Bobby, your mother and I are so super proud of you. We remembered when you started your studio and made a lifeless place alive! And get to listen your work from Akora, King Kelly and the other bands you recorded. It has been a blast for us and can't wait to hear more later on. Good luck on the makings of your new studio. Love Mom and Dad...
Hey mate, subscriber for a while, first time I comment I think. I changed to a simplified mindset in my productions thanks to you. Thank you for that. Just want to congratulate you on the change and improvements, that's a step up and I'm happy for you.
I'm stoked for you - you deserve a studio upgrade, Bobby! I hope you'll find it even more inspiring than your old studio. Having peace and quiet and control over your own space is HUGE. I can't wait to see you share the rest of the build out, and to hear the awesome work comes out of it!
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I can't stand these clickbait titles & thumbnails that make it seem like your world is falling apart. You're not closing your studio, you're moving it. It was the same with Colt Capperrune a few years ago, this big melodramatic video because he had to move into another room for a few months whilst he poured tons of cash into his big f'k off main room. I clicked into this video going "that's a shame, that guy is a great producer" & low & behold, you're doing more than ok.
@rvstlungofficial5741 Only speaking for myself, and I've clicked on many of these types of videos just to unsubscribe from some creators using this tactic. My time is far too important to waste watching things that are lured to me through clickbait.
That is awesome news Bobby. You have come so far and it's great to see your dreams realized. Can't wait to see your progress videos. Congratulations, you deserve it dude!!! I wrote my first song in 2005 and it's pretty much stagnated for me as I treat this as a hobby. Seeing your videos keeps me keen to go further in my music journey.
Mr. Frightbox, I love your channel and your advice always helps me out with my projects. Super awesome that you're getting to build that studio and I'll definitely be sticking around to see the progress unfold to the finished result! 🤘
Reminds me of the newest update from benn jordan....he moved into a new place, and showed off the new place, and the difficulties associated with renovating a farmhouse into a studio house.....
I can imagine that must have been an emotional decision to make, but it really looks like you made the right decision. You have to adapt in life. Good luck with the new studio build, will be following your progress.
Congratulations on achieving your dream. You had me scared for a moment. Your tutorials and mix cheat sheets got my mixes to levels I never thought I'd achieve. I'm glad you're moving up and staying in the game. I hope your new studio comes together smoothly. I can't wait to see it when it's done 🤘
Congrats man. I was one of your earliest subscribers and followers and it's been amazing seeing your channel grow and turn into such a phenomenal resource for aspiring producers--i learned so much of what i know from you and my recording and production ethos is based almost entirely on yours, and if i lived closer it'd have been really cool to work together on shit. Obviously we've never met lol but it's a similar feeling to seeing a good friend achieve all the success they ever dreamed of. I CANNOT wait to see the new studio! Ignore these donuts whining about clickbait, some people just need to touch some grass once in a while lmao
Man, you got me! lol I thought you were throwing in the towel. So glad you're not. You do way too good of work both production and helping so many people. Awesome!!!
You give us dreggs hope for recording. Thank you for showing how to make good recordings without feeling like the dream is unobtainable. In the last year since I discovered your channel (and wisdom), my production has gone from receiving the creepy old smiling dude meme responses to a shocked look followed by "Damn dude! Pretty good!" You are a prophet, Bobby.
That’s fuckin awesome that you can build your dream studio 🤘"keep going forward not backwards, upwards not downwards, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
YOU SCARED ME because I’m still starting with a studio and when I read titles like this it just scares me. I almost didn't watch this video because I didn't want to get uninspired 1- Sad when an era comes to an end 😞. But I’m happy you are upgrading. 2- Amazing how you recorded in an untreated room. 3- You are a zombie fan like me 🤓
Yeahh..Clean & Lights... definitely underrated. I remember me, painting our rehearsal room black...'cause of evil death metal back in the days. It started to annoy me the moment the paint was dry 😆
The audio control room was the largest room. 10 x 8 x 8. And amazing. How good that can sound. Though? I would give tours of my facilities while I was on location doing jobs. One day there was this, mid 40s guy. Identified himself as an, Acoustic Engineer. When this guy hears my control room during a playback. He subtly gets angry. And says...... THIS ROOM IS ALL WRONG AND TOO SMALL, IT CAN'T SOUND THIS GOOD IN HERE! WHAT!? ARE YOU DOING?! This guy was a sad case. He thought he knew something he didn't know. He did not understand. The difference between, Speaker Phase and Speaker Polarity. You have to think about and deal, with both. Nothing like this is taught at the university level. They miss this. This very important fundamental thing. I can safely tell most of you. Your left and right channel speakers. Are in phase, and together. But both, together. They are in Negative Absolute Polarity. Even if you are convinced. It is in positive polarity. No... I am sorry it is not. All of the electrical engineers designing speakers. For the past 70 or so years have gotten this wrong. As I discovered. There was only one company. Making speakers. Who thought about this, deeply and completely. And they got it, right. And that company is, since 1948, JBL Speaker Co., Los Angeles, California. Founded by James B. Lansing. Cofounder of, Altec Lansing. But he designed and walked away to start, JBL. Nearly across the street. But both of his speakers were opposite each other. I had both. And I had to think about this very carefully. What was going on? I think at a disagreement with his partners at Altec Lansing. Technically speaking. And realized the error they had made. And they did not want to change it. They believe, they were right. And he was wrong. Simply because his new, JBL, speakers. Were, " out of phase ". To his Altec Lansing, speakers. I