How do you think recording has changed from the '80s until now? Is it better or worse? Please let us know below! Check out Dennis' 'Firewind' Mixing course here:- www.kohleaudiokult.com/courses/the-firewind-mixing-ritual

@spitfiremusic3997

6 ай бұрын

Yowsa! In so many ways. Where do we start?

@thesongacademy5017

6 ай бұрын

It's many the lack ion live interaction between musicians that's missed

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Try and start! Haha@@spitfiremusic3997 would love to hear!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, bug part of it all@@thesongacademy5017

@davidallenhammond2777

6 ай бұрын

It's easier in terms of getting sounds recorded, but there is so much that can be done in the digital world, seems like there are too many choices. But wouldn't trade it for only tape.

Played with Vinnie Moore live, too. Love his bass tone in Unisonic ❤🫡

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Yes! Wonderful tone

Dennis is a great guy, wonderful interview gentlemen

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

Hey! I was on High Gain Records with PC69! Great band!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Very cool!

Dennis Ward great songwriter. Love the stuff he did with Place Vendome

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much for sharing!

@trollstjerne

6 ай бұрын

@@Producelikeapro Thank you Warren! This is great!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Marvellous!@@trollstjerne glad you enjoy it!

Musicians paying attention to each other, working around each others grooves is what I loved about the past. Listening. That's what it's all about

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

I still try to encourage that as much as possible

@danepaulstewart8464

5 ай бұрын

H-E-Double Hockey Sticks and a YEEEAAAH!! 🤘😎🤘

Thanks so much for having me!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

You Rock my friend!!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

You Rock my friend!!

Great having Dennis here

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Great stuff, gentlemen.

@Producelikeapro

5 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

Dennis is by far, the most talented and versatile musican, songwriter, singer and producer you can ask for.....beside that he's also the most humble guy and funny as hell. Glad to know him, work with him for longer then 20 years......🔥

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

That's wonderful to hear! Thanks ever so much for sharing! Yes, Dennis seems like a truly wonderful guy to say the least!

Very nice interview. Well, that didn't sound like an interview at all. I was drawn in and happy to be a part of the discussion, remembering, as a kid, my early fascination recording everything with my Radio Shack 3 inch reel to reel. I'm an old guy and can still get excited dreaming of oxide build up and hugging my Ampex 440's in the 70's. Ping ponging was all the rage. Loved the fun of this video. I'm 70 and have no fear of digital in the box or experimental mic placement.

@Producelikeapro

5 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

Boom! So great to watch the two of you 🤘❤️

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Yes, Dennis is a Prince! Great guy!

Great stuff Gents

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

Great interview. Thanks very much

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Joey!

Excellent chat, loving this

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Dennis is great!

The Course is fantastic! Thanks guys. KAK Rocks!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Yes! It certainly does Rock!

another great interview thank you to both 🙏🏼

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much

Great video, very interesting conversation. Thank you Dennis and Warren.

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much Marc!

What an awesome producer and epic course! \m/

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much Eric!

Loving everything Kohle Audio Kult

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Yes! Me too! Great community!

One thing I always notice when people talk about Producers is how they always weight it on the musical expertise, when there is much much more to it than that. When I had to privledge to sit down with Producer Extraordinaire, Bruce Fairbairn (RIP), he discounted his musical chops (he was a great horn player) and emphasized how much of the busine$s side of it is where the rubber hits the road, keeping everyone engaged, on track, not wasting time etc. This is way too often overlooked...

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Agreed! Being the organiser, the person who drives the ship, listens to everyone, encourages creativity, all the while making sure the record is done in time and on budget is huge!

Wonderful interview, glad he's putting up some content. Thank you both.

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

@timbrown7652

6 ай бұрын

I agree David, love Dennis

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

He is rather good isn't he?@@timbrown7652

Came back to this video because of the instagram post!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes, Dennis rules!

back then you didnt "fix it in post"... you baked some magic in. still need to

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Yes! Joe Chicarelli said you had to impress the next person! Had to sound like a record faders up and panned

I always wondered which genres would be covered in the mixing courses, of course after purchase I see they cater to a WIDE variety. First video was an excellent tutorial on mixing one of the hardest trap based hip hop I've heard in a while with Mr Chobaz, just what I wanted, all the best to the other members, day 1 begins...

