Sylvia doesn’t seem arrogant in any way. She just loves what she does. Only too happy to share her recording techniques. She’s worked with the best. What a wonderful person.
That fuzz tone from the light bulb was glorious but its really freaky that there was no guitarist present and Sylvia actually mentions the studio being haunted lol!
What I love about her is that she doesn't hide her techniques. My biggest question is, does she render the mixdown or does she mixdown to tape or cd burner? I haven't seen in it any of her videos.
So many great ideas! I remember a childhood cassette player with an onboard mic/compressor that was literally impossible to clip! Now to find a garden hose... 🥁
It's a marvelous philosophy. If you do a mix that is a box ticking excercise EVERY time... How long will be until you get to that point that it just feels like EVERY mix is the same... That just kills the creative process. Also, weirdly - sometimes strange limitations you can deliberately impose on yourself when mixing or producing can really get the ingenuity going... Deliberately using a 3 band EQ on EVERYTHING sounds ludicrous in the days of parametric on all the channels, but it forces you to get the sound "right" before you press record... That invites experimentation. Great fun.
Charming woman, & a rather enchanting producer. But most of all just a world-class music engineer & professional with a unique but excellent approach. Love it.
I'm watching this at 2am and I can't wait till I can play drums and try this garden hose technique!!! Amazing! This video was like the same level of wonder as the first semester of audio school
Now I wanna hear that drum sound! I'm gonna check out this album. Thanks Sylvia for an amazing insight on how your creative mind works. PS: I'm gonna try the garden hose thing!
Instant like for the light bulb idea and the ability to do it personally, even though I don't know the persons in the video. :) I knew the trick with incandescent light bulb in series to protect the tweeter in a loudspeaker. The use of fluorescent lamp's built in power supply in series on the audio line to produce a special distortion - ingenious! :)
Back in the day, I had a Tascam Porto-One... and I had the outputs plugged into the Line In of a Teac Cassette Desk, and I had it on Record-Pause... and I never knew why, but it sounded so good through the receiver amp.. I never took into consideration the electronics of the Teac coming into play. Great Info... Sylvia is a genius! Thanks for the post!
I've learned more from her about recording a band than anyone else ever....not that I've implemented any of that knowledge, but I've filed so many of her tricks away....and every recording studio on earth should have her book somewhere there for creativity boosting!!...and tech tips...I love when artists are generous with their knowledge...serves the greater good!!...
Sylvia is one cool lady! I'm so tired of all these architectural digest-style recording studios that are sterile and full of gazillion-dollar equipment. She's a throw-back--you expect to see overflowing ashtrays on the console and half-empty bottles of Jack Daniels on the windowsill. This is a place to record loud and proud! Go Sylvia, you're my spirit animal
That's the most "out of the box" trick I've ever seen. Well, not to complain, but the camera guy is filming everything but the guitar setup. From windows, backs of people, doors and ceilings, he caught almost everything.
Charles Quagliana Totally forgot about this comment haha. Now that I have endless free time I might actually start reverse engineering it finally. I’m considering uploading some demos of the unit in action and some other things I’ve made distort well
WOW... i love the idea of that portable cassette recorder as a parallel compressor/saturator, sort off. Except that it's compressing a totally different signal source.
at 4:20. I have one of those little Fender amps somewhere. I wish I knew where it was, because it sounded so cool. I'd go out and play it alone until the battery started dying. Such a wealth of unique tones.
She's spot on with that mic placement at 8:10. I've recorded drums that way using a single stereo mic and it works great, especially if you're just wanting to record rehearsals.
Aaaahahahah! Zen master of weird tech! Hehehe... Light bulb! Pure zen! She's like a mad scientist fiddling around with different stuff for spicing up the sound! Thumbs up!!!
I also recorded a song with a pocket amp. I discovered it by accident (and poverty) but man, it sounded amazing. Huge sound. We couldn't believe it, and couldn't stop laughing. The mike looked bigger than the speaker!
Good questions, nice informative interview. I was particularly interested to hear Sylvia's comments about more conventional mic positioning etc. as well as the more wacky stuff.
