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Anyone else sit around and wait for Glenn to drop the episodes?
Rudy Ayoub oh hello Rumbdy
Hired Gun is the name of the documentary!
Albert Franco is it still on Netflix? I want to check it out
yup!
Albert Franco Very cool doc! I was so happy to see Rudy Sarzo. He is AWESOME!
'Hired Gun' is on Netflix and is a fantastic documentary film about the lifestyles and careers of session musicians. I also think that that was the film you we're thinking of, Glen. Have a great weekend! ☺🤘🖖
Max Scardanelli great documentary, some stories are a little sad!
Indeed, it might be an idea for the person who asked Glenn the question to sit and watch this through... some really big session musicians just got dropped like a stone.
Great documentary! Didn't realize Billy Joel was such an a-hole. Awesome seeing Five Finger Death Punch in there!!!
The Wrecking Crew is another good documentary about session musicians.
Lemmy used to sing on a 57
Actually, Thriller was recorded with a Shure SM7, including Price's voiceovers. It's a pretty great mic. James Hetfield is also known for his love for the SM7 (The Black Album was recorded with it, and he is still seen using it live). Granted, the SM7 is an SM57 "on steroids" (pumped up cartridge element).
Great stuff, Glenn.
I brought some bass and guitar strings back on the plane from Ottawa recently. They asked if they were brake cables. They were so chill about it.
Well we know a bass player would never be of any help because they never buy new strings. I am a guitar player who plays some bass. I was there to pick up any slack.
Wanna hear a joke? Bass players that change their strings
Josef Campos that's not a joke that's an urban legend
well i change strings for shows. i want my shit playing to sound good.
I actually just changed mine this morning lol
I change mine once a year
If I want fiction, I'll watch Jim Bakker, thank you very much.
Awesome Robotech/Macross shirt!
Good eye!!
got new bass strings today 👍 old ones are just 3 weeks old, but i like to keep my sound fresh as possible🤘
Just try not to break the bank. Yeah, my bass strings are a couple months old, but they are also WAY expensive. Can't imagine how much you're paying.
K4RN4GE911 33€ and sometimes we get great deals like " 3 for the price of 2."
The documentary is Hired Gun. And it's great.
Nice Robotech/Macross shirt, Roy.
You stole my comment!
The most important thing in being a session player is the ability to READ. Most times, you'll walk in, the producer will toss a chart to you, give you 5 minutes to suss out the parts, and then it's "Go" time. If you can't read charts, tab, or music, he'll know instantly and call for the next player and you're out the door. In the world of sessions, time = $$$. LEARN TO READ.
I just let a SIX MINUTE AD run for you Glenn. You're one of a handful a people I could stand to do that for. Anyway, for the guy wanting a cheap mic that you suggested the SM57 to, I'll add that down the road he can add a Cloudlifter (or the like) to expand the usefulness of the SM57. Lastly: Hair Is Lif!
The "hair is lif" shirt should have pics of Glenn shaking his hair like in the intro to some of the videos. That would be awesome!
I appreciate your unbiased reviews and your ability to back things up with facts
One time a guitar string broke real hard and slapped my cousin in the face lol
Kerry Cronic Vlogs lucky not put his eye out
Tiger blood 1978 i never liked FR. Ill use dean markley before FR. I prefered vinci and D aquisto
Tiger blood 1978 yeah its scary man lol I have a friend that breaks strings at least once every two weeks lol
Kerry Cronic Vlogs bridge and nut too sharp
Good story bro.
Just purchased your IR pack and I'm having tons of fun with it, definitely worh the price! Haista vittu from Finland
I can't get enough can these be 20 mins long lol 💪🔥🍻🎸
I would love longer videos as well, however, my feet would go numb from sitting on the can for the whole 20 mins!
“My buddy, Phil X”
He says that so casually like it’s no big deal. I’m jealous.
ThatOrangeDerp we all are
i had a high E string break and the end went right through the tip of my little finger and out through the nail. It was painful. dangerous things, those strings!
