"No one has heard you play, Nobody knows what your sound is. YOU don't even know what your sound is" Get this on a tee shirt and I am buying :) great epi \m/
Hey Glenn, I started watching you around a year ago when my graphics card kicked the bucket and I was stuck not playing video games for 2 weeks. In those 2 weeks I decided to become a recording/mixing engineer and looking back at 2018, it was probably the most productive year of my life. I've started a small studio at home and I'm currently interning at a studio for some hands on experience. I owe you a big thank you for breaking me out of a pretty destructive cycle I've lived for the past couple of years and motivating me into starting what will eventually be my own business. Cheers from Slovenia! Alex :)
@@brycedahlke9078 Bit of a backstory: I signed up for a 4 month course trough a music school but the guy who was supposed to have the course fell ill. They said they were going to reschedule the course but my dad being a longtime musician in my country knew plenty of studio producers and asked one of them if he could use some help around the studio and if he could tutor me. He said sure and I took what I learned from Glenn, Warren Huart, Rick Beato, Recording revolution etc. to the studio, helped around and learned even more there. Right now I'm mostly doing local young bands and some rap artists, mostly for fun and exposure, but I'm applying myself so I could turn it into something serious in the next few years :)
@@pilotamurorei Well there are certain Windows machines that deserve to be burned at the stake as well; case in point: ruclips.net/video/_Z-SBzeTKS4/видео.html
ALL computers are Good and Bad in equal measure..... but the Operating Systems and Corporate Board members are worthy of a Life-Ending Toilet Flush......
Bought a beaten valvestate from my bands bassist for cheap. Fixed grounding (no more electric shocks yey!), fixed the broken power socket (no more fire hazard yey again!), changed the valve and upgraded the power condensers to something almost too big for the PCB. In addition to that, I had to scrub every connection and potentiometer very hard to get rid of the bassist goo, but now I have a great amp for myself!
I mean, you never know what you're gonna learn, and he just drops so much amazing knowledge that I even watch stuff I'm "sure" I don't need to know, cause there usually is SOMETHING in there that I do!
It was a Boss OS-2 which was a pedal they made that combined distortion and overdrive. You could blend them. I ran it wrong all the time and eventually it broke.
Hey Glen! I just finished building my home studio using your tips. Thank you for your advice on gear and sound treatment and killer mixing techniques! I tried the 2 mic/behringer mixer trick and could not have had better results! Keep up the great content!
You are certainly a charismatic guy. I don't produce music, I don't play instruments (and hence I don't buy related gear), but there's just something entertaining about listening to your rants and comebacks that keeps me watching video after video. Great to see someone doing what they enjoy for a living and having fun. You just helped get me through a long final exam project by destroying commenters and whatnot so thanks for that ;) Also, a 'feck ya, glenn' from Norway, I understand is in order!
Im not a musician, hell.. i barely even listen to music anymore (sacrilege i know) though I grew up in the 80s listening to all the metal/rock bands but none the less, the structure of this channel, your personality and quality/effort you put into it still draws me to watch every new episode. Keep up the great work. You're doing something right! :)
I play blues. And man. Changing your strings, making sure everything is fresh breathes new life into recording. I know this Is a metal channel, but the message is spot on! Always remember 'good in = good out'. If you want to sound good you need to sound good. When I was recording bands, and I had guys ask me to make them sound like Jimi paige, I'd just respond with, "well I hope you sound like jimi paige then". Awesome channel Glenn. Have been following your advice for years.
Staying "brutally" honest and not accepting money for "favored" reviews is what made me support you on patreon. At least the bits of money you earn with this channel are "honest" and actually "earned" instead of "bribed". Your integrity is key! Stay awesome Glenn!!!!
I couldn't imagine going into a studio and insisting on using a Spyder. Most reputable studios have several high quality Amps to use while you are there...there is NO excuse for the "but its muh tone" mindset. Listen to your engineer, they tend to know what will work best. Also...Glenn isnt cool?!?! I wear the same anime shirts and drive a minivan as well and I'm cool...well.... I'm not totally lame...*sigh* well my wife thinks I'm alright😕
@@gilbertspader7974 Or simply do the recording, don't tell them what was used to record it and pre-bias them by half telling your opinion before showing them the stuff. Let people have their own opinion, rather than trying to condition them into your opinion instead. AS psychoacoustics tells us, we tend to hear what we want to hear. If you don't like the Spider, was convinced/conditioned that it doesn't sound good and is told that what you're listening to was recorded on one, you will say that it sounds like shit, even if it doesn't or the recording is not from a Spider at all. This is why serious scientific testing is done double blind. If you know what the stuff is, your brain is gonna use that information, regardless of who you are and what you are.
I know you mentioned in your video that your focus is Metal music, but I believe that a lot of what you said can have general applications as well. Especially microphone placement. That shit really struck a chord with me and that's why I subbed to your channel. Thank you Glenn for countless videos preventing me not be a fucking meathead in the studio.
Glenn thanks for the tip on side chaining the snare and using compression to prevent excess snare bleed through on the overheads! Been recording at the home studio for the last several months, got 25 songs tracked and ready for final mixing and that was a big help. We're learning as we go along. Been a long process.
Your farts are your sound(s) too! Doesn't (necessarily) mean they sound awesome though. Well... likely still better than a line 6 spider but.... yeah.... _Haista vittu, Glenn!_
I used 3 mics and spent 2 days eating chili, eggs, broccoli cheese soup, and peanuts to get the perfect fart on record. Bottom line? Good music takes time.
Hey Glenn! A friend from Brazil here! Thanks for one more class, i am always learning with your videos, my recording is a lot better! About being cool, i think that depends on your stands ! To me have the knowledge and be real is very cool! Thanks again for sharing!!
@@lordmorgoth7 I would call him Glenn sensei. But I still don't have enough money for him for to record me. I only have 200 now also I just want to make music that makes people feel pure raw emotion. I honestly am an amateur at mixing XD. I'd rather pay good money to have a professional do there magic.
i wish i played good Metal, so i'd have an excuse to go to Canada and have Glenn help me by Recording and Mixing my songs..... and hanging out with a cool Engineer, like Glenn would be awesome !!!!!!!
Really cool to see the channel grow as it has. Been watching for a long time now and it's great to see the quality hasn't decreased, you're still knowledgeable and angry as fuck.
6:26 Wait... I missed the part when we stopped using clean guitars in metal. Guess I need to get in touch with some XXI century music and leave all those 'Cemetery Gates' or 'Master of Puppets' bullshit behind
A lot of the more mainstream/core metal bands have nonstop crunchy chugging these days, but if you dig deeper in to extreme metal, you'll still find a lot of cleans. Even in black/death metal.
