Every interface I’ve ever used sucks. They capture every single mistake I make 😢
@JeffManseau
11 ай бұрын
Keep trying new ones until you find one that doesn’t. Influencers will try to convince you that you’re the problem and you should practice but these guys are all bought and paid for by the practice industry. Big practice really is a plague on this platform.
@TylerJohnstonGuitar
11 ай бұрын
@@JeffManseau Big practice 😂 Gotta stop those guys at all costs. A few Klons will solve everything.
@zwerko
11 ай бұрын
And the irony is that the better the interface, the more of my mistakes it captures 😿
@JC-fj7oo
11 ай бұрын
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar Big Practice sounds like the one rapper I would actually listen to lmao
@arkybeagle6159
11 ай бұрын
Get the one with a "suck" knob. Turn it down.
@jloiben12
11 ай бұрын
It has to be the interface. It can’t be the performance
@SpectreSoundStudios
11 ай бұрын
Exactly!
@D3FA1T1
11 ай бұрын
yeah, why should it ever be the performance? i bet ya can't say
@Bob-of-Zoid
11 ай бұрын
Mine is powered by exercise bike, so yeah, it effects my playing in a bad way!!!🤪
@Timbo6669
11 ай бұрын
@@Bob-of-Zoidthat’s a great idea..mine is connected to my bench press but haven’t figured out how to play the guitar at the same time yet.
@Bob-of-Zoid
11 ай бұрын
@@Timbo6669 I bet you can make great rhythm tracks with equipment squeaks and other bodily noises, grunts and heavy breathing!!! As for my car, I finally traded my Flintstones mobile for a modern one with pedals and a few gears, and boy do my feet thank me!
@JakeSweeper
11 ай бұрын
The only "problem" my audio interface (Scarlett 2i2 2nd gen) has is that it "only" has 2 inputs. And would "only" be a "problem" if I tried to record more than 2 tracks at once, which I rarely do.
@CraigKeidel
11 ай бұрын
I didn't particularly like the Scarlett, I used the Akai EIE Pro for a looong time because I needed the 4 inputs for recording some podcasts my friends were doing. Then when I decided I wanted something that could handle tracking a full kit I picked up the Roland Studio Capture. It's pretty damn versatile, but it'll definitely set you back a little bit. Besides just *having* the inputs, it also means I can dedicate my two pres to certain inputs which makes tracking on the fly with either my vocal or guitar settings ready to roll a snap. Never actually did much drum work though. And that EIE was a nice piece of hardware.
@victorblakey4260
11 ай бұрын
The thing about 4 x 12’s versus 1x12’s is acoustic coupling. This (in a simplified version, which I hope even some bass players will understand), means that the speakers work together to not only increase the volume (Sound Pressure Level, or how much air is being moved), but also, increases the effective cone area, allowing a 4 x 12 to give a similar Low Frequency response of a much larger driver. However, the ‘extended’ low frequency response doesn’t occur at the face of the box, but actually happens as the wavefronts from the 4 drivers joins in the air in front of the box. So, close miking a 4X12 won’t give you significantly more low end than a 1x12 (there will be some due to box resonance, larger volume of air inside the box will have a lower resonant frequency which will affect the resonance of the cone, as ‘back pressure’). However, room mics will give a significant variation, even in boxes with identical drivers. As a rough guide, a 1x12 will sound pretty much the same up close, as well as on the other side of the room. A 2x12 will take about 3 to 4 metres (10 to 12 feet for those with a foot fetish) to achieve the full balance of its sound. A 4x12 will take about 6 metres (about 20 feet in imperial measurements) for the sound to fully come together. In a small room, or one that is less than ideal acoustically, a quad box will be harder to manage, because it is moving a lot more air at the source, and reflections will become a larger part of the miked sound, a 1x12 will probably get a better sound in difficult acoustic situations.. In a larger room the larger boxes have some space for the sound to fully form, and so room mics will add a better ‘thickness’, to the close mics This is one of the reasons I used to laugh at bands bringing double stacked Marshall’s to postage stamp sized stages, they literally couldn’t hear what their amp sounded like and would complain all night about how bad their amp sounded on stage … Well Derrrr…
@joefx69
11 ай бұрын
Great explanation
@robbirose7032
11 ай бұрын
This is fascinating thanks.
@chupasaurus
11 ай бұрын
A reminder that 3 meters is a wavelength of a 114 Hz sound in a 20°C air, 4 meters is 86 Hz, 6 is two times less than 3 so 57 Hz. Those aren't some magical distances.
@alanevil
11 ай бұрын
I've designed a series of 1x12 and 2x12 wedges meant for smaller stages. They're uncovered, dyed, polyurethaned pine with a plywood face. The boxes are 1/4 or 1/2 the size of a Marshall 4x12 cabinet but they can be used on end so the speaker(s) are firing directly at the audience (for slightly larger stages with good monitoring), on a slight angle behind the guitarist so they're getting a good idea of their sound as is the audience (for small stages without much monitoring), or as a floor wedge in front (for bigger stages with a big PA). That said, even with the Celestions I'm loading this with (the Midnight Marauder which I'd love to see reviewed by Glenn) which are really beefy, I always record a direct line from my multiFX pedal and usually mix in just a smidge of the cabinet mic(s).