OUCH!
Mark Hooper ive been stuck but not that deep
Mark Hooper I’m guessing you went easier on strings after that? 😂
At least you didn't poke your eye out.
CoolSide lol...feels brother
The cool thing about Glenn’s vids is the ads are actually things I want to see...this one has Misha Mansoor in it! Awesome sauce.
Great video. I'm going to send this to some people I know. Your commentary on freedom of speech was spot-on.
Love your response to the TSA / guitar string question.
Glen!!!! Mad respect for the awesome shirt Bro! Roy Fokker / Rick Hunter, Macross, and Robotech fan from way, way back!
Hired Gun. Documentary of the gun for hires and session players. Fantastic and highly recommended.
I like my Line 6 Spider 3,great practice amp for learning tunes. I use a 1983 Peavy Butcher Tube Stack to play live, with a Digitech RP7 Valve pedal in front of it. Killer sound.
The singer with tuning issues can also work with a vocal coach. There's no shame in that.
All through the 80's we used 58's and 57's
A couple like a 57 for vocal and drums and cabs always. Excellent standard.
“Free expression “ .... you rock!!!
Hey Glen, thanks the great vids and thank you for keeping it real. I have gained a hell of a lot knowledge from you. Keep up the good work. All the best man
Episode 160?! Holy shit! I remember when Episode 1 come out. Congrats!
You remind me of my best friend, same passion, but in movie production and moviecollector ( he has over 4000 titles In blu ray and dvd's) ... You have the same personality, same hair length and awesome to spend time with!
Keep up the good work!
Greetz From sweden!
The name of that doc is hired gun. And it is excellent.
I believe the Netflix documentary you're referring to is called "Hired Guns". Watched it over the new year; pretty interesting stuff. As for the singer question, you can still do what Adam Neely recommended a few weeks back about autotuning the performance, have him memorize what it sounds like with perfect pitch, and the re-record without the autotune.
Shout out for the SM57. Best mic ever for recording guitar cabs, and I can confirm it works well on certain styles of vocals. Plus, no need for phantom power!
The documentary is called hired gun. Great documentary!!!
Great advice man. I started with Reaper and Focusrite 2i2. Now using the 18i20 and Logic. Also, aI have carried on my Steinberger with spare strings countless times and never a problem.
That show about session musicians is called “Hired Gun“, and it's freakin awesome!
I saw Phil X play with Bon Jovi in Liverpool and thought Sambora would be really missed but Phil is am astounding player. Absolutely incredible night, Phil was suggested by Sambora himself and it certainly shows why. Thank you Glen!
Thanks Glen. Totally agree with you at 10:35. Love the older recordings with all the little flaws. Can't stand auto-tune.
Wow, Glenns Q&A No. 160!
I remember the times when we were counting for No. 50.
Saw an ad for nail the mix in the middle of this video, it went for 2:30 and I watched the whole thing. Why you ask? Because it was hilarious! It was styled as a tv infomercial. This just goes to show, if people are more creative with their advertisement it can really work and not feel completely jarring when cutting into a RUclips video.
A big fuck you from a Melbourne!
The Roy Focker shirt was the best thing of this video
I think the documentary on Netflix that you're referencing is "Hired Guns". It's pretty damn good. It does a good job showing what session musicians go through. Good, bad, and ugly.
I think the documentary on session musicians that you’re thinking of is Hired Gun. Super cool film
An SM57 cost £90 in the UK. But you can get a Subzero SM57 clone from Gear for Music for £25.
There is a Pyle-Pro PDMIC78 on Amazon for $16.99 cdn, including cable. I would love to see that in the shoot out!
Not had good experiences with sub zero stuff, thomann's own brand stuff tend to be alright though
This is Subzero, now, plain zero!
Samson Q7 or Q8 are killer. I recorded 2 full album vocals with 57's . Actually the sm7B that end up on a lot of records is just a glorified sm57.
Used '57 should be in the £50-60 ballpark...