Cool? Damnit, did nobody see School of Rock and the speech Dewey Fin gives the keyboard player kid? You make music, therefore, you're the bees knees! THE BEES. KNEES!
While I totally agree that any musician should use the best gear available, you CAN get some unique sounds from substandard equipment. I remember Roger Fisher of Heart mentioning that for the recording of Magic Man, the speaker cone of the amp he was using was crapping out and that had a real interesting effect on the final recording which became a huge hit. But again it does go back to the player as Fisher was (and still is) an incredible musician. Oh and on the new strings vs. old strings on electric guitar debate, it would be interesting to see what the results would be on a piezo equipped guitar. I see more and more of these guitars coming out with a combination of piezo and magnetic pickups. By the way, Glenn, you've done the series of videos of "can you play metal on x" type of guitar, maybe you can do one on "can you play metal on a piezo guitar". In know Ernie Ball, ESP, Gibson and Fender all make guitars with piezos.
Glenn, thank you so much for the recommendation! I took your advice and bought a Lewitt, and I can't believe what a difference it has made. For years, I naively thought that an SM58 would do just fine in the studio, but this mic has opened me up to a whole new level of vocal recording. I don't even bother with eq anymore because the Lewitt sounds perfect the way it is. It has already saved me a ton of time and given me a much cleaner vocal sound on my recordings. Thanks again man!
Love this channel, Glenn. I've been a musician since the mid-80s, but have almost no home recording experience. I am putting together a studio for voiceover, personal music composition, and occasional music and voice collaboration. I already have professional microphones: Electro-Voice RE27N/D, Rode NT2-A and I have access to borrow a Shure SM7B. I built my computer last spring. It has an Intel core i7 7700 K processor running at 4Ghz, 32GB RAM, 500GB NVME SSD primary drive, 4TB secondary drive, and uses the ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard, which has native Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 support, and it is running Windows 10 Pro. I have been considering the Focusrite Clarett 4Pre Thunderbolt, Audient iD44, RME Babyface Pro, or something similar, even a Focusrite Scarlett series or PreSonus USB 3 or Thunderbolt unit, but when I spoke with Sweetwater, and told them what I want to do and what equipment that I already have, they directed me to get the Universal Audio Apollo Twin Mk2 Solo. Telling me that it will record the highest quality audio from the mics that I have and because they had a demo unit available for $580 + $49 for Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter. I made the purchase based on their recommendations and their statements about quality preamps and overall audio quality, and I received it just yesterday. My concern is did I buy the right thing? Did I buy more or less than what I need? Did they oversell/undersell me? I am unfamiliar with Universal Audio and don't know if Sweetwater's claims about high-end audio recording results from my microphone selections are accurate or hype? I only just received it and haven't tried it yet. Did I buy the right thing or should I return it? I need advice and opinions.
The boiling strings trick is awesome. It got me to thinking about drum heads. So I boiled them. Something about the hot water interacting with thr milar caused it to shrink down just enough that when I slapped those babies back on they fit tight and sounded new!!! Oh man I'm gonna save so much money on drum heads now. Thanks for the brilliant idea. I suggest everyone try it!!!!
Had a catastrophic deletion during a backup recently where I lost my Lancaster Audio IRs - I had purchased them when it was still Rosen Digital and they didn't have any problem getting me hooked back up with the IRs I purchased. Go support Lancaster Audio - they're great dudes and I'll continue to go to them for their products.
I bought Glenn's IR pack a few months ago when it went on sale. I had used other IRs, but the variety and bang for the buck you get with any Lancaster's packs can't be beat. Now, when/if you lose everything, just log into their site and your purchase history is right there and you can re-DL anything anytime.
I'd go with 96 kHz. There's little difference between 96 and 192 but the difference between 48 and 96 is substantial. 96 is not as resource heavy as 192 and sounds great.
I'll call bollocks on this. Do you have a mic that picks up substantial levels above 22.05k? What's the capacitance of your cables? Can your preamp handle frequencies that high? Before you hit your interface, stuff outside of the audible range will already be pretty much gone, because none of the studio equipment is made to handle it - it's designed to work within the audible range. There is no difference between a 44.1k signal and a 96k or 192k signal for frequencies below 22.05k. And unless you pitch shift signals none of the potential content above that frequency is going to matter and even if you do, you basically have to invest in a signal chain that can support it, which means buying custom equipment, because even high end gear is not made to treat the inaudible spectrum well.
I think one thing that is mentioned is movies use higher rates. Also higher rates do take up more memory space in overall production once you do mix down. Remember the first was pro tool/ avid which was made specifically for movies in not music. Every other DAW pretty much uses the same working operations as Avid, the only one that is different is logic. But all have the same options since most can be for Movie production. Also master engineers will make lower a rate If it’s at 96 or 192. I just use 44.1, I don’t see why one would need to record at such high rates by time you get it to your computer there is some light compression from the computer already.
Every single week, I just can’t wait for Friday to hit because I know I’ll be receiving that VC notification. Ever since you started this series, I have learned many things as an aspiring musician, and it’s not limited to recording audio or just music. You have helped me with advice on everyday life, motivation, and just inspired me to never give up on my musical dreams. Thank you for everything Glenn, seriously... everything. Keep it up!
Seeing a band is not worth getting thrown out of your house is. If Felix does do it he should set up a GoFundMe and show just everyone what kind of "(not) real Christians" his parents are.
Re. Comping, in my band, we have what we call the "Absinthe take" for vocalists. You get 3 normal run throughs, then (under the influence or not) you give one take where you throw all convention out the window and attack the performance buck-wild! It really ensures I have that extra element of insanity when comping vocals in the mix.
Felix. I'd go with the band. And Felix. This is for your parents. Let your son see his favorite band. I'd just like it if people stopped calling metal Satanic. While there are bands that are Satanic, not all of them are and some of the biggest metal musicians are Christians. Like Dave Mustaine. He even refuses to play in bands that are Satanic. This reminds me. I once heard about a guy who got fired by his Christian boss because he wore a Cannibal Corpse shirt to work and his boss told him he couldn't have a "metalhead Satanist" working for him. Cannibal Corpse shirts have things like blood and guts on them, but he was fired because he was a metalhead. Really fucking stupid.
The Metal Fan I love Dave but he could be a ass, even some of the most satanic black metal bands members are not even satanist. The only open satanist in metal I know is King Diamond, but his music is not by far the most satanic either.
Dude, why get upset? The guy just asked if you could include clean test on a tone test for guitar strings. You’ve done clean tests for tone before, why so hostile? Btw i learn from you although I don’t record metal, and i am sure i am not alone.
