Jerry Finn Episode 1 - The Incredible Guitar Chain
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- From mixing Green Day's greatest albums to producing Blink 182's... here is a look into Jerry Finn's recording and production techniques. Episode 1: We start with guitar. This would have been the same set-up and chains Jerry would have used with Tom Delonge while working on such albums as "Enema of The State", "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" & Blink 182's "Self Titled" Album.
As a Musician, Engineer and Producer, I have looked up to Jerry Finn in the highest regard from day one. hope you enjoy the video! RIP Jerry Finn!
Jerry's select credits:
Green Day - Dookie (1994) (mixed)
The Muffs - Blonder and Blonder (1995) (engineered and mixed)
Pennywise - About Time (1995)
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995)
Jawbreaker - Dear You (1995) (mixed)
Green Day - Insomniac (1995) (mixed)
Fastball - Make Your Mama Proud (1996)
The Daredevils - Hate You (1996)
Smoking Popes - Destination Failure (1997)
Coward - Self-Titled (1997)
Superdrag - Head Trip in Every Key (1998)
Rancid - Life Won't Wait (1998) (mixed)
The Vandals - Hitler Bad, Vandals Good (1998) (mixed)
The Living End - The Living End (1998) (mixed)
blink-182 - Enema of the State (1999)
Madness - Universal Madness (1999) (mixed)
Fenix*TX - Fenix*TX (1999)
blink-182 - The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) (2000)
MxPx - The Ever Passing Moment (2000)
The Marvelous 3 - ReadySexGo! (2000)
Fenix*TX - Lechuza (2001)
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler (2001)
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary (2001) (mixed)
blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket (2001)
Green Day - International Superhits! (2001) (co-produced)
Bad Religion - The Process of Belief (2002) (mixed)
Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer (2002)
MxPx - Ten Years and Running (2002)
Sparta - Wiretap Scars (2002)
Vendetta Red - Between the Never and the Now (2003)
AFI - Sing the Sorrow (2003) (co-produced and mixed)
Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning (2003) (co-produced and mixed)
blink-182 - untitled (2003)
Morrissey - You Are the Quarry (2004)
Marjorie Fair - Self Help Serenade (2004)
The Vandals - Hollywood Potato Chip (2004) (mixed)
Eisley - Room Noises (2005) (mixed)
The Offspring - Greatest Hits (2005)
Alkaline Trio - Crimson (2005)
blink-182 - Greatest Hits (2005)
AFI - December Underground (2006)
+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating (2006) (co-produced and mixed)
Tiger Army - Music from Regions Beyond (2007)
Morrissey - Greatest Hits (2008)
Morrissey - Years of Refusal (set for February 2009)
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How could you thumbs down this video?!
Blue House Sound Studio Make another episode!!!!
@@jacobeminger3496 ASAP!
@@rhodesmc123 stripped? It came from my head... and that’s currently where the next episode is.
@@rhodesmc123 I am not sure how to answer because what you ask is broad. The point of my video is to show that there is no quick or easy way to achieve Finns tones. My best recommendation would be to watch my video several more times and not cause I care about views... but so you can take the time to realize the answers to your own inquiries I have already stated if you are paying closer attention.
Plug-ins have gotten better... but they are not comparable... that is just a marketing lie people who have something to sell you keep brainwashing.
Cheers.
@@rhodesmc123 Yes, it can be recorded...I just showed you how. Other than that, you’re doing something else.
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket has my favorite guitar tone of all time
It’s so good
Yep same
One of the best tones ever recorded imo
So this is the man I wish I could thank. As a guy with OCD. That tone is like my Holy Grail sound.
Ive managed it once usuing a crate amp...well I think I did, I always felt it was a off a bit.
This video is a dream come true.
Enema of the State had a ton of good shit too
Great episode! I worked at Conway when he was working on that last Morrisey album. He passed a couple months later. He was such a sweet dude and was not above the runners and assistants at the studio. Most people took advantage of the hospitality, he wouldn't let us clean up after him even in the dining room. He stopped one night to ask me how it was going. He had to of asked my name from one of the other runners/assistants first because he knew it before we had even spoken a word. You could tell he actually cared about people. That was a hard thing to find in the world that we work in.
Hey man! Thanks for the story!
You must have worked there with Ed, now skyward recording! I actually own Jerry’s Bottle mic :).
