Many years ago, my guitar teacher said to me "know your gear". His point was that you can play/sing at a professional level, but if you're not on top of the sound you're producing, you'll sound like a beginner. This presentation exemplifies that theory. There's so much more to it than meets the eye, or, in this case, the ear. Your fans are so fortunate that you put so much consideration into your music, and it's presentation. Thank you for your efforts!

Reina, I was already very impressed with you but this video revealed, to me at least, the depth of your knowledge regarding the complex and subtle technical aspects of sound production. It was fascinating to listen to how you weave your artistry into the technical capabilities of your equipment to produce EXACTLY the sound you want. Also, you are an excellent public speaker. Your presentation wasn't filled with "ahhs" and "umms". Thank you so much. I will now enjoy your work with a deeper level of appreciation for your knowledge and artistry.

@HareDeLune

3 жыл бұрын

Very well said, and I couldn't agree more!

@shoomanDFW

3 жыл бұрын

I never watched this thing from start to finish but wow. Impressive video with lots of in-depth technical info.

I am a complete Luddite, so all of what you explained went right over my balding head. I’m glad you are enjoying your new gear and can’t wait until Sunday! Thanks Reina.

Singer... songwriter... musician... sound engineer... I'm truly impressed.

Creating quality music requires talent and practice. Capturing it requires quality equipment and knowledge. Thanks for the tour. You obviously have both.

I too am impressed with your ability to express your thoughts, and with your knowledge of your equipment.

That's amazing! You have so far gotten several thousand views (on the first day) just talking about your microphone! How these folks love you!

And science to boot... As a student of practically everything that has to do with the world within which I live, this video, as a lecture, is a standout. If you have time, you may want to create a series of lectures music students, especially those who enjoy performing live, will subscribe to in a heartbeat. The Reina del Cid class and handbook for live - musical - performance. Great teachers impart their knowledge without thought of ego. You're a great teacher. Sign me up, please...

Wow! What do you get when you improve the voice of an angel? You really combine your natural talent with your other genius traits to produce beautifu and unique music. Thanks for sharing this.

So nice to see someone go into detail about why the SR40V is such a good mic. This has been my fav live vocal mic as soon as I bought it. It's incredible how well it works even on loud small stages. It can sound absolutely enormous in stadiums, too! Now I just need more of them

I don't know anything about microphones and will probably never need to, but this was extremely enjoyable to watch.

This was immensely interesting even though I know very little about the technical side of music making. I love your natural voice and your voice with the enhancements.

Excellent teaching session. I know all of this as well but you were able to communicate this highly technical information with such ease. I will have to watch this several times and see if I can share this info with some guys that will really benefit from it. Thank you for sharing this.

Concise and well, presented should do more of these to encourage younger musicians starting out.

This is really interesting 👍 Especially what I learned about kHz, Frequencies which are not hearable for human ears, but interact with the hearable frequencies. Proximity Effect and so on! I Love such stuff! Thank you!

Dang Girl!....you are a geek when it comes to the electronics of music....and I mean this in a good way. Your knowledge of how your mikes are working is amazing ! SO impressed. I downloaded Einstein, 1905 a couple of days ago....to go along with your albums that I already had downloaded. Love you and Toni and Im hoping when this planet becomes normal again that you will play up here in Nor Cali ( the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley ?) Do stay safe out there and much Love sent out to you and Toni....Take care

Love Einstein, 1905, great songwriting and voice. Toni is a really great guitarist.

I never know how much went into your songs. Thanks for the inside look.

Awesome. Nice to see what goes on behind the production of your music. Thanks Sunday Morning Lady.

Nice gear tour Reina always fun to se specially for a old music hardware engineer as me. 👍😎

Nice breakdown, Reina. It’s fascinating to see how you record. I love that echo effect in the chorus.

Very cool Reina!

You know I think it is your "nerdy" side, and I say that with up most respect, that is what makes your songs really work. You not only have the creative aspect down, but are so well versed in the technical side of it too. When I listen to the recordings of your older songs it is almost as if you hear just how much you have learned about recording from song to song. Kind of like stepping stones to where you are now. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for this explanation. I've been really trying get a grasp on mics and the best ones for live and recording. Anyways, just wanted to say I appreciate your brilliance Reina and I've become a big fan.

Love your work!

Can't wait to see you sunday

I'm just in the middle of getting a small church up to speed on Livestreaming and I think I learned more about mics from watching this than all the stuff I've read! Thanks!

We learn always with you. Thank you Reina .🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️😍♥️🌻🕊

Thank you for the education. I knew a very small amount about this decades ago. Long before digital. Your tools now are amazing.

That was a great video, surprisingly captivating. Great music making goes beyond just having a good voice. I once had a band mate who would stand with his guitar jack and ask, "input or output" didn't matter how many times we setup he never understood the basics.

Thanks for the information. Had no idea how much the mic does plus the special sauce.

