What are some of your favourite reverbs on a record? Share below! And also tell us if you have created your own reverb chambers around your house or not!
Its may sound like a bit of a copout due to it being mentioned in the video, but I've always loved the Abbey Road Studio 2 Chamber reverb sound on the early Beatles records- particularly on Please Please Me!
The reverb on Shape Of My Heart by Sting 🤩Wrote a note on my phone now; create my own reverb chamber soon. Also, the drums on Tunnel Of Love by Dire Straits, maybe not so apparent reverb but it's something about that drum sound, so good.
Many are unaware of Jimmy Page’s work during The Firm era. Mass amounts of reverb was used to good effect on his guitar work and on the first album in general. It sounds like large plate reverb but might be Lexicon PCM or similar. Probably not the easiest album to mix. Worth a listen.
Regardless of the equipment these artists had, the one thing in common was fantastic songs. Sometime I feel people are trying to find greatness in production and forgetting about the most important thing. The Song.
Absolutely! That’s a very good point indeed, regardless of how a song is recorded, it has to be a great song! As Quincy Jones said the most important things in music are ‘The Song, the song and the song’.
I have put amplifiers in different rooms for different sounds. Stairwells are often exceptional. A long while back a friend in Vienna sent an audio recording of his walk home one night. The many wonderfully varied reverb, and delay, effects he recorded were brilliant, from his voice to his footfalls to sounds of the streets at night in Vienna - all from the environments he was moving through. It was a bit of magic. I've wanted to try this throughout a recording of my own.
Absolutely Love it! Just yesterday I got inspired by Bruce Swedien for the latest 80s-inspired production! So I transformed my tiled bathroom into a chamber and re-recorded all virtual synths and snare samples with a stereo pair, put it back into the track and got a 3-D that no AI or anyone can re-produce. A flat track became a lively house and the artist was very pleased while I had a lot of fun :)
I was a student of Alex Case 12 years ago. Hands down one of the best at what he does. Still using his books, resources and foundational knowledge today. I have been following your channel for three years and it was such a pleasant surprise to see Alex with you Warren. God bless!
Thank you both for this, it's the best info for younger people I've heard in years, I'll never forget my first recording, sitting in the attic with two portable cassette players, record on one, play it back while you record the next part on the other, repeat, I thought it was the coolest thing ever, keep teaching!
Marvellous interview. This really is the way to learn. In the 70s everything I was able to do was through curiosity, limited equipment, etc. Later at college we were all told we knew nothing and that past skills amounted to nothing. DAWs are great, but building skills via imagination and engineering is where the polish is. A guitarist asked me to change his pickups because he couldn't get his "hereos" sound from the guitar. I just dialled in the sound. "All the gear and no idea." Thanks- enjoyed this. Always enjoy a bit of George Martin.
I've been to the MoTown Museum and taken the tour. [A couple of my mentors worked there back in the heyday] Part of the tour is the demonstration of the live chamber. One thing that hit me is that is the sound of a lot of the early MoTown hits. I worked early on in Artie Fields Studio in Detroit that had a whole small theater as a live chamber. The seats had been removed there were 2 Altec VOTs on the stage and a pair of EV 664s placed in the mid audience space. That chamber sounded awesome! Only problem was that there was a fire station a block away and the fire truck sirens would find their way onto mixes a bit too often.
Warren you knocked it out of the park once again! This man is a gem of a sound engineer and an educator - and he's obviously in good company here! UMASS Lowell is lucky to have him! Don't know if it was mentioned as I was multitasking as i watched, but as you know, all these acoustic spaces discussed can also be captured as impulse files and processed with several available tools. So many great creative ways to add homegrown ambiance to sounds and tracks, from early reflections in small spaces to all sorts of funky reverberations in parking garages, alleyways, canyons - anything, anywhere. Thanks for a very interesting discussion. Cheers guys!
