To comment about Expensive Digital Cables Being Worth It, I've had USB, Firewire, and Thunderbolt cables be the culprit for malfunctions. Some of them are so coy, that they'd only produce the problem about once in a 30 minute span. Only by switching out every component could I blame it on the cable. They DO go bad sometimes. I've had some experience to know that brand name cables of at least medium build tend to fail less. Trust me, change out your digital cable before you send your interface for repair.
I got kicked off a Facebook group once, simply for asking if someone had cleared samples used in a track. They said they didn't need to, the administrator of the group said I didn't know sh*t about copyright. And, long story short, I probably would have left in any case if that was the attitude in that group. Oh well. Good luck to them in court.
Almost no one who samples, including people who sample commercially, ever face a day in court. Worst case scenario is a Cease and Desist letter or takedown notice. The only scenario in which you are likely to end up in court for sampling is if you have been successful enough to make enough money to make suing you worth it. In which case... you have enough money to retain a lawyer who will advise you to... settle out of court.
@@TehAwesomer Some excellent points there. You're not exactly running much of a risk sampling to your heart's content. But just because you will get away with it, it still doesn't make it right.
@@hakonsoreide I submit that the copyright cartel extending copyright from 7-14 years until a 100+ years after the death of the creator is also "not right." Two wrongs don't make a right, but I can see a good moral and ethical argument for civil disobedience as a protest against corporate capture of copyright regulation.
@@TehAwesomer Oh, I most definitely agree. It goes against the entire spirit and intent the modern idea of copyright was founded on. It should really be 25 years from publication, or until the end of the creator's life. Culture has always thrived better when copying others have been allowed or even keenly encouraged.
Theres a bar near my house, that specializes in Jazz, uh, Ellington Jazz Club, and whoever designed the sound proofing on that places is a god. The front of the place has these big windows, but if you walk by at night, you hear NOTHING. The second the bouncer opens the door your blasted with noise, but s soon as the door closes, nothing.Oh and inside the sound is immaculate. You can have a whole room of people talking, but somehow the band on stage will be playing and you'll hear it perfectly , but its not super loud, jazz people don't roll that way. Its just... perfect. What I can tell is that the whole place seems to be a room within a room. The front doors almost like an air-lock. Two doors a foot apart. The windows have a second window, and the walls seem to be super wide. I think they literally built the whole bar (Two stories!) as a suspended studio type thing. Its wild.
Pulled the ground peg out of a Fender Twin power plug once. Touched a mike while holding my guitar and ended up not being able to let go of either while 120 volts coursed through my body. if we had been in Europe I would be dead. Don't do it kids.
Guitar Moderne, you are correct. Years ago, Keith Relf, the lead singer for the original Yardbirds, was practicing in his basement studio, and did exactly what you described. he had an ungrounded guitar, grabbed the mic, and it killed him. . .the UK has 220V AC.
@15:06 my TL;DR here is put a HPF at 120Hz on literally every channel EXCEPT your sub & kick channels... Ez. Perfectly clean sub every time. As far as mixing it, I'd never mix sub-levels based on listening anyway (I always use a frequency analyzer & references). Note: I only mix electronic music, so the violin example is probably valid, although tbh, if you're not HFP'ing a violin anyway, wtf are you doing? xD
You mention making your own samples in this, I would love to see a video of you showing how you personally go about that. I love your tube resonance video so much! I'd love to see more!
@@a_8764 Essentially just making a few bars of the style you want to sample. Say you want to make a Justice style electro house song. First, you start off by making a couple bars of just straight disco, sticking as close to possible to that 70s disco sound. And then you sample and mangle the shit out of it. No doubt this takes way more talent than sampling an existing record, because you have to know how to produce the style that you want to sample.
I would like to add that if you build a new studio you should stay away from light dimmers! Better to set up several circuits with different light sources to get that cosy feeling. Light dimmers can creata a hum extravaganza especially with electric guitars!
RE: "How do I sample" - the answers in this video were comprehensive and helpful, but they made one major assumption (it was a fine assumption) that people will be creating their sampled music in a for-profit framework. Of course this is the dominant framework for music. But isn't there more to the world of sampling? I guess I'm opening a "Fair Use" can of worms for remix and plunderphonics culture. These sample based art-forms live in a gray area out on the fringes of art. It's a worthy topic, but perhaps a ridiculous distraction from the primary question, but it's my favorite topic.
I sample and share everything that reaches me. I feel entitled and I don't care about shit. Fuck copyright law!! Because of it, regular people lost more liberties than most can imagine. In the world we live in, education is a choice. Those that stand behing copyrights are the gatekeepers, that try tо control things that are out of their control, punishing regular people only because they can. And yes, I do understand the importance of licenses, and that shit is complicated, but still...