had a pair of, 604E's. And as nice as they sound. They never sounded right in my control room once I built it. I got for my mentor. When he retired. They sounded real nice in his living room. They did not sound good in my control room. But everybody wanted this model of Speaker. And I needed something else. So I have gotten a brand-new pair of, JBL, 4311's. One of the most popular compact, control room monitor speakers, ever. So many hits recorded on this model. And so my control room can accommodate, 3 different pairs of speakers. On pushbuttons. Then you could have one pair, two pair or all three pairs on at the same time if you wanted. And once I put the 4311's in. Voilà! Now this is how I wanted my control room, to sound! They sounded great! But when I, turned on the Altec Lansing, 604's at the same time. It was quite obvious. While both pairs were in phase. One pair is in the opposite polarity. So they sound good independently together.But not, together, together. This is all wrong. Plus I had a pair of Auratones. Phased together add matching the, Altec Lansing 604's. But also not the 4311 JBL's. What the hell I thought? I had to get to the bottom of this, conundrum. So like any good Engineer. I decided to rewire the, JBL 4311's. To match the polarity of the other 2 pairs of well-established speakers also. And now all. The JBL's match the polarity of the other 2 pairs. And now my JBL 4311's. Don't sound so good in my control room anymore. So I changed them back. Then I flipped. All for other pairs of speaker polarity. So the 604's and the Auratones. Now match the JBL. And oh my God! Eureka! This is the holy Grail! Now my Altec Lansing 604E, Big Reds. Now sound right! They sound fabulous! So do the Auratones even more! Woo hoo! This is unreal! We were all dancing around the control room. We were playing back all sorts of stuff. And it was blowing my mind. What had just occurred. I have established. What has occurred here. Many people have said. They don't want any out of phase anything in their signal chain. And that was not the correct thinking. Here's why. This is what happened. Now listen up. Oh? Right. This is just text. But I think you'll understand. When you approach audio. From that goofball ignorant, out of phase blah blah, criteria. What your speakers end up doing. Is, to mimic. The initial motion. Of the diaphragms. Of the microphones. (More Pole Hilarity in following post)
Well? Happy to hear you got the, new space in the new house. But really now? You still don't have a big room. You don't know what you're missing. Without having a big room. Your recordings will always sound, tight. As the reverb time and ambient structure. Of the acoustic signature of a small room. Will... still sound, like a small room. Because... it is. That is to say. Scads of rock 'n roll hits. Came out in small rooms. Including Robert Palmer. As... I have got to New York City. From Baltimore. Where I was designing and building. What would be Baltimore's, second-largest music recording and commercial production, facility. And I went up to NYC to look at a Ampex, MM-1000, 16 track recorder. It was at, Regent Sound Studios. Bob Lofton, owner. Who I was meeting with. And he was a great guy. So he's telling me about the machine. And we are walking down his massive facility hallway. Then he comes to this control room and studio. He opens up the door. A session is in progress. There is a band in the room. It's a very tiny room. So tiny. The lead singer. Had his back and his head. Up against, the studio window. Looking into the control room. I could not see his face. The drummer immediately opposite him. Guitarists on either side and a keyboard guy. I don't know how they got in there? But they sounded really good. As Bob, messed with the switches. The Ampex MM-1000-16. As all 16 channels work in record. And the band is laying down a track. And Bob is playing with the switches. I thought, was strange? So I sent to Bob. Do you really think you should be, switching those switches while they are tracking? He looks at his engineer and says, Frank. Is everything all right? Frank said yeah. He went back to switching switches. And the band was still playing. They sounded really good. It was going through a, Studer, console. It sounded real nice. And we leave the control room. As we are walking down the hall. He asked me what I thought? And I said... the machine is great. And then band that was tracking. It all sounded like, Robert Palmer. To whit Bob replied. It is Robert Palmer. Oh my God LOL. I thought that was terribly funny. A tracking session with Robert Palmer. On a machine that was up for sale. That was one hell of a, demonstration. In the end. I elected not to purchase that machine, for my studio. For a couple of reasons. Obviously it worked reliably and sounded good. Though it weighed in at 850 pounds. And there is no, full function, remote control. Available for that early model. I thought perhaps there was? Or that the panel on board the machine. Could be removed. And placed into a better position feet away. But no. So that was not the machine for me. I would later purchase a brand-new, Demonstrator Ampex MM-1200-16. Off the, AES Convention, room floor. In NYC. At the Waldorf Astoria. Those were such great shows there. Like conventions used to be. Where in that hotel. With the Convention. All the exhibitors. Had hotel rooms. Where they had, Demonstrations, set up. In a relatively quiet environment. With a room that had been semi-treated, acoustically with stuff. Plenty of refreshments, snacks, candy, beer, wine, booze, smokes, blow. To get you to purchase very expensive professional audio gear. Those were the best days. Of future, past. And that was a really tiny studio. With an entire band crammed in. And not just your backyard garage band. It was Robert Palmer. And the band looked really funny. All crammed into this tiny little studio. As this place also has some really big, Studios, also. But other sessions were taking place. The place was another hit factory. Lots came out of Regent. Later I went to work at Media Sound Studios. As mostly a Maintenance Engineer. And it was home to Bob Clearmountain. And I would have to sit in his control room. A couple of occasions. When he would have been issues with the, early 1970s, Rupert Neve console. And always funny and embarrassing. When he would tell me what's wrong. What it's not doing right. And I would press a button. Bob would blush and chuckle. Whoops. We all do it. I hardly knew the console. It was a part of him. And oh. What he did with it. I love Bob Clearmountain. Who doesn't? And just to work at the same studio with him. Was cool. But I didn't stay at that studio long. Not quite one year. When a different opportunity. Banged at my door. And I moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. To go to work for a multimillion dollar national advertising agency. I had already done work for at our studio. And the studio I worked at before that also. They knew who I was. At the first video I worked for. My boss got all of their commercials. They cut hundreds of commercials per day. With the best announcers on the East Coast. And I would end up editing, duplicating, the stuff. My boss recorded. A couple years later I resigned. And I built a large competing studio to the one I had, first worked at. It was a big one. In 1973. 