My guess is that so many people commented about it, myself included. There are metal bands with tracks with clean guitars, but it's mostly guitars with distortion. I wonder if the blues mention set him off though
Dudes, never said I disagreed with the results of test... i do disagree with getting angry that someone gave feedback. To a non-metal head, a “metal” tone is a muddy tone, we can’t hear much difference between the new strings and the old strings with a “metal” tone dialed, and for all intents and purposes of a metal-head the difference was enough to call it done, but considering that the other genre’s dont have a Glen Fricker who actually does decent tests, its understandable that some other people really took an interest. Have you seen the paid for reviews?! They suck, we came here for Glen and his truth, but now he yells at us?! I am sure he didn’t mean it that way, because he isn’t an asshole to everyone, but feedback from non-metalhead viewers is helpful to him, so we give it. I don’t think it was rude to ask for a clean one next time, and I don’t think it rude to point out that many of his viewers aren’t metal-heads and so would also benefit from such a test. Do we hate him for not including one? No. Do we hate it that he all of the sudden gets defensive about himself and shuns blues? Yes, it is odd, he talked about blues before and he never told blues players to take a hike, but all of the sudden all the blues people can piss up a tree, because he only does metal now? Since when? So yeah, I would say it was a little weird for him to call out someone, a viewer nonetheless, for doing nothing but asking for more of that sweet sweet Glen Fricker truth we all come here for. I happen to agree with both the test results and the viewer that asked for a clean test. I am not going to be upset all day by this, unlike the people that have seen my comment and decided to get angry over something i didnt say or that i don’t actually believe in that was never on the table to begin with. And no, I won’t go away, this is my comment, so you go fuck off if you dont like it, there is plenty of that sweet sweet comment section for you to make your own without belittling ither people. Man! Its like a un-holy southern baptist intervention in here, way to prove yourselves better than those evil judgy conformists.
I floated my floor on cut tennis balls and 3/4 plywood for my bass 1x10 and my guitar 4x12, and suddenly I'm getting a lot less complaints. Thanks for sharing the tip, Glenn!
4:38 Gotta hard disagree with you two totally-not-elitists on this. I see nothing wrong with wanting to use stuff you paid for and nothing wrong with using what you like.
I thought the idea was to make a good sounding record, not pander to the artist's ego. Of course, there are always exceptions. If you can come in with a set of chops like Dimebag & a unique tone to back it up, that's one thing. If you're a kid with a 25 watt Spider V and an overinflated sense of rock stardom. that's another. Unfortunately, I've never got to record the first, and dealt with way too much of the latter.
@@SpectreSoundStudios It's not about the artist's ego. You're misrepresenting my point. Music is art and art is personal, subjective expression. If someone's art is best expressed by horribly fizzy Line 6 distortion, it's none of your business and not up to you to suppress that. Tell them you won't record their stuff and go find another band that _will_ nod their head to everything you say. Addressing the stuff you edited into your reply after I responded: That's still pretty damn elitist of you. It's really none of your business to decide the guidelines on what someone's guitar should sound like based on your own arbitrary ideas. Plus, the "kid with a Line 6 and a sense of rock stardom" is such a tired strawman. There could be so many other, more innocuous reasons why someone would want their guitar to sound a certain way.
I can only base my opinion on recording garage bands for 20 years. If someone is insistent on a crappy amp, I'll record a few versions: the crap amp & a good one, and let the artist make the choice for themselves.
There ISN'T anything wrong with wanting to use what you paid for, but it also isn't a guitarist's job to know what sounds BEST. A guitarist is generally thinking about how THEY sound, an engineer is focusing on the big picture of a record/song.
I think as far as strings go anecdotally, I've had them sound different depending on what they were made of as opposed to how new they were. New strings play better, so you play better and feel better, but as far as raw sound goes, not much difference. However, comparing regular nickels to steels and cobalts, now that's a difference. That dude at 7:30 hit the nail on the head basically. Electric strings make noise through magnetic induction. Changing the material would logically do much more than putting fresh strings on. I would like to see THAT comparison for sure! -Regular ol nickels -Pure nickels -Steels -Cobalts -Flats That would be a cool comparison to see!
As for taking solos and mixing the best parts, my band had two different takes of the same song. The first take was the best song performance but the second take had a fantastic solo. Rather than have the guitarist do another solo overdubbed on the first take, we took the second solo and slapped it into the first take and it fit perfectly. We were a pretty consistent band tempo wise. Zappa was famous for blending takes from live performances and creating a perfect performance.
Wow Glenn! 2 hours early! Thanks man! I was bored shitless and kind of waiting for 3pm (I'm off work for a little while and am virtually chair-bound with hideously painful gout in my one foot! - can't walk!) Your video was a half hour oasis in a desert of soreness and misery! Cheers Glenn and a HUGE fuck you from England!!! 👍
The hardest part about what sampling rate and bitrate is that there's not a lot of 24/192 audio you can buy out there. Higher bitrates do help reduce quality loss when mixing tracks together (mathematically, it's mostly (and can be literally) adding the actual numbers of the audio tracks together and then doing division), but the big question is always "can you hear it?" This also can just mean your intermediate work can be at a higher rate Some audio editors use floating-point anyways for the intermediate work, and that makes it anywhere from 23-bit to 32-bit minimum.
I still have my Marshall Valvestate VS100RH I bought new in 1999. Sounds fucking killer! The reverb quit working years ago and the one volume knob is a little fussy from time to time, but never fails to bring a smile to my face every time I crank it up.
So I grew up prior to the internet and what I can tell you is that what is cool in one place isn't necessarily cool somewhere else. Cool has far more to do with confidence than shit you buy. You can have the best gear and coolest threads but if you are not confident with a reserve of humility, you will not be able to pull it off. On minivans...if you take out the back benches they make fun shaggin wagons!👍😎👍
The last bass player that impressed me was the guy from Unleash the Archers. In one of their videos, you can see him using some kind of signature finger picking technique that allows him to play full-speed power metal with minimal effort. I would definitely like to adopt some of this when I eventually play in a band again.
Hey Glenn, you talk about not being cool at the end, but the second to last question you said you don't take money from companies that want a good review. This shows me that you have a great amount of integrity, and that's cool to me. Stay metal and stay honest Glenn.
Hi Glenn! You talked about European bands and we have both sounds: Real and auto-tune fake drum shit. Finland has the best options to record songs in with a small budget, cause we have Youth center studios and it costs 125-150€ for a two day session, including studio time, audio engineer and quick mastering! I think the local community gives support to this (read tax money.) Example Finnish band HIM recorded their first songs in a youth center. Any thoughts on this? For me these sessions have given us good knowledge and the next time we go in a real studio, we won't waste audio engineers time! Our Homicide Ep was recorded in a youth center, if you got time or curiosity to check. (real drums) Cheers from Finland, Great videos Glenn!
