I find myself referencing through your videos more than any of the others lately. Descriptive, informative and experimental. I’m glad you’re continuing.

Excited to watch your studio progress

Ryan, I’ve always admired your polite incredulity regarding the conventions of recording. Your channel has helped me at times, mostly in that you maintain that one’s own ears always reign supreme. I’ve always trusted my gut in my productions and it’s always worked out. Re: the burnout vibes you started the video on/coming back to things, I recently went through this. My mother passed away earlier this year and it rocked me such that I wasn’t sure if I would return to music - I was very depressed and self destructive. I resolved that the spark might not come back and forcing it didn’t really help much. It was the acceptance that if it was meant to, it would that finally brought be back down to earth. Thankfully, I was able to return to music healthily and I’m in a place where I can forge on with happiness in my heart. Anyway, thanks for always being real on here. It’s refreshing to see someone like yourself on a platform that’s become so transactional.

As someone who just jumped back into the studio after many, MANY months of stagnation, your comment about just getting back to it and doing something are spot on. Keep on doing what you're doing, I look forward to your future videos.

Fear of success is usually fear of failing at a higher, more conspicuous level (see:imposter syndrome). Procrastination seems to be a form of depression. I try to ask myself "what's causing the blockage?" I found your channel 'cuz I was looking at re-amping a snare and have stayed on because I always learn tons and tons of stuff. Those room mics were butter. Looking forward to what's next.

Congrats ! i love your room sound approach !

So glad to see you're back man! Your videos have given me a lot of inspiration to build my own studio. You can definitely bounce back and make great music man!

Great to see you on Ryan! Your challenges to convention and constant experimentation are a big part of what inspires me to keep playing with ideas.

You earned my sub a few years ago dude! So glad your back, can't wait for the studio, Keep up the great work and many more drum recording/mixing vids haha!

Thanks for coming back, I really enjoy the stuff you’ve put out. Personally this is great timing for me as I’m also getting back into music after a hiatus and need some drum recording tips. Hope you have a good time being back

Hey! Just yesterday I was wondering if we would be seeing you again! So good to see you back at it.

Oh Im going to be here for ALL of em, you can't stop me! xD Good to see you again dude! Love your approach and cool, calm delivery

Good to see you back!

Good to hear from you again … Nice room you have there….😎👍🏻

Great to see you! Always love seeing what you're up to. -chaz

Fanfuckingtastic. This looks like an AMAZING setup. You're gonna be nervous about stuff in the beginning, that's common, but you will have SO MUCH FUN tracing out your new space and getting the feel for the drum sounds in particular, both as a drummer and because of the way percussive sounds move around a big space.

Nice to see you again!

Thanks for sharing, going thru a similar time in my life also, moving and spending time not being able to be creative, still finding small pockets to feed that part of my brain but not at all enough. It is scary. I am now in the middle of a build out myself. Thanks for putting it into words some of the struggles. I think a lot of us go thru this. Looking forward to the journey your on now :)

Thanks for sharing that man. New subscriber but been watching your stuff for some time. I'm now inspired to get moving again myself. It's all for me and my own songwriting purposes but very scary at times when I hear what others are doing... I'll be watching buddy.

very cool video. All the best to you and your family

Welcome back, brother!

Great to have you back? So what was the scenario posed in your question to the BBS guys? 😮

Nice drum sound Ryan! Sounds great! and thanks for my video you sent me btw!!

That was really interesting, because I was planning on getting a U47 type, for kick-out. But, I'm also missing a mid-distance mic for that sort of position 2-4 feet out from the kick. Had been thinking of an affordable dark ribbon, maybe Cascade Fathead. But, seems like U47 can do it. So, maybe I need to just build a DiY subkick to use with my Beta 52A, so I can use the U47-type further out like that. I've been getting good farther room sounds from the JZ Vintage 67. It's quite a versatile mic. Has a smooth, deep character. So it suits vocals, bass, rhythm guitar cab, kick out and room mic. Also, on a budget, the GAP R1-A are nice, and have more detail and articulation than most affordable ribbon mics (better on detailed room sound than the Cascade darker, bassier Cascade Fathead).

Be mindful of fear, but choose love. Glad to see you back Ryan.