3 control rooms and 3 studios. 2 of them large. One rather small. Mostly for announcers are small musical ensembles and bands. I got my high school friends in. So yeah. You can make good recordings in small rooms. They will never sound like big rooms. But that's why God created, Algorithmic Digital Reverbs. I don't care much for those, impulse emulated, reverbs. Give me a real room and a plate. Or give me death. So instead? 34 years ago I built a Remote Recording Truck. Not just any. Record Plant, style. In fact I almost became part of them. But I declined the offer. To do my own thing. With my own truck. Equipped with something better from the same company. Of the, Sound City, Neve console. Mine cost $9000 more. Thankfully. I did not have to pay the $85,000. For this custom legend. No. I simply got to use it for many years. And then one of my engineering managers. Told me to purchase it at auction. I said don't be ridiculous. But they were being completely ridiculous. I got it. And stuck it in a 25,000 pound diesel box truck. And of course. A console of that Pedigree. Needs to be in a nice truck. Not an American truck. But I truck synonymous. With, some of our all time favorite microphones and Hitler. A Mercedes-Benz, L.-1117, diesel box truck. Totally customized. Yes it was a box within the box. And the internal box was split into 3 rooms. I had, whisper quiet, Central HVAC, heating and air-conditioning. And likely the only control room. In the USA. With a rackmount, air-conditioning outlet. At the top of the rack. (More Pole Hilarity in following post)
I like your style kid. You've got such a nice delivery. No pompous crap. And not to worry. I also bother Glenn trigger. Up in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Please gotten used to my posts. He knows where I'm coming from. Now you do also. When you read my comments below. If you like them? It'll fix you guys write up. With something you really haven't heard before. Most of you. Except those proud, JBL, owners. You guys are perfectly fine. Ignore everything I said, below. None of it pertains to you guys. With JBL's. But you can also find out for yourself what I'm talking about. When you reverse your, JBL's. They will then sound like. So many other, underwhelming, speakers out there. They will sound blah. You'll hear it for yourselves. And so I think it could be some kind of professional joke played on everybody? But no. People really are this stupid. And who am I? I used to work for a company called Scully. And a friend of mine owned API. The company. I had other friends in the business. Down at MCI. Where I also once lived. And worked. And declined their offer also. I had more important things to do. Then that. Though I was known as one of those Studio Fixer Guys. The guys at API new it. I fixed their studio. Yup, me. Monitoring what was wonky sounding. Takes 2 minutes to fix. 2 minutes as in 120 seconds. Like a commercial break during the football game. That's all the time this fix takes. And it's free. Read below. I am not joking here. You'll hear it for yourself. Everyone does. Everyone gets changed. RemyRAD
Now let's review. Which way do microphone diaphragm's move? What when a sound source. Slams into, that microphone diaphragm. And which way is that moving? Would you want your speakers moving like that? Of course not. But that is exactly what they are doing. Whoops. Not to worry any. It's been wrong with everybody else. Except for JBL. They thought this through. And he will find their speakers are out of phase. Or so to speak. With all other speaker manufacturers, in the world today. They have all made this error. Every single last one of them. With their college degrees. Nobody could think this through for themselves. It's like an, Audio Cult. And just because everybody does it. Doesn't make it right. This is not how audio work. This is how it goes down the drain. When nobody knows what's going on. But everybody is an expert with a college degree. I approached some well known legendary guys. About this. One told me I was nuts. And I had a lot of, Bob Orban's equipment in my racks. And I don't appreciate being called, an idiot. As he told me. All he needs to do is invert the phase. At the input to the audio power amplifier connected to the speakers. And he said there is, not an appreciable, difference. I told him that was correct Bob. Because that does not change the Absolute Polarity. At the output of the audio power amplifier. That drives the speaker cone. That polarity remains the same. He didn't come again it? The guy who changed FM radio, Sound. Didn't get it. And he calls me an idiot. I'm not your average Audio Idiot. I chose not to go into business. Custom creating audio gear. No. I wanted to make the recordings. The gear that I knew existed. I knew was all perfectly good. And cost more than your house. More than most of the cars. Car dealers have on their lots. To purchase a decent audio console. $45,000-$85,000 on average. Back in 1978. If you want a real one. To cut hits with. API, Neve, Sphere, Electro-Dyne, Phillips. And a newcomer called SSL. That used to make pipe organs. And I thought, Ha! What kind of piece of crap is that going to be? I wondered? Whoops. Bob Clearmountain had already gotten his hands on one. One of the very first. And he changed the world with that thing. Along with some previous, Technique. George Massenburg, popularized. With his, Parametric Equalizer. An SSL picked up on that. And a few other accoutrements. Such as limiters and gates. On every input channel. But I digress. The issue of phase versus polarity is a touchy setup. Regarding speakers. Everybody gets it wrong. And that's why everybody needs. So much acoustic gobbledygook on their walls. In their corners. Hanging from their ceilings. Yeah no. Mostly that's because. The speakers are encased together. But both in Negative Absolute Polarity. It's goofy I know. People are