I just learned SO much in the past 20 minutes! Vance Powell's "no-bullshit" method is spot-on. I learned from a mentor who was originally at Motown in the late 60's, and he used a Studer 24-track. What Powell laid down is so useful...I can't believe more people aren't taking this in! Thanks, PSP for doing this. Thank you.
I have always said that the less everything in the mix, the better, that's why all new productions sound very tiring and are very overloaded. Anyone who produces music should heed Vance Powell's advice on production. Thank you PSP for this Master Tales. Best regards.
Sorry Vance, I 100% disagree with the statement that anyone who only records the mic and processes later is a pussy. This is giving bad ideas to people who think they need to make all the lights flash on their distressors when they don't really know what they're doing. Sure, if you've got years of experience in recording, feel free to run some EQ and compression, but if you're fairly new to recording and aren't sure if compressing something is the right thing to do, DO NOT DO IT, especially if you're going to have a pro mix your record. Use a plugin in the computer after the fact and save that aspect for the person mixing. I've mixed far too many tracks with destroyed dynamics or screwy EQ settings. From both home recordists as well as full time pro audio folks. I've been recording for over 30 years myself, and definitely have not had the amazing success that Vance has had, and even I avoid tracking with compression 99% of the time because I don't usually have the luxury of knowing the artist's material ahead of time well enough to make a sound judgement if I should be slamming an LA3a on the lead vocals. I would rather grab all of the mics with no dynamics, learn the material as the recording progresses and decide in the mix what the right approach is. Of course, if someone actually wanted to track to tape again, it would be a totally different story. Absolutely have to do those things in the recording. But with digital. Nope. Save it for later when you know better.
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I just learned SO much in the past 20 minutes! Vance Powell's "no-bullshit" method is spot-on. I learned from a mentor who was originally at Motown in the late 60's, and he used a Studer 24-track.
What Powell laid down is so useful...I can't believe more people aren't taking this in! Thanks, PSP for doing this. Thank you.
Straight forward to the point!
Huge fan of Vance works, and also PSP plugins are into all of my mixes!!!
Thank you Vance, Venus and the PSP crew!
Great interview! It's cool to see you, guys together on this video! Thanks, PSP!
More to come!
omg his attitude was just so Rockstar
I have always said that the less everything in the mix, the better, that's why all new productions sound very tiring and are very overloaded. Anyone who produces music should heed Vance Powell's advice on production. Thank you PSP for this Master Tales. Best regards.
At first I was getting a little skeptical but then I realized everything he said was right, great interview. Very candid. Thanks, PSP.
next episode coming soon
THIS is making records..
Sorry Vance, I 100% disagree with the statement that anyone who only records the mic and processes later is a pussy. This is giving bad ideas to people who think they need to make all the lights flash on their distressors when they don't really know what they're doing. Sure, if you've got years of experience in recording, feel free to run some EQ and compression, but if you're fairly new to recording and aren't sure if compressing something is the right thing to do, DO NOT DO IT, especially if you're going to have a pro mix your record. Use a plugin in the computer after the fact and save that aspect for the person mixing. I've mixed far too many tracks with destroyed dynamics or screwy EQ settings. From both home recordists as well as full time pro audio folks.
I've been recording for over 30 years myself, and definitely have not had the amazing success that Vance has had, and even I avoid tracking with compression 99% of the time because I don't usually have the luxury of knowing the artist's material ahead of time well enough to make a sound judgement if I should be slamming an LA3a on the lead vocals. I would rather grab all of the mics with no dynamics, learn the material as the recording progresses and decide in the mix what the right approach is.
Of course, if someone actually wanted to track to tape again, it would be a totally different story. Absolutely have to do those things in the recording. But with digital. Nope. Save it for later when you know better.
I love Vance but that was 20mins of saying the same thing lol