Exactly the same. Got the record as teenager, from the first sounds of SA FAR AWAY I was excited and blowned away with some kind of magic in ths music. By the many years the music and bands I`ve listened and liked has changed, but DS adn BrothersInArms stays as most loved music.
@raiviste4187 Ditto. In 85 when I was 14, my Sister's Boyfriend bought her So Far Away on single. I didn't even know who Dire Straits were back then, but hearing that started my lifelong obsession with their great music. 🎸
That statement about Mark appreciating equipment is 💯….. I used to work at British Grove as a freelancer before it was completed and open to the public. Mark literally spared no expense… I believe the build and outfit came in at 17m pounds sterling… they even completely re-rewired the insides of a new API legacy to improve noise. That place was an engineers heaven.
I didn't expect you to cover so much relevant, interesting ground in ten minutes. Crikey! Brothers in Arms was a very important album for me, being part of a mid-teens bridge from practising for piano exams/grades to music becoming a fundamental part of who I was and am. Four live shows recorded on two VHS cassettes from the telly - Genesis' Mama tour, Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms tour, Queen at Wembley '86 & Jean Michele Jarres's Rendezvous Houston - exposed me to new musical worlds and targets for pocket money, Brothers in Arms among them.
What a brilliant backstory! Very interesting! I love this album but I've always been in love with On Every Street. That album, to me, is one of the best sounding albums ever released. So clean, so defined, yet so warm and comfortable. If you're ever doing another Dire Straits breakdown, that could be cool!
It was when we purchased our first CD players and the first popular CD marked as "DDD". Plus it features several longversions of their songs. 40 years later now it's still great and somehow timeless.
What an absolutely fantastic and informative video. This album is in my top 10 and has been since it came out. I bought it on CD, my first CD to be precise and the Sony CD player i bought to listen to it, with Sennheiser HD450's really did it justice. I still have all 3 items. Headphones have had various ear foam pads replaced but all in good working order. On another note, On every street and Love over gold are close behind BIA. The 3 albums are my favourite Straits studio albums. I'll happily loose hours and hours tinkling along on my synths or smashing away on the drums to all of them. Thank you for sharing with this video
Music recording really is an absolutely fascinating science with so many variables. But the funny (and obvious) thing is, at the end of the day, if the tunes or musicians are no good, it doesn’t matter how good the recording is.
For DireStraits fans (and others) I recomend to read the Dire Straits`s bass player`s John Illsley book. Many many insight facts and stories about this album and all the history of this band.
These old ass CD players are still around and many of them still work! Even if they don't, the laser pickup can probably be replaced with a new one for a few bucks are they're better than new. I have a 30+ year old Philips CD920 player, a new-old-stock laser pickup for 50 bucks and it sounds better than the day it was new. Remarkable technology for a cheap consumer product!
We had this one too - Philips CD-100, and I have the original CD pressing of BIA. Subsequent remasters ruined the dynamics with added compression, etc.
I'll never forget hearing Money For Nothing on the radio when the record was coming out, not knowing who it was and wondering if it was new music from Dire Straights. That guitar sound is unmistakable. This album became the biggest thing in the country at the time and, unfortunately, spelled the end for the band with it's enormous success. 😥
I was always aware of the part Sting played in the making of Brothers in Arms. What I didn’t know was that Dire Straits had also recruited Omar, who had also accompanied Sting in 1985, to add his drum stylings.
The bit about the CD is so relevant. I was on-air at a large-market rock FM station when that album came out, and it was the move for the station from mostly vinyl to lots of CD's. Lovely DENON CD players, crystal clear sound, until the cd got scratched or gobbed on by the overnight jock. I believe that's where Max Headroom originated.
I don’t know what it is about this album, but it had a profound influence on my own music, I’ve heard thousands of times, and my music sounds nothing like dire straits, but I will say knoflers collaboration with Dylan on Infidels, was even bigger to me, but Brothers will always be top of my list, though I felt Mark held back to much on this album, I can hear him shredding it on why worry, and your latest trick, and the title track, but he held back, only leaving me to wonder what could’ve been, but that’s one of the things about Marks mystique that makes me admire him even more, some folks thinks it’s overrated, but I’ve introduced this album to many people that had only heard of it. So maybe time and history will judge it properly
Notable: as mentioned, but rarely acknowledged or known, the album was *recorded* and mixed down to digital tape but not *processed* digitally. Even the original mastering (Bob Ludwig) was re-done later, once DSP had improved enough to do it justice.
A never to be repeated era in history, there is just not this kind of money in the music business nowadays.. These kind of resources cannot be retrieved through music sales, CD's were massively overprices £18, and companies made a fortune, Dire Straits could not exist now.