Just two things about sample rate: 1- if you increase your sample rate the lantency will be REDUCED (but yes, it will use more processing power) 2- there is a point in increasing sample rate if you do sound design or something similar, as time stretching will sound a little bit better. As for myself I always use 44.1Khz for music production.
The reason people record in 192khz is solely for file flexibility. There's alot of maths and science behind this but to put this into perspective, Think of scaling 8K pictures down to 1080p, you're not necessarily degrading the picture, just making 'smaller', the pictures will still retain 8K even if you scale it back and forth (unless you use destructive editing). The same applies to audio files with higher sample rates when you pitch, stretch, warp audio files. This is especially useful when you're sound designing for games or film where higher sample rates are absolutely needed to make certain sounds. Source: I'm a sound designer for film and games.
HEY GLENN!! I've been a viewer of your channel since around 2015! I remember the first Getting ready for the Stage and Studio videos, and dude YOU offended THE SHIT out of me, haha; although, to be frank, it was because I was a USDA certified Useless Cunt. But, ya know I took that shit to heart and 3 years later I practice, I'm actually in a band (not on bass, thank god) and can walk around saying, "I DO," rather than, "I want." I owe a lot of my, let's say Practical, attitude towards music to your satirical, no nonsense content. When I end up in need of heavy mixes, I know for a fact that I will make a point to swing up to London, Ontario from my place in Kansas City. There's no doubt in my mind that you WON'T allow me to settle for second best, and WILL call me out on the bullshit on a second's notice!! I sincerely hope that day comes soon, and I wish you the best of luck on the channel, guy. Thanks, and keep the awesome videos coming!! I never say it, but CHEERS! And as always, FUCK YOU GLENN!!. Lucas D. Munoz, Mrs. P.s. Please Take Me To NAMM with you!! I wanna meet Annie Clark. :)
Glenn Have you looked into the Darkglass X7? It's a bass distortion pedal that can compress the low end, distort the high end, and set crossovers for both. It kind of eliminates the need to split bass tracks by frequency, and gives players access to distorted bass tones in a live setting while keeping the low end clean. It's worth a look if you aren't scared of the "Circle of Tone" guy anymore.
Also, love you keep mentioning angra! Brazilian metal for the win!!! Wish my band had the money to go record with you one day.. Brazilian Metal Punk in Vancouver. Is pretty crazy! We have violin. triangle, percussion, and a bunch of crazy stuff. Too bad we have no real demo to show yet... planning on recording at a studio around may =D
HEY FELIX!! TAKE THE PARENTS TO THE SHOW!!!Never too OLD to rock and you'll make good memories, nothing like taking the folks to go see Metallica on the "And Justice For All"
I just want to say that i don't like/listen to metal, however, this channel is insanely helpful for learning to mix, record, gear reviews and laugh at bass players. Thanks glenn!
Another great vid.I have bever been able to define cool other than feeling my beer can.I am glad this chanel is for those of us who do not fit in.I personally do not care if I fit in or am cool.I have very little time and trying to fit in or be cool would be a waste of what little time I have.Goals are cool.Thx for all the great vids.I am learning a ton here and am very grateful.Watching your vids before practice gets me motivated! :-)
Glen is the coolest uncool person on RUclips.
"No one has heard you play,
Nobody knows what your sound is.
YOU don't even know what your sound is"
Get this on a tee shirt and I am buying :) great epi \m/
Me too! Also a good t shirt idea:
A good drummer knows how to count. A great drummer actually counts!
Hey Glenn, I started watching you around a year ago when my graphics card kicked the bucket and I was stuck not playing video games for 2 weeks. In those 2 weeks I decided to become a recording/mixing engineer and looking back at 2018, it was probably the most productive year of my life. I've started a small studio at home and I'm currently interning at a studio for some hands on experience. I owe you a big thank you for breaking me out of a pretty destructive cycle I've lived for the past couple of years and motivating me into starting what will eventually be my own business.
Cheers from Slovenia! Alex :)
Wow, Alex! I'm so glad I could be of help! Best of luck to you, it's a frustrating, yet rewarding career.
Wow can I ask how you went about getting an internship?
Damn! How'd you go about the internship?
@@brycedahlke9078 Bit of a backstory: I signed up for a 4 month course trough a music school but the guy who was supposed to have the course fell ill. They said they were going to reschedule the course but my dad being a longtime musician in my country knew plenty of studio producers and asked one of them if he could use some help around the studio and if he could tutor me. He said sure and I took what I learned from Glenn, Warren Huart, Rick Beato, Recording revolution etc. to the studio, helped around and learned even more there. Right now I'm mostly doing local young bands and some rap artists, mostly for fun and exposure, but I'm applying myself so I could turn it into something serious in the next few years :)
@@lfox02 Read my responce to Bryce :)
"This show is for the people that dont fit in" That Hit me like a God Damn Mac Truck man! I love it
If I wanted to fit in, I would have gotten a fucking corporate office job.
There is a tee shirt for you Glenn. Feel free to make it happen.
Hell yeah man for me too. I love this guy even more now.
Nice the Island of Misfit toys
The new backgrounds look great.
I play blues, hard rock, not much metal... I absolutely LOVE these videos! I’ve learned a ton from listening to your videos. Keep it up Glenn!
Muahaha!!
26:10
"...I'd rather have fun than being cool..."
Made my day once again
Way to go Glenn!!
Love the burning mac! :D
thats all any apple product is good for, bonfires.
@@pilotamurorei Well there are certain Windows machines that deserve to be burned at the stake as well; case in point: ruclips.net/video/_Z-SBzeTKS4/видео.html
Only thing they r good for nowadays
ALL computers are Good and Bad in equal measure..... but the Operating Systems and Corporate Board members are worthy of a Life-Ending Toilet Flush......
@@paultorbert6929 i hade a friend that was so tired of his computer, so he blow it up with dynamite :D
"I'd rather have fun than be cool" That sounds like a great shirt idea
Bought a beaten valvestate from my bands bassist for cheap. Fixed grounding (no more electric shocks yey!), fixed the broken power socket (no more fire hazard yey again!), changed the valve and upgraded the power condensers to something almost too big for the PCB. In addition to that, I had to scrub every connection and potentiometer very hard to get rid of the bassist goo, but now I have a great amp for myself!
When I see your videos I don't even read the title. I just click it. Keep up the awsome work, greetings from Slovenia ;)
eeeeejj še en slovenc k gleda glena!
@@xmaniaccc1 Greetings from Kranj I guess haha
nas pa ni mal ne :D
I mean, you never know what you're gonna learn, and he just drops so much amazing knowledge that I even watch stuff I'm "sure" I don't need to know, cause there usually is SOMETHING in there that I do!
Slava!
