91. I may be mistaken but I thought it was around and used on Dr. Feelgood album. Beta testing versions of it?????
Looking forward to the Tchad Blake breakdown!
Perfetc video, thank you
Fantastic! Agree on that Alice In Chains album. Ive been A/B ing my new mix against that one.
Awesome, thank you rick!
Randy 'razorblade' they called him :-)
While James chased Bob around with farts.
plz do more of those
Hey Rick! Where did you get those multi tracks, with a lot more tracks and harmonies? All those i have found, are with a single vocal track.
Hey RIck I subscribed to the patreon page but there arent any files there =( Keep up man! Cheers
Another stellar video!!!!! Black Album stems tho?!? I needed new underwear after that!
Love the part where you said "Tobad Jason isn't in the band anymore" Got so much slam defending him because he like playing with a pick or some idiot stuff like that. But that is mostly said by people who never recorded a bass track in thier life. Jason is an amazing tight bass player, which is one of the most important things about playing bass.
Thank you for this.
Great Great breakdown Rick! Do you think there is some pitch correction on any of those vocals?
Also watching this 6 years later! Cheers and Happy Holidays from Montreal !
It sounds almost like there’s a linear phase eq engaged on those drums. It’s like a ramp up to the transients. Was that even a thing during during the time of the Metallica record.
24:40 - 24:48 is absolutely frightening.
this is great! tnx
Maybe you should do one about nolly getgood?
Great disection - thanks for doing this... Would it be possible to hear the music direct from your soundcard / interface, rather than through the room mic?
Hi Coldroom, I reserve the session files for my Patreon supporters. Thanks! Rick
What do you think about Mixing Techniques of Michael Wagener for Master of Puppets album? The drum has a very very big sound!
Rick, I have been recording into Logic Pro X using a Fractal AXE FX. Since I have others in the house, I cannot blast an amp. Do you feel using Fractal or Kemper can give you pro level recordings?