@@legitt6093 This is bonkers. The answer is not "fuck copyright," it's "fix copyright." Do you want major record labels to be able to indiscriminately steal music from small independent artists? No? Well copyright is the only thing keeping them from doing that. Imagine if ad agencies were able to use your music in TV ads without paying you a dime. The problem is that whatever protections we give to small artists, we also have to give to major rights holders, who tend to have more money to fight lawsuits. But the answer isn't "get rid of all copyright," it should be to figure out how we prevent money from determining winners in our court systems.
DUDE!! I listened to "Arrival to an Empty Rooms" since it came out, i mustve been around 15 years old at that point. I have been revisiting "The Flashbulb" on Spotify every so often, not realising it was you lol. Only now i saw your face on Spotify and needless to say, my mind was blown haha
One thing that might get lost in this "sound proofing" discussion is: a) do you want to have the room to be for monitoring or b) do you not want the sound to get out. Some of tte answers overlap, but there's 2 different problems with 2 different solutions. Some of the solutions of making a good mixing room work for also insulatiing the room from the outside world but they are not the same thing.
Question about sampling music. What if you just do it for fun and experiment with your own creativity and practice. However, you are not making money out of it? What about these cases?
Hey great vid man, I just wanted to say about phantom power that it can fry a ribbon microphone. Granted they're not very common, you're much more likely to find a condenser and dynamic mics but hey, there are some pretty legendary ribbon mics out there, beware ;)
I haven't spent a ton of time (or money) there but I like the tracklib model - not splice sample packs, just buy a song with a streamlined clearance process.
HI Benn, I actually made a remix of your song 'I think in a minute or so I'll explode' the one that has been re-uploaded a few times... It was over ten years ago now..... I never thought to ask for a license as I didn't expect anybody to listen to it. I love your music so much. Did you ever hear it? If so did you like it?
DIMMER SWITCHES! Those switches, on floor/table lamps or wall switches and ceiling fans can cause maddening noise issues. If your outlet is on the same circuit as one of these you will get noise. My downstairs neighbor had a dimmer switch and would drive me crazy because i had no idea it was there. It was intermittent because when the switch is off the noise went away!!! Took me months before I asked him about it! I finally found a different outlet but needed a 25' extension cable lol!
Analogue gear - Its a big subject but one thing none ever talks about is capacitors reaching electron saturation. They then sound their best and this takes a long time. Black Gate capacitors we used in hifi valve amps quote 3,000 hours use before they sound their best and certainly the system, even when run in, will sound better and better over the first few hours. Many valve hifi owners switch their gear on Friday morning for the weekend, switching it off before going to work on Monday. Analogue synths really should be left on to stabilise tuning. Lastly, ANYTHING with a switch mode (computer style) power supply shoudl be left off when not in use. The PSU is switching the mains 50,000 times a second and if that switching chip doesn't die then the dumping capacitors will. Here endeth the sermon.
"How to soundproof" missed something important: direct air paths are the most problematic. Which means, it has to be airtight. Ventilation is a major issue and it requires baffles and dust filters (in this case, there is one room between the recording space and rest of the building, which could serve as a "reservoir" for air, making the direct route more complicated). Doors are the first thing to attack when doing just light soundproofing. Direct coupling has MUCH less energy that comes from air, so if you keep all vibrating things decoupled from the floor and walls (not directly connecting to them but have something soft between), that will do a lot. But, without room-in-a-room and very good air tightness where it counts, well designed ventilation... it is never going to be sound proofed, just less leakage.
I was expecting a click baity video with shallow information and I got a wealth of knowledge that was actually entertaining too! I'd love to see a similar video about the top music business questions and issues, as you clearly have the right experience as a self released artist with your own label.
Installing a new grounding rod won’t help if the wall receptacles aren’t grounded. These days, the main usage of ground is tripping the breaker in case of a fault, i.e. when there is an exposed hot wire electrifying the metal components of an appliance. This is why appliances have a green ground screw that is in direct contact with the chassis, so that the current from an exposed hot wire immediately flows into the ground wire, to the panel, and trips the breaker.
So you know that synth you pulled out to make music like you did 20 years ago with? Reverb has a fairly nice looking one up right now. Just thought I'd let you know.
First answer seems to forget a major caveat: it is legal to sample someone else’s music without a license, and copyright infringement cannot technically even happen, *if the work is in public domain*. Which even copyrighted music automatically becomes, though many years later. Be careful though, laws can be obscure and vary by country.