@nychold
11 ай бұрын
"People pay for weddings." This is just a specific example of my own little phrase "Wants pay, needs starve." People resent having to pay for the things they need, especially when the price goes up on them unexpectedly. Groceries, gas, taxes, etc. But when it comes to the things they want, they have no problem whipping out a credit card to make future them pay for present them's want of the week. And weddings are huge, desperate wants by people. You can literally get married in a court room for next to nothing, but they *want* a huge ceremony with a big cake and a crowd of their friends and family. They want those memories, so they'll pay through the nose to get them.
@SpectreSoundStudios
11 ай бұрын
That’s a fabulous observation
@TylerJohnstonGuitar
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely. I got married when I had just gotten out of the military and had ZERO money. I paid like 120 bucks for my marriage license, had a ceremony in a random gazebo, and I’m just as married as my sister who spent 20k plus on her wedding.
@IDGAF_PLUS
11 ай бұрын
Yeah, I resent spending money on shit I want too....because it almost never improves my qualityof life. Fun trying though.
@d112cons
11 ай бұрын
For the "boxed-in" guitar tones... I think it was mentioned before about Terry Date's production on Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power". The individual instruments kinda sound like shit isolated... but each sits in its own place in the sonic spectrum, and it absolutely works when you throw it all together. It's more important to make a space for each element rather than try to make everything equally occupy "everything".
@nathanielmabis5803
11 ай бұрын
Dude I just thought of a cool idea for a video series you could do, "How to get the *insert band/album* mix". Albums like Black Sabbath, Rust in Peace, Ace of Spades, Dopesmoker, ect. Would be fascinating imo to have an actual engineer break that down into a tutorial.
@DiagonalCoff33
11 ай бұрын
Man! i just commented asking on how to do exactly something like this!! This would be an amazing help for us tone chasers lol
@MaximusAdonicus
11 ай бұрын
There's bunch of people doing "how to get X bands guitar tone" vids on youtubes! And many do great job at that. But haven't seen anyone do WHOLE album tones thou... I think it would take quite some time to do such videos... There are also some vids where the actual mixer tells details about how he did certain albums, which seems like the best way to approach the subject. Thus maybe instead do an interview series with the actual mixers 👍
@alanevil
11 ай бұрын
A lot of really expensive and well designed rooms in all those. Why do the drums sound like that? Half of it is the room the drums sit in. Same with the other instruments, even if they're in special sealed rooms to the side, those rooms are tuned for the kinds of instruments that are isolated in them. It seems like BS with close micing but it simply isn't. The sound returning to the back of the mic from the room, even in high volume, microphone stuck right on top of the speaker situations, a weirdly tuned room (like your mom's basement, which I say after recording a whole double CD album with my old band in the drummer's mom's basement) will produce worse sound than in a properly tuned or utterly dead room (that's what we did our best with in the drummer's mom's basement). Some albums (say early Led Zeppelin) had the whole band performing live in a room and then overdubs in that same room. This will give you "that" sound but also makes post production tricky as you've got bleed from every instrument in all the drum mics or you can even have the vocalist screaming the lead in to the break down in the wrong place and then the overdub of the vocals simply doesn't line up so you have ghost vocals (again, see Led Zeppelin). But the SOUND of a fantastic room (the album I'm thinking of had the drums set up in the foyer of a mansion with no acoustic treatment, can't remember which) is unbeatable.
@JRSully89
11 ай бұрын
To be in a wedding band, the musicians would have to practice 😂
@pstudio4096
11 ай бұрын
I think I'm a great baseball player, the problem is probably the cheap baseball cap I'm wearing... that's why I never made it to the MLB the cap 🙄
@DreadedMetal
11 ай бұрын
Room modes! The dimensions of your room creates room modes and flutter echoes at different frequencies. If you use the amroc room calculator and input your room's dimensions to find the problem frequencies in your room. Flutter echoes are super easy to manage so long as you have enough material in the room to absorb them. Room modes are harder to manage but you can mitigate them with different types of treatment or speaker/source placement. The closer you are to a wall the more Powerful the room modes will be. I found my axial room reflection and blasted the 3 problem frequencies from my speakers and walked around my room until I found a practical place where they where at their lowest in volume. Have placed my mixing position and my cab for tracking in 2 of these spots in my room to mitigate the effects of room modes while mixing and tracking. My mixes have improved 10 fold and I still haven't incorporated any traditional treatment solution. I am waiting until I am settled into a new location to invest in those types of treatment as I want to pick my treatment based of my new places Room modes and RT60 (reverb time)
@augur_munin
11 ай бұрын
Clearly everyone is missing the most important part of shaping your guitar tone, the guitar stand. Everyone knows that if it supports the neck it gives the guitar better sustain, and if it's just an a-frame type of stand it will give you better bottom end. I will not cite my sources, just trust me.
@CraigKeidel
11 ай бұрын
Don't forget the tone metal. Aluminum will give you a thinner tone which might work well for black metal, but if you really want the ballsy sound of classic rock you gotta go for polished bronze.
@PabloGarcia-sf7bn
10 ай бұрын
My ass! It's the pick guard thickness, clearly! Greetings from New Mexico!
@dabanjo
11 ай бұрын
Better pickups + better interface = better song
@The_JustJoshing
11 ай бұрын
Better tonewood too
@69mosshead
11 ай бұрын
@@The_JustJoshing😂😂
@Citizen_J
11 ай бұрын
He fuckin solved it boys.
@hannessimon9563
11 ай бұрын
Better songwriting =better songs
@TylerJohnstonGuitar
11 ай бұрын
@@The_JustJoshing Don’t forget the FU-Tone noiseless springs 🔥🔥🔥 absolutely ESSENTIAL
@FoulOwl2112
11 ай бұрын
Audio Engineering schools are the modern equivalent of the "Sears Glamor Shots" and "Modeling and Talent Agency" shopping mall hustles of the 80s. The curriculum is specifically tailored to fleece naive, eager, young's parent's credit cards.
