Music Production From The 80's Until Now: How Has It CHANGED? With Dennis Ward
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- To start 2024 off with bang today I am interviewing Rock/Metal Producer Dennis Ward who boasts a prolific career as a Producer, Mixer. Bass Player, Singer and Composer.
Dennis is a mentor at our friends Academy the Kohle Audio Kult and has a great new course mixing Ex Ozzy Osbourne Guitarist Gus G’s band ‘Firewind’ who blend elements of traditional heavy metal and power metal.
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The song Dennis breaks down, “Ode To Leonidas" is from the "IMMORTALS" album and is one of FIREWIND's biggest hits. It's an epic yet heavy Power Metal banger! There are 32 Lessons and 2.5 Hours of course. A fantastic course explained by one of the best Metal and Hard Rock Producers/Mixers in the business!
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How do you think recording has changed from the '80s until now? Is it better or worse? Please let us know below! Check out Dennis' 'Firewind' Mixing course here:- www.kohleaudiokult.com/courses/the-firewind-mixing-ritual
Yowsa! In so many ways. Where do we start?
It's many the lack ion live interaction between musicians that's missed
Try and start! Haha@@spitfiremusic3997 would love to hear!
Agreed, bug part of it all@@thesongacademy5017
It's easier in terms of getting sounds recorded, but there is so much that can be done in the digital world, seems like there are too many choices. But wouldn't trade it for only tape.
Musicians paying attention to each other, working around each others grooves is what I loved about the past. Listening. That's what it's all about
I still try to encourage that as much as possible
H-E-Double Hockey Sticks and a YEEEAAAH!!
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Dennis is a great guy, wonderful interview gentlemen
Thanks ever so much!
Great stuff, gentlemen.
Thanks ever so much!
Dennis is by far, the most talented and versatile musican, songwriter, singer and producer you can ask for.....beside that he's also the most humble guy and funny as hell. Glad to know him, work with him for longer then 20 years......🔥
That's wonderful to hear! Thanks ever so much for sharing! Yes, Dennis seems like a truly wonderful guy to say the least!
Dennis Ward great songwriter. Love the stuff he did with Place Vendome
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
@@Producelikeapro Thank you Warren! This is great!
Marvellous!@@trollstjerne glad you enjoy it!
Very nice interview. Well, that didn't sound like an interview at all. I was drawn in and happy to be a part of the discussion, remembering, as a kid, my early fascination recording everything with my Radio Shack 3 inch reel to reel. I'm an old guy and can still get excited dreaming of oxide build up and hugging my Ampex 440's in the 70's. Ping ponging was all the rage. Loved the fun of this video. I'm 70 and have no fear of digital in the box or experimental mic placement.
Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks so much for having me!
You Rock my friend!!
You Rock my friend!!
Great having Dennis here
Thanks!
Played with Vinnie Moore live, too. Love his bass tone in Unisonic ❤🫡
Yes! Wonderful tone
Boom! So great to watch the two of you 🤘❤️
Yes, Dennis is a Prince! Great guy!
The Course is fantastic! Thanks guys. KAK Rocks!
Yes! It certainly does Rock!
Great video, very interesting conversation. Thank you Dennis and Warren.
Thanks ever so much Marc!
Hey! I was on High Gain Records with PC69! Great band!
Very cool!
another great interview thank you to both 🙏🏼
Thanks ever so much
Excellent chat, loving this
Dennis is great!
Great interview. Thanks very much
Thanks Joey!
Wonderful interview, glad he's putting up some content. Thank you both.
Thanks ever so much!
I agree David, love Dennis
He is rather good isn't he?@@timbrown7652
What an awesome producer and epic course! \m/
Thanks ever so much Eric!
One thing I always notice when people talk about Producers is how they always weight it on the musical expertise, when there is much much more to it than that. When I had to privledge to sit down with Producer Extraordinaire, Bruce Fairbairn (RIP), he discounted his musical chops (he was a great horn player) and emphasized how much of the busine$s side of it is where the rubber hits the road, keeping everyone engaged, on track, not wasting time etc. This is way too often overlooked...
Agreed! Being the organiser, the person who drives the ship, listens to everyone, encourages creativity, all the while making sure the record is done in time and on budget is huge!
Loving everything Kohle Audio Kult
Yes! Me too! Great community!
Great stuff Gents
Thanks ever so much!
@denniswardstrakshack is bad ass. It's awesome that he's on the PLAP team! More people need to know about this dude!