Important thing here is that, even if a *song* (like Beethoven's Fifth) is in public domain, *recordings* of that song can still be under copyright., and most of the recordings you can buy on CD or find on RUclips *are* under copyright. Under US law, copyright takes significantly over 50 years to expire, so the things you *can* legally sample will probably mostly be stuff that was originally recorded on shellac records or very early vinyls, with all the quality issues that period had.
alternative sound panels for dampening: I recommend getting panels made out of Basotect ... There should be some honest vendors out there who do not mark up and scalp these products to crazy prices... It is melamine-formaldehyde condensation resin foam and in ways designed by the company BASF to have sound-dampening characteristics and it does NOT cost an arm and a leg, despite many vendors telling you otherwise. A panel of this size ~39"x20"x2,8" (1000mmx500mmx30mm) is around 25euro and you should be able to get corner parts as bass traps as well for maybe 40-50... of course it is dampening and not soundproofing.
03:50 What if the album is copyleft? Like Creative Commons Non commercial, attribution, share alike license. Is that a workaround having issues with IDs?
Dude, thorough AF, wasn't expecting an avalanche of actual info, you're making other yt'rs look bad, good job! Loved the bit on my arch enemy & nemesis, copyright. Seriously, I hate it but I fear it's too late, so if I want to hear 'sorry inigo, I din't mean to jog him so hard' I'll do my own impression, out of meter and probably play that backwards for safety, ugh, I hate it I hate it I hate it!
I do remember a song with a sample of « I got a feeling » that some young talented musician created but removed from his album Such a shame for such a beautiful song
what the hell ive had an album up thats like p much 60% illegal for like 3 years...................... should i like.... do something about this? i really dont want to take it down because people like it but.................................................................. um
Brilliant summary of the "piggy bank" questions**. Of course, I had to delete my favorite (10 Euro) "Can't you filter out the vocals anyhow" sometime 10 years ago when AI-driven Stem and Track Isolation finally happened. So sad. Did mostly finance my vacation on its own.... I like you a lot, Sir! ;-)
**there's a piggy bank since my first studio in 2001 and next to it a list of stupid questions and how much they cost.
Before sampling was a thing the rule used to be 10s or 4 bars max whichever of those comes first (In the Netherlands at least)... In the '80 they changed it.. That's where the misconception comes from... Ground loop -> DI box with ground lift. Also helps with getting shocks from your mic while holding a guitar...
13:40 That’s… not the argument for high quality digital cables. Like, at all. And it’s not “just ones and zeros going from point A to point B”. You’re not physically throwing numbers down the chute. You’re sending an analog signal that’s as close as possible to a square wave, but can absolutely carry noise. Does it matter in music production? Almost certainly not.
I just got an ad with the title "Small Chested Women Deserve Better" from the brasserie brand "Pepper" while playing this video. At least RUclips's ad algo didn't show that ad on your video "Why Aren't There More Female Producers?"! 😅
Comments from an Electronics Engineer- Leaving electronics on causes earlier death of electrolytic capacitors in power supplies - since they are converting AC to DC they charge during the AC peak and discharge the other time - that ages them. If it is designed well (which is not necessarily anything to do with price) they could live longer than you or I. In PC power supplies though they skimp like crazy which is why you need to buy a new PC PSU every few years but not with audio gear. Earth loops - ethernet is transformer isolated and will not contribute to earth loops. The shielding on RCA cables does. The loops are made from a continous earth connection between devices via main power earth and signal RCA cable earths. Note you only need to connect two mains powered devices via 1 RCA cable and you have an earth loop. Any wire carrying AC current that passes through this loop forms a transformer and transforms it's voltage into the RCA cables shield and power cable earth which then is effectively added to the signal in the RCA cable. So do that powerboard trick, but also watch the path each cable takes to avoid loops. NOTE this is entirely separate to the no-earth problem which is where you need to fix your houses earth connection, both yield the hum.
@13:41 that's actually not entirely true. Sure, a good digital signal will be indistinguishable, yes. But bad cables can cause lots of issue, hdmi is a good example, some cables don't have the right pins connected properly and signal quality is important especially for bandwidth needs, that's why expensive cable testers can give you an eye graph, LTT has a good video about this.
The answer to ground loop is so unnecessarily long and over complicated. Buying a DI box for less than $100 dollars will invert the frequency and cancel out the hum, the chain is: Instrument to DI to mixing desk so much of a simpler solution, and perfect tour gear
I used to leave my studio monitors on all the time but then had a day long brown out. Lights were just barely visible. I was not home at the time so the monitors were on like this for a few hours. Within a week both of them stopped working. (capacitors)
Get 2 subs! And ones that are designed to cut somewhere above 100hz for more musical integration. It solves a lot of the problems people have (usually smoother room mode distribution) and it'll blend in with your speakers much easier, ime. Get 2 smaller/cheaper ones if you have to or better yet build your own with serious scaffolding inside.