To the "Session Musician" guy. Speaking from real experience, I'm currently an Ad Agency commercial producer, and I used to work in a original music "jingle house" studio for advertising jingles and various other musical productions. One of the best ways to get on the roster for session work is kind of "old School". Look up all the studios in your area, send a demo or a link to your artist page etc, along with your resume, if you have experience in any notable acts, symphonies, high school or college marching bands, etc. Big bonus if you are able to actually read music, sight read, and make your own charts. Be versatile, and have versatile gear, if you are just a metal player, that's okay, you might get the call for that one time they need a "Metal guy" but you better be phenomenal at metal. But the more versatile, and the more versatile your gear, the more calls you will get. We used to call one specific guitarist all the time just because he had an arsenal of vintage gear, and if we were looking for a specific "sound", this guy had it. His playing was good and certainly capable, but not mind blowing, it was the gear and sound we wanted. And as Glenn said, you have to be easy to work with. Do what is asked of you, play how they want it, get your check, say thank you, and leave. This is not "Your" music. It's some one else's. Also, don't quit your real gig, being in a band, doing your thing. We regularly hired guys from local acts because they had something "unique" to offer. We had a Rock-a-Billy bassist and singer do several jobs for us, and he was really raw and unpolished, couldn't read music, but was amazing at what he did and nailed it every time. And don't just send the demo and resume....follow up...introduce yourself...and offer to audition live for free. There is no such thing as too much talent on a session musician roster. They are always looking. And if you do get regular work from a studio, be sure to Thank them! You'd be surprised how many return calls just being cool, easy to work with and grateful will get you. Check your ego at the door in any session. And Good Luck!
You hit the nail on the head with the tuning issues singer. I’m currently producing my group’s first EP and the singer (who is truly talented and seldom misses a note) CONSTANTLY complains that he was slightly off here and there, when in reality he wasn’t even a 1/16 step off. To which I tell him time and time again, “a little character in the vocal performance doesn’t hurt.” I’d rather you be the slightest bit off than sound like a soulless puppet with no emotion
It just goes to show how much the music industry has pushed this soulless pitch perfect performance with auto tune as, not even a crutch, but the whole wheelchair. [Shirt Idea: Autotune: Not a crutch, but the whole damn wheelchair]
‘Hired Gun’ is the documentary about being a session musician. You have to be the best in your craft to be one.
Reminds me of that Djent Meme with that Dorky Kid that said "buys a 9 string guitar, breaks lowest string".
Love the cheap mic topic. I brought out my old TSM, a neumann knock off that I bought dirt cheap years a go to try it out against my Rode NT-2. And guess what.. It sounds amazing. Much better than the NT-2. Thanks for bringing on a great show!
Watching this while taking a dump. My day is now complete.
Davide Pannone Good to hear buddy
The Chrysialid ❤️
Same.
Malice wanna hold hands?
Davide Pannone Sure. I need the support.
Program the vocal melody with a keyboard and let the singer sing along to that. It is really easy to do and a piano sample library/ synthesizer is going to be tuned correctly.(acoustic guitar might work as well, be careful how it's tuned) This is really helpful if the singer wants to do harmonies in the studio, but hasn't written/learned them beforehand.
Great insight gained on auto tune. The suggested fix (basically heave vocalist sing along with something in tune) is so simple and so obvious. And I missed it. Very well spent time here today. Thanks.
Less than 2 minutes in, paused the video, and snatched Guitar is Lif!
Hey Glen... As a luthier trying to relate to a sound engineer, think of an active guitar pickup as a DI box of sorts in relation to boosting a weak signal... Magnets in a pickup do not effect sustain or any such nonsense, they are far far far too weak...
Your videos are excellent, keep up the great work!..