@@BlueHouseSoundStudio Thought I responded to this, but apparently it didn't save lol. That'as awesome that you have Jerry's blue bottle! I heard he loved that thing. I'm used a million mics but unfortunately never had the chance to one. Take good care of it man!
As for Skyward, I've never been there but I'm guessing Ed owns it? Did he work at Conway in 2008? For a second I thought he might have bought it but I'm pretty sure Buddy still owns it. I did a podcast with drummer Mike Fasano where we talk about Jerry a little bit, he and Jerry were tight. The podcast is "Starting A Record Label" and yeah I started that podcast like 2 months before the pandemic hit lol. I hope in the future I can do a small documentary about Jerry. I know he wasn't a big person for the spotlight, but in the world of the internet, it's a shame that there's not much out there about him.
This is a piece of music history... ❤️
Excellent video!
As a 33 years old punk rock fan I can't stop thanking Jerry for all what he did.
As an aspiring music producer I admire the sound he gave to all his records and I want to know everything about him.
I look forward for the next episodes.
Thank you for sharing! Me too !
All I want to do is try to get close to Matt’s guitar tone on Good Mourning ❤️
I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Jerry on pre production for a FenixTX album. You were spot on when you said he would reveal his techniques to those in his presence. He was an amazing producer and great person! We spent a lot of time talking about his different experiences with different bands and when FenixTX moved up to go record the album I visited them at the studio and got to learn even more! Gone too soon for sure!
Thank you for sharing!
Jerry Finn was the 4tb member of bink 182. Mad respect for you MR Finn may you rest in peace until we meet again.
Dude this is amazing. He made all my favorite records that taught me how to be a musician.
Eric S thanks dude!
Sad that he's gone, but its also fascinating that his secrets still exist.
I don't know how he made such simple punk bands sound so musical and satisfying to listen to, guy was a genius
Agreed!
Blink was never the same without Jerry’s touch…imagine if Critter from AVA and Finn got to work together on an album before they both passed…jeez we would of had such a great album
One of the greatest producers of the 2000's.
The rhythm tone on AFI's Sing The Sorrow is still one of the thickest, richest, most luscious tones of all time. Jerry was a master of tone.
I absolutely agree! That album is a masterpiece! Especially tonally.
Jerry was genius. Everyone raves about Enema of The State and rightfully so, but to me Take Off Your Pants and Jacket is just perfection. I can only dream of having an amp or amp presents on my DAW that can emulate his sound.
Agreed!
I have watched this video way too many times. Great work. Would love another episode!
When his stuff was first posted on reverb they took photos of the amps and pedals that still had tape and sharpie markings of the settings he commonly used. Treasure trove of early 2000’s pop punk tones
Jerry Finn's guitar tones are fucking incredible. I can never create a guitar tone that great.
You can say what you want about 2020, but it has brought some of the best youtube videos of all time, this one included! Thanks for honoring this man and the genre he defined!
Wow man! Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Please make a second video. This was incredible information. Jerry would be proud.
Thank you, soon I hope.
Love this video, for the technical information and the deserving tribute to the man. Jerry Finn played a massive role in bringing dynamics and musicality to a genre that not only lacked them, but seemingly shunned anything that wasn't loud, fast and rough around the edges, without loosing the energy of punk rock. That wall of guitars sound he perfected played so well dynamically in choruses against verses that were clean tones or palm muted, or many times just bass and drums. Then layering that with melodic verses and choruses, clean harmonies, it's just a magic sound. He accomplished it with Blink-182 and so many other bands during that time. Maybe that era was inevitable, but I'm certain that pop-punk wouldn't have sounded the same without Jerry Finn.
awesome video, the guitar tones on Enema & Dookie will always remain my favorite. I think the right mixing of Bass and drums is also very important for a nice pop punk sound. 👽🤘
Excellent! Yes !
I have not really connected with an album since we lost jerry.
DUDE DUDE DUDE. Amazing. Thanks for putting this up, I’m always chasing people for Jerry Finn details!
Oliver McPherson thanks so much man! I got your email and will reply to it ASAP! Great stuff! Not sure who does the Jerry Finn page on Facebook (I’m not on FB) but it’s great to gather a well deserved community around his work. ❤️
Thank you for this ! Finding any info on Jerry is so rare . Gonna send this to my friends who love this kind of stuff. A lot of people don’t understand how important this man is to modern music. He has one of the best ears in recording imo . His mixes still hold up today !! I can only imagine what he would have done with music later in his life. Thanks for this !! Rip Jerry!