Hi I'm David. I was just curious at the beginning when you show the guitar pedals what was the green pedal that looks like a swollen pickle with the four knobs?
I used to record in a stove using a Fender Silverface Vibrochamp. I mean the amp was mic'ed in the stove. I wasn't in the stove. Gives you a hugely compressed but rich and awesome tone.
Sylvia, youre the bomb sweetie !! Check you out !! I'll never forget our conversation where you explained your concepts about morphing sonic through unconventional methods. Ive got to come up and drink kool aid with you guys sometime, its like me going diametrically opposed to my normal mindset. Honestly completely opposite. But when you told me about making audio cables with old phone cables or the wire from an old drive in speaker, I got a little grin on my face that has not left. My heart swells when I see others so passionate about music. lol the Gooch just came up as Im writing.. Later this year I try my hand at recording with a Studer A80 out of Sunset Sound now here with me in ATL.. to jog your memory, Im HiFi cable guy Mikey from Verastarr. Huge love and support for everything you do !!!
I love how she correctly says "damping" (a drum) instead of "dampening". She knows the difference between sound waves and wetness -- unlike most drummers and many recordists.
4:20 I feel so bad the "extra warmth" joke didn't land
Sylvia doesn’t seem arrogant in any way. She just loves what she does. Only too happy to share her recording techniques. She’s worked with the best. What a wonderful person.
I absolutely love Sylvia's "mad scientist" approach to getting ready different unique sounds. ❤👍🎙🎚
She's is "crazy" in the most charming way ever. I'm in love.
Crazy in a good way. She is a really lovely person. I'm also in love !
David DiMuzio was going to say the exact same thing.
the right kind of crazy for sure
SAME!!!
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That fuzz tone from the light bulb was glorious but its really freaky that there was no guitarist present and Sylvia actually mentions the studio being haunted lol!
lol they do say that spirits are attracted to energy, and there's a lot of electrical energy going on in that room
I could listen to her talk about her work all day, she's amazing!
She’s soo f...ing cool and creative! Mindblowing!
How did no one else get the added warmth joke haha
she lost me at the dick mic...
What I love about her is that she doesn't hide her techniques. My biggest question is, does she render the mixdown or does she mixdown to tape or cd burner? I haven't seen in it any of her videos.
So many great ideas! I remember a childhood cassette player with an onboard mic/compressor that was literally impossible to clip! Now to find a garden hose... 🥁
That's a great idea! :-)
"make every recording an adventure" shit man she's SO cool.
It's a marvelous philosophy. If you do a mix that is a box ticking excercise EVERY time... How long will be until you get to that point that it just feels like EVERY mix is the same... That just kills the creative process.
Also, weirdly - sometimes strange limitations you can deliberately impose on yourself when mixing or producing can really get the ingenuity going... Deliberately using a 3 band EQ on EVERYTHING sounds ludicrous in the days of parametric on all the channels, but it forces you to get the sound "right" before you press record... That invites experimentation. Great fun.
That. Was. Awesome. I would give my right arm just to follow her around for a while and learn some of her wisdom and approach.
Charming woman, & a rather enchanting producer. But most of all just a world-class music engineer & professional with a unique but excellent approach. Love it.
A huge talent - and fantastic person - we are huge fans and a treat to meet and talk with her :-)
Thanks for watching!!
21 minutes of pure love for music. Thank you so much.
I'm watching this at 2am and I can't wait till I can play drums and try this garden hose technique!!! Amazing! This video was like the same level of wonder as the first semester of audio school
Have fun! :-)
That is so creative, I would never have thought of that! (Putting them through light bulbs, that is.) Actually so many creative ideas.
Threw away the text book...... what test book!!! This is awesome. Such a refreshing change
Now I wanna hear that drum sound! I'm gonna check out this album. Thanks Sylvia for an amazing insight on how your creative mind works.
PS: I'm gonna try the garden hose thing!
What an amazing attitude! It's wonderful to see how much fun she's having! Music should be fun!