The “ Michael Schenker cocked wah “effect is only partly responsible for his unique tone on Money . There’s a weird phase cancellation going on between the two amps , mic placement and the room itself . One of the main reasons why he never , as good as he is , nailed the sound live . Excellent video, thank you ;)
It was said recently that one of the mics had fallen over, resulting in the phase change. I believe it was when it was time to mix that this was figured out.
There is a Documentary on Air Monserat Studios, amazing story. Jimmy Buffett recorded "Volcano" as the first recording at the studio. Sadly, the islands volcano erupted an destroyed the studio about 10 years after it was built.
Ry Cooder's "Bop Until You Drop" was the first fully digitally recorded album, it came out in 1979. Recorded on a 32 track machine built by 3M, it far preceded the exquisite "Brothers In Arms", but unfortunately CD players weren't available then, and the vinyl recording was panned as sounding too thin and a bit lifeless.. The first commercial available CD player was the Sony CDP-101, relapsed in 1982..
In 1985 the firm i worked at was taken over and everyone was re employed by the new company and given a sum of money i bought a cd player and brothers in arms ,cd player got worn out but the disc is still going strong
Really well done sound...Dorfsman and Knopfler took what seemed rootsy in nature...Ry Cooder was doing the same. I feel this lp is still a high-water mark in production. Where'd Dorfsman go? Also thanks for the vid
Very interesting documentary! Brothers in arms is not my favourite Dire Straits album although it contains with Money for Nothing and the title track one of the best Dire Straits songs ever. The Studio at Montserrat must have been a nice place. For me as a big Rolling Stones fan it has a special meaning. Mick and Keith ended their so-called third world war fight there and started to produce their 1989 comeback album Steel Wheels. Unfortunately this studio doesn't exist anymore because of a big volcanic eruption that totally destroyed this venue.
replacing 2 bandmembers whilst recordin abroad must have been a challenge. How do you keep friction/drama out of it or can you channel it into a positive outcome? who played drums on the tour?
I'm glad i still own the original pressing of the BIA CD. The subsequent ones ruined the dynamics with the added compression and mid-bass boost EQ, and rolled-off treble.
It always strikes me as odd so many people refer to resonator guitars as "steel guitars" when an actual steel guitar is a different instrument altogether. A steel guitar is played in a horizontal position, typically with a steel bar to fret the notes, whereas a resonator guitar is played in the traditional position. While both are guitars, each has a unique sound all their own.
@ no, I’m serious. Listen closely - the intro is clearly not played by the same player on the main song. I heard from someone many years ago that it’s actually MK playing the intro part.
@@mikemcgarr7881 Sorry I thought you were making a joke. I wasn't aware that Mark could even play the sax let alone pull that off. Cant seem to find any evidence that he can play anywhere.
Saw the Brothers in Arms tour in ‘86. One of the 16(?) shows they played in Sydney. Would’ve loved to have seen Omar Hakim behind the kit. I feel for Terry Williams having his tracks discarded but he really didn’t have the chops or feel that Omar (or Pick Withers) had unfortunately.
I wish we could hear Terry Williams original parts, as , to my ear, most of the drums seem light weight, their live sound , using Williams, sound far better.
funny enough, i cannot stand the sound of this record, but really enjoyed this breakdown. big respect for dire straits though. very ambitious project to do the first album on digital.
Nice vid! However this was not the first album recorded digitally. Many, even famous artists did digital recordings prior. I think even back in the 70's.
Not much on how Terry Williams felt after having all his parts re-recorded. Hard to imagine why he stayed with the band to tour. Paycheck's a paycheck, I guess...
For those of us used to the metric system, it would be really nice with a "translation" on screen, when you mention the size of the room in feet. Is that 8 x 6 meters or 3 x 4? It's a small detail, but makes everything a lot easier to understand for us weird metric kind of people.
Get your facts straight! The amp heard on Money for nothing is NOT a Marshall, but a Soldano SLO-100. It’s well known... And the Les Paul goes through a wah pedal as well .
I mentioned the Wah pedal being an important factor. The amp used was a Marshall JTM 45 into a Laney 4x12 speaker cabinet according to those who were present. Soldano amps were not released until 1987. Two years after the album was recorded.
Terry Williams is the best Dire Straits drummer ever. He made the band rock. This Omar Hakim thing was a huge mistake. And one track is drum machine. Shit shit.
Williams was the right drummer for the live tour, while Hakim was the right drummer for the studio. It all worked out pretty splendidly in the end, although "Why Worry" is a junk ballad lullaby that had no business being on the album.