When people say well "That's my sound" without knowing reminds me of myself in High School when I bought a distortion pedal.
What was your first distortion pedal?
It was a Boss OS-2 which was a pedal they made that combined distortion and overdrive. You could blend them. I ran it wrong all the time and eventually it broke.
@@BrianBower mine was a boss os-2 as well. I was never able to get a good sound out of it
At the time, I thought it was good because it was distortion. I am unsure if they even make them now.
And just looked. They do
Hey Glen! I just finished building my home studio using your tips. Thank you for your advice on gear and sound treatment and killer mixing techniques!
I tried the 2 mic/behringer mixer trick and could not have had better results! Keep up the great content!
You are certainly a charismatic guy. I don't produce music, I don't play instruments (and hence I don't buy related gear), but there's just something entertaining about listening to your rants and comebacks that keeps me watching video after video. Great to see someone doing what they enjoy for a living and having fun. You just helped get me through a long final exam project by destroying commenters and whatnot so thanks for that ;)
Also, a 'feck ya, glenn' from Norway, I understand is in order!
I need another episode of stupid musician texts, it's been far to long since you did one of these
maybe they finally got smart
@@XbninjaXIV LOL
Daily would be great!
We only speak our idiocities these days, purely out of fear from ending up on ”stupid musicians texts”. 😉
nah there's still bass players out there
Im not a musician, hell.. i barely even listen to music anymore (sacrilege i know) though I grew up in the 80s listening to all the metal/rock bands but none the less, the structure of this channel, your personality and quality/effort you put into it still draws me to watch every new episode. Keep up the great work. You're doing something right! :)
Oh kids. If I were you, I'd smash that Spider 5 with a sledgehammer and get me a Joyo Zombie.
Preach. Boost that thing and you have a great sound for VERY cheap.
True words of a true Metal Fan!
Andro Kirko Yep. Stay metal. 🤘🏻
I play blues. And man. Changing your strings, making sure everything is fresh breathes new life into recording. I know this Is a metal channel, but the message is spot on! Always remember 'good in = good out'. If you want to sound good you need to sound good. When I was recording bands, and I had guys ask me to make them sound like Jimi paige, I'd just respond with, "well I hope you sound like jimi paige then". Awesome channel Glenn. Have been following your advice for years.
"IS THE JUICE WORTH THE SQEEZE?"
MOTTO 0F 2019
Staying "brutally" honest and not accepting money for "favored" reviews is what made me support you on patreon. At least the bits of money you earn with this channel are "honest" and actually "earned" instead of "bribed". Your integrity is key! Stay awesome Glenn!!!!
I couldn't imagine going into a studio and insisting on using a Spyder. Most reputable studios have several high quality Amps to use while you are there...there is NO excuse for the "but its muh tone" mindset. Listen to your engineer, they tend to know what will work best.
Also...Glenn isnt cool?!?! I wear the same anime shirts and drive a minivan as well and I'm cool...well.... I'm not totally lame...*sigh* well my wife thinks I'm alright😕
lol! That's amazing!
Yes! I knew the valvestate review was coming!
Devin Towsend's "Ziltoid the Omniscient" was recording using a POD and Drumkit From Hell, mind you.
If your a jerk and what to test a person ask them they think of recording with a spider ?
@@gilbertspader7974 Or simply do the recording, don't tell them what was used to record it and pre-bias them by half telling your opinion before showing them the stuff. Let people have their own opinion, rather than trying to condition them into your opinion instead. AS psychoacoustics tells us, we tend to hear what we want to hear. If you don't like the Spider, was convinced/conditioned that it doesn't sound good and is told that what you're listening to was recorded on one, you will say that it sounds like shit, even if it doesn't or the recording is not from a Spider at all. This is why serious scientific testing is done double blind. If you know what the stuff is, your brain is gonna use that information, regardless of who you are and what you are.
I know you mentioned in your video that your focus is Metal music, but I believe that a lot of what you said can have general applications as well. Especially microphone placement. That shit really struck a chord with me and that's why I subbed to your channel. Thank you Glenn for countless videos preventing me not be a fucking meathead in the studio.
"I'd rather have fun than be cool" needs to be a t-shirt man!
I like the new visual backgrounds to the viewers comments! Makes the viewing experience more dynamic.
When you said 'butt end technique' I looked over to my other half and she just said 'no'.
Thanks a bunch
It's great to hear you say this a metal channel. I like a good clean tone the 3 seconds before the heavy rhythm tone blows it off the map.
Biggest factor in tone: where mic is placed relative to the speaker +1000000000
William Scolaro in *recorded tone
I run the output on my amp to a mixer and get perfect tone everytime.😁
Glenn thanks for the tip on side chaining the snare and using compression to prevent excess snare bleed through on the overheads! Been recording at the home studio for the last several months, got 25 songs tracked and ready for final mixing and that was a big help. We're learning as we go along. Been a long process.
Your farts are your sound(s) too! Doesn't (necessarily) mean they sound awesome though. Well... likely still better than a line 6 spider but.... yeah.... _Haista vittu, Glenn!_
Here's some early moring inspiration: ruclips.net/video/vtwHXyW3hD4/видео.html
I used 3 mics and spent 2 days eating chili, eggs, broccoli cheese soup, and peanuts to get the perfect fart on record. Bottom line? Good music takes time.
Suomi mainittu?
@@RavenFly1232 Torille.
Finns never fail to rally at the market... Perkele! It warms the heart.
Hey Glenn! A friend from Brazil here! Thanks for one more class, i am always learning with your videos, my recording is a lot better! About being cool, i think that depends on your stands ! To me have the knowledge and be real is very cool! Thanks again for sharing!!
The burning mac is awesome. Glenn senpai is awesome ps notice me!
Good morning, Ernesto!
I thought so too!
Sempai... that is not how you refer to the greek god of metal recordings
@@lordmorgoth7 I would call him Glenn sensei. But I still don't have enough money for him for to record me. I only have 200 now also I just want to make music that makes people feel pure raw emotion. I honestly am an amateur at mixing XD. I'd rather pay good money to have a professional do there magic.
i wish i played good Metal, so i'd have an excuse to go to Canada and have Glenn help me by Recording and Mixing my songs..... and hanging out with a cool Engineer, like Glenn would be awesome !!!!!!!
Really cool to see the channel grow as it has. Been watching for a long time now and it's great to see the quality hasn't decreased, you're still knowledgeable and angry as fuck.
6:26 Wait... I missed the part when we stopped using clean guitars in metal. Guess I need to get in touch with some XXI century music and leave all those 'Cemetery Gates' or 'Master of Puppets' bullshit behind
A lot of the more mainstream/core metal bands have nonstop crunchy chugging these days, but if you dig deeper in to extreme metal, you'll still find a lot of cleans. Even in black/death metal.