Thank you for leaving such kind words!
Great video dude! I love Jerry Finn and Blink’s Self titled album is my all time favourite in terms of guitar tone.
Dude I'm glad someone did a video about him, when he passed I read blink in a interview they felt like they lost a 4th member. Not saying cuz him they got big but a decent amount on their sound,, rip
Thank you so much! Yes, Blink would refer to Jerry often as the 4th member throughout their career with him. ❤️
We need more videos about this legend. Great work there, my friend.
Thank you much for tuning in! We indeed do!
I have no idea how it's taken me so long to see this video! Jerry Finn was an absolute one of a kind. I'm always saddened how little information there is on him and his process out there, but I feel like that marks a truly humble human being.
Thanks for collating all this information, very interesting watch!
Thanks so much !
this video is amazing! jerry was GOAT and we have so much to learn from him. please make part 2!
Thank you for the love!
Cant wait til your next episode, i love learning about this stuff
Ryan Jackson thanks for tuning in!!!
Still waiting on the next one! Thank you for doing this!
Thanks !
Please make an episode 2 of this! You’re doing the lord’s work compiling so much great info about the elusive genius
Thanks for documenting this! It’s much appreciated because as you said there isn’t a whole lot of info available on him and his works!
Please share if you have more!
Thank you much !
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I am so happy
Thank you!
I’ve watched this video like 12 times. Great work on documenting legendary techniques from one of the best to ever do it. Hoping on an episode two one day. Would love to know how he got those drum sounds!
Great to finally see a video for the late great Jerry Finn!! He was responsible for ALL of my favorite all time albums and the reason I started recording and mixing. Thanks for sharing!!! Would love to see more for drums and vocals too although I know it’s very hard to get concrete info now. Cool video though, made my day! 🤘🙏🙌
Thank you!
Thank you! So much interesting info about his gear
Glad it was helpful!
an absolute legend. Creating the best sounds that influenced every punk rock kids back in the days. or even until today.
Amazing! Thank you so much for this. I wish I had known about Jerry Finn sooner. :(
THIS IS AMAZING!! I have been looking for any info on jerry I could find. He is also my hero, and I’ve been chasing that guitar tone in my mixes for eternity!
THANK YOU TREMENDOUSLY for doing this!! I can’t wait for the next episode!!
The b Sharps thanks a lot man! I think I have a funny story for you... it was my first year of college, first period English... and I remember one day, someone picked up a button on the floor and said “who likes the b sharps?”... lol that was RCC around 2005- Bahrum
I have some details regarding Jerry Finn guitars if you want me to email it to you?
@@BlueHouseSoundStudio RCC as in riverside?! If so.. that was definitely one of our buttons!! How strange!!
When’s the next episode?!
I have no idea about any of the equipment you listed off, but I do know that any record produced by Jerry Finn always sounded amazing. So cool to hear that someone on top of his game like Jerry was always open to trying out new ways of doing things in the pursuit of his craft.
Awesome!
I've been trying to figure this stuff out for half my life. Jerry Finn records have always sounded the best and to this day sound the best. I would be interested in learning more like mixing techniques
Steve Lawrence I couldn’t agree more in so many ways. Thanks
Super nice this little doc!
Thanks!
I think a bit of a dark art which no-one talks about is Jerry Finns mastery of melodyne (a more comprehensive auto tune plugin) blinks vocals are quite clearly pitch corrected to those who have played around with the plugin...he does it in a real transport way tho...
Everything this man touched sounded amazing.
Thanks very much!
What a legend he was. RIP, he passed way too young. ❤️
I'm lost in the jargon but appreciate someone is honoring Jerry's technique, it'd be a shame to see it lost given his impact on many timeless records.
Thank you !!
Great video man, years of listening to his records and just know I did some research on him. It's a shame that he's gone :(
thanks dude... agreed ;(
Great video. His production was so special.
Thank you!
More please!!
Thanks for information !
this is awesome! I would love a bass focused episode in the future. Even though it is usually a simple “p bass with fresh round-wounds into an SVT” type tone, something about the bass his records is magic and special. The cleans have a crispy crunch that just roars and soars.
There are for sure plenty of gems to cover on bass. ;)
The way the bass snarls and snaps during the intro of blink-182's 'Online Songs' got me hooked on that tone for life. Was Jerry at the helm of Green Day's Dookie? Or was that Rob C. with Jerry doing the mixing?