stupid. With college degrees. That doesn't mean you know what you are hearing. It means. You're supposed to know. But everyone gets this wrong. They don't know what the hell they are listening to? The acoustics are bad. I don't have the best speakers... blah blah blah. All excuses. Indicating what a rank amateur you really are. But now you don't have to be anymore. I just gave you the holy Grail. That'll change your life. And here Monitoring. You will hear things the way you are supposed to. The way your brain needs to receive the sound. From electronic reproduction. And what the hell is natural about electronic sound reproduction? Absolutely nothing. That's an advertising and marketing term. And everybody just repeats what they hear. Like a bunch of lemmings. But that's not how audio works. And so I hope this also helps Fried Box Recording? And makes things better. For everybody. That's my only intention. JBL, showed me the way. When I heard them I knew. I would have to own a pair one day. And since then. I think I've owned approximately, 14 pairs of JBL studio monitors? Something like that? As I also had a pair in every room of my house. Along with my, Studio Facility. Where I had 2 pairs of 4311's. In the control room together. It sounded spectacular. And in such a small enclosed space. Of a truck box. Nothing should sound good in there LOL. Until you wire your speakers Correctly! This is one of these hopelessly stupid things. That has happened for many years. It doesn't have to be this way LOL. The fix. Is free. It costs, nothing, to do. But there is a caveat here. For those of you. Then have those great sounding. Active Powered Monitor Speakers. Of any brand. Of high end or low and mid grade types. You're going to need to be good with a screwdriver and a soldering iron. You can not flip phase of the input. That inverts your waveform. Sure. You will hear little difference. It does not invert the absolute polarity at the output. That remains the same. So? You will remove both high and low speakers. From the box. You will use your soldering iron. To reverse the connections. On both speakers. Then reinstall the speakers. But do not over to work down the screws. Do not use the Hulk Death Grip. When screwing the speakers back in. You can warp the frames. Do not do that. Just make them snug. Then take another listen. It'll be jaw-dropping. I guarantee it. So give it a try folks. You've got nothing to lose. Easy to change it back. You won't. As you've been missing a lot. And the Surround Quality. Will blow your minds. And what about your lousy acoustics now? What about them? They won't sound so lousy, anymore. Because your room didn't know how to respond? With in, phase but Negative Absolute Polarity, wiring. Whoops. Your room doesn't know what to make of that either? Now your room will sound, less lousy. Maybe even, tolerable? And what about that new microphone you are thinking about you couldn't afford? Because you had to purchase acoustic gobbledygook. You now realize. You don't need. Woo hoo! Ye Ha! Now you guys are set. Check it out. RemyRAD
Bro you yap too much in all of your vids. i didnt understand how you deliver your point You make a video how to do something. You spend half an hour yapping about something else that doesnt help
Just reading the comments alone I just told RUclips not to recommend channel anymore n I’m removing my subscription. Everyone is moving like a weirdo just to get views. No more truth just lies n deceit
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Bobby, your mother and I are so super proud of you. We remembered when you started your studio and made a lifeless place alive! And get to listen your work from Akora, King Kelly and the other bands you recorded. It has been a blast for us and can't wait to hear more later on. Good luck on the makings of your new studio. Love Mom and Dad...
Thank you!!
End of an era Leroy. The OG Frightbox space is site of a lot of great memories. More to come!
Seeing you close that door for the last time actually made me tear up.
Don't worry, we'll be jamming in the new spot in 2025.
Hey mate, subscriber for a while, first time I comment I think. I changed to a simplified mindset in my productions thanks to you. Thank you for that. Just want to congratulate you on the change and improvements, that's a step up and I'm happy for you.
So happy to hear that the content is helping you on your journey!
I'm stoked for you - you deserve a studio upgrade, Bobby!
I hope you'll find it even more inspiring than your old studio. Having peace and quiet and control over your own space is HUGE. I can't wait to see you share the rest of the build out, and to hear the awesome work comes out of it!
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Dude looking forward to see the process and the final build
I can't stand these clickbait titles & thumbnails that make it seem like your world is falling apart. You're not closing your studio, you're moving it. It was the same with Colt Capperrune a few years ago, this big melodramatic video because he had to move into another room for a few months whilst he poured tons of cash into his big f'k off main room. I clicked into this video going "that's a shame, that guy is a great producer" & low & behold, you're doing more than ok.
Well said!
And agreed about Colt too 👎🏻
Yup. This some garbage bullshit
Agreed!
Got you to click though 😂
@rvstlungofficial5741 Only speaking for myself, and I've clicked on many of these types of videos just to unsubscribe from some creators using this tactic. My time is far too important to waste watching things that are lured to me through clickbait.
Dude looks absolutely killer for 40!
That is awesome news Bobby. You have come so far and it's great to see your dreams realized. Can't wait to see your progress videos. Congratulations, you deserve it dude!!! I wrote my first song in 2005 and it's pretty much stagnated for me as I treat this as a hobby. Seeing your videos keeps me keen to go further in my music journey.
WOW DUDE...END OF A ERA. I'm getting teary eyed over here. Congrats on the new space. Hoping you do some progress videos as it gets built.
Those vids are on the way! Almost done with the design, and then it's onto the actual build.
Great news man! I m glad to hear that you're happy with your new endeavour! Cheers!
Super happy for you man, living the dream and got there yourself. Your videos have helped me a ton over the years to improve my mixing, congrats!
Sounds like progress. Best of luck bro! You've helped me a ton!
Super stoked for you! You've definitely paid your dues and deserve a sweet space in your own place!