Keep watching, he goes on to tell us that he totally records acoustic guitars in metal production...
Michał Nowak check out Animals as Leaders. Amazing modern metal band, they have a lot of clean guitar playing and also killer 8-string metal riffs.
+1 on animals as leaders
@@JanderVK Metallica uses tons of clean.
I have inconsistently watched your videos for years. Dude, please keep this up, you have no idea how many people you help!
Cool? Damnit, did nobody see School of Rock and the speech Dewey Fin gives the keyboard player kid? You make music, therefore, you're the bees knees! THE BEES. KNEES!
I appreciate you not selling out. Your honesty goes a long way and I'll share every video I like to help
While I totally agree that any musician should use the best gear available, you CAN get some unique sounds from substandard equipment. I remember Roger Fisher of Heart mentioning that for the recording of Magic Man, the speaker cone of the amp he was using was crapping out and that had a real interesting effect on the final recording which became a huge hit. But again it does go back to the player as Fisher was (and still is) an incredible musician. Oh and on the new strings vs. old strings on electric guitar debate, it would be interesting to see what the results would be on a piezo equipped guitar. I see more and more of these guitars coming out with a combination of piezo and magnetic pickups. By the way, Glenn, you've done the series of videos of "can you play metal on x" type of guitar, maybe you can do one on "can you play metal on a piezo guitar". In know Ernie Ball, ESP, Gibson and Fender all make guitars with piezos.
I really dig the new background vids. Adds a little extra to your already awesome series.
"Hockey Pucks Are Your Friend!" Your next T-shirt sir!
Glenn, thank you so much for the recommendation! I took your advice and bought a Lewitt, and I can't believe what a difference it has made. For years, I naively thought that an SM58 would do just fine in the studio, but this mic has opened me up to a whole new level of vocal recording. I don't even bother with eq anymore because the Lewitt sounds perfect the way it is. It has already saved me a ton of time and given me a much cleaner vocal sound on my recordings. Thanks again man!
If your at risk of getting kicked out do whatever you can to move out. Till then follow the rules( it's not your house)
Love this channel, Glenn.
I've been a musician since the mid-80s, but have almost no home recording experience.
I am putting together a studio for voiceover, personal music composition, and occasional music and voice collaboration.
I already have professional microphones: Electro-Voice RE27N/D, Rode NT2-A and I have access to borrow a Shure SM7B.
I built my computer last spring. It has an Intel core i7 7700 K processor running at 4Ghz, 32GB RAM, 500GB NVME SSD primary drive, 4TB secondary drive, and uses the ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard, which has native Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 support, and it is running Windows 10 Pro.
I have been considering the Focusrite Clarett 4Pre Thunderbolt, Audient iD44, RME Babyface Pro, or something similar, even a Focusrite Scarlett series or PreSonus USB 3 or Thunderbolt unit, but when I spoke with Sweetwater, and told them what I want to do and what equipment that I already have, they directed me to get the Universal Audio Apollo Twin Mk2 Solo. Telling me that it will record the highest quality audio from the mics that I have and because they had a demo unit available for $580 + $49 for Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter.
I made the purchase based on their recommendations and their statements about quality preamps and overall audio quality, and I received it just yesterday.
My concern is did I buy the right thing? Did I buy more or less than what I need? Did they oversell/undersell me?
I am unfamiliar with Universal Audio and don't know if Sweetwater's claims about high-end audio recording results from my microphone selections are accurate or hype?
I only just received it and haven't tried it yet. Did I buy the right thing or should I return it?
I need advice and opinions.
27 minutes! Crom bless us.
The boiling strings trick is awesome. It got me to thinking about drum heads. So I boiled them. Something about the hot water interacting with thr milar caused it to shrink down just enough that when I slapped those babies back on they fit tight and sounded new!!!
Oh man I'm gonna save so much money on drum heads now. Thanks for the brilliant idea. I suggest everyone try it!!!!
Early bird gets the worm
Evidently.
Had a catastrophic deletion during a backup recently where I lost my Lancaster Audio IRs - I had purchased them when it was still Rosen Digital and they didn't have any problem getting me hooked back up with the IRs I purchased. Go support Lancaster Audio - they're great dudes and I'll continue to go to them for their products.
I bought Glenn's IR pack a few months ago when it went on sale. I had used other IRs, but the variety and bang for the buck you get with any Lancaster's packs can't be beat. Now, when/if you lose everything, just log into their site and your purchase history is right there and you can re-DL anything anytime.
I find Rosen/Lancaster sound good but have way too few microphone options. Best pack of cab IR's I've found are Kazrog Recabinet.
I'd go with 96 kHz. There's little difference between 96 and 192 but the difference between 48 and 96 is substantial. 96 is not as resource heavy as 192 and sounds great.
I'll call bollocks on this. Do you have a mic that picks up substantial levels above 22.05k? What's the capacitance of your cables? Can your preamp handle frequencies that high? Before you hit your interface, stuff outside of the audible range will already be pretty much gone, because none of the studio equipment is made to handle it - it's designed to work within the audible range. There is no difference between a 44.1k signal and a 96k or 192k signal for frequencies below 22.05k. And unless you pitch shift signals none of the potential content above that frequency is going to matter and even if you do, you basically have to invest in a signal chain that can support it, which means buying custom equipment, because even high end gear is not made to treat the inaudible spectrum well.
I think one thing that is mentioned is movies use higher rates. Also higher rates do take up more memory space in overall production once you do mix down. Remember the first was pro tool/ avid which was made specifically for movies in not music. Every other DAW pretty much uses the same working operations as Avid, the only one that is different is logic. But all have the same options since most can be for Movie production. Also master engineers will make lower a rate If it’s at 96 or 192. I just use 44.1, I don’t see why one would need to record at such high rates by time you get it to your computer there is some light compression from the computer already.
Every single week, I just can’t wait for Friday to hit because I know I’ll be receiving that VC notification. Ever since you started this series, I have learned many things as an aspiring musician, and it’s not limited to recording audio or just music. You have helped me with advice on everyday life, motivation, and just inspired me to never give up on my musical dreams. Thank you for everything Glenn, seriously... everything. Keep it up!
Seeing a band is not worth getting thrown out of your house is.
If Felix does do it he should set up a GoFundMe and show just everyone what kind of "(not) real Christians" his parents are.
thanks for not selling out, for me your honesty is one of the main reasons that I watch
Great bass player - RIP Phil Lynott,Thin Lizzy. In my opinion anyway
Re. Comping, in my band, we have what we call the "Absinthe take" for vocalists. You get 3 normal run throughs, then (under the influence or not) you give one take where you throw all convention out the window and attack the performance buck-wild! It really ensures I have that extra element of insanity when comping vocals in the mix.