Enema of the state has my favorite guitar tone of all time. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for checking it out !
Amazing video.. thanks for this
Thank you !!
What a legend, rip Jerry
Love this video! Not that this is already enough, can we have an episode 2?
Been mixing/engineering.. for a bout 15 years.. A band that I'm recording/mixing, has a green day kinda pop punk feel.. So I start digging into pop punk, I like the sound on dookie, so I decide to go that route.. I'm excited about learning about Jerry Finn.. and I find out he's gone..
So sad.. But I'm still excited to learn what I can.. Thanks so much for this video!
Brother, when is part 2 coming out?! Dying to find out more, and really appreciate this video. Jerry Finn is the GOAT
Soon I hope! Thanks for the support!
Yes, please bring out part #2 and continue this series!!!
His earliest influence was the band KISS when he was in grade school.
He lived 2 doors down from me in the 70's.
Not surprised that he got into music when he got older.
MORE!!
Incredible video
Thank you much dude!
Was lucky enough to meet Jerry and hang out for an afternoon and watch him work on an MXPX record in the B room at Conway Studios LA around 1997-8?. So many guitars in the control room...even PRS. A Neve...VR with flying faders...Tracking to tape. Recording then comping the 3-4 very fresh vocal takes just recorded (SM-7 into Martec Pre) coming back off tape and bussed through the very early early Antaries autotune AT-1 hardware unit. 57s paired with Rode NT-(Early silver) microphones on all the Marshall 4x12s...and many 4x12s!!!. Foofighters were in studio A finishing "learn to fly" for what would eventually be the Nothing Left to Lose album....BTW.. which wasn't entirely done at Dave's Virginia basement as he want's everyone to believe. 3 Mesa recto heads stacked up in there and the drums all miced up.. Pre-9/11 and Iraq war and Pre-Covid and pre-streaming. He didn't seem to mind a complete stranger sitting there quietly watching
What a great story! Thank you very much for sharing! Jerry did love his SM 7 along with his Bottle. Auto tune ATR 1 on the way in?! Wow seems gutsy haha. I wonder how standard that was for the time period... “Ever passing moment” (MXPX) doesn’t having any discernible annoying auto tune that I can hear... funny... auto tune either got worse or the users got worse... even albums like Metallica death magnetic has really annoying autotune artifacts happening. I think the new blink-182 speaks for itself.... and then there’s other atrocities like the new Backstreet Boys singles, for what they are worth, just caked on with heavy thick weird autotune artifacts.
Cheers 😎
NO ON AUTOTUNE ON THE WAY IN!. He recorded 3 -4 complete takes WITHOUT AT and playback the takes and comp through the AT and print the tuned comp to a final track. It was never abused except by Cher at that time. Autotune was only availible if you owned a 30k protools 888 HD rig or had the AT-1 $599.00@@BlueHouseSoundStudio
@@cmath8577 ahhhh ... that makes more sense... idk why I brushed through the part where you talked about the comped takes haha.
Was that a Rode NT 1 ?
I’m surprised hearing that as well.
I don’t have experience with these microphones myself but I know these are loved by some.
I’ve gotten good results close micing with a Shure KSM44 blended with a Unidyne 3
Respect Is the right word!
thanks ! this is great !
Thank you!
This is a great video! I thought I could hear a Diezel in some of his guitar sounds for sure.
It's not just the gear, a huge part of the sound is the ear and the talent
ONE OF THE GREATEST
Nice!
Greatest guitar tones of all time
thanks for honoring this guy's amazing legacy.
btw, as soon as i saw the 4 + sum + 1, I knew what was coming :P
Take my like and sub. You do a great job of breaking stuff down. Let me know if you take requests! ;)
Thank you for the kind words!
Always open for suggestions, but haven’t had the opportunity to make more RUclips videos in quite sometime.
Cheers
Please continue this series if you can and want to.
RIP Jerry Finn. A true legend. Would have loved to hear what he'd be working on today.
🙏🏼
This man had a huge influence on me, making many of my childhood favourite records. One of the final albums he worked on was Tiger Army's Music From Region Beyond. Amazing sound.
I love that album!
