I like the fact that there is not a huge 100 channel board sitting there with rack after rack of gear. I had the pleasure of hearing a phenomenal recording a few years ago that was all done with one Shure SM57 mic. The engineer happened to be an instructor at a recording school. It showed me the importance of mastering.
My Beatles mono box set is my pride and joy but I do think the white album sounds better in stereo. Perhaps they spent a lot more time mixing that one in stereo.
I'm guessing this guy is about my age (48). He's a mastering engineer at Abbey Road studios. I've been engineering over 25 years. How do people get gigs like this?? How did he get in that seat? Who did he know?
What I'd like to know, since Giles Martin let loose The Beatles multi-tracks, why is Ringo's drum tracks obliterated? I assume, George Martin approved, by why? I heard there was no mention in George's book.
I assume you're talking about the leaked Rock Band tracks? They utilized as few of the original multi-tracks as possible, and often just frequency-swept the stereo versions to ""recreate"" the feel of the instruments dropping in and out when missing notes while playing the game. Sometimes the individual tracks sound great. Other times, not so much. Bass, Guitars, and Drums get obliterated the most... I wish they would actually release the original multi-tracks or masters! That would be totally sweet! :D
Speakers are so low because you want most of them to be at ear-level. Desk is so high because you want all the gear you use as easily accessible as possible while mastering.
to be honest I used the service and doubt is was done on this equipment as it didn't sound as good as my home mastered version and was not loud enough.
James, what I meant is, if I didn't purchase the Deluxe album rendition of Band On The Run, to be disappoint with some garbage sounding Bonus version, then, later, come across the multi-tracks of the the song (I personally mixed), I would have never known what they did or how it could have sounded. Luckily, for Abbey Road, most people aren't interested in HQ Sound.
Are the original mono mixes good? I have thousands of beatles's tracks but I mostly listen to them as a musician, not as an engineer. I want to listen to some good mono mixes (beatles). I remember listening to a pet sounds mono remaster (or remix, i don't remember, it was a friends' ) and I could't believe you could hear every instrument in 3D coming from just one track. Again, maybe you know the edition I'm talking about and think it's shit, i'm not a specialist in those matters by any means. PD I know Pet Sounds is by the Beach Boys!
What was the song, The Sound Of Silence, where the lyrics are "people hearing without listening"? That how I grade people who listen to music. BUT, I say, BUT, I have/had great difficulty deciphering lyrics, where my peers had no problem! So, we each have different reasons why we enjoy music. Some refer Mono with particular songs, maybe more added to the Mono mix than Stereo, it's not that uncommon. But, if you want to hear the purity of musical instruments, Stereo beats Mono. What would beat Stereo? Discrete Surround Sound mixes. People like Beach Boys and Phil Spector, if the had a greater number of tracks to record on, their Stereo would have sounded better, and there's be no reason for the "Back To Mono". releases.
TYPOS: What was the song, The Sound Of Silence, where the lyrics are "people hearing without listening"? That's how I grade people who listen to music. BUT, I say, BUT, I have/had great difficulty deciphering lyrics, where my peers had/have no problem! So, we each have different reasons why we enjoy music. Some refer Mono with particular songs, maybe more added to the Mono mix than Stereo mix, it's not that uncommon. But, if you want to hear the purity of musical instruments, Stereo beats Mono. What would beat Stereo? Discrete (4 channel) Surround Sound mixes. People like The Beach Boys and Phil Spector, if they had a greater number of tracks to record on, their Stereo would have sounded better, and there'd be no reason for the "Back To Mono". releases.
Hopefully Abbey Road had little creative input for this video. The constant unfocused-to-focused transitions are very annoying. Otherwise, the information is excellent.
The TG12345 mixing console arrived in the late 1960s (1968-ish). That is the desk that tracked and mixed The Beatles' Abbey Road album in 1969. The mastering console pointed at in this video is the TG12410 and was delivered to the Studios in the early 1970s (1972-ish).
I wonder why mastering houses don't use younger engineers? I'm in my late 40's and I can not hears frequencies above 13KHz, surely age is a restriction.