Excellent again Warren! Masterclass in extracting the best that someone has to offer/contribute! Please explore how recordings have become too clinical. Airplanes, as in Black Country Woman & amplifier squeaks as in Part of the load by Family don't feature enough. Are we all control freaks? Warm regards from us at Electric Lady Guitars Devon UK
I recently FINALLY got my garage somewhat clean and i stuck my Golden Years ribbon mic out there and play drums in my studio with the door shut. Great boomy room sound, EQed mixed low in the mix really adds a wondeful color.
@@Producelikeapro very much, and I hadn't thought about using existing reverberation spaces around me in order to create my own unique reverb effects. I had planned on engineering and building into my own private studio a concrete basement with reflective concrete angular walls much in the idea of the reverb chambers built in the basement of the Universal Recording Studios which were designed by Les Paul prior to the construction of the Universal Studios Building, when I had land available to build a small personal studio. Now that that construction of the aforementioned personal studio is out of the picture, I'm going to utilize the ideas mentioned in this video, for unique personal reverberation sounds in the near future. Thanks for sharing this interview again! You Rock Warren!
My personal Reverb chamber is my bathroom shower, made of Travertine tile and glass. I can control the reverb intensity in some degree, by how much I open or close the shower door.
My "drum room" is an open, roughly 20x30 foot space. Bare floors, low ceiling, spongy ceiling tiles. I've recorded in a lot of different environments. Even some professional studios. The drum reverb I get in that room is fantastic. And right next to it is a little foyer that has an excellent snappy reverb as well. It almost sounds gated, it's wonderful
Key and keen observation that all great things in recorded music have been improvised... Fully behind that. Now Jimmy Paige will say he can't come up with a great solo on the spot... But he did realize he needed to work something out that struck him... He created a space to be struck.. I think that's similar to Miles Davis always wanted to get things on the first take... He might try a first take one day and if it didn't happen try again a few days later... But he wanted to be struck. That prescience to ask for room/time to be struck sometimes pressure works. Sometimes it doesn't.
My favorite reverb is the chamber reverb I used on my recording at Sunset Sound in studio 1. I have the IK Multimedia plugin so I can have those chambers on my home demos too🤘
I had always heard that descending "fame fame fame" line was sung by John Lennon. It sounds a little like him, certainly in the "natural register" part in the middle.
@@Producelikeaproyou're gonna laugh, but I saw Donny Osmond do a bit of Fame in their classic Country/Rock segments. He does that descending bit, and it actually sounds more natural (not better) than Bowie. It's on RUclips.
fascinating, i recently recorded my band in our rehearsal room. it borders directly on a stairwell (3 floors). unfortunately i was not allowed to mike up the stairwell 🤐
As technology evolves, a teaching challenge exists to foster creativity with the tools in front of you. I know as an old guy, I've seen it in my career. Gently pushing students without reminiscing is hard (even harder the grayer I get). Emerick's Beatles book is full of "making due" examples to achieve the sound the Beatles heard in their heads. For example, Lennon wanted the nastiest guitar tone for Revolution, Emerick overdrove the sound board (a fire-able offensive). The chamber reverb challenge is an innovative teaching approach for resource-contained students. Thanks for the conversation.
Great video! Its not the tools..., its the performance....I have been recording bands now for a year or so , and its so much easier to mix great performances then things that you have to salvage the good bits..... Like knopfler said....."you cant polish muck"... :D
I have to point out that the top tracks of 2022 you (Warren) reviewed reinforced that idea that we home producers are excluded from recording and producing excellent music. (Not to mentionTaylor Swift was pointed out as a great role model for young girls...have you seen her occult/satanic videos of recent years?)
Hello! Actually there was a couple of home spun, recorded by the artist tracks in there! There’s plenty of great music being created very inexpensive my!
Yes, Mozart was born a genius and he also worked at it with his father's influence... Mozart wrote his 25th symphony at 17 and ALL 5 of his violin concerto's at 19 and they are still part of the standard repetoire...