Very nice. You obviously really know what you want for the end product and how to achieve it. Been a fan for a while and want to encourage you, Toni, Josh and the whole gang this 67 year old dude is happy to see you all playing the classics plus writing great material with witty lyrics,great chord progressions and performance. Keep it up. Hope to see you live some day when things get back to normal.

Having come from making sound measuring and frequency analysis equipment, I'm inclined to go with the microphone with a flat and linear frequency and amplitude response! However, my best frequency response story comes from when I was obliged to leave my comfort zone and build some hydrophone preamps and filters for conservationists. (The UK government may have steered them to the company I worked for because we'd never done any work on submarine warfare and, in theory, we couldn't let the octopus out of the bag.) After a few prototypes told them what sounds were out there under the sea, they ended up deciding that they wanted to examine marine animal "sounds" from about 0.1Hz up to 350Khz, so they wanted a hydrophone preamp with such a frequency range, and with variable bandwidth bandpass filters that could be set anywhere within that range. I helped design this and then did the building. The conservationists tested their hydrophone in a swimming pool near St Albans, and to prove it would work at a depth of three hundred odd feet, they had three hundred odd feet of cable looped around the swimming pool. As they swept their bandpass filters somewhere North of 150Khz they encountered "voices and occasionally music", which we, being engineers and knowing about radio communications and everything, diagnosed as BBC Radio Four's Longwave service.

Love it! Thanks for sharing part of the session and mixing process. It's very interesting.

Lovely to see the tricks of the trade, many thanks, much love 💕

Interesting video! And the result "Einstein, 1905" sounds great!

Hmm... not only a nerd, but also a really intense techno-geek! Your techno-tips are intriguing and enlightening. Thanks for the behind the scenes look!

I just wanted to say that I really love your videos. 👍

Wow, I was not expecting this! What a great breakdown. That was really fascinating to watch. I would definitely be interested in more content like this if you made some. Great video!

Thanks for the BTS. You always do a excellent job of putting your vocals ‘in the pocket’ of the mix. The Einstein song will be on the ‘Mt Rushmore’ of your greatest creations.

The whole episode here was totally unnecessary (we just love you to sing) but immensely satisfying. I thoroughly enjoyed the lesson. Thank you for sharing Reina. 😊

I'm in Croatia loving the old school architecture and sound and am looking for an antique microphone...glad you've found an awesome one with a cool brand name to boot. Cheers my friend.

this turned out to be both a great audio engineering lesson and an asmr video

Thanks for that clear and concise demo - I will check out the mic.

Reina the technological nerd - who would ever of guessed - of course I listened to it all very closely being, er, a techno nerd myself....

The first tech/ gear video I actually enjoyed. Usually, the best I can say is"Well, I learned something." And you have actually studied what you're talking about.

Wow! Thank you so much for this behind the scenes sneak peek! It gives me so much more appreciation for your work, and encourages even deeper listening. As an amateur musician, audiophile, gear-head, and incorrigible nerd, I'm not just proud of you for caring enough to do your own production, your tech homework, and knowing things like how hugely important fathful reproduction of transients is to a great sounding recording, I *love* you for it! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ If you haven't heard of them before, I encourage you to do some reading about Mapleshade Records and Pierre Sprey's unconventional recording techniques. Really hope I get to see you in concert sometime. Meanwhile, thanks so much for all the very personable and friendly YT videos! 🤗

Ha. You mentioned the two microphones that I use now. Loved your descriptions, especially about the cardioid pattern and the - 30 dB reduction. That is very helpful.

Wow Reina, thank you for this. I found this really fascinating as someone who simply appreciates music but doesn't really dive into what goes on behind the scenes in the equipment and mixing etc. Very informative and educational too. I always enjoy listening to you and your band. Miss having you as a local group here in the Twin Cities though... Glad you are doing well in SoCal. :)

Big thumbs up and thanks (love the tube compression you use) ... that mic sure does have a wide range ... I hope this clip conveys to your followers the depth of your talent ...

Very interesting Reina ! The sound with the microphone Earthworks SR40V is wonderful ! Congrats Reina for this very interesting video ! Best wishes from Austria !

The Earthworks SR40V microphone is amazing!!!

Thanks for the informative video! You have a lot of technical knowledge about recording, Reina!

Great Demo. Loved it.

Great demonstration. Wish I could afford one of these mikes!

Excellent video, I loved it! I am very impressed with your knowledge of not only the mike but the whole recording process. It was very informative, it certainly helps me with my own recordings. Can't wait until you tour again. TAMPA. home of the Stanley Cup is awaiting your arrival.

Absolutely fascinating! Thank for sharing. My sisters and I are loving putting songs together but just a basic interface and Garage Band. We discovered Audacity last month and thought that made a world of difference but I see we are still just using Legos to build with. Legos are still fun but we definitely need to play with ProTools! Thanks so much!💞

Very interesting. Enjoyed the behind the scenes look at how you produced your song. Would love to see more like this.

I love you Reina!

And clearly she's not just another pretty face! I've just begun delving into home recording with a small prosanus 2 setup. as a pretty good learning curve on putting this stuff all together and you have done a wonderful job. Thanks for sharing your insights and your knowledge.