Lol. Canadians are finding new uses for hockey pucks.
Hey Glenn, Loved your response to my clean or blues sound question in regards to boiling strings.My day is complete. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Felix. I'd go with the band. And Felix. This is for your parents. Let your son see his favorite band.
I'd just like it if people stopped calling metal Satanic. While there are bands that are Satanic, not all of them are and some of the biggest metal musicians are Christians. Like Dave Mustaine. He even refuses to play in bands that are Satanic.
This reminds me. I once heard about a guy who got fired by his Christian boss because he wore a Cannibal Corpse shirt to work and his boss told him he couldn't have a "metalhead Satanist" working for him. Cannibal Corpse shirts have things like blood and guts on them, but he was fired because he was a metalhead. Really fucking stupid.
The Metal Fan I love Dave but he could be a ass, even some of the most satanic black metal bands members are not even satanist. The only open satanist in metal I know is King Diamond, but his music is not by far the most satanic either.
Hey Glenn, Made it all the way through & gotta say that was a good Q & A video..... All the best!
I reason I record at high sample rates = low latency
...as I'm learning.
I use presonus studiolive 3 mixer monitored before the DAW.
ZERO latency. :)
Yep, I'm old school, and old as fuck. ;)
Thanks for the boiling bass strings tip! Got me out of a jam when no guitar stores nearby had the replacement strings!
Dude, why get upset? The guy just asked if you could include clean test on a tone test for guitar strings. You’ve done clean tests for tone before, why so hostile? Btw i learn from you although I don’t record metal, and i am sure i am not alone.
Because we bring the heavies here BOI 😆
Billing bass strings helps . boiling guitar strings doesn't . that's the whole and only point of the experiment . PERIOD!!!!!!!
My guess is that so many people commented about it, myself included. There are metal bands with tracks with clean guitars, but it's mostly guitars with distortion. I wonder if the blues mention set him off though
some people just dont LISTEN...... they might hear, but they DONT Listen......
Dudes, never said I disagreed with the results of test... i do disagree with getting angry that someone gave feedback. To a non-metal head, a “metal” tone is a muddy tone, we can’t hear much difference between the new strings and the old strings with a “metal” tone dialed, and for all intents and purposes of a metal-head the difference was enough to call it done, but considering that the other genre’s dont have a Glen Fricker who actually does decent tests, its understandable that some other people really took an interest. Have you seen the paid for reviews?! They suck, we came here for Glen and his truth, but now he yells at us?! I am sure he didn’t mean it that way, because he isn’t an asshole to everyone, but feedback from non-metalhead viewers is helpful to him, so we give it. I don’t think it was rude to ask for a clean one next time, and I don’t think it rude to point out that many of his viewers aren’t metal-heads and so would also benefit from such a test. Do we hate him for not including one? No. Do we hate it that he all of the sudden gets defensive about himself and shuns blues? Yes, it is odd, he talked about blues before and he never told blues players to take a hike, but all of the sudden all the blues people can piss up a tree, because he only does metal now? Since when? So yeah, I would say it was a little weird for him to call out someone, a viewer nonetheless, for doing nothing but asking for more of that sweet sweet Glen Fricker truth we all come here for. I happen to agree with both the test results and the viewer that asked for a clean test. I am not going to be upset all day by this, unlike the people that have seen my comment and decided to get angry over something i didnt say or that i don’t actually believe in that was never on the table to begin with. And no, I won’t go away, this is my comment, so you go fuck off if you dont like it, there is plenty of that sweet sweet comment section for you to make your own without belittling ither people. Man! Its like a un-holy southern baptist intervention in here, way to prove yourselves better than those evil judgy conformists.
I floated my floor on cut tennis balls and 3/4 plywood for my bass 1x10 and my guitar 4x12, and suddenly I'm getting a lot less complaints. Thanks for sharing the tip, Glenn!
Not first
Congratulations!
Much love to you Glenn. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us and helping cultivate music culture online.
4:38 Gotta hard disagree with you two totally-not-elitists on this. I see nothing wrong with wanting to use stuff you paid for and nothing wrong with using what you like.
I thought the idea was to make a good sounding record, not pander to the artist's ego. Of course, there are always exceptions. If you can come in with a set of chops like Dimebag & a unique tone to back it up, that's one thing. If you're a kid with a 25 watt Spider V and an overinflated sense of rock stardom. that's another. Unfortunately, I've never got to record the first, and dealt with way too much of the latter.
@@SpectreSoundStudios
It's not about the artist's ego. You're misrepresenting my point. Music is art and art is personal, subjective expression. If someone's art is best expressed by horribly fizzy Line 6 distortion, it's none of your business and not up to you to suppress that. Tell them you won't record their stuff and go find another band that _will_ nod their head to everything you say.
Addressing the stuff you edited into your reply after I responded: That's still pretty damn elitist of you. It's really none of your business to decide the guidelines on what someone's guitar should sound like based on your own arbitrary ideas.
Plus, the "kid with a Line 6 and a sense of rock stardom" is such a tired strawman. There could be so many other, more innocuous reasons why someone would want their guitar to sound a certain way.
I can only base my opinion on recording garage bands for 20 years. If someone is insistent on a crappy amp, I'll record a few versions: the crap amp & a good one, and let the artist make the choice for themselves.
I mean, you can use whatever you want but the question is do you want it to sound good? Lol not a hard concept.
There ISN'T anything wrong with wanting to use what you paid for, but it also isn't a guitarist's job to know what sounds BEST. A guitarist is generally thinking about how THEY sound, an engineer is focusing on the big picture of a record/song.
I think as far as strings go anecdotally, I've had them sound different depending on what they were made of as opposed to how new they were. New strings play better, so you play better and feel better, but as far as raw sound goes, not much difference. However, comparing regular nickels to steels and cobalts, now that's a difference.
That dude at 7:30 hit the nail on the head basically. Electric strings make noise through magnetic induction. Changing the material would logically do much more than putting fresh strings on. I would like to see THAT comparison for sure!
-Regular ol nickels
-Pure nickels
-Steels
-Cobalts
-Flats
That would be a cool comparison to see!
As for taking solos and mixing the best parts, my band had two different takes of the same song. The first take was the best song performance but the second take had a fantastic solo. Rather than have the guitarist do another solo overdubbed on the first take, we took the second solo and slapped it into the first take and it fit perfectly. We were a pretty consistent band tempo wise. Zappa was famous for blending takes from live performances and creating a perfect performance.
Hitchhikers guide is totally cool! 42, man!
Wow! I love all those backgrounds!