@@tomasolsson6493Another ingredient that often helped artists get proficient at producing excellent product was being in contact with already proficient creatives who mentored them.
I enjoy Malcolm Gladwell’s view on this:- ‘Mozart was forced to practice instruments from the tender age of three. In childhood he accrued those 10,000 hours of practice and perhaps more. By the time he was 20, Mozart had banked roughly 50,000 hours of musicianship, which meant that when he entered adulthood, he was already a bonafide virtuoso.’
@@Producelikeapro On at least 2 instruments because he wrote all his violin concertos for himself as he was prinicipal violinist in Salzburg... Forced to practice? I don't think Gladwell read any biographies or knows Mozart well... Go watch the BBC documentary in 3 parts...
What are some of your favourite reverbs on a record? Share below! And also tell us if you have created your own reverb chambers around your house or not!
Wicked Game, Orinico Flow and Avalon.
Its may sound like a bit of a copout due to it being mentioned in the video, but I've always loved the Abbey Road Studio 2 Chamber reverb sound on the early Beatles records- particularly on Please Please Me!
Guitar intro on The Doors' Love Me Two Times....wonderful.
The reverb on Shape Of My Heart by Sting 🤩Wrote a note on my phone now; create my own reverb chamber soon. Also, the drums on Tunnel Of Love by Dire Straits, maybe not so apparent reverb but it's something about that drum sound, so good.
Many are unaware of Jimmy Page’s work during The Firm era. Mass amounts of reverb was used to good effect on his guitar work and on the first album in general.
It sounds like large plate reverb but might be Lexicon PCM or similar. Probably not the easiest album to mix.
Worth a listen.
Regardless of the equipment these artists had, the one thing in common was fantastic songs. Sometime I feel people are trying to find greatness in production and forgetting about the most important thing. The Song.
Absolutely! That’s a very good point indeed, regardless of how a song is recorded, it has to be a great song! As Quincy Jones said the most important things in music are ‘The Song, the song and the song’.
I have put amplifiers in different rooms for different sounds. Stairwells are often exceptional.
A long while back a friend in Vienna sent an audio recording of his walk home one night. The many wonderfully varied reverb, and delay, effects he recorded were brilliant, from his voice to his footfalls to sounds of the streets at night in Vienna - all from the environments he was moving through. It was a bit of magic. I've wanted to try this throughout a recording of my own.
Absolutely Love it! Just yesterday I got inspired by Bruce Swedien for the latest 80s-inspired production! So I transformed my tiled bathroom into a chamber and re-recorded all virtual synths and snare samples with a stereo pair, put it back into the track and got a 3-D that no AI or anyone can re-produce. A flat track became a lively house and the artist was very pleased while I had a lot of fun :)
This is a really neat idea
That's amazing Ady! You Rock my friend!
Yes, marvellous!@@Positive_Tea
I was a student of Alex Case 12 years ago. Hands down one of the best at what he does. Still using his books, resources and foundational knowledge today. I have been following your channel for three years and it was such a pleasant surprise to see Alex with you Warren. God bless!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you both for this, it's the best info for younger people I've heard in years, I'll never forget my first recording, sitting in the attic with two portable cassette players, record on one, play it back while you record the next part on the other, repeat, I thought it was the coolest thing ever, keep teaching!
Thanks ever so much! Really glad you enjoyed it
Marvellous interview. This really is the way to learn. In the 70s everything I was able to do was through curiosity, limited equipment, etc. Later at college we were all told we knew nothing and that past skills amounted to nothing. DAWs are great, but building skills via imagination and engineering is where the polish is. A guitarist asked me to change his pickups because he couldn't get his "hereos" sound from the guitar. I just dialled in the sound. "All the gear and no idea." Thanks- enjoyed this. Always enjoy a bit of George Martin.
Love the reference to massive attack and portishead. Two of my go to references. Underrated but amazing. Thanks to you both xx
YES! Two incredible bands!
