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Dude just stumbled on your channel and you’re the perfect person Ive been hoping existed. Someone who had some access to the mysteries of Tarbox. These guys went all in on their “dreams” and proved it can make something more than the sum of its parts and not only just more, it becomes this well spring of life and culture it’s crazy. I’m in the process of finishing my first album but it’s been by myself and quite a lonesome journey, not lonely…well not always anyways haha. But i’ve been trying to dive into documentaries and interviews, anything to dive into the minds of some of the artists that inspire me the most. The other video you did giving some insight to Dave’s way of operating and the dynamic between the band, it’s a bit of a salve rn. It allows me to think less of the worries of my situation and try to embody a more zen, “let’s try it” kind of way. Anyways, cheers man.

Oh my goodness kid in a candy store! Dave is a ghost online! Need to get into Tarbox some day!

Hahahaha, the intro.

Man that musical example with the level or is sick! Absolutely miss it when it’s off

nice. would be interested to hear this on a few different mixes. seems like its versatile enough for mastering.

it's a nice story but i agree that it's a bit wishy washy

well....i want. level loc now.😢 What drums did you use? they sound amazing

Interesting the long attack gives me a bit of a dbx 160/166 vibes with the transient/curve.

Sounds amazing

Really great video! The biggest difference between the 301 and 361 are the fact that the time constants are the same with all bands with the 301, but with the 361s the two top bands are different, faster I believe. The second biggest difference is the 301 uses germainiums while the 361 uses FETs. Folks with these units and all the subsequent aftermarket hardware and plugins overlook that there are really great uses with decode as well. It can be a fantastic expander and fixative tool. Try it on an overly compressed drum bus, or as a way to bring life to a boring Ableton loop

He is an incredible bass player. And not mentioning Mercury Rev? Ok

Cool, but $900?! I think Ill stick with my Radial X-Amp for $100 minus a feature or two

What’s the budget JFET compressor these days then? Gotta be something out there!

Don’t go into porn

priest driven ambulance is great!!

did u meet mercury rev?

6:50 kool miki berenyi and peter kember!!

Fascinating and very engaging. Loved this!

Love the Lips and the stories. Here is my story of how I made my way to where I am now. Back in 2007 I moved to Louisville KY and a friend got me a job doing data entry. We were using this horrible spreaedsheet to calculate cost per day for day care, and the first Friday I poked at the code behind it and made the spreadsheet better. Still ugly and intimidating, but gave more correct information. Trainer wasn't thrilled, but she sent to to the manager. Mondayhe manager called me to her desk and asked me if I knew how much time this would save us? I said yeah, why the hell do you think I did it. I made another tweak to it before training ended and it got sent to everyone under Melanie so they could all use it. Once I was out on the floor, teh first time I had to use a template letter to send to a customer, it had underscores instead of underlines where you entereed their name. So type teh name and it jacks up the entire letter. I got it worked out, then went back to the original and fixed it. Emailed it out to my team letting them know I fixed it. Got in trouble w/my lead, saying it hadn't gone thru proper channels. So I talked to Melanie again and she said if I had anything else I found like that to send it to her and she would send it out. So in the next 3 weeks I fixed every other letter and startted pointiong out issues in the system. A few months later they were starting a new testing team, but they had already promised all but one spot. They really wanrted someone w/lots of SQL experience, otherwise they would have hired me. So barely missed it. Then Melanie's boss Mary decided she wanted 2 of us to do our regular job, then when a release was closing in, have the 2 of us test things on the business side, which wasn't normally how it was done. After 6 months the other directors decided they didn't like Mary having her own testing team, so the 2 of us were transferred under the manager who had the FQA team. Within a month I was being called FQA. 16 years later I'm still testing software, now work fully remote, and make 6 figures while living in Kentucky. All basically bc i wasn't happy w/how something worked and kept poking at things to make them better. Before I moved to that first testing team, I'd taken that ugly spreadsheet and made it much simpler and protected the fields so people couldn't screw it up. Even left future versions to be passed out by management before I went to my 2nd testing job. Amusingly the government side of the business didn't want to use my updated spreadseheet, but at one point Mary was able to force them to start using it, so the whole company was using my document. Just follow your instinct and sometimes you end up in a completely different job you never considered.

It's a good system and it certainly sounds good, but frankly it is at least 100% overpriced - the sonically brilliant Mr. Valentne very apparently hasn't got an equally brilliant sense of realistic of pricing for his products or of the value of money for most people. Also, and especially at this price, that little satellite box should offer more simultaneous outputs.

Great demo! ! First of all, the sounds you had captured were well done, which is always the best thing going into a compressor. My personal favorite was when you had it on the 1:1 setting and used it more as a saturation tool, because it really thickened up the attack. I haven't used one of these compressors, but I really like the attack to what this unit imparts, especially on snare. I might use it on the snare mic, moreso, or room mics to really smash it (in conjunction with some low end rolloff to de-emphasize some of the low/ lower mid emphasis; I tend to roll off quite a bit of room lows). I'm an 1176 guy on an overall drum set, SSL 4000E for various flavors of shaping/ compressing/etc, but I could really see using this in various ways.

This video came up in my list generated by the algorithms that I watch, and I am glad.....any time Dave Fridmann's name comes up in terms of production, I'm intrigued, because as you mention, Dave doesn't do a lot of interviews and tends to let the results speak for themselves. I love your calm, measured demeanor David, and this video was well done! I have subscribed. Fridmann knocked it out of the park with Nick Cave's "Wild God" album......in many ways, I feel that it is Nick''s own "The Soft Bulletin" in terms of lyrics and songwriting. When the topic matter is about death, loss and how to cope amidst tragedy, nothing brings out that humanity more than Fridmann's production and inventive spirit as a guiding hand through that.