Reina, I was impressed with your knowledge of microphones and recording processes in general. I have been involved in recording since the late 1970s, so a long time. I am a StudioOne user, not ProTools, but I am very familiar with it. Of course, I pretty much knew, from listening to all of you perform, that you knew the basics of recording. I can tell that you know what you are doing and it shows in your work. You are one of the few female singer-songwriters that I follow, because I have always leaned toward male groups. when I listen to music, but that has changed some lately.

💖 Happy October 🙌🙏

Thanks, Rachelle. Nice to see yet another side. :)

Fascinating information! I learned a lot from this.

Excellent info, nice insight into the editing work - you should do this on a regular basis. Aside writing the next Einstein song, of course? That was a really EXCELLENT job!

such a beauty... DAMN ... and such a good taste of music

Reina you rock omg

Thanks for doing this. I’ve always wondered what mic and sound system you’re using. You legit have the best audio quality for live-streaming I’ve seen on KZread so far

1:05 faithfully capturing the LA traffic

I know this isn't as popular as your other videos, because there aren't as many gear geeks that follow the channel, but it's really cool seeing your mixing style. Somewhat recently, I learned how much the producer and engineer color the sound of the track. Late last year, I recorded my friend's piano and vocals for a song he wrote, then my mixing ended up making the track sound very The Fray-ish, which was too much of my own alt-rock influence than what he is more about.

Great video, came to hear another great song and walked away having learned a lot

Way above my pay grade but I’m sure very interesting to others doing the same thing as you are. I guess it does matter to what I’m hearing though so I shall appreciate your updated microphone.👍👍

I love that googles auto captioning displays your name as Randy Delcid. Keep up the great videos, Reina! And to KZread, please keep trying.

@TheOvillain

3 жыл бұрын

And so now you know Reina's real name! 😂

Rachelle, you are astounding! Noticed a few 'plosives during your wonderful trip with Toni to Centari, but it was probably due to the atmosphere made from van exhaust. :P

Cool video. Most interesting was for me when you talked about how you estimate your voice. I'm seriously trying to learn to sing and you are more a role model for me than most male singers although i'm a baritone which tends more to be a base than a tenor. When i hit the right tone i always have a problem with getting strenght and loudness into my voice but i try to sing cool phrases anyway. Its very fascinating for me to hear and analyse how you use your voice singing different songs because it always seems to me - as you said- that youre quiet singer but generate such a unique tone and phrases with less effort and loudness. Maybe you could also make a video like this about the way you sing and you developed youre voice over the years. Would be very interesting :)

wow. Your knowledge Mic Tech is impressive

Do you have audio engineering education or experience? You did very well explaining everything.

Wow.. amazing...thanks for share! kisses from brazil...

Nice info...kudooooooos

I am also excited about the neutrality of this microphone and that you can use it for the studio. I find it very convenient to use. Thank you very much for the video

Thanks good info

Thanks!

Please, oh please, oh please do a dumbed down tutorial on mixing in Pro Tools (which has a beginner’s free version) for those of us who would like to start mixing. And thank you for this video. It’s very interesting to get to see how you mixed the vocals on that song.

Very informative video. I sold speakers for many years, so I knew the terminology kind of by reverse.

Great Reina, so you know all the tech on your own sound. So important for a performer never let stooges mess your sound up on the main bord. Geeeeees I tried to teach my daughter that but I was like talking to a wall..!

This is a very smart young lady.

Thank you dziekuje

Impressive

It's very warm sounding. I prefer mics with proximity effect! It's great for quiet moments in ballads when you want to add depth and intimacy . You can move up on the mic and instantly change your tone. Never been a fan of the Beta 58. Your approach to reverb is interesting, pretty much the complete opposite to mine, lol.

Thank you for sharing your creative process in this song. I do hope that Earthworks gives you a tip to cover that Sunday morning coffee or tea. God bless you and the rest of musical gang you hang with on my computer, Dick...aka Fearless Freddy

Wow, you could also have a lucrative career running a music store or recording studio! Very impressive, you really know your business.

When I first heard the song, I really liked the vocal effect on the chorus. Nice to see it broken down.👍

I just discovered your channel a week ago. I wonder how you did the editing. I would love to see a video of how you combine your mixed audio with multiple video angles in premiere. In a lot of KZread videos I notice a clap or snap to help the person mixing the audio video tracks. I don’t notice that on your videos anymore. Do you still use a trigger like that to align the different sources and just edit it out? Or do you have other tricks for that? I really enjoy your music!

thanks

I understood little of all this, but none the less, it was quite interesting.

And to think I used to listen to you since Myspace lol

Wow

Knocks RAP out the door , about time too

Thank you- really fascinating and informative piece! I wonder how many other popular singer/songwriters could have produced that (perhaps few) or would have chosen to (AFAIK zero)? Also, congrats on reaching a level where Earthworks sends you products. I've never used one, but I've read the catalogs and seen their price tags. :-)

From a guitarist super helpful