I remember reading many times that the Saturn V rocket was the loudest noise ever produced by man, but the levels were only estimates at 190 - 210 decibels.
1:55 - Don’t forget that, in the US at least, there is that bizarre loophole that means you can seemingly ride roughshod over copyright IF it’s seen to be satirical to a judge…🤷♂️
Man, copyright law and licensing is difficult to understand. How do you verify that a song doesn't have a license and could be sampled? Because there are entire genres of music (vaporwave and future funk) that rely on samples and I don't see how they can exist.
So I've been following the channel for a long time and I just realized he was The Flashbulb all along... I feel so stupid. Yeah once I used lawn wake to wake up a sleeping guy in my house after a party, that was fun.
I remember once at guitar center, the guy behind the desk in pro-audio asked if I wanted to purchase a Mogami MIDI cable ... told him my midi was clean enough.
Hey Benn! I just wondered if there's any reason as to why "Programmable Love Songs" isn't on Spotity? I absolutely love that album, as it is very nostalgic to me. Much love
Ground loops are not necessary an issue with the 120v side of power distribution. Loops can also come from the low voltage side of a power supplys that's built into hardware. Basically two power supplies are not playing nice with one another and power is trying to move from one source to another.... They make ground lift boxes and transformer isolation boxes to prevent this type of interference.
What if I made a wavetable out of a sample or song on Audacity, plugged that wavetable into a wavetable synth and made a patch out of it? Would using that patch in a commercial recording be violating copyright law since the wavetable was sourced from copyrighted material? Is there even a way to prove that the wavetable's source is a copyrighted recording?
Extra info about phantom power: never use it for dynamic microphones (unless you have an active pre that requires it) and turn it off before unplugging the mic! I did kill my lovely Alesis io2 with the latter.
gotta admit when i clicked on this video i didn't expect the fiverr doctor to play a major part in it. life is full of wonderful surprises
he's one of the most prolific people on youtube and doesn't even have a channel
You just solved like 3 problems for me that have been driving me crazy for the last week.
good for you :}
To comment about Expensive Digital Cables Being Worth It, I've had USB, Firewire, and Thunderbolt cables be the culprit for malfunctions. Some of them are so coy, that they'd only produce the problem about once in a 30 minute span. Only by switching out every component could I blame it on the cable. They DO go bad sometimes. I've had some experience to know that brand name cables of at least medium build tend to fail less.
Trust me, change out your digital cable before you send your interface for repair.
Having the doctor ask the questions makes it 10x better😂
Superb video as always, Benn. Excellent info.
I got kicked off a Facebook group once, simply for asking if someone had cleared samples used in a track. They said they didn't need to, the administrator of the group said I didn't know sh*t about copyright. And, long story short, I probably would have left in any case if that was the attitude in that group. Oh well. Good luck to them in court.
Almost no one who samples, including people who sample commercially, ever face a day in court. Worst case scenario is a Cease and Desist letter or takedown notice. The only scenario in which you are likely to end up in court for sampling is if you have been successful enough to make enough money to make suing you worth it. In which case... you have enough money to retain a lawyer who will advise you to... settle out of court.
@@TehAwesomer Some excellent points there. You're not exactly running much of a risk sampling to your heart's content. But just because you will get away with it, it still doesn't make it right.
@@hakonsoreide I submit that the copyright cartel extending copyright from 7-14 years until a 100+ years after the death of the creator is also "not right." Two wrongs don't make a right, but I can see a good moral and ethical argument for civil disobedience as a protest against corporate capture of copyright regulation.
@@TehAwesomer Oh, I most definitely agree. It goes against the entire spirit and intent the modern idea of copyright was founded on. It should really be 25 years from publication, or until the end of the creator's life. Culture has always thrived better when copying others have been allowed or even keenly encouraged.
You mention grounding rods in this video. It'd be great to see you sink your own 'audio grade' grounding rod.
"a sub woooooofer?" 😂
Can I sample the doctor's question about sub-woofers?
I have a friend who died on stage (he had to be brought back to life) due to a bad ground loop. DO NOT take the ground loop plug off of your stuff.
Theres a bar near my house, that specializes in Jazz, uh, Ellington Jazz Club, and whoever designed the sound proofing on that places is a god. The front of the place has these big windows, but if you walk by at night, you hear NOTHING. The second the bouncer opens the door your blasted with noise, but s soon as the door closes, nothing.Oh and inside the sound is immaculate. You can have a whole room of people talking, but somehow the band on stage will be playing and you'll hear it perfectly , but its not super loud, jazz people don't roll that way. Its just... perfect. What I can tell is that the whole place seems to be a room within a room. The front doors almost like an air-lock. Two doors a foot apart. The windows have a second window, and the walls seem to be super wide. I think they literally built the whole bar (Two stories!) as a suspended studio type thing. Its wild.
