This song changed my life. Still remember going by a record shop and checking the Americana album because I knew and liked Pretty Fly, which was pretty much the start of my own musical journey. Awesome Warren!!
@@Producelikeapro there’s also the last session that fell apart and was ultimately aborted in 1999, they did “Get Born Again”. Layne and Jerry were fighting, and layne had become a recluse addict by this point (three years later he died). The idea was to make two new tracks for the greatest hits album and see if from there a new Alice album could be made. Jerry was always trying to make Alice albums and only made solo albums when he had too.
This interview goes way beyond production techniques. Jerden shares some wisdom about being happy about your craft that applies to just about anything in life you want to succeed in. Well done!!
Bought the album back in the summer of 1998 and always admired the production style of this banger from Dave Jerden. Thanks Warren for showing great music in this great series.
For anyone saying he's ranting too much... he's giving you tips from George Martin... like what else do you want? If you really wanna hear offspring stems im sure you can find em on the web. Dave your a legend, i could listen to you talk all day. Warren your a legend too and these are so insightful.
This video is a goldmine of lessons and advice through such hand-carved, fine-brewed, slow-distilled source of experience that is simply impossible for anyone from my generation to obtain. We are so lucky to have videos like this. Many thanks, may you be blessed with such lucky moments of your own. 😊 Cheers
Just saw the offspring recently , left the show concussed cuz that mosh pit was bananas. Loved it, one of the best live shows ever. Legendary punk band that deserved to be as popular as green day. They are incredibly consistent song writers . And often fast paced punk rockers . I love the offspring . I’ll also add that I ALWAYS noticed the guitars in the offspring , right before warren said it it thought “ those guitars are so in your Face” . I always noticed the guitars in the offspring as super fast and cartoonish sounding, in the best way. He’s right about the singing. As I got better at singing, I realized something, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. But when I sang the higher notes life easily, it was sanitized, it didn’t sound as intense and raspy or complex as when I sang those same notes with less ease. Singing at your best at the time , or rather, the highest you can or most intense you can, just gives more life to the very same notes. Like adding gain or distortion to a guitar riff. It can help. I love the way he describes his want for sound, it resonates with me .
I had no idea how good this interview could be. Once you got done with Guitar sounds, it really takes off to some amazing places. You have some real gold nuggets here Warren!
I'd love to see you talk with someone like Ross Robinson about his work on the early Slipknot albums. I know people like to rag on that era of rock music, but there were still a lot of really cool experimental things going on behind the scenes production-wise with many bands who exploded during that time. Y'all have any other suggestions from the late 90s-early 2000s era that would make for an interesting breakdown video?
i'm going to poo in a little plastic box put it aside and save it for the day a slipknot album video gets released when i shall open the box and devour the contents in lieu of consuming any slipknot material
Big fan of The Offspring and this was super interesting. As a complete recording newb I was amazed at how trebly and nasty the guitar sounded on its own. But when with the bass and drums etc it sounds huuuuge.
Absolutely love hearing you guys talk about this stuff. Dave produced some of my favourite albums. I'd love to hear a few inside stories on Sound Of White Noise by Anthrax. Massively under-rated album. Killers sounds and killer songs.
Loved that story about your wife....Would be so cool if you do some story telling in future- you have no idea how much people like you and wanna hear of your background..If you feel like sharing ofcourse. Cheers....Btw, what a content !!!
I always say to my students - Art if defining yourself, through sound in this case. It is amazing if one thinks about it... Dave is a living sound engineering encyclopedia !!!
These are the first two albums I ever bought. I'd love to see Dave review a track from Ixnay - I always felt like that record had a wash-y drum tone. Then Americana expanded all the right areas sonically. Very lean and punchy. Thank you Warren, this 'Inside the Song' is everything I could wish for!! Loving the show.
Warren! Thank you again so much. This is prime time stuff! It is heartfelt as much as it is educational. Plus, he's involved with shaping the sound on my favorite AIC albums. Imma get a Dave Jerden T-Shirt!