@CraigKeidel
11 ай бұрын
Yep, learned way more actually working in a studio than I ever did in classes. Unfortunately, those jobs were unpaid so now I only do audio on my own on the side. Turtles all the way down.
@invujerry
11 ай бұрын
About drummers sounding differently: I always hated playing drums on recordings because it always just “sounded like me playing drums”. I sound almost the same on a Pearl export as a I did on a maple DW kit. I’m a bassist for what it’s worth 😅
@MatthewLancaster01
11 ай бұрын
I have been recording a single with 2 mates, we have done all guitars at home into reaper with amp sims. today were are going to a studio for vocals and next week we are going back to mix it. we have done it this way as we feel it gives us the best of both worlds, saving money doing guitars at home, and getting the best for vocal's and mixing. plus we can chose to use the amp sim tracks or the raws and re-amp them at the studio.
@kellc1347
11 ай бұрын
Damn! I just listened to Carcass, No Love Lost as Glenn suggested. That production definitely holds up to anything today. Way ahead of their time. And yes wow Guitars are massive.
@jakobbakken6969
11 ай бұрын
Hey Glenn! Found your channel a month ago and have been binging through your catalog. It’s been a big help in what to look for in my first guitar! As well as inspiring me to look into producing. Im getting opportunity to shadow the sound guy at my local church, and I’m super excited! Thanks Glenn wouldn’t have done it without these videos!
@anduriel11225
11 ай бұрын
Glen, you inspired me to go on the search for more individual sounds, just want to leave a thank you here for your content.
@PewciSlayer
11 ай бұрын
It’s always the gear that’s being blamed and not the musician’s lack of compositional skills. In regards to how easy and accessible it is to record your music today, we have ZERO excuses for lack of songwriting skills.
@JC-fj7oo
11 ай бұрын
Buying gear is easy. Practicing and writing great songs is hard. And of course, nobody gets paid to sell you practice. They get paid to sell you gear.
@PewciSlayer
11 ай бұрын
@@JC-fj7oo Well said, brother.
@JoeStuffzAlt
11 ай бұрын
I switched to 32-bit float for intermediate audio processing (for capture, use what the audio interface does... or just be lazy and just save everything as 32-bit because I have over 20TB of drive space). A reason why is that OBS and many DAWs use 32-bit or 64-bit float. If you export from 32-bit to 16-bit or 24-bit and load it into another program, it gets converted back to 32-bit.... "eh, I have the hard drives and might as well not do that conversion" Some interesting findings Case 1: There was one time where I mixed everything how I liked it (still learning), but it was quiet. I decided to export to 32-bit float and then amplify it after loading the exported file. Here's the thing: 24-bit's resolution is so freaking high that if you have any decent waveform, your resolution is more than 16 bits (24-bit has 256x the resolution of 16-bit). It's a side-project and one of the first times I messed with 32-bit, and it sounded pretty good. The waveform looked as smooth as you can expect from digital and not overly jagged Case 2: I mixed something and completely forgot to reduce the gain before the mixing, and I exported it as 32-bit float. Did it clip? Of course it did... shit... However, I loaded the exported audio, de-amplified the audio and the waveform looked really good and it sounded pretty good. In fact, Audacity had the correct value pre-filled to de-amplify the waveform with Case 3: I recorded something on a mic and wanted to distort the audio on purpose. I decided to use amplify like 50x. I saved it as a 32-bit float. I then loaded the 32-bit float recording and then de-amplified (otherwise you'll blast someone's ears off). The waveform looked and sounded really good, almost too good. WHERE'S MY SHIT BRICK?! DID AUDACITY PULL SOME SORT OF TRICK?! I used 8-bit later and got my shit brick Case 4: This is more of a synthetic test. I load OBS and purposely added a 6x gain to overdrive the audio. I recorded to disk, opened up the audio, and demux'd it (you separate the audio from the .mkv file). I load the audio into Audacity and de-amplified the audio, and the waveform looked and sounded nice. In fact, while it sounded like shit on my monitoring headphones, after de-amplification, it sounded surprisingly good. Case 3 is where I found out that 32-bit float can be overdriven. If the overdrive is because of processing on the PC, your wave data might be fine. Here's my theory: 24-bits of 32-bit float is along the lines of 24-bit integer (not exactly). The other 8 bits are the exponent. My guess is because of the processing, the exponent sometimes gets used kind-of like a volume knob. If you start clipping, the extra parts get thrown into the exponent. I can't say if this is reliable, but at the least, you might be able to use it as a safety net. This can save a project you just dumped a lot of time into. If the audio is quiet, the 24 bits might still be there. In 24-bit integer audio, all 24 bits controls the volume. What happens if the audio is really quiet? The resolution starts going down because, guess what? The front of the waveform gets filled with 0s. However, again, 24-bit has 256x the resolution over 16-bit, which is a great reason why people say "record in 24-bit". You will probably get issues like noise floor appearing before you start going below CD quality (assuming you are recording at a sampling rate of 44100 or higher). The, what, 1990s-2000s audiophile argument was often over a studio master where everything gets normalized to use all 16 bits. With 32-bit, you might not need to use those front 0s for a quiet track. The exponent "volume knob"! I wonder how many others have figured this out. I figured it out just by using 32-bit float, but it is somewhat based on a computer science notion that I should avoid screwing around with the data dramatically before the final output and learning about the internal audio format. Interesting thing: many people in the audiophile and studio communities are all about the Decibels. I've been talking about the data
@CraigKeidel
11 ай бұрын
I might just have to mess around with 32 after this. I trend towards very dynamic, low compression music. Lord knows the Roland can handle it. I wonder if Reaper allows 32 bit...
