I love how Ken's face lit up after the the interviewer said he invented ADT. He's very proud of that and it changed the sound of music forever. He's a living legend.

He inspires me! I love the curiosity of saying "what happens if you do this...."

@jaggass

4 жыл бұрын

I've said that alot of times when working on things. They blow up.

He' deserves a huge amount of credit from recording artists everywhere. mainly since everyone has been copying the Beatles music and techniques for decades. I stumbled upon this video while researching voice double tracking. In doing so, I found a video of Brian May describing Freddie Mercury's doubling on Bohemian Rhapsody. Brian was quick to pay homage to the Beatles.. Wonderful video.....

Ken Townsend, thank you for your service sir.

God bless him. He literally changed the world of music with this invention. 👏👏👏

Brilliant interview. Really nice guy too..

Would have loved to see a video of Ken Townsend demoing the Waves ADT plugin and what he thought of it compared to his original idea.

The honorable Ken Towsend...Thank you sir for your amazing insight.. Thank you Waves.

Wow, this made me smile and almost cry. Love this, thanks.

This Made Me Smile. Nice! This Is How Its Done.

Legendary!! So many brilliant innovations came out of those studios.

Man is a legend!

ADT's is one of Revolver's secret sauce. Brilliant invention

Wow the legend himself what a great interview thank you guys for sharing

Brilliant, and well worth inventing!

Ken is an absolute diamond geezer (if you are British, you'll know that's not an insult !)....

Recently spent 15 Minutes gazing at Ken’s amazing box of tricks. Presumably it was made at Hayes along with the other amazing bits of EMI kit.

@jaggass

8 ай бұрын

It's such a shame ADT never really took off because it was such a game changer for singers. If i was a producer that's a thing i'd do to vocals.

ADT is also used in instruments as well as voices, and used on instruments in Revolver as well. To thicken the voice they had to play the first track back via headphones, so a singer could be in synch with it, onto a second track. Then the two were mixed onto one track, as Ken explained. According to Geoff Emerick (on KZread), who was one of the sound engineers on Revolver, ADT came about because John Lennon did not like the sound of his own voice, as as Ken explained, Lennon asked for a technical solution. The solution was simple and quite obvious, but equipment hungry at the time as two expensive tape machines were used.

Wow, what an incredible story.

Thanks for this. In Brian Southall's 'Abbey Road: The Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studios', Southall writes that John Lennon insisted on calling Ken Townsend's invention "Ken's 'Flanger'", and says that is how the term 'Flanging' came into being.

@garymilliken4429

5 жыл бұрын

The story, which may-or-may-not be entirely accurate (but a really nice story anyway) is that when Lennon heard ADT demonstrated, and realized that it would save *him* a lot of time and effort, he asked how it was done. Townsend and particularly George Martin knew from experience that Lennon was notoriously un-technical so no explanation was going to mean anything to him. It was allegedly Martin (according to his own recounting) that replied, "Now listen, it's very simple. We take the original image and we split it through a double vibrocated sploshing flange with double negative feedback." From that point on, Lennon referred to it as "flanging" or "the flanger", as in "Put Ken's flanger on that track."

@thekitowl

2 жыл бұрын

@@garymilliken4429 👍 wasn’t Matt Monro called Fred Flange by George Martin.

Excellent! Thanks for that!

I'd love to hear ADT recreated on 2 tape machines

As you listen to Ken Townsend talk about ADT you can hear how dedicated he was to music as an engineer.John Lennon asked him to find a better way to double track and he did just that. When he talks about creating ADT in his mind while driving home at four in the morning after a long days work you have to respect his dedication to his craft. For me it is the look in his eyes as he talks about what he loves to do. His eyes show the pride he has for what he spent his career doing. At the end of the interview when the interviewer thanks him for making ADT Ken's shows us how proud he is as well as how humble of a man he is. Ken Townsend retired as the Chairman of the Studio Group after 42 years of service. They don't come like this anymore. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Stop this video at 7:06-7:07 the look in his eyes and the smile on his face says it all. ✌

@schipbreukeling3

3 жыл бұрын

true

NGL - I got emotional because of this video.

@job9650

4 жыл бұрын

Same :(

amazing bloke , fantastic.

Thanks for sharing.

Love learning the history. What a mastermind. Thx Waves Thnx Abbey roads Thnx Ken!!! Now I gotta cop the bundle. Anyday now

Superb!

ANOTHER GENIUS BEHIND THE BEATLES

A living legend and iconic master of true advanced audio engineering!

Or "Ken's Flanger", as John Lennon would call it back in the day.

Phenomenal ❤️😊

And thank you for giving the beatles more options mate,,ynwa

We need a whole series on these topics mane. From mono to stereo to atmos. Whats next?

His enthusiasim!!

THE LEGEND

I'd like to see a demo of actually setting up ADT....somewhere.

@thekitowl

2 жыл бұрын

There is a piece that George Martin did where he’s talking & explaining what he’s doing with Ken’s ADT box . You can clearly hear the difference between ADT , phasing & flanging.

God bless him... an amazing invention.

RESPECT

I'm not sure how effective this was as an advert for Waves, though. Didn't Mirek Stiles just say that the effect has never been quite replicated and didn't Townsend just say that digital couldn't match the original, according to Paul McCartney?

@ytnsanw

7 жыл бұрын

Ha ha - Yes, I see what you mean, although I think the inference was that it's never been duplicated 'until now' - with the Waves plugin....