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much for sharing! Glad you’re enjoying the videos

@timbrown7652

6 ай бұрын

Seems to me every genre is covered by Pro Mix Academy

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Yes! It certainly is!@@timbrown7652

@denniswardstrakshack is bad ass. It's awesome that he's on the PLAP team! More people need to know about this dude!

@Producelikeapro

4 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

Awesome interview!!!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much Anthony!

Awesome video!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Dennis!!

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

YES! Dennis!

Tape forced us to listen more to each other, limited track count as well made that happen

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

That's very true! You can do that in any DAW as well!

Pink Cream 69 were great and their albums sounded excellent. Thunderdome is one of my favourite albums of all time.

It's all in how you use the technology, not the technology itself. Dennis proves this by talking about how his older stuff sounds better to him when he had less tracks and musicians played together more in a room rather than just overdubbing and editing

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Extremely well said!

Yeah Dennis 🤘🤘

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Marvellous!

DA/88/ADAT - those were the days, but I don't miss 'em! (o:

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Haha I hear you

@timbushong4387

6 ай бұрын

@@Producelikeapro - Back in '97 and '98 I recorded 2 albums on either ADAT or DA/88's - the first one we mixed on a Neve and the other on an SSL. One thought: I love how mastering seems to be the "dark art" in all of this - that final, stick-a-fork-in-it process. I just got to re-visit a project from 20 years ago that I had literally done everything but play on - the artist wanted to finally upload to Spotify - and I was surprised how *close* it was as is - no re-mixing at all, but yeah, I did tweak a few things on the 2-mix... love your stuff - and I live 45 minutes from Sweetwater - I missed you!

Dennis and Warren are both different beasts. I will say 90s rock alt metal whatever had some of the best products man. Everything now uses the same 10 drum samples. Over compressed. Blah blah. Quantized to hell. Listen to RHCP or Alice n Chains or later Aerosmith. Freaking crazy nutty productions. A lot on tape too. I feel like a naked child with everything being so easy now. Spoiled with modern technology for sure. It's great but I would have loved to be back in those big classic studios just to see what is going on. Great conversation

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much for sharing

Man, I never understand where the hard line is between tracking, mixing and mastering... I get that there's a difference, but I'm thinking about how I'm gonna mix things when I'm choosing and placing mics, or front-end hardware, and I'm thinking about how I'm gonna master while I'm mixing. I'm leaving the holes I'm gonna fill later. But for that same reason, I struggle like hell to get great results in any setting where I'm NOT doing all that stuff myself from the ground up. I might want to reach out to Dennis here though... I like his attitude and mindset a lot and I have a hard time finding anyone that seems to be on the same page about production. (Could just be the limits of my wallet, but at any budget point I cannot seem to find anyone I would even /want/ to raise funds for my band to hire!)

@DennisWardsTrakShak

5 ай бұрын

Hi, first of all you should not be thinking about mixing or mastering while tracking and equally you should not think about mastering when mixing. Just go one step at a time and try to reach your goal as well as possible. A good mastering doesn't mean a lot of stuff is going on. The same goes for Mixing, it's all about good judgement in the moment. Basically it's like this: If you don't like your snare/guitar/bass sound when you record it you surely won't like it much more when it's mixed and if you don't like your mix before mastering the might be marginal improvement but you won't be totally satisfied. Trying things out in the recording part is usually more effective than trying to "fix it in the mix".

@ExcessDenied0

5 ай бұрын

@@DennisWardsTrakShak Thanks man, you're probably right about that and I appreciate the advice. I may be too much "in my head" when I'm doing a lot of these things, and that never creates better music anyway. I'll work harder to be present with it, and focus my efforts to improve on just supporting my ability to create something that /is/ good and then translate that to the final recording each step as I go. I suppose the challenge is in having limited resources, but I've never let that stop me before, so I don't know why I would let it stop me here either.

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@Producelikeapro

5 ай бұрын

Marvellous! Thanks ever so much!

😊:)

@Producelikeapro

5 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

I completely agree with what he's saying about modern music sounding so processed and plasticky, honestly it's a huge turn off for me for most modern music including rock. The whole "fix it in post" mentality irks me

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much for sharing!

I don’t know any of the bands he has been involved with.

@Producelikeapro

6 ай бұрын

Lots of successful Hard Rock and Metal bands! Probably not your genre! That’s ok!