Wow Glenn! 2 hours early! Thanks man! I was bored shitless and kind of waiting for 3pm (I'm off work for a little while and am virtually chair-bound with hideously painful gout in my one foot! - can't walk!) Your video was a half hour oasis in a desert of soreness and misery! Cheers Glenn and a HUGE fuck you from England!!! 👍
Glad I could make your day, Michael!
I missed this channel much love Glenn.🤘🤘🤘
Comping is a great technique i don't hear many talk about that much, and i think is a subject worth having a devoted in-depth video about.
The hardest part about what sampling rate and bitrate is that there's not a lot of 24/192 audio you can buy out there. Higher bitrates do help reduce quality loss when mixing tracks together (mathematically, it's mostly (and can be literally) adding the actual numbers of the audio tracks together and then doing division), but the big question is always "can you hear it?" This also can just mean your intermediate work can be at a higher rate
Some audio editors use floating-point anyways for the intermediate work, and that makes it anywhere from 23-bit to 32-bit minimum.
great point glenn, and once they find a decent spot on the cab mark it, pen chalk tape, live and studio
I still have my Marshall Valvestate VS100RH I bought new in 1999. Sounds fucking killer! The reverb quit working years ago and the one volume knob is a little fussy from time to time, but never fails to bring a smile to my face every time I crank it up.
God damn, I love it when you loose it with the clean blues tone, Glen! Cheers!
You are very entertaining.
I about died on the clean tones comment...
🤣🤣
Your advice does translate over to other styles. You have helped me!!!!!!!!!!
So I grew up prior to the internet and what I can tell you is that what is cool in one place isn't necessarily cool somewhere else. Cool has far more to do with confidence than shit you buy. You can have the best gear and coolest threads but if you are not confident with a reserve of humility, you will not be able to pull it off.
On minivans...if you take out the back benches they make fun shaggin wagons!👍😎👍
For the record, I think the hair swinging is super awesome and very metal!
The last bass player that impressed me was the guy from Unleash the Archers. In one of their videos, you can see him using some kind of signature finger picking technique that allows him to play full-speed power metal with minimal effort. I would definitely like to adopt some of this when I eventually play in a band again.
Hey Glenn, you talk about not being cool at the end, but the second to last question you said you don't take money from companies that want a good review. This shows me that you have a great amount of integrity, and that's cool to me. Stay metal and stay honest Glenn.
I like the new format, ie: the backgrounds when you read the comments.
Hi Glenn! You talked about European bands and we have both sounds: Real and auto-tune fake drum shit. Finland has the best options to record songs in with a small budget, cause we have Youth center studios and it costs 125-150€ for a two day session, including studio time, audio engineer and quick mastering! I think the local community gives support to this (read tax money.) Example Finnish band HIM recorded their first songs in a youth center. Any thoughts on this? For me these sessions have given us good knowledge and the next time we go in a real studio, we won't waste audio engineers time!
Our Homicide Ep was recorded in a youth center, if you got time or curiosity to check. (real drums)
Cheers from Finland, Great videos Glenn!
Just two things about sample rate:
1- if you increase your sample rate the lantency will be REDUCED (but yes, it will use more processing power)
2- there is a point in increasing sample rate if you do sound design or something similar, as time stretching will sound a little bit better. As for myself I always use 44.1Khz for music production.
I Love The Shirt. Hope you brought a towel! So long, and thanks for all the fish
Awesome video Glen, really enjoyed the longer run time, could have used this 3 days ago while changing strings.
The reason people record in 192khz is solely for file flexibility. There's alot of maths and science behind this but to put this into perspective, Think of scaling 8K pictures down to 1080p, you're not necessarily degrading the picture, just making 'smaller', the pictures will still retain 8K even if you scale it back and forth (unless you use destructive editing). The same applies to audio files with higher sample rates when you pitch, stretch, warp audio files. This is especially useful when you're sound designing for games or film where higher sample rates are absolutely needed to make certain sounds.
Source: I'm a sound designer for film and games.
HEY GLENN!! I've been a viewer of your channel since around 2015! I remember the first Getting ready for the Stage and Studio videos, and dude YOU offended THE SHIT out of me, haha; although, to be frank, it was because I was a USDA certified Useless Cunt. But, ya know I took that shit to heart and 3 years later I practice, I'm actually in a band (not on bass, thank god) and can walk around saying, "I DO," rather than, "I want." I owe a lot of my, let's say Practical, attitude towards music to your satirical, no nonsense content. When I end up in need of heavy mixes, I know for a fact that I will make a point to swing up to London, Ontario from my place in Kansas City. There's no doubt in my mind that you WON'T allow me to settle for second best, and WILL call me out on the bullshit on a second's notice!! I sincerely hope that day comes soon, and I wish you the best of luck on the channel, guy. Thanks, and keep the awesome videos coming!! I never say it, but CHEERS! And as always, FUCK YOU GLENN!!.
Lucas D. Munoz,
Mrs.
P.s. Please Take Me To NAMM with you!! I wanna meet Annie Clark. :)
Glenn
Have you looked into the Darkglass X7? It's a bass distortion pedal that can compress the low end, distort the high end, and set crossovers for both. It kind of eliminates the need to split bass tracks by frequency, and gives players access to distorted bass tones in a live setting while keeping the low end clean. It's worth a look if you aren't scared of the "Circle of Tone" guy anymore.
That intro was glorious 😄🤘🏻💜
Also, love you keep mentioning angra!
Brazilian metal for the win!!!
Wish my band had the money to go record with you one day.. Brazilian Metal Punk in Vancouver. Is pretty crazy! We have violin. triangle, percussion, and a bunch of crazy stuff. Too bad we have no real demo to show yet... planning on recording at a studio around may =D
Damn those weirdstones are great! Thanks for the tip Glen :D
HEY FELIX!! TAKE THE PARENTS TO THE SHOW!!!Never too OLD to rock and you'll make good memories, nothing like taking the folks to go see Metallica on the "And Justice For All"
Holy shit I just realized you're wearing a Hitchikers tee! that's awesome
I just want to say that i don't like/listen to metal, however, this channel is insanely helpful for learning to mix, record, gear reviews and laugh at bass players. Thanks glenn!
Thanks for keeping it real Glen! Your a true inspiration :) Much Love, keep up the good work!
I always giggle when your Canadian accent shines through.
Love the flaming mac in the snow shot
woooo, long video. Thanks for the vids, keep em comin!
Congrats on the subs Glenn!!
Another great vid.I have bever been able to define cool other than feeling my beer can.I am glad this chanel is for those of us who do not fit in.I personally do not care if I fit in or am cool.I have very little time and trying to fit in or be cool would be a waste of what little time I have.Goals are cool.Thx for all the great vids.I am learning a ton here and am very grateful.Watching your vids before practice gets me motivated! :-)