@JoeStuffzAlt
11 ай бұрын
@@CraigKeidel Reaper allows 32-bit indeed. Internally, it uses 64-bit floating-point. I just found out that OBS is problematic because it doesn't seem to put any header on the audio data. I had to import it in Audacity as raw I was able to make a batch file for OBS 32-bit exports that are at 48k/stereo if you have ffmpeg installed. Save this as a .bat file and you can drag-and-drop the raw export and it'll pop on the .WAV file header (it might not like files with spaces in the name) ffmpeg -f f32le -ar 48k -ac 2 -i %1 %1.wav
@DavidPerry-ui2qz
11 ай бұрын
HOLY CRAP GLENN!!!!! You weren’t kidding that Carcass song/album is fucking amazing. What an incredible guitar sound 🤯🤯🫠absolutely melted my face. Please, if you would, could you give us more songs like this to listen to. Like make a Glenn’s top 10 metal songs that will warp your mind and melt your face. I’d love to see your recommendations!! 🤘🎸🤘
@JustinWoo
11 ай бұрын
I didn't start my guitar journey wanting to make metal, but this channel is changing my mind. Thanks for all your advice. Sidenote, the guy who didn't like your personality should NEVER go to New Jersey. You'd fit in GREAT here, man!
@Desirsar
11 ай бұрын
Can't remember if I ever posted the thought I had about tubes after the Jim Lill tackle box amp-from-pedals video. If the only difference between tubes is the power handling, and the only difference between most vintage amps is the order of the gain stages, could the difference people are perceiving between tubes be the different sections driving each other more or less? Of course, tubes of the same model have tolerances, meaning you'd have to buy hundreds and test them individually to know which ones do what you want, and have fun with that if you're a billionaire, but no one else will be able to afford to care.
@pedrogarciarobleto
11 ай бұрын
Speakers DO CHANGE YOUR TONE!!! THANKS GLENN!!! That damn New V30 really brought my Crush Pro back to life!
@riffsthatkill2180
11 ай бұрын
I used an amazing interface once, made me sound as good as Yngwie. Then I realized, my amp was turned down and I also had an Alcatrazz video playing on the other monitor.
@rabidgoon
11 ай бұрын
if you don't spend at least $2000 on your interface it is time to quit music
@bayshorepark1231239
11 ай бұрын
nonsense
@rabidgoon
11 ай бұрын
@@bayshorepark1231239 it makes total sense.
@swanofnutella4734
11 ай бұрын
Social media ethics video? YES. I've enjoyed all your videos on tertiary topics. the video on doing video, working w cameras etc. All those. Very cool. Excellent community resource, thanks so much!
@matthewfritz
11 ай бұрын
I came across a comment not too long ago where a guy was complaining about his Focusrite interface (I think it was a 2i2) and it turned out he wasn't aware of the purpose of the Gain dial. "My interface light is always going red when I turn the gain to the one-o-clock position. I have to turn it down all the way to around the nine-o-clock or eight-o-clock! My amp has no problem with that amount of gain!" Yeah... that's because the gain on the initial signal and the gain on an amp are DIFFERENT. "No, this interface sucks! I got a defective unit! A bunch of other people are reporting the same thing and that means it's a manufacturing problem!" Honestly, what's MORE likely is that both you and a bunch of other people don't actually know how to use their equipment properly. "Focusrite sucks!" No, you just can't read and follow instructions. "Why does the gain dial crank all the way if we can't use all of it?" I don't know... maybe for OTHER instruments, mics, and LINE-LEVEL signals since it's a COMBO JACK and they all have different potential levels based on the signal??? Every time I hear someone just say something sucks outright it's usually just because they don't know how to use it and they're frustrated by their own ignorance. It's easier just to say the thing is terrible instead of trying to admit there might be something in the chair preventing the proper operation.
@okaight7248
11 ай бұрын
Glen please make a video where you have a DI box that captures a recorded take straight from guitar to amp then reamped. I want to see some data on how different it is and how much you are/aren't potentially losing that way.
@MrBoricua10
11 ай бұрын
12:02 GLEEEENNNNNNN! My former bass instructor was also adamant that his brand new tuners had an effect on his tone. I even mentioned that it 99.9999% wouldn't and it would be his choice in speakers, but seemed to posture as a "very learned man. I know what I'm talking about. Those speaker tests tell me nothing. Plus, I have no idea how to read the graphs". It annoyed ever-loving piss out of me. Even the staff of the store where my instructions took place didn't like my "space cadet notions". Ah, well. Can't understamnd it for them. Even with mountains of data. Maybe you can knock sense into these guys. Anyways, thanks for the great content based in science and not kool-aid. Always appreciate a fellow science-centered person. Cheers and fuck you!
@BellsCuriosityShop
11 ай бұрын
You need to explore materials used to make interfaces. It could be as important as the wood the guitar made from. Maybe importanter.
@TheAmazingSnarf
11 ай бұрын
i love this. thank you. i suspect the knobs that came with my presonus ...well, aren't Tone Knobs.