I don’t know if this is more crazy or more creative, but this is the coolest thing ever.
Those cables on the floor drive me nuts though ...
She is amazing, a consummate expert and a real mad scientist. I love her. :-)
Instant like for the light bulb idea and the ability to do it personally, even though I don't know the persons in the video. :) I knew the trick with incandescent light bulb in series to protect the tweeter in a loudspeaker. The use of fluorescent lamp's built in power supply in series on the audio line to produce a special distortion - ingenious! :)
Back in the day, I had a Tascam Porto-One... and I had the outputs plugged into the Line In of a Teac Cassette Desk, and I had it on Record-Pause... and I never knew why, but it sounded so good through the receiver amp.. I never took into consideration the electronics of the Teac coming into play. Great Info... Sylvia is a genius! Thanks for the post!
Thanks for watching :-)
Oh my...she is so creative...I want to switch on all my gear in my home studio and start creating...anything...i'm so inspired.
This is just what I needed!! Thank you very much 🙏!! This is like being a kid again and not having any predefined ideas sticked in the brains!
Love Sylvia Massey and her musicality!
Thank you for this interview.
I've learned more from her about recording a band than anyone else ever....not that I've implemented any of that knowledge, but I've filed so many of her tricks away....and every recording studio on earth should have her book somewhere there for creativity boosting!!...and tech tips...I love when artists are generous with their knowledge...serves the greater good!!...
Sylvia is one cool lady! I'm so tired of all these architectural digest-style recording studios that are sterile and full of gazillion-dollar equipment. She's a throw-back--you expect to see overflowing ashtrays on the console and half-empty bottles of Jack Daniels on the windowsill. This is a place to record loud and proud! Go Sylvia, you're my spirit animal
That's the most "out of the box" trick I've ever seen. Well, not to complain, but the camera guy is filming everything but the guitar setup. From windows, backs of people, doors and ceilings, he caught almost everything.
My goodness gracious. Love this woman.
No one is mentioning the quality of the condenser mics on his hand held digital recorder. They sound superb. No joke.
I think it's a zoom and they usually do pretty good
this is beyond brilliant. who would think of this.
My first distortion box was a cassette deck. Ran the guitar in, pause/record, headphone out to amp. That was a LONG time ago.
I have a noxious fuzz made from this same concept
I’ve been thinking about building a pedal out of the pre in one cassette deck I have, it’s ridiculously good bass distortion
@@Evildandalo DO IT!!!!
Charles Quagliana Totally forgot about this comment haha. Now that I have endless free time I might actually start reverse engineering it finally. I’m considering uploading some demos of the unit in action and some other things I’ve made distort well
Great stuff! Although I was looking forward to her showing the preamps, like she said she would, but she left me hanging on that one :D
She is brilliant!
Love the creative spirit she has :)
what the heck! i can't even imagine recording in a setup like that, but boy, it's unique, creative and experimental
WOW... i love the idea of that portable cassette recorder as a parallel compressor/saturator, sort off. Except that it's compressing a totally different signal source.
Amazing video! Thanks so much for sharing your secret wizard techniques!
Some of this is so insane. I LOVE it! What an awesome video and view into her mind and approach to recording. Incredibly inspiring.
at 4:20. I have one of those little Fender amps somewhere. I wish I knew where it was, because it sounded so cool. I'd go out and play it alone until the battery started dying. Such a wealth of unique tones.
WTF Silvia, I didn't know you were a TECH GEEK! running stuff through lamps? That is insane!
Wow, well that was a proper education 😎👏👏👏👍
She’s awesome ! Get her book !!
Love this approach...gr8 extended studio...props for the volca. and those mic ideas.....brilliant
Sylvia Massy is a recording wizard! She reminds me of Carol Kane’s characters only more mystical.
She's spot on with that mic placement at 8:10. I've recorded drums that way using a single stereo mic and it works great, especially if you're just wanting to record rehearsals.
the ole dick mic lol
Aaaahahahah! Zen master of weird tech! Hehehe... Light bulb! Pure zen! She's like a mad scientist fiddling around with different stuff for spicing up the sound! Thumbs up!!!