About the good samples vs bad real drums, here's some insight: I'm in a punk metal band, and we tried to record some songs, first just for demo to be sent to the gigs, bars etc... to be able to play concerts, but seeing as I had to leave the band (I left the town) we decided to record a whole album. We already had two tracks recorded. We used cubase and recorded all instruments one by one, but seeing as I only had a 1 input interface, we had to record the drums with a single mic, placed kind of in the middle of the drum kit, aimed down. I managed to get a somewhat passable tone out of it by using a crapload of compression and eq, but then I wanted to check out what samples would sound like, and I don't know if it's the program I used, the fact I suck at mixing or just the fact we used samples, but it sounded really bad and fake.
We went for the real drums, and for the rest of the demo, we just used a tascam recorder put in the rehearsal space with us playing in front of it at matched levels, then recorded vocals aside from that to have a clear track, and honestly, for what we're doing, it's more than enough. What we did before sounded great, yeah, but it was just complete overkill.
Active PUs: Stronger magnets on Humbuckers have diminishing returns, since the magnetic field from one set with one polarity will also affect the other coil, which of couse has a magnet with reverse polarity. The other option to get more output is to add turns to the coils, but those are LR circuits, which act as low pass filters and since the inductance of a coil increases as the number of turns squared, while the resistance from the wire just increases as the number of turns the cutoff frequency gets lower as you add turns (hence your classic HB guitars having less top end, since they generally add turns compared to single coils - a PAF PU has 10,000 turns in total, while a strat PU has 8,000). Using an OP-amp circuit you can boost the signal without having to add turns and thus get hotter output without losing high frequency content.
The Netflix documentation's title was "Hired Gun". Phil X was in it, too, also Nita Strauss and a bunch of other excellent musicians. I can highly recommend it!
on the tuning trouble thing for the vocalist, i've found making a simple midi piano or synth (anything that helps portrays notes in a clear way) to build a melody with the key im going for, then lowering its volume and use it as a guide is really helpful. because i keep it at a lower volume i'm getting better, even if only a little, at staying in key
Robotech T-Shirts just kills! Skull Leader baby!!
A group I was in had 6 vocal lines in a couple songs and there were times when we were short mics and we had to use SM57s and while not brilliant, they were more than ample for our act.
11:28 - couldn't agree more, we use a keyboard all the time to help our singer hit the notes, it just makes life easier
At the airport around 4 weeks ago, I brought my guitar and had the strings in the case and there was no problem. I just went in and out and they probably didn't even know I had it on me. This was at the NYC airport too and I know how it's even more uptight there.
7:54 HMU if you want help with editing my man ;)
Hey Dude
1:21 Hired Guns! For those who haven't seen it, it a MUST watch for those interested in the industry.
Love the shirt Glenn!
The documentary on Netflix you were referring to I believe is actually called "Hired Gun" :) I search it just now, and am gonna watch later!
Hey Glenn, I think the session musician film you were referring to is called "hired gun"! Great show btw!
Yep, the T.Bone mb 75 is actually fantastic value. And you get 3 for one sm 57. I love it.
Got my guitar is lif shirt! Keep it up Glenn!
LOVE THAT SHIRT!!!!!
For anyone interested in drum tuning, theres a great ‘In the studio with Periphery’ on Creative Live where Nolly goes into depth on how he tunes drums - super worthwhile session (Also goes through Nolly’s mixing process).
Also, in South Africa we’ve had issues with a chain store having bombs left behind overnight and now I get “TSA’ed” on the way in every time I go in
I think the name of that movie was Hired Gun.
Drum dial is Great but I highly recommend getting the tune bot, you can pinpoint frequencies and save them into a slot and have different settings for any situation.
AH Man!!!! You mentioned Phil X....... I was lucky to jam with him at his jam in Toronto, I forget what bar, he played bass for me , there was a sax player that I threw all the solos to...... then at the end of the song, Phil X said, You didn't play a solo,.....and started the song again....... I was like.....no thank you, I was green and just glad to make it through the song. The song was Before you accuse me-Clapton.
My Duncan Invaders sound like they're active pickups. Those pickups are awesome.
The documentary I think you are referring to is called Hired Gun. 👍
"Hired Guns"... everybody has to watch this one!