Palace Watson I too would like that, unfortunately the producer Jerry Finn died a couple of years ago. Perhaps if the engineer have some insight to the album?
i love the album version and consider it JUST barely scratching "smashed", but these premasters are something else! i know guitar hero multi-tracks exist but these sound better (perhaps warren ran the tracks through outboard gear?)
As soon as He mentioned jets taking off in a Jane's song I knew the exact moment in the song he was talking about. Had never thought of it before. Brilliant!
Singing at the top of their range. Wow, was that insightful. I believe Rick Rubin had Death Magnet at standard tuning to get Jame’s voice to have its magic again. The way the drums were recorded, I hadn’t heard of that before, micing a PA? Man. This whole episode was amazing. Americana, my favorite Offspring album. So much nostalgia.
Amazing video, Warren. You and Dave rock! The PA trick to life up drums sounds awesome. Can you do a video on this topic one day? Thank you ever so much, my friend!
Wow, super cool to hear all of Dave's awesome stories! Lots of great words of wisdom. I recorded drums recently, and I was sure to keep my overhead mics low per his suggestion in an earlier video.
Hi men, I saw that Offspring used this SONY digital mixing board, but not sure if they used that as a song development tool, then later went into an analog studio to track the album stuff onto tape. If you can elaborate, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks for making these videos and hope you are having a great day!
This was a great record and a huge part of my earlier musical endeavors for me. Such a great series, it's so great to hear from these legends about how they got the sounds. Awesome video as always!
Loving these session breakdown videos. I have learnt so much just picking up a thing or two from these engineers. Totally agree that source tone is everything with a big focus on Phase relationship.
I would always put the radio on when I was bathing my daughter aged 3. And she would love this song, but hearing a 3 year old singing ' Give it to me baby aha aha.' Was wrong on so many levels! Lol. I made her promise not to sing it at nursery but she did, which didn't go down well.
Thanks so much again Warren your a gift to this world! The whole p.a. idea iv heard of and i swear i heard that soundgarden did it with matt cameron at some point? Anyone know and which album... i swear i thought it was superunknown but that wasnt mentioned in the black hole sun episode.... thanks again.
Do you know if that's Bryan singing the parts "All the girlies say I'm pretty fly for a white guy" and "Uno, dos tres, quatro, cinco, cinco, seis?" It really sounds like a guy name Aaron who was in a band with the drummer at the time. Always wondered.
Yeah, it's the analogue version of retriggering a drumkit as we know it today. It works rather beautiful though. Actually it works better (sonically) and faster compared with the way we do it nowadays. We just kinda forgot it and we also don't have a bunch of snare's in stock.
Rick's was different ie retriggering acoustic drums using speaker impulses. This is about playing your drum recording through a p.a. into a live room and recording that live ambience.
These videos are so good ... you gotta get this guy back and do more with him and just let him talk as much as possible about recording and mixing his wisdom is amazing 😉
Great video once again! Was really hoping for an explanation of the Def Leppard sample from Rock of Ages "Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen" at the start of the song, but I'm guessing that was added in post, nothing to do with recording...
Quick question Warren When recording the drums going through pa speakers to get a bigger room sound, are you stereo recording or just using one mic? Thx
Wow, I missed this one! Awesome breakdown! Do you have a Höfner bass, Warren? I see a guitarbody shaped the same as a Höfner on the wide camera shot with the SSL faders spread out on the bottom of the screen in the 5 piece guitarrack.
He reminds me of my old drummer . We was playing in Greece . Got to the gig no Drummer . Where is the Drummer I seen him looking in the shops window. Got in my car I seen him. Hi John we have to go play. John ok I forgot. I will never forget that.
Always rated this song, def the outstanding track on the album. A question for FAQ - I've seen comments that if you don't oversample and/or use high sample recording rates, analog modeled plugins will produce harmonic distortion that is very un-analog sounding! Any thoughts?