No. Who cares what happens over 13khz? it can be analysed by modern gear. Same with ultra low frequencies. Experience and talent is more important when it comes to make things sound good or better, not a 20-20k superhuman performance
Young people might have better ears but they don't seem to understand what it's like to "sound good". I'm 17 and most of the people (of my age) around me don't seem to notice how bad records sound nowadays with the loudness war and all... My only way of escaping the loudness war is to listen to records, which most of them mastered by "older" people.
More commonly known as Shabby Road: TG consoles badly maintained, mains hum, hiss, harsh top end, not loud, not punchy, put of out phase, even messed up DDP. Charge me £1300 for album no recall!!!!, terrible feedback from others too, terrible results. Trading off the Beatles brand.. Used Blue Pro instead.
A very enjoyable vid and a very decent chap indeed - thanks for uploading :)
The in and out of focus thing is REALLY irritating. Just SHOW THE GEAR.
You sure chose some great intro music for the a video about the Beatles
I detect sarcasm in that comment and I'm glad of it.
80's german porn soundtrack was indeed the best choice ahah
Seems like a great guy, I'm going to ask Sean to master my upcoming CD, and I'm sure it will be great!
I like the fact that there is not a huge 100 channel board sitting there with rack after rack of gear. I had the pleasure of hearing a phenomenal recording a few years ago that was all done with one Shure SM57 mic. The engineer happened to be an instructor at a recording school. It showed me the importance of mastering.
Very educational, the box set is amazing!
My Beatles mono box set is my pride and joy but I do think the white album sounds better in stereo. Perhaps they spent a lot more time mixing that one in stereo.
What a great video. This seems like a REALLY cool guy.
Man, those were the days, built to last!
why is that right speaker set seem to be obscured by the console board? is it a bad camera angle? otherwise ?????? Please Explain ?
Is that Alan Davies narrating between clips?
Look at that awesome MEA-2, Oh and I see a Sadie system too. Nice :)
We're here to improve something... not to change it.
"people will hate you through history for doing it"
All I could think of was... STAR WARS!
@Firebirdshite Yeah, seems like he'd be a great guy to buy a beer for and chat.
I have the Abby Road VST Bundle it's awesome.
I'm guessing this guy is about my age (48). He's a mastering engineer at Abbey Road studios. I've been engineering over 25 years. How do people get gigs like this?? How did he get in that seat? Who did he know?
mee too! its who you know not what you know, if you dont network you wont get anywhere, helps if your a lucky git too!
You are right! If i could only catch the cameraman i'd break his arms for those f...ng in-and-out-of-focus thingz! ((
y la remasterizacion ?
His name is Sean Magee, not McGee :D
Good call. Can't believe we got that wrong or that it's taken six years for someone to notice :-) Corrected now.
The Mother of all..
Hmm I've actually sat behind that console. A beautiful thing with the creamiest sound I've ever heard. Interesting vid
Yup someone just learned what a rack focus is but not when to use it.
Good!!!!
Blue Pro dude, the guy is barely 30 i reckon... simular gear, third of the price. I was really happy.
What I'd like to know, since Giles Martin let loose The Beatles multi-tracks, why is Ringo's drum tracks obliterated? I assume, George Martin approved, by why? I heard there was no mention in George's book.
I assume you're talking about the leaked Rock Band tracks? They utilized as few of the original multi-tracks as possible, and often just frequency-swept the stereo versions to ""recreate"" the feel of the instruments dropping in and out when missing notes while playing the game. Sometimes the individual tracks sound great. Other times, not so much. Bass, Guitars, and Drums get obliterated the most...
I wish they would actually release the original multi-tracks or masters! That would be totally sweet! :D
@@TheDylandProductions But if they released the multi-tracks, we'd make free stereo remixes and they wouldn't earn a dime!
Speakers are so low because you want most of them to be at ear-level. Desk is so high because you want all the gear you use as easily accessible as possible while mastering.
mono set from original tape... how about stereo set..???
+Victor Yogaswara inDEEd! Let's hope!
+Stephen Garland i have stereo box set.. :)
+Victor Yogaswara I have Sgt. Pepper's from the stereo remaster lp set. It's very clean ;) ^_^
+Stephen Garland and wish for mono box set :) hope so...
It'll never happen... not all analogue anyway.
the beatles
to be honest I used the service and doubt is was done on this equipment as it didn't sound as good as my home mastered version and was not loud enough.
what means loud enough for you? like "Ozone" is doing? Brickwall Mastering can be much "louder", but its losing transparency.