I've been to the MoTown Museum and taken the tour. [A couple of my mentors worked there back in the heyday] Part of the tour is the demonstration of the live chamber. One thing that hit me is that is the sound of a lot of the early MoTown hits.
I worked early on in Artie Fields Studio in Detroit that had a whole small theater as a live chamber. The seats had been removed there were 2 Altec VOTs on the stage and a pair of EV 664s placed in the mid audience space. That chamber sounded awesome! Only problem was that there was a fire station a block away and the fire truck sirens would find their way onto mixes a bit too often.
Warren you knocked it out of the park once again! This man is a gem of a sound engineer and an educator - and he's obviously in good company here! UMASS Lowell is lucky to have him! Don't know if it was mentioned as I was multitasking as i watched, but as you know, all these acoustic spaces discussed can also be captured as impulse files and processed with several available tools. So many great creative ways to add homegrown ambiance to sounds and tracks, from early reflections in small spaces to all sorts of funky reverberations in parking garages, alleyways, canyons - anything, anywhere. Thanks for a very interesting discussion. Cheers guys!
Thanks ever so much Charles! I really appreciate it
Alex Case is such a wealth of knowledge. I remember going to one of his lectures at AES and it was great. So cool seeing him here!
We love Alex! Wonderful guy
This was super cool! My friend and I did this in his basement bathroom and the results were phenomenal. Using reverb on a fader felt so sweet
Thanks ever so much Lee!
Loving this! So great. I appreciate when the professionals share ideas for the home recording environment.
You're very welcome!
Excellent again Warren!
Masterclass in extracting the best that someone has to offer/contribute!
Please explore how recordings have become too clinical.
Airplanes, as in Black Country Woman & amplifier squeaks as in Part of the load by Family don't feature enough. Are we all control freaks?
Warm regards from us at Electric Lady Guitars Devon UK
I'm partial to the entry way at Headley Grange
Haha indeed!! Me too
I recently FINALLY got my garage somewhat clean and i stuck my Golden Years ribbon mic out there and play drums in my studio with the door shut.
Great boomy room sound, EQed mixed low in the mix really adds a wondeful color.
That is awesome!
Jackson Browne. Late For The Sky. Love this reverb!
Absolutely
This interview was awesome Warren! Love the knowledge shared!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@Producelikeapro very much, and I hadn't thought about using existing reverberation spaces around me in order to create my own unique reverb effects. I had planned on engineering and building into my own private studio a concrete basement with reflective concrete angular walls much in the idea of the reverb chambers built in the basement of the Universal Recording Studios which were designed by Les Paul prior to the construction of the Universal Studios Building, when I had land available to build a small personal studio. Now that that construction of the aforementioned personal studio is out of the picture, I'm going to utilize the ideas mentioned in this video, for unique personal reverberation sounds in the near future.
Thanks for sharing this interview again! You Rock Warren!
Short and sweet but rock solid as always. Can’t wait for the next one.
Thanks ever so much
Absolutely loved this conversation!!!
Thanks ever so much
My personal Reverb chamber is my bathroom shower, made of Travertine tile and glass. I can control the reverb intensity in some degree, by how much I open or close the shower door.
That's amazing! Thanks for sharing
My "drum room" is an open, roughly 20x30 foot space. Bare floors, low ceiling, spongy ceiling tiles. I've recorded in a lot of different environments. Even some professional studios. The drum reverb I get in that room is fantastic. And right next to it is a little foyer that has an excellent snappy reverb as well. It almost sounds gated, it's wonderful
Key and keen observation that all great things in recorded music have been improvised... Fully behind that. Now Jimmy Paige will say he can't come up with a great solo on the spot... But he did realize he needed to work something out that struck him... He created a space to be struck.. I think that's similar to Miles Davis always wanted to get things on the first take... He might try a first take one day and if it didn't happen try again a few days later... But he wanted to be struck. That prescience to ask for room/time to be struck sometimes pressure works. Sometimes it doesn't.