Awesome! So grateful for all your work - I've learnded more from your channel than anywhere else. Also, you looking f*cking great for 40.... B*stard
Hell yeah Bobby, I'm glad you're finally building your dream studio without all the issues.
Can't wait to see it when it's done.
Mr. Frightbox, I love your channel and your advice always helps me out with my projects. Super awesome that you're getting to build that studio and I'll definitely be sticking around to see the progress unfold to the finished result! 🤘
Glad you made the move brotha!
Can’t wait to hear what comes out of it!!
Reminds me of the newest update from benn jordan....he moved into a new place, and showed off the new place, and the difficulties associated with renovating a farmhouse into a studio house.....
This is the first video I've seen by you, I'm glad your moving up, excited to see your new studio build, subscribed!
A building full of metal musicians😮. Sounds like a dream to me.
I can imagine that must have been an emotional decision to make, but it really looks like you made the right decision. You have to adapt in life.
Good luck with the new studio build, will be following your progress.
Looking forward to seeing the progress of the new studio mate.
Congratulations on achieving your dream. You had me scared for a moment. Your tutorials and mix cheat sheets got my mixes to levels I never thought I'd achieve. I'm glad you're moving up and staying in the game. I hope your new studio comes together smoothly. I can't wait to see it when it's done 🤘
Good for you! Can't wait to see the build out process.
Best wishes to you in your next steps! Can't wait to follow your construction progress and to see the that dream come alive.
Good choice. All the best with the new studio. I'll be following the updates.
Sick! Congrats!
I'll miss that little room ❤
Thanks for all the good times at that location. I’ll never forget that spot!
Congrats Bobby!
Amazing bro. Cant wait to see the final build.
Excited for this next chapter, Bobby! Honored to have been a part of some of those memories in there with you!
Congrats Gordon! Rest in power to 301, but so stoked for you on the new set up!
That's excellent and I wish you the best as I totally understand.
Don’t you DARE SCARE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN! I was about to have my own Bobula. 😂
Was that Nojito the last Spindrift consumed in there?...solid choice if so.
Wow it was...great catch!
Good luck with the new studio, man! 🤘
Happy for you Bobby ! Congrats for your progress and thank you for everything you share and teach to us ❤
Good for you man!🤘🏻🤘🏻
Hell yeah brother! Gonna miss working with you in that room 🥲 looking forward to the new setup!
Congratulations my friend you deserve it! 😊
Congrats man. I was one of your earliest subscribers and followers and it's been amazing seeing your channel grow and turn into such a phenomenal resource for aspiring producers--i learned so much of what i know from you and my recording and production ethos is based almost entirely on yours, and if i lived closer it'd have been really cool to work together on shit. Obviously we've never met lol but it's a similar feeling to seeing a good friend achieve all the success they ever dreamed of. I CANNOT wait to see the new studio! Ignore these donuts whining about clickbait, some people just need to touch some grass once in a while lmao
Hell yeah! Well earned, looking forward to the journey!
Good luck!
Man, you got me! lol I thought you were throwing in the towel. So glad you're not. You do way too good of work both production and helping so many people. Awesome!!!
Can’t wait to see the new studio finished!
Congrats on starting the dream studio!
Great video. Looking forward to the construction updates. Congratulations!
Hell Yeah 😎🍻🤘
You give us dreggs hope for recording. Thank you for showing how to make good recordings without feeling like the dream is unobtainable. In the last year since I discovered your channel (and wisdom), my production has gone from receiving the creepy old smiling dude meme responses to a shocked look followed by "Damn dude! Pretty good!" You are a prophet, Bobby.
Dude I'm so happy to hear that!!
I do miss the studio that we left. But ya know covid and all. unfortunate we lost that last room in the second floor.
Hell yeah. Go for it, big guy.
That's what's up! Congrats on your new build. 🥂
Bobby, good for you 🙂 I’m still working to “get to your shoes”. I believe my time will come 🏆
Keep up great work 👍 Cheers from Czech republic 🇨🇿
Go, Bobby, go!
Damn Bobby, had me chewing my fingernails there thinking you were packing in completely! Best of luck on the new studio 🤘 Happy Moving!
I had the exact same thought. I'm thinking - hell...he was just building a new space...wtf?
Totally got click baited😂
@1KoeiKan we lost the game! 😆 🤣
Older = Wiser. Awesome you are striving to be happier!
That’s fuckin awesome that you can build your dream studio 🤘"keep going forward not backwards, upwards not downwards, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
Wow, End of an Era.
Onward and upward!
End of an era !!!! Thank you for everything bobbula
Can't wait to watch "The Granny" with you guys in the new spot.
@@FrightboxRecording let’s do it !
I recorded there several times and it was always great times!
What band were. you in?!
Shout out to Larry David
I'm gonna miss that guy!
Congrats mate! Saludos desde Argentina!
Great video
YOU SCARED ME because I’m still starting with a studio and when I read titles like this it just scares me. I almost didn't watch this video because I didn't want to get uninspired
1- Sad when an era comes to an end 😞. But I’m happy you are upgrading.
2- Amazing how you recorded in an untreated room.
3- You are a zombie fan like me 🤓
Yeahh..Clean & Lights... definitely underrated. I remember me, painting our rehearsal room black...'cause of evil death metal back in the days. It started to annoy me the moment the paint was dry 😆
The audio control room was the largest room. 10 x 8 x 8. And amazing. How good that can sound. Though?
I would give tours of my facilities while I was on location doing jobs. One day there was this, mid 40s guy. Identified himself as an, Acoustic Engineer.