Gear beatz plugs anyday.
Abbey Road - the house of Amateur Engineers. My goodness, which one of you mixed Paul McCartney's Band On The Run song?
???
James, what I meant is, if I didn't purchase the Deluxe album rendition of Band On The Run, to be disappoint with some garbage sounding Bonus version, then, later, come across the multi-tracks of the the song (I personally mixed), I would have never known what they did or how it could have sounded. Luckily, for Abbey Road, most people aren't interested in HQ Sound.
Are the original mono mixes good? I have thousands of beatles's tracks but I mostly listen to them as a musician, not as an engineer. I want to listen to some good mono mixes (beatles). I remember listening to a pet sounds mono remaster (or remix, i don't remember, it was a friends' ) and I could't believe you could hear every instrument in 3D coming from just one track. Again, maybe you know the edition I'm talking about and think it's shit, i'm not a specialist in those matters by any means. PD I know Pet Sounds is by the Beach Boys!
What was the song, The Sound Of Silence, where the lyrics are "people hearing without listening"? That how I grade people who listen to music. BUT, I say, BUT, I have/had great difficulty deciphering lyrics, where my peers had no problem! So, we each have different reasons why we enjoy music. Some refer Mono with particular songs, maybe more added to the Mono mix than Stereo, it's not that uncommon. But, if you want to hear the purity of musical instruments, Stereo beats Mono. What would beat Stereo? Discrete Surround Sound mixes. People like Beach Boys and Phil Spector, if the had a greater number of tracks to record on, their Stereo would have sounded better, and there's be no reason for the "Back To Mono". releases.
TYPOS: What was the song, The Sound Of Silence, where the lyrics are "people hearing without listening"? That's how I grade people who listen to music. BUT, I say, BUT, I have/had great difficulty deciphering lyrics, where my peers had/have no problem! So, we each have different reasons why we enjoy music. Some refer Mono with particular songs, maybe more added to the Mono mix than Stereo mix, it's not that uncommon. But, if you want to hear the purity of musical instruments, Stereo beats Mono. What would beat Stereo? Discrete (4 channel) Surround Sound mixes. People like The Beach Boys and Phil Spector, if they had a greater number of tracks to record on, their Stereo would have sounded better, and there'd be no reason for the "Back To Mono". releases.
I'm 47yo and can hear up to 17KHz.
Alcohol? It can damage hearing.
Actual that a big one
Hopefully Abbey Road had little creative input for this video. The constant unfocused-to-focused transitions are very annoying. Otherwise, the information is excellent.
The TG showed up at AR before the 70s, sorry!
wasn't Abbey Road the first record made on it?
And The Aerovons "Resurrection"
The TG12345 mixing console arrived in the late 1960s (1968-ish). That is the desk that tracked and mixed The Beatles' Abbey Road album in 1969. The mastering console pointed at in this video is the TG12410 and was delivered to the Studios in the early 1970s (1972-ish).
I wonder why mastering houses don't use younger engineers? I'm in my late 40's and I can not hears frequencies above 13KHz, surely age is a restriction.
No. Who cares what happens over 13khz? it can be analysed by modern gear. Same with ultra low frequencies. Experience and talent is more important when it comes to make things sound good or better, not a 20-20k superhuman performance
You can feel changes made about 13k
ehm doch
Young people might have better ears but they don't seem to understand what it's like to "sound good".
I'm 17 and most of the people (of my age) around me don't seem to notice how bad records sound nowadays with the loudness war and all... My only way of escaping the loudness war is to listen to records, which most of them mastered by "older" people.
Cameraman on his first day?
Should keep his fingers away from camera and focus!
He explained like George Martin. I cant understand what he was saying.
More commonly known as Shabby Road: TG consoles badly maintained, mains hum, hiss, harsh top end, not loud, not punchy, put of out phase, even messed up DDP. Charge me £1300 for album no recall!!!!, terrible feedback from others too, terrible results. Trading off the Beatles brand.. Used Blue Pro instead.
The sound on this video is one of the worst in youtube history
To put this shitty music in front of a video about the Beatles, this is called taste, right?...:-)