Bought this when it came out i was 15 and here i am 40 years later still regularly listening to it, such a fantastic album
Exactly the same. Got the record as teenager, from the first sounds of SA FAR AWAY I was excited and blowned away with some kind of magic in ths music. By the many years the music and bands I`ve listened and liked has changed, but DS adn BrothersInArms stays as most loved music.
@raiviste4187 Ditto. In 85 when I was 14, my Sister's Boyfriend bought her So Far Away on single. I didn't even know who Dire Straits were back then, but hearing that started my lifelong obsession with their great music. 🎸
Woah, this is an unexpected treat, speaking as a lifelong Dire Straits fan! Thank you :-)
Great, thank you!
That statement about Mark appreciating equipment is 💯….. I used to work at British Grove as a freelancer before it was completed and open to the public. Mark literally spared no expense… I believe the build and outfit came in at 17m pounds sterling… they even completely re-rewired the insides of a new API legacy to improve noise. That place was an engineers heaven.
The amount of work in this album is incredible. Total perfectionists.
The must have album of the 80’s especially when you had a new format to launch……from memory was the first DDD all digital rock album?
If I remember correctly it was the very first DDD album released of any genre
Still one of my favourite albums! Never skip a track when I listen to it 👌🏻
Yes one of my first cds I bought.
The FIRST CD I ever purchased on release day back in 1985, I still have it. Also the first main stream DDD disc.
Love this. Great job producing this video. ✨
Thank you! 🙏
Every song is so good. One of my favorite albums of all time.
I didn't expect you to cover so much relevant, interesting ground in ten minutes. Crikey!
Brothers in Arms was a very important album for me, being part of a mid-teens bridge from practising for piano exams/grades to music becoming a fundamental part of who I was and am.
Four live shows recorded on two VHS cassettes from the telly - Genesis' Mama tour, Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms tour, Queen at Wembley '86 & Jean Michele Jarres's Rendezvous Houston - exposed me to new musical worlds and targets for pocket money, Brothers in Arms among them.
What a brilliant backstory! Very interesting! I love this album but I've always been in love with On Every Street. That album, to me, is one of the best sounding albums ever released. So clean, so defined, yet so warm and comfortable. If you're ever doing another Dire Straits breakdown, that could be cool!
Good call, another great album!
I recently bought the vinyl remaster to on every street....its so good
Analogue , digital
It’s all who’s mixin’ the ingredients ❤
It was when we purchased our first CD players and the first popular CD marked as "DDD".
Plus it features several longversions of their songs.
40 years later now it's still great and somehow timeless.
What an absolutely fantastic and informative video. This album is in my top 10 and has been since it came out. I bought it on CD, my first CD to be precise and the Sony CD player i bought to listen to it, with Sennheiser HD450's really did it justice. I still have all 3 items. Headphones have had various ear foam pads replaced but all in good working order. On another note, On every street and Love over gold are close behind BIA. The 3 albums are my favourite Straits studio albums. I'll happily loose hours and hours tinkling along on my synths or smashing away on the drums to all of them.
Thank you for sharing with this video
Thank you! I’m really happy you enjoyed it. 😃
Music recording really is an absolutely fascinating science with so many variables.
But the funny (and obvious) thing is, at the end of the day, if the tunes or musicians are no good, it doesn’t matter how good the recording is.
I use 'Ride across the River' as a reference track for all my audio choices. It is such a legendary album.
For DireStraits fans (and others) I recomend to read the Dire Straits`s bass player`s John Illsley book. Many many insight facts and stories about this album and all the history of this band.
I have that album on vinyl and it still blows your head. The sound is very punchy. Like Thriller.
It is really is punchy and dynamic! I wish all records were still like that.
Another awesome album breakdown. Superb stuff. Thanks so much👍
Thank you!
0:10 owned this exact model of Phillips of CD player.
Still have?
Me too!
These old ass CD players are still around and many of them still work! Even if they don't, the laser pickup can probably be replaced with a new one for a few bucks are they're better than new.
I have a 30+ year old Philips CD920 player, a new-old-stock laser pickup for 50 bucks and it sounds better than the day it was new.
Remarkable technology for a cheap consumer product!
Me too. I still have it
We had this one too - Philips CD-100, and I have the original CD pressing of BIA. Subsequent remasters ruined the dynamics with added compression, etc.
I'll never forget hearing Money For Nothing on the radio when the record was coming out, not knowing who it was and wondering if it was new music from Dire Straights. That guitar sound is unmistakable. This album became the biggest thing in the country at the time and, unfortunately, spelled the end for the band with it's enormous success. 😥
Yeah, I remember it being massive at that time and everybody buying CD players to listen to it.