16:12 “Night-Bass”? “Knight-Bass”? I don’t know what you guys are talking about there. Great content, I‘d love to watch more of these. Thank you, Warren.
This series is a home-run - every episode!
who dis lol
Couldn't agree more. My favorite RUclips channel in a long time.
rhythmless1 aw shucks! Thanks ever so much my friend!!
Jason Bone Thanks ever so much!!
This song changed my life. Still remember going by a record shop and checking the Americana album because I knew and liked Pretty Fly, which was pretty much the start of my own musical journey. Awesome Warren!!
That album (Americana) was the album that got me started in music, 100%. Great interview!
Thanks! That's amazing to hear!!
I will literally fly down if you do Them Bones with Dave.
Rick Beato did a really cool breakdown of it too!
Hey Fluff wouldn't it be nice if Warren did a 90s Fat Wreck series with Ryan Greene?
@@floridapunkarchivist wonderful!!
@@Producelikeapro I'd love to see a Fat Wreck episode
@@Producelikeapro there’s also the last session that fell apart and was ultimately aborted in 1999, they did “Get Born Again”. Layne and Jerry were fighting, and layne had become a recluse addict by this point (three years later he died). The idea was to make two new tracks for the greatest hits album and see if from there a new Alice album could be made. Jerry was always trying to make Alice albums and only made solo albums when he had too.
Always a pleasure chatting with Dave! What song do you want to hear about next? I'll see if I can make it happen! :)
Anything by The Smiths!
The Cult Love Album 1985 by Steve Brown or their Sonic Temple 1989 Album 🤘
Per usual - A Pearl Jam song with Brendan O'Brien or something with Neil Young!
I'd love to hear about anything off Jeff Buckley's Grace or Ænima by Tool
I concur, if you could entice Brendan O'Brien into your lair.... holy crap that would be a grunge hat-trick
This interview goes way beyond production techniques. Jerden shares some wisdom about being happy about your craft that applies to just about anything in life you want to succeed in. Well done!!
I think Dave is Ozzy's lost brother.
HAHAHAHAH I wish i came up with that! I was feeling it but couldnt tell what was that!
God bless you all. Thanks so much Warren for introducing us to all these wonderful people and for teaching us so much.
Dude, Dave seems like the absolute BEST dude to hang out with and learn. Thanks for these! MORE DAVE!
Bought the album back in the summer of 1998 and always admired the production style of this banger from Dave Jerden. Thanks Warren for showing great music in this great series.
For anyone saying he's ranting too much... he's giving you tips from George Martin... like what else do you want? If you really wanna hear offspring stems im sure you can find em on the web. Dave your a legend, i could listen to you talk all day. Warren your a legend too and these are so insightful.
You’re....
That's the Harry. The guys on the brink of nodding off.
This video is a goldmine of lessons and advice through such hand-carved, fine-brewed, slow-distilled source of experience that is simply impossible for anyone from my generation to obtain. We are so lucky to have videos like this. Many thanks, may you be blessed with such lucky moments of your own. 😊
Cheers
Just saw the offspring recently , left the show concussed cuz that mosh pit was bananas. Loved it, one of the best live shows ever. Legendary punk band that deserved to be as popular as green day. They are incredibly consistent song writers . And often fast paced punk rockers . I love the offspring .
I’ll also add that I ALWAYS noticed the guitars in the offspring , right before warren said it it thought “ those guitars are so in your Face” . I always noticed the guitars in the offspring as super fast and cartoonish sounding, in the best way.
He’s right about the singing. As I got better at singing, I realized something, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. But when I sang the higher notes life easily, it was sanitized, it didn’t sound as intense and raspy or complex as when I sang those same notes with less ease. Singing at your best at the time , or rather, the highest you can or most intense you can, just gives more life to the very same notes. Like adding gain or distortion to a guitar riff. It can help.