Wow thanks
you still there bud waiting for part 2 love this so much
I’m here! Although Covid finally got me as of now… I have had a crazy past year plus as I am sure many have. I just had another major locational move. I’ve been thinking of this. I will try to make part 2 asap. Unfortunately these videos don’t pay the bills and are harder than they look. I do it for the love of them. Cheers
@@BlueHouseSoundStudio hell yeah focus on what pays the bills first I would never want ya to put out something if you weren't up to making it ,happy New Year (however long away that is for you)
Cool stuff bro!
Thank you !
Jerry was a legend
I absolutely adore Jerry’s work, I love that you made this video.
I’ve made it a mission to recreate as many of his sounds as possible - I covered AFI’s Sing The Sorrow, as well as some Blink 182 and Sum 41 on my RUclips channel. It’s such an incredible feeling when I finally get a Jerry tone dialled, reminds me of landing my first kickflip haha
Stoked to see someone else passionate about Jerry Finn!
Thank you for the kind words! Keep up the good work!
Any tips? I’ve been struggling to recreate that STS/Crimson Jerry sound
The help you need is in the video..
Are you asking the commenter for some “trick”? the point of the video is there isn’t a trick but overall principals in factors and quality.
@@BlueHouseSoundStudio I am not asking for a “trick” I am a big fan of Todd’s videos and what he puts out and have been following him for a while on Reddit, Particularly his phenomenal AFI covers. I was asking for specific pointers. Thank-you though.
@@jimmygee3219 take it away Todd.. lol
treble 5, mids 6 bass 3. 👌🏻
Also use magic plug-in “x”.
A true legend! Passed away way too soon. Don’t know if everyone is aware of Jerry actually mixed Billie Joe’s guitar at When I Come Around on Woodstock 94. I always did wonder how the special and cleaner guitar tone came in, the last show ever with the Lawrence humbucker and a totally amazing guitar tone. But for me Jerry is absolutely at his peak during the work with blink-182 around Enema and TOYPAJ era
4th member of Blink182. Band was never the same after he passed
It’s crazy when u think about someone who is so smart this could be anyone ur dad, mom, grandfather or someone like Jerry Finn that spent so much time learning, perfecting and all the failures getting to the point they very successful in what they are doing then one day they die and all that information, all the learning is gone.
Thank you a lot for your video series! I was wondering how you got to all the information and if i could go even more into specific details, i tried to find more direct sources but the internet seems almost empty of it :(
Specifically which specific details are you wondering about?
My information comes from years and years of research. Everything in my video can be found in one way or another fragmented through the internet and backed up in other places.
In theory… if you had the elements I described in the video… the specific details become a lot less important for no two records sound the same.
nice
I did something kinda weird on my last album to have 2 amps. When recording the rhythms my guitar signal went into the mixer then to the live peavey amp and also that clean signal was recorded as well as the live peavey amp. I took the clean signal and ran it through a simulated Marshall. Then I did the same thing for the other rhythm track. I had 2 mics on each track adding up to 8 mics total and man the tone was simply amazing. Yeah I used the same track for 2 guitars on one rhythm but since I used different amps it still made a huge think tone.
Jerry Finn was/is a legend. He was a huge part of 90% of my favorite records.
nice.
Was a producer of a generation.
Please can we get an episode 2 !?
episode 2 pleeease :)
Rip 🙏
People keep talking about his guitar tone, which is amazing. But the one thing that strikes me with every Jerry Finn album is the drumming. No other producer, apart from maybe a Led Zeppelin album just because, has made me pay attention to the drums
Well said !
RiP brother
really nice video! when are you going to release the episode 2?
Thank you ! ASAP
Hey there. I recently transferred some unseen footage of Jerry Finn and uploaded it here. I was in a band called 12 Volt Sex and Jerry produced 3 songs for us back in ‘99, two of them (Hook it Up & Breathe) ended up on our sophomore album Stereo Quatro. There’s not a lot of footage of Jerry out there, so I figured you may enjoy it. Just search his name and look at the most recent upload, you’ll see it.
I only mention this because it's another device which helps the guitars pop if the vocals are perfectly on tune with the guitar you get a certain resonance happening that adds a sheen to the guitars
🔥6:00 that Hook Ups tee tho 🔥 RIP LEGENDS NEVER DIE!!!
A big part of Jerry Finns guitar sound is the Hammond organ...youvcan hear it all over blink records thickening up the power chords and giving sheen to the top end of the guitar track
Man we'd have some great new pop punk records today if he was around, that I don't doubt. RIP