Pulled the ground peg out of a Fender Twin power plug once. Touched a mike while holding my guitar and ended up not being able to let go of either while 120 volts coursed through my body. if we had been in Europe I would be dead. Don't do it kids.
Electrocuted myself because someone did this to the twin at my high-school... smh
Must be something that has been recommended after many complaining of ground hum problems with the twin. Interesting🤔
Guitar Moderne, you are correct. Years ago, Keith Relf, the lead singer for the original Yardbirds, was practicing in his basement studio, and did exactly what you described. he had an ungrounded guitar, grabbed the mic, and it killed him. . .the UK has 220V AC.
The (mandatory ?) residual-current device (RCD) is normally there to help, certainly by now where most stuff hasn't a ground plug.
some famous musicians died on stage because of that
@15:06 my TL;DR here is put a HPF at 120Hz on literally every channel EXCEPT your sub & kick channels... Ez. Perfectly clean sub every time. As far as mixing it, I'd never mix sub-levels based on listening anyway (I always use a frequency analyzer & references). Note: I only mix electronic music, so the violin example is probably valid, although tbh, if you're not HFP'ing a violin anyway, wtf are you doing? xD
You mention making your own samples in this, I would love to see a video of you showing how you personally go about that. I love your tube resonance video so much! I'd love to see more!
Doesn't "making your own samples" just mean actually composing original music?
@@a_8764 im p sure he means recording random stuff etc but yh
@@a_8764 Essentially just making a few bars of the style you want to sample.
Say you want to make a Justice style electro house song.
First, you start off by making a couple bars of just straight disco, sticking as close to possible to that 70s disco sound.
And then you sample and mangle the shit out of it. No doubt this takes way more talent than sampling an existing record, because you have to know how to produce the style that you want to sample.
I would like to add that if you build a new studio you should stay away from light dimmers! Better to set up several circuits with different light sources to get that cosy feeling. Light dimmers can creata a hum extravaganza especially with electric guitars!
facts. I built my studio with dimmers and I had to remove them because they were incredibly noisy.
Anything I learn about dimmers is just straight up f you to anything in that electrical system its put in.
RE: "How do I sample" - the answers in this video were comprehensive and helpful, but they made one major assumption (it was a fine assumption) that people will be creating their sampled music in a for-profit framework. Of course this is the dominant framework for music. But isn't there more to the world of sampling? I guess I'm opening a "Fair Use" can of worms for remix and plunderphonics culture. These sample based art-forms live in a gray area out on the fringes of art. It's a worthy topic, but perhaps a ridiculous distraction from the primary question, but it's my favorite topic.
I sample and share everything that reaches me. I feel entitled and I don't care about shit. Fuck copyright law!! Because of it, regular people lost more liberties than most can imagine. In the world we live in, education is a choice. Those that stand behing copyrights are the gatekeepers, that try tо control things that are out of their control, punishing regular people only because they can.
And yes, I do understand the importance of licenses, and that shit is complicated, but still...
@@legitt6093 This is bonkers. The answer is not "fuck copyright," it's "fix copyright."
Do you want major record labels to be able to indiscriminately steal music from small independent artists? No? Well copyright is the only thing keeping them from doing that. Imagine if ad agencies were able to use your music in TV ads without paying you a dime.
The problem is that whatever protections we give to small artists, we also have to give to major rights holders, who tend to have more money to fight lawsuits. But the answer isn't "get rid of all copyright," it should be to figure out how we prevent money from determining winners in our court systems.
as if i didnt find you to be the most superb person ANYWAY... hiring the actor to play a doctor to ask all this is just..... arghhhh.... amazing
DUDE!! I listened to "Arrival to an Empty Rooms" since it came out, i mustve been around 15 years old at that point. I have been revisiting "The Flashbulb" on Spotify every so often, not realising it was you lol. Only now i saw your face on Spotify and needless to say, my mind was blown haha
I like how the “doctor” struggles with words. That. Are. Short. In. Length.
Anyway, bless him, he did a nice job. And great video, Benn.
Might be caught up trying to read normal handwriting instead of his own.
@@fhfoodproduct 😂
Speaking of needlessly expensive digital cables, I once found a gold plated optical cable on amazon...