Sm57 - devin townsend was known to use them for live vocals back in the SYL days. I was at a rehearsal for them in London uk many years ago (and met meshuggah in the crowd!) and he was asking for a '57 for vocals because it has a plastic shield. The '58 he had onstage had a metal shield and was giving him shocks because of the difference in earth wiring with his rig from the US. He said "it's practically the same mic" except for some 10k frequencies ( if I recall correctly - it could have been 1k)
Dave Brockie was the ultimate free expressionist R.I.P.
He was a crack head that had no problem telling other people to shut up.
Flacid House yup, freely expressed to people to shut up among many other things. And most musicians of some notoriety are usually “crack heads”. Who really gives a fuck?, he was awesome and he was up front and in your face about everything he did and stood for.
H Bomb Most musicians don't habitually smoke crack. That isn't a metaphor for general drug use. The man smoked crack, a lot.
He stood for crack and treating his employees poorly. Notice that people quit Gwar like mad when he was alive and now that he's dead people are coming back.
Telling other people to shut up doesn't make you a free expressionist. Everyone thinks they themselves shouldn't be censored.
1:17 it's called Hired Gun Glenn, and I just watched it a few days ago haha
I've always found that the compressed tone of active pickups sounds really good for clean Jazz and Ambient.
Active pickups have EXACTLY the same magnets as passive. Active has fewer wire wounds and that's to get a higher frequency response (what comes with price = low output) so need to incorporate active circuit comes with an opportunity to make differential amplifier (coil signals are out of phase = noise cancelling) + tone shaping with filters.
If someone brings up a bullshit that active pickups have less dynamic range go check Lasse Lammert - EMG pickups have no Dynamics.
My first mic was the T.bone mb75
it rocks!
Hey Glen. You should try an EMG 85 in the bridge if you haven't already. It's so warm and chunky sounding. Especially on 7 string guitars. I play Dean RC7's and I have an 85-7 in the bridge and a 707 in the neck. Killer combo! Anyways, cheers from New Jersey!
Hey Glenn looking forward to seeing your vocal mic shootout, hope you are going to cover some stuff under the €400 mark but above the SM57/58 price point.
Hey Glenn, the name of the show on Netflix you mentioned is called "Hired Gun". Very informative documentary.
I play Progressive metal and I find that active pickups really bring out the individual note and they "chug" better because it makes your tone a little bit more static and acts as a compressor, passove pickups I've noticed have a little bit more life in them especially when they are good ones and allow you to work with the guitar instead of the active pickups which work for you, I prefer passive when playing but recording I use both
The doc. on session musicians is called "Hired Gun". 👍
The trick with the 57 is not to get in too close and literally blow the diaphragm away. the 58 has shielding for vocals which keeps you off the diaphragm
The documentary is "hired gun". And it's very interesting!
J Mascis usually uses an SM57 for his vocals in a live setting... Although it is said he does that because, since he uses so many vintage guitar pedals, other mics send electrical shocks to his face. But it seems to work just fine during their shows. Even through that wall of noise Dinosaur Jr creates, you can still hear the vocals.
and a hasadiga ebowai to you too glenn!
"Hired gun" is the documentary
I’ve almost had strings put my eyes out before lol. Much more cautious cutting them now
£50= $85CAD, but also the UK gets stiffed on pricing. Something that costs $100 is usually priced at £100, rather than the £60 the exchange rate suggests. An SM57 or 58 is around £110 new.
I own the MB75 from Thomann, it really is amazing for the money!
Glenn, you should really check out Oceans Ate Alaska. Their drummer Chris Turner is so good its almost unbelievable and they use no triggers, sample replacement, or time alignment of any kind. They are an example of an amazing modern metal band.
Been using Ernie ball super slinky's and reg slinky's for the past 20 years . I use elixir on my acoustics but I just Won't ever change. Nothing but great luck with them.
The documentary you’re talking about is called Hired Gun!