When this guy hears my control room during a playback. He subtly gets angry. And says...... THIS ROOM IS ALL WRONG AND TOO SMALL, IT CAN'T SOUND THIS GOOD IN HERE! WHAT!? ARE YOU DOING?!
This guy was a sad case. He thought he knew something he didn't know. He did not understand. The difference between, Speaker Phase and Speaker Polarity. You have to think about and deal, with both. Nothing like this is taught at the university level. They miss this. This very important fundamental thing.
I can safely tell most of you. Your left and right channel speakers. Are in phase, and together. But both, together. They are in Negative Absolute Polarity. Even if you are convinced. It is in positive polarity. No... I am sorry it is not. All of the electrical engineers designing speakers. For the past 70 or so years have gotten this wrong. As I discovered. There was only one company. Making speakers. Who thought about this, deeply and completely. And they got it, right. And that company is, since 1948, JBL Speaker Co., Los Angeles, California. Founded by James B. Lansing. Cofounder of, Altec Lansing. But he designed and walked away to start, JBL. Nearly across the street. But both of his speakers were opposite each other. I had both. And I had to think about this very carefully. What was going on?
I think at a disagreement with his partners at Altec Lansing. Technically speaking. And realized the error they had made. And they did not want to change it. They believe, they were right. And he was wrong.
Simply because his new, JBL, speakers. Were, " out of phase ". To his Altec Lansing, speakers. I had a pair of, 604E's. And as nice as they sound. They never sounded right in my control room once I built it. I got for my mentor. When he retired. They sounded real nice in his living room. They did not sound good in my control room. But everybody wanted this model of Speaker. And I needed something else.
So I have gotten a brand-new pair of, JBL, 4311's. One of the most popular compact, control room monitor speakers, ever. So many hits recorded on this model.
And so my control room can accommodate, 3 different pairs of speakers. On pushbuttons. Then you could have one pair, two pair or all three pairs on at the same time if you wanted.
And once I put the 4311's in. Voilà! Now this is how I wanted my control room, to sound! They sounded great! But when I, turned on the Altec Lansing, 604's at the same time. It was quite obvious. While both pairs were in phase. One pair is in the opposite polarity. So they sound good independently together.But not, together, together. This is all wrong. Plus I had a pair of Auratones. Phased together add matching the, Altec Lansing 604's. But also not the 4311 JBL's. What the hell I thought? I had to get to the bottom of this, conundrum.
So like any good Engineer. I decided to rewire the, JBL 4311's. To match the polarity of the other 2 pairs of well-established speakers also. And now all. The JBL's match the polarity of the other 2 pairs. And now my JBL 4311's. Don't sound so good in my control room anymore. So I changed them back.
Then I flipped. All for other pairs of speaker polarity. So the 604's and the Auratones. Now match the JBL. And oh my God! Eureka! This is the holy Grail!
Now my Altec Lansing 604E, Big Reds. Now sound right! They sound fabulous! So do the Auratones even more! Woo hoo! This is unreal! We were all dancing around the control room. We were playing back all sorts of stuff. And it was blowing my mind. What had just occurred.
I have established. What has occurred here. Many people have said. They don't want any out of phase anything in their signal chain. And that was not the correct thinking. Here's why. This is what happened. Now listen up. Oh? Right. This is just text. But I think you'll understand.
When you approach audio. From that goofball ignorant, out of phase blah blah, criteria. What your speakers end up doing. Is, to mimic. The initial motion. Of the diaphragms. Of the microphones.
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ITB decent treatment laptop and interface -sm7b sm57 and a cheap lewitt mic is pretty much 90% there!...10% outboard gear and what ever else
I'd say it's already 100% of the way there. No need for outboard gear these days. Fun to use, but not necessary.
@@FrightboxRecording true that!... outboard gear just a bonus along with expensive mics
It's just the drummer rented the room next door, that's why he's moving
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Love this channel and grateful for the content but I hate the click bait tittle man.
Well? Happy to hear you got the, new space in the new house. But really now? You still don't have a big room. You don't know what you're missing. Without having a big room. Your recordings will always sound, tight.
As the reverb time and ambient structure. Of the acoustic signature of a small room. Will... still sound, like a small room. Because... it is.
That is to say. Scads of rock 'n roll hits. Came out in small rooms. Including Robert Palmer. As... I have got to New York City. From Baltimore. Where I was designing and building. What would be Baltimore's, second-largest music recording and commercial production, facility. And I went up to NYC to look at a Ampex, MM-1000, 16 track recorder.
It was at, Regent Sound Studios. Bob Lofton, owner. Who I was meeting with. And he was a great guy.
So he's telling me about the machine. And we are walking down his massive facility hallway. Then he comes to this control room and studio. He opens up the door. A session is in progress. There is a band in the room. It's a very tiny room. So tiny. The lead singer. Had his back and his head. Up against, the studio window. Looking into the control room. I could not see his face. The drummer immediately opposite him. Guitarists on either side and a keyboard guy. I don't know how they got in there? But they sounded really good. As Bob, messed with the switches. The Ampex MM-1000-16. As all 16 channels work in record. And the band is laying down a track. And Bob is playing with the switches. I thought, was strange?
So I sent to Bob. Do you really think you should be, switching those switches while they are tracking? He looks at his engineer and says, Frank. Is everything all right? Frank said yeah. He went back to switching switches. And the band was still playing. They sounded really good. It was going through a, Studer, console. It sounded real nice. And we leave the control room.
As we are walking down the hall. He asked me what I thought? And I said... the machine is great. And then band that was tracking. It all sounded like, Robert Palmer. To whit Bob replied. It is Robert Palmer.