@lifewhyz

6 жыл бұрын

That may have been the intention. But they really never did said one way or another. I wonder what Ken thinks of this.

Interesting story. Even your basic home recording studio can record endless multi track recordings. I for one only ever double track my vocals without using a ADT kind of app. I like the feel of being slightly out here and there...

@lifewhyz

6 жыл бұрын

It's not just about having the convenience of double-tracking. A lot of it's use is for the analog tape sound with the tone and nuances it imparted in your tracks. Demo out. See what you think. It's only like 35 bucks right now on sale at the Waves site.

What does Ken Townsend think of Waves Reel ADT?

@therealrussellsmyth

3 жыл бұрын

Was wondering same

I've been playing around with Waves Reel ADT, and although I despise the way the company operates, I have to say it is a really good plugin.

Judging by their eyes... Ken Townsend seems so genuine and congenial in this interview. This other guy feels untrustworthy; like he's only there to pitch a product. The good news is that Waves Reel ADT _does_ sound amazing. And it's worth every penny.

offtopic...with what camera have you filmed this, please? looks amazing. sound is also exellent.

@frankservant5754

5 жыл бұрын

Somebody got to answer, but is it the camera or it was edited in post, plus the lighting too

AMAZING!! The man and the legend! I wonder if digital will ever sound as good and "fat" as a 2 inch recorder?

@Video-tipsTv

8 жыл бұрын

***** I don't know if you have ever listened to a real good studio recording..? I have! for over 25 years. and I wouldn't call STUDER A800 or A80 distorted.... and no MP3 no 44.1K wav could ever get close to this sound....

@sidsimo

6 жыл бұрын

Do tell!

@mikhaelaston9099

6 жыл бұрын

Microwave to BBQ no comparison

@chipgaasche4933

5 жыл бұрын

@@mikhaelaston9099 nice try, mikhael.

@LeviBulger

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. Nothing will ever sound as good as great analog equipment.

Fucking genius!!!!!

Damn, I didn't even know that this technique had a name or a legend created it , I thought it was just a technique I found out by being lazy to double track the second stack of my vocals so I just moved a little bit so it sounds different tracks.

I just notice all personnel in Abbey Road sounds like George Martin. From Giles Martin to Geoff Emerick

This is excellent and I enjoyed this very much. Please correct me if I'm mistaken but I never actually heard Ken Townsend give his opinion on Wave's Reet ADT though. Still, I'm very interested and going to get the demo and see how I like it compared to my other solutions.

@lifewhyz

6 жыл бұрын

It's not really a product review. Although, I wonder what he thinks of it, too.

Anyway to achieve this effect if your tape machine has just one regular output (not separate outputs for sync and repro heads)? Was it only a track issue that prevented them from printing the adt to a track (opting instead to do it during mixdown) or am I missing something?

Ths Beatles were surrounded by adventurous people willing to take their lead alot of times!

@thekitowl

2 жыл бұрын

They were, however had the Beatles not bought in huge amounts of money to EMI their progression would have been very different.

Analogue still sounds better than digital to my ears. You can do a lot more with digital along the way but the sound always ends up much wetter with lots of added noise. I went back to listening to vinyl and you can hear so much more detail on the original recordings, it really is amazing, it's like being there. Obviously a decent system helps, you won't get the benefit with a cheap set up. It really is astonishing that even with the remasters they still can't do it digitally. Maybe in the future they'll eventually work it out, but not yet. It just shows how good the sound engineers and producers were back then, that the analogue versions are still better over 50 years later.

@underworldent4817

4 жыл бұрын

i agree. i am also a red.

Ken Townsend is responsible for giving The Beatles their most characteristic effect.

Seems so obvious once he explains it, but then again the wheel seems obvious when you see it too. Still a matter of sometime doing it in the first place.

He never explained what _remix_ is.

Has sort of an orange flavor i think?

I swear I’m having a Mandela effect moment. I swear it was always called Automatic Double Tracking, not Artificial

they actually NEVER asked his opinion on the plug in, I wonder why...🤔

@SFLfights

Ай бұрын

If they had asked the question you would have said that it's normal for him to praise the plugin, he was paid by Waves ;)

no examples ???? RIDICULLLLLL

Did not Neil Sedaka and Jan and Dean do the same?

@thekitowl

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure, but in the USA they used to use Two Mic’s in close proximity giving a chorus type effect which sounded brilliant.

I thought I'd invented this. Turns out the pro's have been doing it for years

@BillyHayes79Music

3 жыл бұрын

@Jim McCracken I feel like I need to prove this statement incorrect but it won't be easy 🤞😆

For some reason I never liked the idea of renaming to "Abbey Road Studios".

@JanPBtest

3 жыл бұрын

@Jim McCracken It's just an opinion.

@thekitowl

2 жыл бұрын

There was a time when the Studio was struggling, so the name change was critical to its survival. In fact Ken was solely responsible for bringing film scores to Abbey Road & saved studio 1 from becoming a car park ( not kidding ) .

translate it on russian please

You don't actually get to hear the plug-in. I'm skeptical that it sounds anything like the original.

@thekitowl

2 жыл бұрын

Doubt it.

Ken, you have the honor of me resorting to English subtitles to help explain what you're talking about. Could you like...slow down for us English speakers who have a hard time with Brit accents?

@thekitowl

2 жыл бұрын

What didn’t you understand.