this mix demonstrates the meaning of good source recordings....

What a great song to demonstrate your mixing skills to the masses... "I dont trust myself"....

this video has saved my mixes. leaving shit alone in the long run makes EVERY thing sound better. thank you.

These videos are so helpful. To get in the mind of a person in the recording session is just as important as what to play.

So happy for this unique view of one of the greatest

Are there any more videos like this on KZread? This is so awesome to see him talking about particular elements of the song while showing us the tracks.

I love that sound. I am inspired to do a song with a tight groove like that. Keep rockin.

Very cool vid Lots of passion in your mix ideas, and look forward to learning from your work Manny Cheers Scott

2:24 - Pino layers a 3rd up harmony, only on the 1/4 notes. How did I not hear that before :)

@MontyCharms

6 жыл бұрын

Genius!!

@georgemirandask

6 жыл бұрын

what? can you explain it to me :(

he reminds me of a. sanchez (amazing jazz drummer/one of my favorites) .

thats amazing!

Maaan this guy is amazing.

Wow great ideas and a great view on mixing.

Reeally interesting. Great video

@ThuSkyline I totally agree aside from the 5 watt amp thing, 5 watt amps are a beast for recording. Tube amps, that is.

This is a guy I would like to have recording my stuff. He sounds more like he knows what he's doing/not doing than most of these youtubers.

@Oneness100 You are right that they didn't hgave software plugins, but they had racks of eqs that simply werent automated, so every eq automation and fader movement had to to be recorded live to tape. So yes, they didn't have half of what we have today, but nonetheless, a lot of these concepts and effects have been around for 50 years.

cool video, I think this mix demonstrates how a bottom mic on the snare makes the snare sound fat in a mix, harsh on its own, but blended with top mic, bass, gt, it sounds fat. One of my fav drum recordings on this track.

I'm trying to pick up as much info as I can, put it altogether and do my thing, thanks

i agree im sill learning when to stop ek or comp

Good to know there's always 2nd guessing from the masters once they're "out of the box" (the studio) too!

how'd you get all the tracks seperate?

The Waves products are just so damn GOOD.

Excellent tutorial. Insightful comments.

@BouvrieMax Sometimes we put a lot of work and fx in one thing just thinking what a professional would do, but when I saw this video I had the answer I was looking for a long time. "Sometimes you have to leave things alone"

Dope video! Looks like PT 6.... Crazy we are already at PT 11 now. I learned on PT 7 in 2006 & before that it was Adobe Audition/Cool Edit Pro. Good stuff WAVES & Manny!

@robfulco4739

10 жыл бұрын

If you look at the top left of his screen, Pro Tools use to show the version. It says "Pro Tools HD 7.3.1"

@IamHymn75 I dont get calling Mayer a "thief" part. Elaborate?

@Oneness100 but they had the rooms. i can probably speak for a lot of us when i say that the places we are stuck recording in are not the greatest. i try to put foam all around the things im recording but i am not allowed to alter the room im in at all. im still stuck having to travel to my parents house to record anything since my apartment is so small. i have to deal with being in a basement with a furnace running and a load of laundry going 10 feet away from me.

John Mayer. Great musician!

THANK YOU!!!!

Love it

🐐 of ALL🐐s

Recorded at a beautiful studio in nyc with Steve Jordan

talent aside, I met this dude a few months back. such a cool guy.

@paulopalacio6437

5 жыл бұрын

NIcholas Wylie how?

I see a Fulltone TTE in the background... mm mm good

well, this was a very uninformative interview... all I got out of it in regards to this mix was that he put a de-esser on mayers vocal, and EQ'ed the return of the bottom snare. and that was as specific as he got....

...so what does this sound like in concert?

is he saying - you can record somthing - have it sound good - and not really touch the board ? If he is ...i have often thought "right, time to mix - sounds good though , ...but i just HAVE to twiddle -just to wreck the dynamics " ....in other words , we mix -because we are supposed to - regardless of whether it needs it ?

leaving things alone is a good tip. when people start recording, usually their playing too, and then they just concentrate on learning all the 'recording' and forget the actual song arrangement and playing. most the time the aim of recording is to be as unintrusive as possible. and sticking a mic infront is just a way of getting sound to your desk, so control sounds on your amp and guitar instead and leave it alone after.