Been listen since Acidwolf days, you are becoming the Bill Nye of music and I love it! You are my hero Benn.
being anti-subwoofer is being anti-fun
One thing that might get lost in this "sound proofing" discussion is: a) do you want to have the room to be for monitoring or b) do you not want the sound to get out. Some of tte answers overlap, but there's 2 different problems with 2 different solutions. Some of the solutions of making a good mixing room work for also insulatiing the room from the outside world but they are not the same thing.
I totally feel that my Patreon money is well-spent with that doctor.
Question about sampling music. What if you just do it for fun and experiment with your own creativity and practice. However, you are not making money out of it? What about these cases?
Please keep in mind that phantom power can damage (especially older) ribbon mics!
Everyone make sure to take care of your thirty thousand dollar ribbon mics
I actually really like the ghetto as hell soundproofing tip lmao! Thanks for the awesome vid as always!
Breh you're admirable asf for ur humor and knowledge thx
The doctor was excellent. Also, the ground loop explanation very helpful. Cheers
Hey great vid man, I just wanted to say about phantom power that it can fry a ribbon microphone. Granted they're not very common, you're much more likely to find a condenser and dynamic mics but hey, there are some pretty legendary ribbon mics out there, beware ;)
I haven't spent a ton of time (or money) there but I like the tracklib model - not splice sample packs, just buy a song with a streamlined clearance process.
Medusa! :D
It’s funny how literally 5 seconds before clicking on this video I wrote down an idea for a song that involved sampling Radiohead
I’ll still do it tho
CHeck out Vampire weekend giving up the gun
Thank you for making such informative and entertaining videos. I will subscribe to your Patreon.
HI Benn, I actually made a remix of your song 'I think in a minute or so I'll explode' the one that has been re-uploaded a few times... It was over ten years ago now..... I never thought to ask for a license as I didn't expect anybody to listen to it. I love your music so much. Did you ever hear it? If so did you like it?
link?
DIMMER SWITCHES! Those switches, on floor/table lamps or wall switches and ceiling fans can cause maddening noise issues. If your outlet is on the same circuit as one of these you will get noise. My downstairs neighbor had a dimmer switch and would drive me crazy because i had no idea it was there. It was intermittent because when the switch is off the noise went away!!! Took me months before I asked him about it! I finally found a different outlet but needed a 25' extension cable lol!
I don't know why, but four pole pickup was as disconcerting to me as the totally legitimate doctor.
You have come a very very long way and i hope nothing but the best for you. Always giving answers to the questions I didn't know i needed.
The doctor was a nice touch. Completely funny
Analogue gear - Its a big subject but one thing none ever talks about is capacitors reaching electron saturation. They then sound their best and this takes a long time. Black Gate capacitors we used in hifi valve amps quote 3,000 hours use before they sound their best and certainly the system, even when run in, will sound better and better over the first few hours. Many valve hifi owners switch their gear on Friday morning for the weekend, switching it off before going to work on Monday.
Analogue synths really should be left on to stabilise tuning.
Lastly, ANYTHING with a switch mode (computer style) power supply shoudl be left off when not in use. The PSU is switching the mains 50,000 times a second and if that switching chip doesn't die then the dumping capacitors will. Here endeth the sermon.
Is that doctor generated using A.I ? Something about him is feels off 🤔
"How to soundproof" missed something important: direct air paths are the most problematic. Which means, it has to be airtight. Ventilation is a major issue and it requires baffles and dust filters (in this case, there is one room between the recording space and rest of the building, which could serve as a "reservoir" for air, making the direct route more complicated). Doors are the first thing to attack when doing just light soundproofing. Direct coupling has MUCH less energy that comes from air, so if you keep all vibrating things decoupled from the floor and walls (not directly connecting to them but have something soft between), that will do a lot.
But, without room-in-a-room and very good air tightness where it counts, well designed ventilation... it is never going to be sound proofed, just less leakage.
I was expecting a click baity video with shallow information and I got a wealth of knowledge that was actually entertaining too!
I'd love to see a similar video about the top music business questions and issues, as you clearly have the right experience as a self released artist with your own label.
Out of curiosity, if you thought the video was going to be subpar, why click on it?
Regarding soundproofing: I guess that those producers who don't live in an own house, but just rent an apartment, are absolutely screwed.
yes
@@skeletonmeat6010 Libraries have studios to book.
@@difflocktwo what???
@@fldrummerman municipal library. they have everything.
@@difflocktwo I assume that depends on your municipality.
Installing a new grounding rod won’t help if the wall receptacles aren’t grounded. These days, the main usage of ground is tripping the breaker in case of a fault, i.e. when there is an exposed hot wire electrifying the metal components of an appliance. This is why appliances have a green ground screw that is in direct contact with the chassis, so that the current from an exposed hot wire immediately flows into the ground wire, to the panel, and trips the breaker.