Great video thank you for making this!

Fridmann was my favourite producer of the late 90s/early 00s. Come On Die Young, Soft Bulletin, Hope & Adams - 3 life enhancing albums for me at the time. He was on fire. Weird finally seeing the place. Held a couple of Zaireeka listening parties back in the day.

I got my first studio staff job by telling the studio manager, who was screening me, that I could solder. I got hired that day.

Thanks so very much for this. Very helpful as I'm moving forward on a new creative endeavor. Cheers! Subscribed.

I have the Dolby Spectral Processor 740. Is that similar?

Weird.. The Devil-Loc sounded very thin and over bright also but seemed to lack that fatness of the two hardware units?

The way the snare changed when you played the whole track with the Pom in was insane!

Great video, Dave's been my favourite producer since The Soft Bulletin came out

I still like my Creation Audio MW1. It‘s a bit more feature rich (multiple outputs to amps, continuous impedance control, seperate ground-switch for all outputs) and rackmountable. For the satelites function I use a Mercenary Audio STD (because, you know, Fletcher 😅). That said, Eric‘s stuff is always great, love his MPEQs!

Nice work.

Did Dr Steve Brule record Brule’s rules at tarbox? Inspiring. I love the F’Lips - the Sight of Sound book was an excellent read and it’s great hearing your experience with the band and Fridmann (2 ns?) anyway. Thank you for sharing.

Very interesting! There was a Dolby system, though newer than these versions, on the Studer in the studio were I interned a million years ago. Man, I wish I could have seen the faces the owners would have made if I tried experimenting with it in this manner! I have the Waves Abbey Road Saturator plug-in, and it seems to do a similar sort of thing. Just discovered your channel tonight in my studio and man, this is the type of stuff TH-cam really lacks as far as production and engineering for many genres of music. Keep it up!

I'd be hard-pressed not to say the Devil-Loc is my favorite plug-in. It sounds like it's a bit lacking in the low end thump compared to the hardware units, but that just means I'm gonna try throwing a Pultec type eq or even RBass after it now!

Great video, man! David Fridmann is an absolute hero to me and The Soft Bulletin in particular was a massive influence in how I approach recording and mixing. Squeaky clean is fun, but destruction, and indeed deconstruction, is often more rewarding. As a child, I worshipped the Beatles and, unashamedly, the Moody Blues. Sonic aspirations are my personal fuel. I interned at a lovely studio with beautiful vintage equipment and a fantastic room, but mostly I would bring in stuff I had recorded on the newly released Digi 001 with minimal crappy mics in an unused and thoroughly untreated building in a nursing home and the guys at the studio would say, "You recorded this WHERE and on THAT?!" I'd use an array of 4 tracks for their mic pres and detune snares and tape paper to the top. Fine times! Last note: David's mixing on the new Vampire Weekend album has absolutely catapulted that band into a new level of brilliance!

Great content, fella. I’m also a crunchy drums and Dave F. fan, and my go-to has been Tone Empire’s Loc-Ness. I’ve a/b’d it against Devil Loc more than once, and the Loc-ness keeps coming out on top. A hardware version would be amazing, but there doesn’t seem to be any reasonable options for a hobbyist like me. I’ll stick to the plugins for now 😂.

So.. did you end up having to turn to porn? 😂

Instant sub! 🤘 Ok here’s a fun secret weapon. Rockman Distortion Generator. It’s Tom Scholz (guitarist of Boston) custom designed transistor distortion circuit, but this particular unit has built in EQ bands, which is custom tailored for distortion. The real secret weapon part is this. Don’t use it on guitar like you’re ‘supposed’ to. Use it on drums, synths, vocals, anything. Especially in parallel. It can do nasty creamy wonders. You can still find it for not horribly expensive, on eBay/Reverb. Though the prices have gone up pretty drastically since i bought one in the 90s.

Crybaby. The sonic anchor of porno,on VHS of course. Hey is that the pizza guy a knockin'?

This was WONDERFUL. Thank you, thank you! Zaireeka is easily one of my favorite albums of all time and I host listening parties whenever I can to introduce this lovely piece of music to whoever is willing to hear it. I hosted one that was attended by a retired A&R rep from Warner Bros. Records. He was working there during the recording and shared with us a few rad stories about the making of the album, the band, etc. and then we all listened to it. It is one of my favorite memories of all time. Thanks again for sharing your views on this magnificent record.

Love me some Tarbox. Right down the road from me.

Love it

Great combination of personal anecdotes and insight into the process! Thank you very much, and greetings from Berlin :)

I think your approach to this video makes a lot of sense, as Dave’s mindset seems more critical than the gear.

Rule 1: The first band i joined in high school, I got in by saying I played keyboard which was a bit of an exaggeration, and then when I got it I said you know I’m actually better at guitar. 😂

Great story! His son Mike mixed my latest record and was incredibly helpful in bringing my ideas to life

Portsmouth Sinfonia :) AWESOME, dude! My band use that track for opening our concerts... Anyways, great channel you have here - there is "respect" for your audience in a sense that it's fun engaging, direct and professional info. Mature and relaxed. Love it! AND...The Soft Bulletin changed my perspective on music and musical direction when I was younger AND was one of the reasons for me to drop out of high school to become an audio engineer (which I still am today) ...then of course me and my mates zoned out to Zaireeka experiments with the 4 CDs - so the other video about D.F. and the lips was awesome info. THANKS, dude! Great channel you have here!!

wonderful piece! have always been attracted to flaming lips’ crunchy drum sounds and been curious to learn more on who their producer has been. they all seem like a great creative team w lots of personality, bringing story into everything. thank you for your stories; what a cool experience you’ve had.