@Durkhead
11 ай бұрын
Metal is better than plastic
@TenaciousKevoMusic
11 ай бұрын
0:15 It's actually Saturday morning. 😂😂😂
@natrixxvision6997
11 ай бұрын
Let me tell you about the best wedding band I've ever seen. There was a smaller group of them that played during the ceremony and then they switched over to the larger band for the reception. The guitar player used different guitars for each setting. They knew a sh!tload of tunes and just about everyone who wasn't a lead singer could sing backup harmonies. I think I only heard one guitar solo the entire night and I guarantee the rhythm parts he was playing were not very easy. It was primarily African-American jazz and R&B musicians but they learned Edelweiss for the father/daughter dance and they did it perfectly. They used sheet music as needed, but weren't staring at it the entire time. Yes, wedding bands do make good money. But it takes a special kind of musician to be in one. Just like with cruise ship gigs. It also takes a special kind of person who can handle drunk wedding guests, Bridezillas, wedding planners, and people who think they can sing.
@alrecks619
11 ай бұрын
metal guitars of the 70s to 80s tend to cut very deep on the low end because the Multiband processing technology is strictly limited to major broadcasting companies because how expensive they are so there is that.
@weasle76
11 ай бұрын
Yes to the wedding band thing! If you take ANY service at all, and stick the word "wedding" in front of it, you can easily add a couple of 0's the the price! I'm starting a band with a friend that's an established event singer in the area, and we're gonna be focused mainly on weddings. Already got a booking, and they haven't heard us all play yet! I love rock and metal, but I also need money, so...
@wellplayedmassacre
11 ай бұрын
I'm mainly a Musician. EMT by Profession 🚑 but as a side gig Wedding DJ.... can confirm 💸💸
@DavidSmith-xz4zz
6 ай бұрын
Good info on the wedding thing. I'm a minister that is learning guitar at 52. Lol! This could be right up my alley! I could perform the wedding rights, then play music at the reception. Win!
@seanabbottband
11 ай бұрын
Peace of mind as I recall, was recorded at compass point studios in the Bahamas. I have recorded there myself. It is one of the nicest rooms with an amazing history, including AC/DC back in Black.
@brandonthompson8413
11 ай бұрын
On the tube topic. The sound of my wallet hitting the floor is much more resonant when it's empty after I change tubes.
@robertleahu
11 ай бұрын
gleEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!! Every year u should do a "yearly tone reminder" where u change amp tubes, guitar pick-ups and play different guitars(especially made of different woods) to prove us just how big the difference is! And maybe different interfaces too?????
@johnmcquay82
9 ай бұрын
100% true on Weddings. I know a few wedding bands, and they're raking it in! Sadly, many don't hire a sound engineer, so that's me out... I love the variety of what I do doing small live shows and festivals; could have a DJ one minute, a country band the next then heavy rock soon after. I love the variety.
@christofdonat2702
11 ай бұрын
On the Question about Preamps: Golden Age Project produces some great preapms, that start at ~$260 (Pre73 Jr MKII). I use my two Pre73 MKIII (~$300 per piece at Sweetwater) to record not only microphones and the DI-bass, but also for my Synthesizers and my E-Drumkit. So they do work well with line level. They're a Neev-Style circuit, and have that typical coloring as well. Warm Audio has the WA12 MKII, which is $499 at Sweetwater now. I haven't used them, but WA has a great reputation, so probably they're nice as well. I also own a Behringer MIC2200 V2, a dual channel tube preamp. Sweetwater has it for ~$170. That's a bargain choice, if you're looking for tube saturation. It also includes reasonably decent EQs for both channels, and it can handle line level as well.
@chiefchudhunter8797
11 ай бұрын
I can't tell you how many times i have told bandmates in metal bands that if they wanted to get rich and make music a job, metal is not the choice. So its good to hear you say the same. It's tragic to me how many decent bands ive seen torn apart over arguing about what the best way is to get "exposure" or how to get signed. Especially if its a band of fat old bald guys that are well past their prime in some cases (myself included lol). The odds of getting signed and becoming rich and famous are already against you. I've always said that i play metal for fun, cause thats more than likely all i will ever get from it. If fame and fortune came from it, great. In the meantime, if i focus on just having fun expressing myself artistically with a couple friends, then i will always at least get something of value from the experience. Too many people focus on getting out there and getting noticed. To the point where ive seen bands sacrifice artisitic integrity and churn out hastily written and poorly thought out songs just so they can hurry the writing process along, so they can get out there and play shows, to gain "exposure". Or bands that make sure their songs are radio friendly rock. So they get exposure. Mind you, none of them got anywhere. They all still work a 9-5 job 15 years later. Just play metal cause you enjoy it. Make that your focus, and you will always get something from it.
@Zundfolge
11 ай бұрын
The interface isn't the problem, its the lack of use of "tone cables".
@Dark_Lord_Mr_B
11 ай бұрын
100%, it will always be quality. I have an Artist 4 string jazz bass that cost the same as a trashy beginner model but came with everything, including an amp, to start doing the thing. The only criticism I have is that it's pretty heavy, but for my money, it was a good purchase and sounds pretty good stock standard.
@cobberwebb
11 ай бұрын
Ah man, Carcuss Heartwork album has such a huge guitar sound, always wandered if you had heard it, and now I know :) Fear Factory Demanufacture was another one.
@Rolli6669
11 ай бұрын
Entombed album Wolverine Blues is another one too. It's just the same but in that Swedish Chainsaw guitar tone.
@JayBlzs
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for all you do. Im just now getting back into playing/ recording ur a down to early real MF, and ur content is helping me get with the new era of equipment and recoding.