Great choice for video! Another great one🤙
Thank you! 😃
That was awesome. Such a brilliant album!!
Sure is, thank you!
I was always aware of the part Sting played in the making of Brothers in Arms. What I didn’t know was that Dire Straits had also recruited Omar, who had also accompanied Sting in 1985, to add his drum stylings.
Great album, all the Dire Straits albums have an amazing sound quality to be fair.
Thanks for this very informative video.
Nicely done. 🇺🇸
Thank you! 🙏
LOVE this. Thank you for making this amazing video.
Thank you!
I’ve just read John Illsley’s autobiography - so it was nice to find out some more about such an interesting time. Many thanks.
That’s great, thank you!
This is immense
Thank you! 😀
The bit about the CD is so relevant. I was on-air at a large-market rock FM station when that album came out, and it was the move for the station from mostly vinyl to lots of CD's. Lovely DENON CD players, crystal clear sound, until the cd got scratched or gobbed on by the overnight jock. I believe that's where Max Headroom originated.
I don’t know what it is about this album, but it had a profound influence on my own music, I’ve heard thousands of times, and my music sounds nothing like dire straits, but I will say knoflers collaboration with Dylan on Infidels, was even bigger to me, but Brothers will always be top of my list, though I felt Mark held back to much on this album, I can hear him shredding it on why worry, and your latest trick, and the title track, but he held back, only leaving me to wonder what could’ve been, but that’s one of the things about Marks mystique that makes me admire him even more, some folks thinks it’s overrated, but I’ve introduced this album to many people that had only heard of it. So maybe time and history will judge it properly
Great info , I remember my dad buying the cd
Thank you!!
Notable: as mentioned, but rarely acknowledged or known, the album was *recorded* and mixed down to digital tape but not *processed* digitally. Even the original mastering (Bob Ludwig) was re-done later, once DSP had improved enough to do it justice.
Top album. The SACD version sounds amazing.
Yeah i got that and it sounds so good on regular cd players!
Great video!
Thank you!
A never to be repeated era in history, there is just not this kind of money in the music business nowadays.. These kind of resources cannot be retrieved through music sales, CD's were massively overprices £18, and companies made a fortune, Dire Straits could not exist now.
Omar Hakim was flown in to replace Terry Williams drums.
I think the drums sound like a drum machine on this album.
The “ Michael Schenker cocked wah “effect is only partly responsible for his unique tone on Money . There’s a weird phase cancellation going on between the two amps , mic placement and the room itself . One of the main reasons why he never , as good as he is , nailed the sound live . Excellent video, thank you ;)
It was said recently that one of the mics had fallen over, resulting in the phase change. I believe it was when it was time to mix that this was figured out.
Makes perfect sense!
The preset wah was used live, the studio 'honk' tone on MFN was only the accidental mic placement.
amazing channel! thanks
Thank You!
I had the LP and the sound on there was already totally bonkers.
There is a Documentary on Air Monserat Studios, amazing story. Jimmy Buffett recorded "Volcano" as the first recording at the studio. Sadly, the islands volcano erupted an destroyed the studio about 10 years after it was built.
It’s a great documentary, it is really sad what happened to it.
Ry Cooder's "Bop Until You Drop" was the first fully digitally recorded album, it came out in 1979. Recorded on a 32 track machine built by 3M, it far preceded the exquisite "Brothers In Arms", but unfortunately CD players weren't available then, and the vinyl recording was panned as sounding too thin and a bit lifeless.. The first commercial available CD player was the Sony CDP-101, relapsed in 1982..
Wow, 79! Incredible, sounds really decent as well!
Great video, I wish it would also mention the title track Brother In Arms and the guitar sound they achieved in that great recording. Cheers
Omar Hakim, wow I had no idea!
In 1985 the firm i worked at was taken over and everyone was re employed by the new company and given a sum of money i bought a cd player and brothers in arms ,cd player got worn out but the disc is still going strong
It was such a tragic loss, that the studio in Monserrat was destroyed by a storm and flood. Everything was wrecked.
Didn’t know that. That is a shame.
We still have that original CD at my father’s place...
not to be "that guy" but Ron Eve is the man on the right laughing, and the man on the left is Joop de Korte
Really well done sound...Dorfsman and Knopfler took what seemed rootsy in nature...Ry Cooder was doing the same. I feel this lp is still a high-water mark in production. Where'd Dorfsman go? Also thanks for the vid
Very interesting documentary! Brothers in arms is not my favourite Dire Straits album although it contains with Money for Nothing and the title track one of the best Dire Straits songs ever. The Studio at Montserrat must have been a nice place. For me as a big Rolling Stones fan it has a special meaning. Mick and Keith ended their so-called third world war fight there and started to produce their 1989 comeback album Steel Wheels.