I love the way he describes his want for sound, it resonates with me .
Woooow, what a legend - thank you (ever so much) for all the insights mr. Jerden! And Warren, crazy good as always, thank you!
Hi Rickard Fagerlund thanks ever so much my friend!
Possibly the best half hour I’ve ever spent on RUclips. Fucking excellent episode. Thank you!
Love hearing the individual instrument tracks dissected! Ignition was the first album I ever bought.
I had no idea how good this interview could be.
Once you got done with Guitar sounds, it really takes off to some amazing places.
You have some real gold nuggets here Warren!
Thanks ever so. much my friend!!
Mr Dave Jerden; you are a one off, an enigma, a visionary, a pursuer, philospher and you've made some damn fine records - the real deal!
That uber-trebly, fizzy guitar works perfectly for the song & reminds us that this is an aggressive rock/punk band playing this pop song.
I'd love to see you talk with someone like Ross Robinson about his work on the early Slipknot albums. I know people like to rag on that era of rock music, but there were still a lot of really cool experimental things going on behind the scenes production-wise with many bands who exploded during that time. Y'all have any other suggestions from the late 90s-early 2000s era that would make for an interesting breakdown video?
At the Drive-In or Glassjaw
That first Slipknot album would be insane.
i'm going to poo in a little plastic box put it aside and save it for the day a slipknot album video gets released when i shall open the box and devour the contents in lieu of consuming any slipknot material
@@edisonstoupee2536 the production and tones on Worship & Tribute is fantastic
A lot of people rag on every era of every music
Big fan of The Offspring and this was super interesting. As a complete recording newb I was amazed at how trebly and nasty the guitar sounded on its own. But when with the bass and drums etc it sounds huuuuge.
Absolutely love hearing you guys talk about this stuff. Dave produced some of my favourite albums. I'd love to hear a few inside stories on Sound Of White Noise by Anthrax. Massively under-rated album. Killers sounds and killer songs.
Loved that story about your wife....Would be so cool if you do some story telling in future- you have no idea how much people like you and wanna hear of your background..If you feel like sharing ofcourse. Cheers....Btw, what a content !!!
Legends Pine Ln wow! Thanks ever so much my friend! That’s very kind of you!
I’m still hoping one of these days you can get rob Cavallo in to do an episode on green day
I love these videos, never stop please! great album by the way
I always say to my students - Art if defining yourself, through sound in this case. It is amazing if one thinks about it...
Dave is a living sound engineering encyclopedia !!!
You the man warren! This is the first album I ever bought! Thank you. God bless!
MorbidManMusic
C’mon man, I have no time for trolling. But if you must know, any God or higher power that you believe in.
Nope. I’m dead serious. It’s my first album. Not trolling at all
These are the first two albums I ever bought. I'd love to see Dave review a track from Ixnay - I always felt like that record had a wash-y drum tone. Then Americana expanded all the right areas sonically. Very lean and punchy.
Thank you Warren, this 'Inside the Song' is everything I could wish for!! Loving the show.
Songs themselves were better on ixnay in my opinion. When i think off offspring sound, ixnay is what i think of.
Warren! Thank you again so much. This is prime time stuff! It is heartfelt as much as it is educational. Plus, he's involved with shaping the sound on my favorite AIC albums. Imma get a Dave Jerden T-Shirt!
this is amazing content. please keep these up! would love to hear something from the blink 182 self-titled album!!
Palace Watson I too would like that, unfortunately the producer Jerry Finn died a couple of years ago. Perhaps if the engineer have some insight to the album?
Theodor Bergström Agreed! Having an engineer from that album unpack Jerry and Blinks amazing work would be legendary.
These must be premasters right? It sounds so much more dynamic than the smashed album version. Especially the snare - this sounds GREAT!
i love the album version and consider it JUST barely scratching "smashed", but these premasters are something else! i know guitar hero multi-tracks exist but these sound better (perhaps warren ran the tracks through outboard gear?)