@greevar
11 ай бұрын
The thing about how long tubes last is that transistors will outlast tubes. They're also way cheaper to replace! Don't fear the soldering iron!
@rattlejuggalo13
11 ай бұрын
Love the shirt! I still have mine that I bought on the '95 (1995 for all the Millennials) when they opened for Biohazard and SLAYER!!!!!
@ChadwickRider
11 ай бұрын
9:45 brilliant, logical and proven formula. I tell this to people all the time... get a good job so you can fund your desire to make music. If you really love music nothing is going to stop you from creating it, that includes a j-o-b. Having the money to fund your passions is a good thing... your job provides that opportunity, it doesn't get in the way. Try playing music with no job, chances are you won't because you're too busy trying to survive.
@ChadwickRider
11 ай бұрын
Also, DistroKid does kick ass ... and this also plays into my above statement. You can fund the distribution of your music, that you made in your studio, with good tools.
@Masterlessmusic
11 ай бұрын
The only demonstrable difference I know of with tube brands is whether or not they take the extra time to test them individually or in batches prior to sale and also sell them in matched pairs to try to lower the chances of any wide variances in manufacturing if you're installing multiple tubes simultaneously. (Presumably to lower the chances of biasing issues? ) . That's about it.
@manupbritain5232
11 ай бұрын
Woo hoo one of my comments made it to the video!!! Thanks dude my sentiment exactly!
@PmatStudio
11 ай бұрын
With my short term experience with music production, I have found that getting your recordings right at the source (pre-production), is one of the most critical parts of any recording session. Get yourself a cheap but powerful interface (Behringer404) and cheapish mics (Lewitt 240 or 440) and cheaper monitors (not Mackies), then learn your parts of the song and you too will have a more enjoying time producing music. Thanks Glenn for all the tips over the years!!
@eamonahern7495
11 ай бұрын
Is it me or was this put up very late this week? Normally Sunday With Ola is how I start my Sunday, but this was the first video I came across this morning.
@riccardocossu9141
11 ай бұрын
The only thing holding me back is the name on the headstock. It says Harley Benton, bet if it said Gibson I'd be Jimmy page.
@rollerdragon
11 ай бұрын
this.. i never miss...glenn.. i am a snob.. neck through or nothing.. i don't play 'hi-gain' material, so tonal color from coil tap, phase and the character of the instrument, using overdrive only gain structures are affected by these controls. the 'hi-gain, saturated' sounds are not affected as much, if at all.. funny how the gain style, level and speaker is what shapes metal tone.. quite different worlds of thought...
@JEKAFISHER
11 ай бұрын
I had a lot of bad experiences with Indonesian made guitars until I got a Strandberg, that forever changed my view on the origin country of the product. Strandbergs are so damn good that if it didn't say "Made in Indonesia" on the back of the neck, I would have guessed it was from the US or Japan. So yeah, it does not matter at all where the product was made, as long as the people making it weren't halfassing it.
@antonkovalenko364
11 ай бұрын
Agreed. Love may come and love may go, but the internet never forgets.
@Toxicity1987
11 ай бұрын
1:12 I think a point is that China uped the quality of their products massively. I know where I bought my Harley Benton Guitar in 2006 and it was utter shit. Today everybody recommends Harley Benton guitars because they make good products for their price. I mean now we even have Chinese companies that are known and popular for their high quality products, for example Anker. Not to mention Apple (overpriced as hell but still top quality products) produces in China.
@fuzzylogickben
11 ай бұрын
The speaker cab size thing makes a lot of sense. If you have a small cab it will resonate at a different place than a bigger cab in a way that can't be eq'd out. Having speakers in the cab but disconnected or taking them out and blocking off holes will all alter the sound you get in different ways. If only there were some KZitem guy with some time in his hands and loads of experience with recording great guitar tones who could try this out.
@alexcrouse
11 ай бұрын
A thing Hi-Fi guys talk about that guitar guys don't talk about is Damping Factor - the ability of your amplifier to control the position of the speaker cone. All things equal, a 100 watt amp till control the cone better than a 20 watt amp. So, Metal Insights might be experiencing more wubby thumpy bass due to the DSL20 just not being able to control a 12" speaker like a 100 watt amp could. This is one of the reasons Solid State amps have such tight low end, they have a WAY better damping factor than any tube amp.
@rosshamilton7848
11 ай бұрын
Slaughter of the soul at the gates I love their tone too. Great production for the time. It's documented online what they used. Solid state amp I remember correctly it's Been years since I read that blog. Thank you.
@musicafteroldage
11 ай бұрын
Podcastage made a video a while ago. He switched interfaces without letting it be known. Went from the cheap $30 Behringer U-Phoria UM2 to a $2000 one. The differences were as noticeable as Mr. Fricker's tests with tone wood were...
@gilbertspader7974
11 ай бұрын
Glennnnnn !!!!!! Do Metal Mix Review PLEASE!!!!!! but call it Music Mix Review so more people will show up.
@matt_nyc_audioengineer
11 ай бұрын
GLENNNNN! Bring back the professional turd polisher shirt PLEASE!!!! You said you wanted to hear what we want or need. This is what I want and need 🙏🏻
@MurdochGuitar
11 ай бұрын
Wedding DJ'ing is how I paid for trade school in the late 90s and early 2000s School M-F, weddings Fri night and Saturday night. Didn't have to get a McJob during school. I did the wedding DJ thing again when I needed to get some cash for a house down payment. It sucked my soul. But cash is king. Have not tryed the wedding band thing.