Thanks ever so much!
I always wondered which genres would be covered in the mixing courses, of course after purchase I see they cater to a WIDE variety. First video was an excellent tutorial on mixing one of the hardest trap based hip hop I've heard in a while with Mr Chobaz, just what I wanted, all the best to the other members, day 1 begins...
Thanks ever so much for sharing! Glad you’re enjoying the videos
Seems to me every genre is covered by Pro Mix Academy
Yes! It certainly is!@@timbrown7652
Awesome interview!!!
Thanks ever so much Anthony!
Came back to this video because of the instagram post!
Thanks! Yes, Dennis rules!
It's all in how you use the technology, not the technology itself. Dennis proves this by talking about how his older stuff sounds better to him when he had less tracks and musicians played together more in a room rather than just overdubbing and editing
Extremely well said!
Awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it
back then you didnt "fix it in post"... you baked some magic in. still need to
Yes! Joe Chicarelli said you had to impress the next person! Had to sound like a record faders up and panned
Pink Cream 69 were great and their albums sounded excellent. Thunderdome is one of my favourite albums of all time.
Dennis!!
YES! Dennis!
DA/88/ADAT - those were the days, but I don't miss 'em! (o:
Haha I hear you
@@Producelikeapro - Back in '97 and '98 I recorded 2 albums on either ADAT or DA/88's - the first one we mixed on a Neve and the other on an SSL. One thought: I love how mastering seems to be the "dark art" in all of this - that final, stick-a-fork-in-it process. I just got to re-visit a project from 20 years ago that I had literally done everything but play on - the artist wanted to finally upload to Spotify - and I was surprised how *close* it was as is - no re-mixing at all, but yeah, I did tweak a few things on the 2-mix... love your stuff - and I live 45 minutes from Sweetwater - I missed you!
Tape forced us to listen more to each other, limited track count as well made that happen
That's very true! You can do that in any DAW as well!
Yeah Dennis 🤘🤘
Marvellous!
Dennis and Warren are both different beasts. I will say 90s rock alt metal whatever had some of the best products man. Everything now uses the same 10 drum samples. Over compressed. Blah blah. Quantized to hell. Listen to RHCP or Alice n Chains or later Aerosmith. Freaking crazy nutty productions. A lot on tape too. I feel like a naked child with everything being so easy now. Spoiled with modern technology for sure. It's great but I would have loved to be back in those big classic studios just to see what is going on. Great conversation
Thanks ever so much for sharing
Man, I never understand where the hard line is between tracking, mixing and mastering... I get that there's a difference, but I'm thinking about how I'm gonna mix things when I'm choosing and placing mics, or front-end hardware, and I'm thinking about how I'm gonna master while I'm mixing. I'm leaving the holes I'm gonna fill later. But for that same reason, I struggle like hell to get great results in any setting where I'm NOT doing all that stuff myself from the ground up.
I might want to reach out to Dennis here though... I like his attitude and mindset a lot and I have a hard time finding anyone that seems to be on the same page about production. (Could just be the limits of my wallet, but at any budget point I cannot seem to find anyone I would even /want/ to raise funds for my band to hire!)
Hi, first of all you should not be thinking about mixing or mastering while tracking and equally you should not think about mastering when mixing. Just go one step at a time and try to reach your goal as well as possible. A good mastering doesn't mean a lot of stuff is going on. The same goes for Mixing, it's all about good judgement in the moment. Basically it's like this: If you don't like your snare/guitar/bass sound when you record it you surely won't like it much more when it's mixed and if you don't like your mix before mastering the might be marginal improvement but you won't be totally satisfied. Trying things out in the recording part is usually more effective than trying to "fix it in the mix".
@@DennisWardsTrakShak Thanks man, you're probably right about that and I appreciate the advice. I may be too much "in my head" when I'm doing a lot of these things, and that never creates better music anyway. I'll work harder to be present with it, and focus my efforts to improve on just supporting my ability to create something that /is/ good and then translate that to the final recording each step as I go. I suppose the challenge is in having limited resources, but I've never let that stop me before, so I don't know why I would let it stop me here either.
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Marvellous! Thanks ever so much!
I completely agree with what he's saying about modern music sounding so processed and plasticky, honestly it's a huge turn off for me for most modern music including rock. The whole "fix it in post" mentality irks me
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
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Thanks ever so much!
I don’t know any of the bands he has been involved with.
Lots of successful Hard Rock and Metal bands! Probably not your genre! That’s ok!