Music Production - Randy Staub Mixing Techniques | Metallica
Вставка
- Опубліковано 17 вер 2016
- This episode of Everything Music contains the Music Production and Mixing Techniques of Randy Staub. I explore Randy’s concept of EQ, Compression, Effects on all groups of instruments. I talk about the sounds and mixing of the Metallica Black Album, Randy’s use of Drum Samples, Guitar Effects and Vocal treatments. The Hi Rez audio files and Pro Tools Sessions with Samples are available through my Patreon page patreon.com/user?u=3400819
Follow Me On:
If you are interested in purchasing The Beato Book click here: rickbeato.com/products/the-be...
UA-cam - / rickbeato
Facebook - / rickbeatoproduction
Instagram - / rickbeato1
Twitter - @rickbeato
www.nuryl.com
www.rickbeato.com
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.
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.
The vocal performance on the Black album is terrific for a metal band.
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 watched the black album VHS 100's of times as a young man. Such tedious work back then; Ppl today couldn't handle it
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.
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
21:28-22:08 is pure gold. I've never thought of scooping guitar for any reason other than it sounds cool.
Rick. Amazing man. Thank you. I absolutely love staub's work on the black album, load and reload for Metallica. :)
Thank you, my friend. :)
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
Please, do a Chris lord-Alge Mixing Techniques!
Compress the f%^# out of everything.
You'll be 90% of the way there.
@@bradylasserre9320 😂😂😂
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!
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!
Rick, thank you so much for this content and for your work!
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"
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.
These are the best Rick. Thank
You.
Awesome!!! Thank you so much Rick!
I loved and still love that sound!
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!
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!!!
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.
Great find! Thanks for all your hard work!
Thank you so much Rick for your videos!
Awesome video!Thanks Randy.
is there a way I could get the kick and snare samples ? it seems like the patreon page is down ! , good video ♥
Loved the video! You got yourself a subscriber and a FAN!
Thank you, Rick!
I got a LOT out of this. Thanks Rick!
You have so much good videos that I dont know what order to watch these in HAHA
Very interesting and nicely delivered! Thanx!
This was great! Thanks a lot!!
RANDY IS AMAZING
Awesome, thank you rick!
Those 'Black Album' drums still kick my ass to this day.
Thank you for this.
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.
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!
Really dig the video, man! Good stuff. Would love to see a video on Joey Moi
I found this channel, amazing informations Congrats AND thanks for them!
My favorite album .. badass !!!
great analysis, really interesting
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.
Samples used, wow did not know that, Mr Beato is very interesting as always!
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.
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.
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.
Oh God, James!!! Wow! Randy for president! \m/
Perfetc video, thank you
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!
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.
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.
They called him Randy Razorblade.
Love your Videos!
Cheers, Flo
Hi Mr Beato, What about a rundown on the legendary Daniel Lanois?
this is great! tnx
Hey Rick. Love your work. I've been watching your vids and spreading the word! Like many of your viewers I'm a musician making my way into production and I wish to know where I can find the Hi Rez audio files and Pro Tools Sessions with Samples. I see the Patreon page is down. Are they still available? Cheers.
Randy's nickname was "Randy Razorblade" \m/
Hi Rick great work !!! My favourite mixer !!! What about the drum samples are they available ?
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.
If you're gonna do more of these, i'd love to see one on Joe Barresi!
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.
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?
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
Looking forward to the Tchad Blake breakdown!
Do a Tom Lord-Alge mixing techniques video! That'd be cool!
I love these. What kind of recording mic do you think can handle that kind of proximity where a singer is right up on it like that???
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 :)
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 !
Man, the Our Lady Peace album he did is phenomenal.
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.
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!
What great content
I'd like to see you show some graphical EQ8s for different instruments.
plz do more of those
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.
Hi Rick, where did you get the Metallica multitracks? Thanks!
Hey RIck I subscribed to the patreon page but there arent any files there =( Keep up man! Cheers
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?
This is an amazing You Tube channel...!! Thanks a lot! :-)))
Randy Razorblade...I'll never forget that nickname...HAHAHA!
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
Scott Burns is a great producer also pretty mysterious
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
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.
Another stellar video!!!!! Black Album stems tho?!? I needed new underwear after that!
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... :(
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!
Fantastic! Agree on that Alice In Chains album. Ive been A/B ing my new mix against that one.
Hi Rick i know its been a few years but where can we find your patreon page, it seems to have gone and i really would love to see the high res files of this, many thanks
It’s too bad these production vids didn’t get a lot of views....so much great info for us recording/mixing geeks!!
Rick, is that a CAPI pre in your 500 rack?
Best drum sound ever. On the black album, drums are fu**in great. The best. Sad but true snare is REDICULOUS, bad ass
23:13 SRS Labs "Wow thing" Is there a plugin that does this these days? Was the SRS on Metallica?
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.
@@xXNuckChorris96Xx 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 love this, i'd love you to do this with OK Computer, it would blow up! / Madonna - Like A Prayer is one that I always wanted to know how to get it sounding that big! / then the 90's thing Celebrity Skin - Hole / Teenage Dirtbag type thing?
Is there anywhere I could still grab that kick sample? The Patreon page is down 😢
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.
Randy 'razorblade' they called him :-)
While James chased Bob around with farts.
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.
Man, splicing tape edits!? Now we're talking of the times Yor! LOL