@joshspunkrockgarden9914
11 ай бұрын
Hey Glen, speaking of interfaces if people are looking for a good deal on an interface for bedroom metal production, the IK Multimedia AXE I/O One looks like a pretty fantastic deal. I haven't had time to mess with mine much, but when I registered it I got a ton of software. Amplitube 5 SE, Tonex SE, Modo Bass, Modo Drums, and a bunch of other plugins and stuff I can't remember. For $129 with a dedicated reamp out, you can model your own amps, download other models, re-record your bass player's parts using the DI input and then reamp through his rig when he's not there, etc, without breaking the bank.
@FartCoffinStudios
11 ай бұрын
Props for the Burn My Eyes shirt! One of the best sounding metal albums ever in my opinion. The drums sound insane! WTF. Ha ha
@HabAnagarek
11 ай бұрын
Kontos was/is a beast
@matthewackermanaski9687
11 ай бұрын
That album is great, but it's the only MH album that I like, probably because of Chris Kontos' very primal drumming style, Robb did a big mistake of firing him. The next albums for me weren't as great sounding as BME.
@FartCoffinStudios
11 ай бұрын
There is definitely a magic to that album that can't be replicated. I went and listended to it again out of nostalgia after this video, and god damn it kills. I think Dave Mclain did a great job. He also wrote riffs for the band. The mighty Kontos has some big shoes to fill though. @@matthewackermanaski9687
@danepaulstewart8464
11 ай бұрын
Dude, you’re brain damaged, demented, and disturbed, and I should add I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! The world of recording studio KZitemrs has been making me feel a bit like I’m STUCK ON THE WRONG PLANET. Thanks for keeping the spirit alive! 🤘😎🤘
@thesandman775
11 ай бұрын
Anecdotally, paying more for Mesa tubes (for instance) can make sense since they seemingly last longer. That said, you can probably 4 or 5 sets of the JJ tubes for the same price and the Mesa tubes likely don't last 5x longer
@pvpsound
11 ай бұрын
Loved your video you made a while back on the Laney Loudpedal! It’s amazing. I bought it right after you made the video and have no regrets. It’s the perfect portable heavy hitter that you can just pair with a smal multi effects pedal to have a full rigg. And with the cab of your choice. 10/10. You should make another video on it
@hexywesky
11 ай бұрын
I'll listen to anything you have to talk about honestly. Love these videos.
@RS42dxfx1
11 ай бұрын
I found out about re-amping through your channel. I've found that method is pretty useful for my use case. In your opinion, is re-amping a viable solution to acoustics/cabinet issues at least for troubleshooting?
@superuser13
3 ай бұрын
Social media ethics is good subject. I'm just a hack, but been recording audio and video for a while now. My personal policy is never post anything derogatory about anyone, even when some deserve it.
@BlackNoteStudios
11 ай бұрын
Quality. Always - Re: the sound is in the... perhaps a pie chart, graph, paint by numbers :) for our visual learners. - Honestly, if it were to be broken down into percentages with speakers being most of the pie, how would the rest pan out? What other "tone" creators would make your list Glenn? pick-ups, strings, etc. % - BTW A celtic band would be amazing. - Heartwork, The Jester Race, Human... all epic albums. Curios on your thoughts of Slaughter of the Soul? 'Cold' cranked up is a force to be reckoned with. It may even be worth a video comparing why all those epic 90's albums sounded the way they did. Thanks Glenn. \M/
@Allena13
11 ай бұрын
In terms of resonances and low end, you can sort of analogize it to a guitar string a bit. The same way a pick (or more accurately an ebow for this analogy) will create a wave that propagates the full length of the guitar string, a speaker driver will create a wave that propagates the length, width, and height of the room your in. Most but not all frequencies will be stronger in the orientation of the speaker cone, but in general the room can be treated as the instrument being played by the speaker. Setting is deceptively important in acoustics.
@jouebien
11 ай бұрын
a high pass at 80hz is middle ground for it sort of works for most sources in live sound. In the old days on analogue gear most consoles had a fixed high pass at either 80hz or 100hz unless you had a verry expensive large format mixer which had an adjustable high pass. Even with a high pass you still have to deal width clutter below 1K because a high pass is mostly used for getting rid of low end rumble (stuff your brain can't really decern what it is). but yes Glen is right it's better to deal with the room and positioning first which will give you cleaner sources to beginning with.
@JoshTolbertUrbana
11 ай бұрын
You mentioned 500-series gear...I've been wanting to pick up a 500-series chassis---probably just a lunchbox or similar to start with---but I don't know what's garbage and what isn't. I've been waiting for capi-gear to have their build-it-yourself kits back in stock, but at this point I'm not sure that's ever going to happen...So who do you like for your 500-series chassis? Thanks!
@alejandromartinezmontes6700
11 ай бұрын
The quality of a product is generally more important but I do like to buy local products and will prefer them if everything else is equal (I might even pay a bit more for local products). For two reasons, 1. it has less environmental impact than shipping something from China and 2. more importantly, it helps grow the local market and over time, that'll lead to better conditions in general for musicians and all the other professions involved in music-making.
@davidbaron8892
11 ай бұрын
I had to replace some cheap Ruby preamp tubes that came with an inexpensive Laney amp. They wore out and started making noise with less than 10 hours on the amp. My tech replaced them with JJs and showed me that the Ruby was a visibly smaller tube (and presumably cheaper -- so Laney could save and extra few pennies per unit). Differences between tube brands and cheap vs expensive may be more about quality than tone.