Unfortunately this studio doesn't exist anymore because of a big volcanic eruption that totally destroyed this venue.
Thank you!
replacing 2 bandmembers whilst recordin abroad must have been a challenge. How do you keep friction/drama out of it or can you channel it into a positive outcome? who played drums on the tour?
Williams was back for the tour unbelievably! You have to have a thick skin to be a top musician.
200 date tour!?
I'm glad i still own the original pressing of the BIA CD. The subsequent ones ruined the dynamics with the added compression and mid-bass boost EQ, and rolled-off treble.
Me too, the dynamics are incredible on the original.
It always strikes me as odd so many people refer to resonator guitars as "steel guitars" when an actual steel guitar is a different instrument altogether. A steel guitar is played in a horizontal position, typically with a steel bar to fret the notes, whereas a resonator guitar is played in the traditional position. While both are guitars, each has a unique sound all their own.
Resonator’s are Steel guitars. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_guitar
That Sax intro on “Your Latest Trick” is played by Mark Knopfler.
🤣
@ no, I’m serious. Listen closely - the intro is clearly not played by the same player on the main song. I heard from someone many years ago that it’s actually MK playing the intro part.
@@mikemcgarr7881 Sorry I thought you were making a joke. I wasn't aware that Mark could even play the sax let alone pull that off. Cant seem to find any evidence that he can play anywhere.
Spared no money on equipment….. SM57 👌🏼😍🤘🏼👍🏻
Yep, everybody's got to have one 🤟
Saw the Brothers in Arms tour in ‘86. One of the 16(?) shows they played in Sydney. Would’ve loved to have seen Omar Hakim behind the kit.
I feel for Terry Williams having his tracks discarded but he really didn’t have the chops or feel that Omar (or Pick Withers) had unfortunately.
I wish we could hear Terry Williams original parts, as , to my ear, most of the drums seem light weight, their live sound , using Williams, sound far better.
funny enough, i cannot stand the sound of this record, but really enjoyed this breakdown. big respect for dire straits though. very ambitious project to do the first album on digital.
I agree, it's very, very digital.
That’s not a Neve 8078. That’s one of three consoles that were never given a series number
Recording painkiller please!
drummer, they needed Pick Withers !!!!
when did the police use Martin's studio?
They recorded Ghost in the machine and Synchronicity there.
@mixingmasteringonline I knew they were near him, didn't realize he owned the place.
Nice vid!
However this was not the first album recorded digitally. Many, even famous artists did digital recordings prior. I think even back in the 70's.
Thank you! I didn’t say it was the first though, as I’m aware that it wasn’t.
please do any of Bon Jovi albums. Thank you.
I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion!
@mixingmasteringonline The late Bruce Fairbarn got a great 80s rock sound for Bon Jovi and others. A shame he died early
0:38 RIP Albini!
I’m just working on an ‘ In Utero’ vid so it was good to sneak him in there.
Not much on how Terry Williams felt after having all his parts re-recorded. Hard to imagine why he stayed with the band to tour. Paycheck's a paycheck, I guess...
Must have thick skin as they would be quite a blow. What a pro carrying on though!
For those of us used to the metric system, it would be really nice with a "translation" on screen, when you mention the size of the room in feet. Is that 8 x 6 meters or 3 x 4? It's a small detail, but makes everything a lot easier to understand for us weird metric kind of people.
Divide by 3
Get your facts straight! The amp heard on Money for nothing is NOT a Marshall, but a Soldano SLO-100. It’s well known... And the Les Paul goes through a wah pedal as well .
I mentioned the Wah pedal being an important factor. The amp used was a Marshall JTM 45 into a Laney 4x12 speaker cabinet according to those who were present. Soldano amps were not released until 1987. Two years after the album was recorded.
Luckily Andy Summers is short
Terry Williams is the best Dire Straits drummer ever. He made the band rock. This Omar Hakim thing was a huge mistake. And one track is drum machine. Shit shit.
I'd like to her the material they recorded with Terry for sure
I highly prefer Pick Withers as best Straits drummer though. His finesse was incomparable.
Williams was the right drummer for the live tour, while Hakim was the right drummer for the studio.
It all worked out pretty splendidly in the end, although "Why Worry" is a junk ballad lullaby that had no business being on the album.