Great video :)

Sick DUDE

Also on the budget mics (especially U47, U67, U87 clones) being worth 4 or 5 times their street price, or rather sounding like 4 or 5 times their street price, that's how I feel about my Warm Audio Mini K47s. I have them set up over my inexpensive and incomplete (just kick, snare, cymbals) drum kit that I use when I can't get a real drummer. I set them to figure-8, right over the snare, Blumlein, and with an internal kick mic, they capture a great sort of compromise between close-mics and overheads, with a TON of snare crack but still nicely capturing cymbals and an overall stereo image. I've found cheap MXL ribbons to have a similar price to performance ratio, with the R40 being one of my favorite ways to make a small 1x8 open back combo sound HUGE but also very smooth, sweet and balanced/even in the mids. I don't even know what to compare THEM to, because they don't seem to be modeled after a particular vintage ribbon, but for the price, they sound amazing. It's all about knowing what their particular signature is, and finding ways to take advantage of it, instead of trying to compensate for them as flaws. Like the vocal for the Bad Brains song "Sacred Love" being recorded over a phone in the county jail. They didn't try to reconstruct clipped parts or EQ to compensate for it sounding like a phone call, they accentuated it, and it arguably inspired people like Sylvia Massy busting apart old phones and using both transducers - the microphone and the speaker - to make specialty microphones. A ribbon is close to the opposite and a classic LDC is the exact opposite. During mixing, EQ in particular, I always try to remind myself that, when tracking, I obviously picked particular mic for a particular application for a particular reason.

@rikodesinko

11 ай бұрын

Good stuff bro. Are you talking about the WA47 or WA47jr?

@AdamRainStopper

11 ай бұрын

@@rikodesinko The JR. If I had a pair of the more expensive ones, they'd be sold right now, I haven't gotten any work in 10 weeks. I've been using the JRs for overheads for a while though, and I love them.

@compucorder64

13 күн бұрын

​@@rikodesinko If it's for kick out, or bass, maybe mid-distance room mic in front of bassdrum, I'd choose the WA47, not the Jr. The bass response is better on the WA47, and it just sounds deeper. For overheads, and guitar the Jr is perfectly nice.

Also, you don't actually HAVE TO high pass the room mics. In order to get a room to sound with a fair amount of low end without risking phase cancellation issues, all I ever did was duplicate the tracks and high pass the originals somewhere at like 500 Hz, then low pass the duplicates and collapse them to mono. That way, if there do turn out to be any phase issues, you're guaranteed to hear them, allowing you to correct them, but also - regardless of what people are listening on - nobody's stereo audio system will create any NEW phase issues happening in the center, even if their left and right are maybe not so perfectly spaced or angled, or their listening space doesn't have perfect acoustics. The stuff you're really hearing in stereo is mids and highs anyway. The lows *feel* like they are also happening in this massive stereo field because everything else is, but if you just monoize stuff below a certain point (500 is what I do but you can probably go as low as 300), you won't miss it, the whole thing will still feel like a stereo image of the room.

Hey Ryan. Your 'slap-down' story was unfortunate - sorry to hear you went through that. Here is the thing. If you know you are right in your opinion, if you have confidence in your skills, hang on to it. I remember literally decades ago I had my own commercial photography studio. To pay the bills I shot for Fortune 500 companies, ad agencies and graphic designers. To feed my soul, I shot photo art and mixed media, competed in photo juried shows, and displayed my work in galleries. At one point, I got tired of shooting commercial photos like most people and decided to merge my art photography techniques with my commercial work. For one, it was a lot more enjoyable for me. And, I wanted to separate myself from the other 100 commercial photographers I was competing with in that city. I started showing my portfolio to ad agencies and graphic designers - no one wanted to go that direction, as they felt it was too risky. It took a few years, but eventually I started landing gigs for this breakthrough style of imagery and I ended up being known for my unique blend of work. I created a style. My point in this is if you feel that way about that mic - or any other thing - it is great to stay open minded. But don't be afraid to stick to your guns. Time will prove you right in the end and you will be known - and appreciated - for the way you do what you do. Cheers, Bill

I didn't understand at all what that Blackbird studio story was about. Have i missed something on another video?

How high are the ceilings

@creativesoundlab

3 ай бұрын

16feet

@Prodby3128

3 ай бұрын

@@creativesoundlab makes sense, I love the sound!

Hey Ryan, it sounds like your brain might have been beginning to burn out. Look after yourself, it will all come back in time if you don't force it.

Ryan I’d love to talk I’m brand new to the Area singer/songwriter I have some beautiful things creatively