The doctor was nice, can we have a wizard next time? Please?
That doctor had some really good questions.
So you know that synth you pulled out to make music like you did 20 years ago with? Reverb has a fairly nice looking one up right now.
Just thought I'd let you know.
First answer seems to forget a major caveat: it is legal to sample someone else’s music without a license, and copyright infringement cannot technically even happen, *if the work is in public domain*. Which even copyrighted music automatically becomes, though many years later. Be careful though, laws can be obscure and vary by country.
Important thing here is that, even if a *song* (like Beethoven's Fifth) is in public domain, *recordings* of that song can still be under copyright., and most of the recordings you can buy on CD or find on RUclips *are* under copyright. Under US law, copyright takes significantly over 50 years to expire, so the things you *can* legally sample will probably mostly be stuff that was originally recorded on shellac records or very early vinyls, with all the quality issues that period had.
Gotta admit, that whole doctor thing was hilarious.
"Buy a quieter pickup" How dare you
Holy moly! I have a new question. Do you need an exam in electric science to make music? 🤯
kinda crazy how fair use can't be applied to music
So am I turning off my eurorack or not? Also, great video. Thanks!
alternative sound panels for dampening: I recommend getting panels made out of Basotect ... There should be some honest vendors out there who do not mark up and scalp these products to crazy prices... It is melamine-formaldehyde condensation resin foam and in ways designed by the company BASF to have sound-dampening characteristics and it does NOT cost an arm and a leg, despite many vendors telling you otherwise. A panel of this size ~39"x20"x2,8" (1000mmx500mmx30mm) is around 25euro and you should be able to get corner parts as bass traps as well for maybe 40-50... of course it is dampening and not soundproofing.
03:50 What if the album is copyleft? Like Creative Commons Non commercial, attribution, share alike license. Is that a workaround having issues with IDs?
Dude, thorough AF, wasn't expecting an avalanche of actual info, you're making other yt'rs look bad, good job!
Loved the bit on my arch enemy & nemesis, copyright. Seriously, I hate it but I fear it's too late, so if I want to hear 'sorry inigo, I din't mean to jog him so hard' I'll do my own impression, out of meter and probably play that backwards for safety, ugh, I hate it I hate it I hate it!
I do remember a song with a sample of « I got a feeling » that some young talented musician created but removed from his album
Such a shame for such a beautiful song
what the hell ive had an album up thats like p much 60% illegal for like 3 years...................... should i like.... do something about this? i really dont want to take it down because people like it but.................................................................. um
"Slightly change impotence." I think now we really know why the doctor is here.
so if i don't make money my instruments are covered, cool
Gotta hold off on that pay what you want online record at bandcamp, for insurance reasons.
Re ground loops, when connecting active equipment to a mixer, run them through a passive DI box with a ground lift switch.
You're not old
I'm old
Brilliant summary of the "piggy bank" questions**.
Of course, I had to delete my favorite (10 Euro) "Can't you filter out the vocals anyhow" sometime 10 years ago when AI-driven Stem and Track Isolation finally happened. So sad. Did mostly finance my vacation on its own....
I like you a lot, Sir! ;-)
**there's a piggy bank since my first studio in 2001 and next to it a list of stupid questions and how much they cost.
An amazing breakdown on the studio. Wow!
do a video on jeff bezos
14:30 and that is why you lowpass highpass everything at 100-ish hz :P Issue solved, no sub needed :D
So can you make your own samples that sound very similar ("just different enough") to a sample you want to use?
Before sampling was a thing the rule used to be 10s or 4 bars max whichever of those comes first (In the Netherlands at least)... In the '80 they changed it.. That's where the misconception comes from...
Ground loop -> DI box with ground lift. Also helps with getting shocks from your mic while holding a guitar...
13:40 That’s… not the argument for high quality digital cables. Like, at all. And it’s not “just ones and zeros going from point A to point B”. You’re not physically throwing numbers down the chute. You’re sending an analog signal that’s as close as possible to a square wave, but can absolutely carry noise.
Does it matter in music production? Almost certainly not.
Can confirm power usage/ Rockwool Safe&Sound. Source: Literally working in a tiny studio in Costa Rica.
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I just got an ad with the title "Small Chested Women Deserve Better" from the brasserie brand "Pepper" while playing this video.
At least RUclips's ad algo didn't show that ad on your video "Why Aren't There More Female Producers?"! 😅
Comments from an Electronics Engineer-
Leaving electronics on causes earlier death of electrolytic capacitors in power supplies - since they are converting AC to DC they charge during the AC peak and discharge the other time - that ages them. If it is designed well (which is not necessarily anything to do with price) they could live longer than you or I. In PC power supplies though they skimp like crazy which is why you need to buy a new PC PSU every few years but not with audio gear.