@Iesous27
11 ай бұрын
I have Ltd ec256 that was made in China. I've had the guitar for about 5 years now and i couldnt be happier. Maybe the pickups are a bit in the meh side, but what do you expect from literally a budget ltd eclipse guitar? It was $699 CAD!
@jackbootshamangaming4541
11 ай бұрын
More than that for 699. I got a sawtooth 7 string with a real German Floyd Rose and Fishman Moderns for 699...
@Insert_Bland_Name_Here
11 ай бұрын
Have you ever had to record or mix metal with a bass vocalist (a vocalist with a low-pitched voice, not a bassist doubling as vocalist), and if you have, do you have any advice or a video on how to do it without the result being a muddy mix?
@Arkansya
10 ай бұрын
compose and arrange the song accordingly
@user-cv5zk4qx7e
11 ай бұрын
Just record in a saturation dive canister 2 miles under the ocean. Toki did it, had a tracendental experience, killed the tone and he isnt even a bumblebee
@badassbassist
11 ай бұрын
For the first time I had recorded in a proper studio yesterday and the difference is massive.
@richardsemuta1089
9 ай бұрын
Quality of the product is more important. I'm telling you, I got a cheap Jackson Monarkh used from Guitar Center's website, $150, Chinese made. Sounds great. Maybe slap a higher output pickup in it. But for the most part, a great guitar.
@vedasticks
11 ай бұрын
Glen's right, the drummer makes up a big part of the sound. I do lots of gigs where the kit is shared, 3 or 3 bands in a night. same mics, same channels, same settings. every now and then a drummer starts playing and it's wow now it sounds good. especially noticeable on kick drum and Snare drum. even with the same kick pedal.
@Spladoinkal
9 ай бұрын
Besides, rim shots are designed to drive the band. Rim shots on the back beat are best practice because the idea is to NOT have your snare buried in the mix. A lot of the diversity comes in ghost notes etc.
@HabAnagarek
11 ай бұрын
The guitar tracks on Heartwork were also doubled in each stereo channel.
@corontsurara3862
11 ай бұрын
Friday morning?! Why am I at work?! I'm not suppose to work till Saturday
@RudeRecording
11 ай бұрын
Best gigs I ever did that paid the most money $,$$$ was corporate gigs where no matter how good, original, your band is, you are the equivalent of musical wall paper.
@Tylercm262
8 ай бұрын
I got a used 2nd gen Scarlet 2i2 from a friend. I mainly use it to fake the real tone cable for Rocksmith. It also tracks my guitars and bass just fine. I however suck at tracking but I don't blame my interface. It gives a clean enough signal and doesn't clip. I'm not recording bands professionally I don't need anything more than that.
@noahortega9908
11 ай бұрын
The new Mbox Studio is great. It sounds great and has all the functionality a home producer needs and more. It's the best purchase I've made for my studio aside from QUALITY STUDIO MONITORS!!!!
@JAKJak-en8jp
11 ай бұрын
Working in retail, one of the most common questions I get for any product is "Do you know where this is made?" Whether it's a TV, phone, vibrator, whatever. Just recently, I had a customer tell me, "I need a new antenna. Hopefully one that was made in the U.S. Everything from China sucks. American made stuff just can't be beat." And I'm like, "Sorry, this is a Walmart. Everything we sell is either from China or Mexico."
@catincog
28 күн бұрын
Wedding band also translates to corporate cover band. Mixed many of those at doctor and lawyer meetings. Those guy make bank.
@dannyboystudios6604
11 ай бұрын
I fell into the whole tubes make a tone difference hole before. Swapped out the china tubes in my Hughes and Kettner 18watt , no change in tone. However I have heard noise floor issues (EHX 12ax7 Gold pins noisy AF) and that was where the tubestore chart helped, dropped in Tungsol’s and had less noise. The tone never changed, just the hiss was gone. Their tube guide also helps with durability, hence the Tungsols and JJ El84’s as I used to take my amp to gigs. Now it sits on a rack in the studio and IR pedals get used for gigs.
@gilbertspader7974
11 ай бұрын
A child's willingness to do ANYTHING is inversely proportional to its ability.
@shanewalton8888
11 ай бұрын
Screw YT already, Glenn, put VC back in the title. CHoose your audience over the algorithm.
@southernpanda33
11 ай бұрын
Quality products are the most important. I don’t give two shits where it comes from. What matters is how well it’s made. I don’t own a single USA guitar. And of mine are beautifully built. I have a Kramer Pacer Classic, Donner DTC-100, Michael Kelly Patriot Bold Custom and an Epiphone MKH Les Paul custom.
@Bogmore1
11 ай бұрын
My Interface records everything I do, not perfectly but for amateur playing and my own amusement it's fine, it's a NI Komplete Audio 6 V.1. and I use the free modelling amp you gave away some time ago, so I can fine tune the sound as it records DI. I've been looking into some of the others as free demos too.
@robspectre1973
11 ай бұрын
My band just started recording and your videos and explanations seem to come up a lot. The lead singer is doing all the mixing and we often were saying "Glen said, Glen does, Glen showed" etc.... Thank you for what you do and keep doing. And, fuck you Glen.
@_oe_o_e_
11 ай бұрын
My scarlette was crapping out on me. Then I learned that their drivers tend to be interfered with from the most random of hdd drivers, and i had a WD drive I use for work around the same time it started install some drivers for it’s proprietary backup stuff. I disabled it and now i dont have any problems. PC audio is weird
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