Wonderful! We'd never have the opportunity to listen in on a chat with people like Dave if it wasn't for you Warren! Thanks ever so much! 😀
As soon as He mentioned jets taking off in a Jane's song I knew the exact moment in the song he was talking about. Had never thought of it before. Brilliant!
So many gems in there! thank you, dave! thank you, warren!
Singing at the top of their range. Wow, was that insightful.
I believe Rick Rubin had Death Magnet at standard tuning to get Jame’s voice to have its magic again.
The way the drums were recorded, I hadn’t heard of that before, micing a PA? Man.
This whole episode was amazing.
Americana, my favorite Offspring album. So much nostalgia.
Thanks Dave! These interviews are supremely interesting.
Amazing video, Warren. You and Dave rock! The PA trick to life up drums sounds awesome. Can you do a video on this topic one day? Thank you ever so much, my friend!
always loved how americana sounds, specially the drums
Wow, super cool to hear all of Dave's awesome stories! Lots of great words of wisdom.
I recorded drums recently, and I was sure to keep my overhead mics low per his suggestion in an earlier video.
Another enjoyable vid Warren! I recorded my second album at El Dorado in 2006. Your channel is great!
I love the album, listend it alot as a kid
David Ben deWaard wonderful!!
still a kid, still listen to it
Two legends undeniably
Hi men, I saw that Offspring used this SONY digital mixing board, but not sure if they used that as a song development tool, then later went into an analog studio to track the album stuff onto tape. If you can elaborate, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks for making these videos and hope you are having a great day!
Absolutely wonderful.... THANKS GUYS and to think I laughed when The Mission told me they were mic'ing instruments coming thru a PA ... oops 😬 x
This was a great record and a huge part of my earlier musical endeavors for me. Such a great series, it's so great to hear from these legends about how they got the sounds. Awesome video as always!
Thank you Warren for these marvelous videos!!!
Love it! Such a great song!! Was actually turned on to it by Weird Al’s parody haha Great episode as always! 🙂
Pretty Fly for a Rabbi lmao
Thank you so much. That was great.
Haha I loved this song even when it came out, I was a 6-7 year old girl then - still do.
Loving these session breakdown videos. I have learnt so much just picking up a thing or two from these engineers. Totally agree that source tone is everything with a big focus on Phase relationship.
Hi Warren, Dave, great song breakdown and awesome interview, thank you for doing this, all the best, Darren.
Thats so cool I never new that story about meeting your better half,
This was such a formative record for me. Thanks for the awesome interview and all the great content you make for us!
Another great one ✊✊✊
This is an awesome channel, I just discovered you from watching the Focusrite Scarlett review and glad to keep on watching.
Great stuff as always!
I would always put the radio on when I was bathing my daughter aged 3. And she would love this song, but hearing a 3 year old singing ' Give it to me baby aha aha.' Was wrong on so many levels! Lol. I made her promise not to sing it at nursery but she did, which didn't go down well.
Thanks so much again Warren your a gift to this world! The whole p.a. idea iv heard of and i swear i heard that soundgarden did it with matt cameron at some point? Anyone know and which album... i swear i thought it was superunknown but that wasnt mentioned in the black hole sun episode.... thanks again.
Do you know if that's Bryan singing the parts "All the girlies say I'm pretty fly for a white guy" and "Uno, dos tres, quatro, cinco, cinco, seis?" It really sounds like a guy name Aaron who was in a band with the drummer at the time. Always wondered.
Lol, Rick Beato had a demo showing that drum recording technique using speakers a couple days ago. Small world.
Yeah, it's the analogue version of retriggering a drumkit as we know it today. It works rather beautiful though. Actually it works better (sonically) and faster compared with the way we do it nowadays. We just kinda forgot it and we also don't have a bunch of snare's in stock.
Rick's was different ie retriggering acoustic drums using speaker impulses. This is about playing your drum recording through a p.a. into a live room and recording that live ambience.