Earth loops - ethernet is transformer isolated and will not contribute to earth loops. The shielding on RCA cables does. The loops are made from a continous earth connection between devices via main power earth and signal RCA cable earths. Note you only need to connect two mains powered devices via 1 RCA cable and you have an earth loop. Any wire carrying AC current that passes through this loop forms a transformer and transforms it's voltage into the RCA cables shield and power cable earth which then is effectively added to the signal in the RCA cable. So do that powerboard trick, but also watch the path each cable takes to avoid loops. NOTE this is entirely separate to the no-earth problem which is where you need to fix your houses earth connection, both yield the hum.
what an amazing video thanks
@13:41 that's actually not entirely true. Sure, a good digital signal will be indistinguishable, yes. But bad cables can cause lots of issue, hdmi is a good example, some cables don't have the right pins connected properly and signal quality is important especially for bandwidth needs, that's why expensive cable testers can give you an eye graph, LTT has a good video about this.
The answer to ground loop is so unnecessarily long and over complicated. Buying a DI box for less than $100 dollars will invert the frequency and cancel out the hum, the chain is: Instrument to DI to mixing desk so much of a simpler solution, and perfect tour gear
I used to leave my studio monitors on all the time but then had a day long brown out. Lights were just barely visible. I was not home at the time so the monitors were on like this for a few hours. Within a week both of them stopped working. (capacitors)
Get 2 subs! And ones that are designed to cut somewhere above 100hz for more musical integration. It solves a lot of the problems people have (usually smoother room mode distribution) and it'll blend in with your speakers much easier, ime. Get 2 smaller/cheaper ones if you have to or better yet build your own with serious scaffolding inside.
This is a handy guide, especially for anyone who thinks they already know the answers.
I remember reading many times that the Saturn V rocket was the loudest noise ever produced by man, but the levels were only estimates at 190 - 210 decibels.
1:55 - Don’t forget that, in the US at least, there is that bizarre loophole that means you can seemingly ride roughshod over copyright IF it’s seen to be satirical to a judge…🤷♂️
Fiverr doctor is genius. Benn is inventing new RUclips formats that many will likely copy
Man, copyright law and licensing is difficult to understand. How do you verify that a song doesn't have a license and could be sampled? Because there are entire genres of music (vaporwave and future funk) that rely on samples and I don't see how they can exist.
So I've been following the channel for a long time and I just realized he was The Flashbulb all along...
I feel so stupid.
Yeah once I used lawn wake to wake up a sleeping guy in my house after a party, that was fun.
Hello from Hamburg, Germany. For me it seems that this story ended with winners only :) please stay healthy and have a wonderful XMAS time.
fantastically I have just turned on the phantom power and the device disconnected...
thanks for the pro tips XD
I remember once at guitar center, the guy behind the desk in pro-audio asked if I wanted to purchase a Mogami MIDI cable ... told him my midi was clean enough.
Hey Benn! I just wondered if there's any reason as to why "Programmable Love Songs" isn't on Spotity? I absolutely love that album, as it is very nostalgic to me.
Much love
Ground loops are not necessary an issue with the 120v side of power distribution. Loops can also come from the low voltage side of a power supplys that's built into hardware. Basically two power supplies are not playing nice with one another and power is trying to move from one source to another.... They make ground lift boxes and transformer isolation boxes to prevent this type of interference.
What if I made a wavetable out of a sample or song on Audacity, plugged that wavetable into a wavetable synth and made a patch out of it? Would using that patch in a commercial recording be violating copyright law since the wavetable was sourced from copyrighted material? Is there even a way to prove that the wavetable's source is a copyrighted recording?
This is probably the most helpful and informative video I’ve ever seen
Nah man everybody knows single coils are the best, people just don't record with Gibsons lol
That blanket advice reminds me of putting mc's under a blanket with a torch, their rhymes and a mic 😆👍
Any chance you could do some production tutorials? I'm a especially a big fan of porchfire and undiscovered colors
ok but what if you remix a song and release it for free, without making money of it?
Great video. Mostly the sampling info but i eas curious about song covers if that works the same way?
16:00 Thankfully impotence and impedance are to different things.
i like ur channel in general
i like ur vids, ur music
do me a favour, pls,
don't change 👍💪☺
Extra info about phantom power: never use it for dynamic microphones (unless you have an active pre that requires it) and turn it off before unplugging the mic! I did kill my lovely Alesis io2 with the latter.