I also recorded a song with a pocket amp. I discovered it by accident (and poverty) but man, it sounded amazing. Huge sound. We couldn't believe it, and couldn't stop laughing. The mike looked bigger than the speaker!
just awesome
Me, listening to the guitar sound on that Spiderbait track and jumping out of my chair in joy when the distorted part comes. Daaaamn.
Oh man I have the same mini amp! I use it with my keyboards It's so awesome. Really cool I'm not the only one who thinks so!
SYLVIA IS SUCH A BADASS HUMAN BEING!!!!
I just came across a whole box of older different types of candescent light bulbs of all sizes. I'm now intrigued.
When a lightbulb of an idea pops into Sylvia's head, sometimes the idea is an actual lightbulb!
I discovered God Damn because of this video! Holy shit I love them!
I'm in love!
Whoa. This is incredible!
Thank you for the experience , you are the best , this inspired me
thanks man,, I'm a big fan of mam,, always a new experience I get when I watch their videos.she is awesome and brilliant
Wonderful, inspiring, authentic, love it!
Good questions, nice informative interview. I was particularly interested to hear Sylvia's comments about more conventional mic positioning etc. as well as the more wacky stuff.
The famous Massey second hand portable tape recorder trick for drums.. Genius..!!
My kind of producer. Nice ideas!
This was amazing! Thank you!
Sylvia is awesome 😊😊
great job mam
Hi I'm David. I was just curious at the beginning when you show the guitar pedals what was the green pedal that looks like a swollen pickle with the four knobs?
I used to record in a stove using a Fender Silverface Vibrochamp. I mean the amp was mic'ed in the stove. I wasn't in the stove. Gives you a hugely compressed but rich and awesome tone.
Something about her i like....Shes awesome
My fave light bulb for guitar are the 12ax7 and el34, not vary bright but great sounding.
What a massy production. HAHAHA AHAHAHHA
I'll show myself out.
I had to subscribe, wow. I am a fan.
Love your sense of experimentation.
Sylvia is a treasure.
Wow I love it
Sylvia, youre the bomb sweetie !! Check you out !! I'll never forget our conversation where you explained your concepts about morphing sonic through unconventional methods. Ive got to come up and drink kool aid with you guys sometime, its like me going diametrically opposed to my normal mindset. Honestly completely opposite. But when you told me about making audio cables with old phone cables or the wire from an old drive in speaker, I got a little grin on my face that has not left. My heart swells when I see others so passionate about music. lol the Gooch just came up as Im writing.. Later this year I try my hand at recording with a Studer A80 out of Sunset Sound now here with me in ATL.. to jog your memory, Im HiFi cable guy Mikey from Verastarr. Huge love and support for everything you do !!!
Sylvia Massey is da bomb!!!
Wonderful
My admiration for her know no bounds.,
Charming female mad genius at work here.
This is brilliant
brilliant
Hi! there will be somewhere where you can get the diagram for connecting the lamp to the guitar amp? :^
love this
Shes the music producer version of a Harry Potter professor
hope shes from england
@@mariaulfah7902 No, she grew up in LA, but she lives in Oregon now.
😂💥😂
Read another book
She’s a genius
Brilliance!
Awesome.
Love her!
I love how she correctly says "damping" (a drum) instead of "dampening". She knows the difference between sound waves and wetness -- unlike most drummers and many recordists.
Very cool
EDGE Studios! Cheshire. Cool!
I am going to custom tune a guitar and close mic it near a drum kit! Dayyum. I need to try the hose isolation trick, too.
Go for it!
i love when women are into music production / mixing techniques and actually know their stuff! big thumbs up
❤
God I love her so very much! I always learn something fascinating watching her in videos. What I would give to be a part of her team.
Im really sorry your "extra warmth" joke didn't land... I got it.
Awesome content though I could listen to Sylvia talk about gear all day.
Can someone give me the link of the sound she recorded using these techniques? I'm curious!
I cannot think of anyone else in the industry I’d rather work with!