Oh my God LOL. I thought that was terribly funny. A tracking session with Robert Palmer. On a machine that was up for sale. That was one hell of a, demonstration.
In the end. I elected not to purchase that machine, for my studio. For a couple of reasons. Obviously it worked reliably and sounded good. Though it weighed in at 850 pounds. And there is no, full function, remote control. Available for that early model. I thought perhaps there was? Or that the panel on board the machine. Could be removed. And placed into a better position feet away. But no. So that was not the machine for me. I would later purchase a brand-new, Demonstrator Ampex MM-1200-16. Off the, AES Convention, room floor. In NYC. At the Waldorf Astoria. Those were such great shows there. Like conventions used to be.
Where in that hotel. With the Convention. All the exhibitors. Had hotel rooms. Where they had, Demonstrations, set up. In a relatively quiet environment. With a room that had been semi-treated, acoustically with stuff. Plenty of refreshments, snacks, candy, beer, wine, booze, smokes, blow. To get you to purchase very expensive professional audio gear. Those were the best days. Of future, past.
And that was a really tiny studio. With an entire band crammed in. And not just your backyard garage band. It was Robert Palmer. And the band looked really funny. All crammed into this tiny little studio. As this place also has some really big, Studios, also. But other sessions were taking place. The place was another hit factory. Lots came out of Regent. Later I went to work at Media Sound Studios. As mostly a Maintenance Engineer. And it was home to Bob Clearmountain. And I would have to sit in his control room. A couple of occasions. When he would have been issues with the, early 1970s, Rupert Neve console. And always funny and embarrassing. When he would tell me what's wrong. What it's not doing right. And I would press a button. Bob would blush and chuckle. Whoops. We all do it. I hardly knew the console. It was a part of him. And oh. What he did with it. I love Bob Clearmountain. Who doesn't? And just to work at the same studio with him. Was cool. But I didn't stay at that studio long. Not quite one year. When a different opportunity. Banged at my door. And I moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. To go to work for a multimillion dollar national advertising agency. I had already done work for at our studio. And the studio I worked at before that also. They knew who I was.
At the first video I worked for. My boss got all of their commercials. They cut hundreds of commercials per day. With the best announcers on the East Coast. And I would end up editing, duplicating, the stuff. My boss recorded.
A couple years later I resigned. And I built a large competing studio to the one I had, first worked at. It was a big one. In 1973. 3 control rooms and 3 studios. 2 of them large. One rather small. Mostly for announcers are small musical ensembles and bands. I got my high school friends in.
So yeah. You can make good recordings in small rooms. They will never sound like big rooms. But that's why God created, Algorithmic Digital Reverbs. I don't care much for those, impulse emulated, reverbs. Give me a real room and a plate. Or give me death. So instead?
34 years ago I built a Remote Recording Truck. Not just any. Record Plant, style. In fact I almost became part of them. But I declined the offer. To do my own thing. With my own truck. Equipped with something better from the same company. Of the, Sound City, Neve console. Mine cost $9000 more. Thankfully. I did not have to pay the $85,000. For this custom legend. No. I simply got to use it for many years. And then one of my engineering managers. Told me to purchase it at auction. I said don't be ridiculous. But they were being completely ridiculous. I got it. And stuck it in a 25,000 pound diesel box truck. And of course.
A console of that Pedigree. Needs to be in a nice truck. Not an American truck. But I truck synonymous. With, some of our all time favorite microphones and Hitler. A Mercedes-Benz, L.-1117, diesel box truck. Totally customized.
Yes it was a box within the box. And the internal box was split into 3 rooms. I had, whisper quiet, Central HVAC, heating and air-conditioning. And likely the only control room. In the USA. With a rackmount, air-conditioning outlet. At the top of the rack.
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I like your style kid. You've got such a nice delivery. No pompous crap.
And not to worry. I also bother Glenn trigger. Up in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Please gotten used to my posts. He knows where I'm coming from. Now you do also. When you read my comments below. If you like them? It'll fix you guys write up. With something you really haven't heard before. Most of you. Except those proud, JBL, owners. You guys are perfectly fine. Ignore everything I said, below. None of it pertains to you guys. With JBL's. But you can also find out for yourself what I'm talking about. When you reverse your, JBL's. They will then sound like. So many other, underwhelming, speakers out there. They will sound blah. You'll hear it for yourselves.
And so I think it could be some kind of professional joke played on everybody? But no. People really are this stupid. And who am I?
I used to work for a company called Scully. And a friend of mine owned API. The company. I had other friends in the business. Down at MCI. Where I also once lived. And worked. And declined their offer also. I had more important things to do. Then that.
Though I was known as one of those Studio Fixer Guys. The guys at API new it. I fixed their studio. Yup, me. Monitoring what was wonky sounding. Takes 2 minutes to fix. 2 minutes as in 120 seconds. Like a commercial break during the football game. That's all the time this fix takes. And it's free. Read below.
I am not joking here. You'll hear it for yourself. Everyone does. Everyone gets changed.
RemyRAD
you can send me some of that equiptment you wont be needing anymore😂
Great video, but please don’t do titles like this. I know you want us to click but moving studios is different.
Moving studios is also interesting.
Bro is not 40 smh
Bud, to me you look 29
I wish I had that much hair when I was 30, let alone 40 😂
Sorry you did not make it but it was a good run.....