My favorite reverb is the chamber reverb I used on my recording at Sunset Sound in studio 1. I have the IK Multimedia plugin so I can have those chambers on my home demos too🤘
Great plug in! Big fan
Gentlemen that was a great chat, down to the bone. Great stuff, thanks very much
Thanks ever so much Joey!
this is great suggestion to build our ownreverb chambers. keep up the great work!
Thank you very much!
I had always heard that descending "fame fame fame" line was sung by John Lennon. It sounds a little like him, certainly in the "natural register" part in the middle.
Yes! That was him, I do believe it was alongside Bowie, at least that's what it sounds like to me!
@@Producelikeaproyou're gonna laugh, but I saw Donny Osmond do a bit of Fame in their classic Country/Rock segments. He does that descending bit, and it actually sounds more natural (not better) than Bowie.
It's on RUclips.
@@rumginrayhaha that’s great!
great video thank you both
Thanks ever so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it
Wonderful...
Thanks ever so much!
fascinating, i recently recorded my band in our rehearsal room. it borders directly on a stairwell (3 floors). unfortunately i was not allowed to mike up the stairwell 🤐
You couldn't sneak a mic up there without them noticing?
@@Producelikeapro our door must remain closed . it's a complex of buildings where a lot of bands rehearse ...
So cool!
Thanks ever so much!
As technology evolves, a teaching challenge exists to foster creativity with the tools in front of you. I know as an old guy, I've seen it in my career. Gently pushing students without reminiscing is hard (even harder the grayer I get). Emerick's Beatles book is full of "making due" examples to achieve the sound the Beatles heard in their heads. For example, Lennon wanted the nastiest guitar tone for Revolution, Emerick overdrove the sound board (a fire-able offensive). The chamber reverb challenge is an innovative teaching approach for resource-contained students. Thanks for the conversation.
Tremendous episode.
Thanks ever so much
@12:16 I think Jim Morrison recorded the vocals for the LA Woman album in the bathroom
Great video! Its not the tools..., its the performance....I have been recording bands now for a year or so , and its so much easier to mix great performances then things that you have to salvage the good bits.....
Like knopfler said....."you cant polish muck"... :D
🎉🎉🎉🎉
Marvellous
😊
Thanks ever so much
I have to point out that the top tracks of 2022 you (Warren) reviewed reinforced that idea that we home producers are excluded from recording and producing excellent music. (Not to mentionTaylor Swift was pointed out as a great role model for young girls...have you seen her occult/satanic videos of recent years?)
Hello! Actually there was a couple of home spun, recorded by the artist tracks in there! There’s plenty of great music being created very inexpensive my!
All I see are those Genelec's in the background.
They are rather wonderful aren’t they?
Absolutely!
Yes, Mozart was born a genius and he also worked at it with his father's influence... Mozart wrote his 25th symphony at 17 and ALL 5 of his violin concerto's at 19 and they are still part of the standard repetoire...
Yeah. You will never be great at anything without being born will a big talent. Only big talent + hard work will get you greatness 😊
@@tomasolsson6493Another ingredient that often helped artists get proficient at producing excellent product was being in contact with already proficient creatives who mentored them.
I enjoy Malcolm Gladwell’s view on this:- ‘Mozart was forced to practice instruments from the tender age of three. In childhood he accrued those 10,000 hours of practice and perhaps more. By the time he was 20, Mozart had banked roughly 50,000 hours of musicianship, which meant that when he entered adulthood, he was already a bonafide virtuoso.’
@@Producelikeapro On at least 2 instruments because he wrote all his violin concertos for himself as he was prinicipal violinist in Salzburg... Forced to practice? I don't think Gladwell read any biographies or knows Mozart well... Go watch the BBC documentary in 3 parts...
Yeah the Beatles are still the best.
Probably always will be.
Classical interview mistake: opinionated host and opinionated guest, not disagreeing on even one thing.