@OwensMusic1 Probably from the band and their producer.

sweet!!

it s all about instincrs it s the music u re dealing with

and how do you go about it to make it sound shit like an mp3? lol

what effect is the lead vocals passing through giving it this flanger/Auto tune effect?

@alexmickmusic

14 күн бұрын

14 years later but its an envelope filter

what does he mean when he says the RETURN of the bottom snare? Isn't it basically the bottom snare track? Why does he say 'THE RETURN'

@ZEDROLAND

5 жыл бұрын

reverb return i guess? sounds like it has some slappy verb on it but i was interested to know how exactly you get that sound...

do this and do that ????

I can definitely relate lol #expressyoursoul

Furnace noise - with laundry sounds{in stereo} -could be the next big thing though !

wena manny!

Damn, Robert Whittaker is a man of many talents.

Have you ever been a sound engineer or a simple sound tech?

tell them man!!!

the return to the board as opposed to in PT.

This guy knows his shit makes me feel like super dumb like i could never make a great recording. But he's been doing this for ever and had to go to school for it i didnt. Awsum vid tho.

how did he mess up the Kendrick Album tho...

i'm not a engineer or something, but this stuff are very interesting

cool guy

It's not that bad at all, there are many keys on your keyboard right? Same here, you take a single strip (1 channel) and you duplicate it to make your board. Of course there's more than that but it's not that hard

the advice people give in tutorials like this is very nice, but i would help more if the audio would be recorded to not only a mic for the talking

says at the beginning.....................

I don't know how to say this, but why can't music be recorded with just plain old fashion good miking techniques in a good room and just have sound good without any modifications whatsoever? they didn't have all of these fancy plug-ins when the Beatles did their best albums did they?

to be honest. If an engineer tells your to cut 400hz out of all your guitars. I would honestly say he has no clue what he is talking about. Because every guitar and room that you record in has different frequencies in them. so for my studio I may have to cut 200hz but for you it might be 500hz so you would have to boost and sweet until you find a bad frequencies and then cut it. and do the same find a good one and raise it.

@fsgambellone

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but when your gtr sounds like a choking goose, you might take the advice.

@ThuSkyline Word! It's like if you would meet scarlett johansson as an homeless... I don't think she'll be that hot. Things must have the cream on top of the cake to be great.

The majority of them actually all do the same thing, just to different channels.

Me who has never been hugged in my life😄

4:44 burp!?!? wtf? :D

@Tommygrules I pity you lol replace your ears asap

Everyone has a pair of NS10s

Who the hell is john mayer?

@nostalgiajunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Aha

Do not copy. Create your own sound. There is no sence in believing high tech engineers in high tech studios at all.

Its funny how these big producers pretend like they actually use these plug ins.

@djWOOF

4 жыл бұрын

they do

@bw2937

2 жыл бұрын

But they do though....

And he reveals nothing...

@bw2937

2 жыл бұрын

What is there to reveal?

He doesn't give any information at all, just 5 minutes of time wasting.

He said almost nothing on the subject

@GarretMcCauley

2 ай бұрын

the context of what a “mix engineer” does has changed quite a bit in the last 15 years. Back then the projects that were sent to be mixed had already gone through a whole process of refinement from the artist, engineer and producer. What he’s saying in this video is more about his approach to bringing out the most of the work that has already been done; emphasizing ideas and honoring the source material (recorded with proper levels) by making smaller moves to allow everything to sit together a bit better. Not exactly a “vocal chain breakdown” or “secret sauce” but it still has great points about technique. Just my takeaway 🙏

@MusicalVenture

2 ай бұрын

@@GarretMcCauley thanks for your comment! I understood!

@GarretMcCauley

2 ай бұрын

@@MusicalVenture hell yeah, I was hoping I didn’t come off preachy or anything 😅

@MusicalVenture

2 ай бұрын

​@@GarretMcCauley You've done well and just in time. I'm a beginner searching for secret mixing techniques, and I was so disappointed by this video and the complete lack of any other information regarding how mixing was done for Mayer. You were so generous to enlighten me with those points. I now understand that I need to work harder on the scores, sources, and initial balance of the sound, and not overcomplicate the mixing process

Most lame explanation of what to/not to do Ive ever heard.How about "Ill show you how I did it."

the way this guy keeps his jaw clenched annoys the hell out of me.

@Nikkimaya1

5 жыл бұрын

You're a racist! You probably hope trump builds his wall.