You must not have watched to the end - he's moving to a bigger, better studio. 🤣
The importance of having a good attention span: watch the whole video instead of just looking at the title and thumbnail and watching the intro
keywords 'getting older'😏
Now let's review. Which way do microphone diaphragm's move? What when a sound source. Slams into, that microphone diaphragm. And which way is that moving? Would you want your speakers moving like that? Of course not. But that is exactly what they are doing. Whoops. Not to worry any. It's been wrong with everybody else. Except for JBL. They thought this through. And he will find their speakers are out of phase. Or so to speak. With all other speaker manufacturers, in the world today. They have all made this error. Every single last one of them. With their college degrees. Nobody could think this through for themselves. It's like an, Audio Cult. And just because everybody does it. Doesn't make it right. This is not how audio work. This is how it goes down the drain. When nobody knows what's going on. But everybody is an expert with a college degree.
I approached some well known legendary guys. About this. One told me I was nuts. And I had a lot of, Bob Orban's equipment in my racks. And I don't appreciate being called, an idiot. As he told me. All he needs to do is invert the phase. At the input to the audio power amplifier connected to the speakers. And he said there is, not an appreciable, difference.
I told him that was correct Bob. Because that does not change the Absolute Polarity. At the output of the audio power amplifier. That drives the speaker cone. That polarity remains the same. He didn't come again it? The guy who changed FM radio, Sound. Didn't get it. And he calls me an idiot.
I'm not your average Audio Idiot. I chose not to go into business. Custom creating audio gear. No. I wanted to make the recordings. The gear that I knew existed. I knew was all perfectly good. And cost more than your house. More than most of the cars. Car dealers have on their lots. To purchase a decent audio console. $45,000-$85,000 on average. Back in 1978. If you want a real one. To cut hits with. API, Neve, Sphere, Electro-Dyne, Phillips. And a newcomer called SSL. That used to make pipe organs. And I thought, Ha! What kind of piece of crap is that going to be? I wondered? Whoops. Bob Clearmountain had already gotten his hands on one. One of the very first. And he changed the world with that thing. Along with some previous, Technique. George Massenburg, popularized. With his, Parametric Equalizer. An SSL picked up on that. And a few other accoutrements. Such as limiters and gates. On every input channel. But I digress.
The issue of phase versus polarity is a touchy setup. Regarding speakers. Everybody gets it wrong. And that's why everybody needs. So much acoustic gobbledygook on their walls. In their corners. Hanging from their ceilings. Yeah no. Mostly that's because. The speakers are encased together. But both in Negative Absolute Polarity. It's goofy I know. People are stupid. With college degrees. That doesn't mean you know what you are hearing. It means. You're supposed to know. But everyone gets this wrong. They don't know what the hell they are listening to? The acoustics are bad. I don't have the best speakers... blah blah blah. All excuses. Indicating what a rank amateur you really are. But now you don't have to be anymore. I just gave you the holy Grail. That'll change your life. And here Monitoring.
You will hear things the way you are supposed to. The way your brain needs to receive the sound. From electronic reproduction. And what the hell is natural about electronic sound reproduction? Absolutely nothing. That's an advertising and marketing term. And everybody just repeats what they hear. Like a bunch of lemmings. But that's not how audio works.
And so I hope this also helps Fried Box Recording? And makes things better. For everybody. That's my only intention. JBL, showed me the way. When I heard them I knew. I would have to own a pair one day. And since then. I think I've owned approximately, 14 pairs of JBL studio monitors? Something like that? As I also had a pair in every room of my house. Along with my, Studio Facility. Where I had 2 pairs of 4311's. In the control room together. It sounded spectacular. And in such a small enclosed space. Of a truck box. Nothing should sound good in there LOL. Until you wire your speakers Correctly!
This is one of these hopelessly stupid things. That has happened for many years. It doesn't have to be this way LOL. The fix. Is free. It costs, nothing, to do. But there is a caveat here.
For those of you. Then have those great sounding. Active Powered Monitor Speakers. Of any brand. Of high end or low and mid grade types. You're going to need to be good with a screwdriver and a soldering iron. You can not flip phase of the input. That inverts your waveform. Sure. You will hear little difference. It does not invert the absolute polarity at the output. That remains the same. So?
You will remove both high and low speakers. From the box. You will use your soldering iron. To reverse the connections. On both speakers. Then reinstall the speakers. But do not over to work down the screws. Do not use the Hulk Death Grip. When screwing the speakers back in. You can warp the frames. Do not do that. Just make them snug. Then take another listen. It'll be jaw-dropping. I guarantee it.
So give it a try folks. You've got nothing to lose. Easy to change it back. You won't. As you've been missing a lot. And the Surround Quality. Will blow your minds. And what about your lousy acoustics now? What about them? They won't sound so lousy, anymore. Because your room didn't know how to respond? With in, phase but Negative Absolute Polarity, wiring. Whoops. Your room doesn't know what to make of that either? Now your room will sound, less lousy. Maybe even, tolerable? And what about that new microphone you are thinking about you couldn't afford? Because you had to purchase acoustic gobbledygook. You now realize. You don't need. Woo hoo! Ye Ha!
Now you guys are set. Check it out.
RemyRAD
I quit coffee and didn't look back
I've quit for months at a time and always go back. I love it way too much 😂
Here is to your future…
if you have the right mics and know what you are doing, you can record in a kitchen
This is so freaking annoying youtubers behavior with all this dramatic clickbait crap.
Unsubscribed (from channel and email). Clickbait.
Bro you yap too much in all of your vids. i didnt understand how you deliver your point You make a video how to do something. You spend half an hour yapping about something else that doesnt help
Unsubbed clickbait like this is just trash content
Just reading the comments alone I just told RUclips not to recommend channel anymore n I’m removing my subscription. Everyone is moving like a weirdo just to get views. No more truth just lies n deceit
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