He did that snare triggering video a day later
Warren you're on fire!! Thanks so much
I'm not dissing but Dave's voice reminds me of Tommy Chong for some reason.
Yeah, kinda. . .
These videos are so good ... you gotta get this guy back and do more with him and just let him talk as much as possible about recording and mixing his wisdom is amazing 😉
such an amazing series!!
For the las couple of weeks I have had Got to Get Away by the Offspring! What a great band, thanks Warren and Dave!!
This interview is one of your best Warren. Wow.
Great video once again! Was really hoping for an explanation of the Def Leppard sample from Rock of Ages "Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen" at the start of the song, but I'm guessing that was added in post, nothing to do with recording...
Damn Jerden is a GENIUS!
so cool Idid't know Dave Jerden did this album thx Warren for another great video
Liquid Studio Productions he produced this album and the last two Alice In Chains song around 1998-1999, so yea he’s a pretty famous producer.
@@Safetysweet great work
@@Safetysweet I just checked out his Wiki page unreal all the albums he was involved with.
I love this album and Ixnay so damn much. Awesome to get this insight!!
Quick question Warren
When recording the drums going through pa speakers to get a bigger room sound, are you stereo recording or just using one mic?
Thx
These are great Warren, more please! Would love to see some Rammstein at some point too :D
I second that motion
Jacob Hellner doing Rammstein's Du Riechst So Gut would totally blow my mind!
These videos never let me down
That was awesome!
I’m so glad RUclips has captions.
These analyses are so bloody good. I enjoy them a lot. Do you have any intentions on analysing any of "Tool" songs?
I can listen to Dave all day .
Wow, I missed this one! Awesome breakdown!
Do you have a Höfner bass, Warren?
I see a guitarbody shaped the same as a Höfner on the wide camera shot with the SSL faders spread out on the bottom of the screen in the 5 piece guitarrack.
Take a drink everytime he brings up alice in chains
Didn't know he did The Shrine. If i recall, Corey Parks is the bassist. Cool band
when he goes off on his rant, get him some milk and cookies and let him lay on the couch.
He reminds me of my old drummer . We was playing in Greece . Got to the gig no Drummer . Where is the Drummer I seen him looking in the shops window. Got in my car I seen him. Hi John we have to go play. John ok I forgot. I will never forget that.
I wanna hear Mike Clink talk about how he recorded Appetite for Destruction.
Always rated this song, def the outstanding track on the album. A question for FAQ - I've seen comments that if you don't oversample and/or use high sample recording rates, analog modeled plugins will produce harmonic distortion that is very un-analog sounding! Any thoughts?
Man! Thank you, Dave Jerden!
Photobombed by The Red Special!
these videos are great
Your belly needs a tad bit of sun Warren :) , as always some very very good content and we all love how you pronounce "room", thanks for sharing!
16:12 “Night-Bass”? “Knight-Bass”?
I don’t know what you guys are talking about there.
Great content, I‘d love to watch more of these. Thank you, Warren.
SGX Nightbass
Thanks, Rick
Bob Rock. Rick Rubin. Butch Vig as next please )
gtrjh maaaaan if we could get in the mind of Rick Rubin....
YESSSSS! Warren talking about The Offspring?? Heaven!
Mad scientist! love it.
Great video, love to see Rated R with Chris Goss.
I would love to see you dissect a Motorhead song with Cameron Webb
You can buy it from Pro Mix Academy
Have a drink every time "Alice in chains" appears....
hello Warren!
is it possible to have phase problems with vst drums and vst bass?
Jesus, get him to break down some Social Distortion!
Great idea!!
@@Producelikeapro Yes please! That would be a dream come true. I love the guitar sounds so much on their records... please do it!
So inspiring how you rerecorded the drums.
Outstanding, thank you! What year is that "The Paul" in the rack? I still have my 78' but she's in the case waiting for a fret job.
Great song.😎