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It's a custom creation made by a luthier who lives, or lived, near to where it appeared in his life. There is a fantastic luthier in Upstate New York named Tom Dobrovich. He may know who made that guitar. Thanks for showing it to us.

Wow, what an odd and beautiful piece. I'd love to own it, but I believe it belongs with a friend of Walter's. Keep that beauty. And play it sometimes.

Do you recall what the console was at Kajem?

I was a professional video editor for years, doing all kinds of stuff. These days I just use the free version of resolve for all kinds of things. Even the free version is totally adequate for so many things.

All major studios were using PorTools, you may like or hate Digidesign/Avid but denying that ProTools was the industry standard shows that someone never worked in a major label studio.

I feel like people are equating "industry standard" and think it means something beyond what it means. I tell people all the time, not only are you going to find PT at major facilities everywhere in the world, but it's for good reason; nothing scales to an enterprise level like PT does. You buy a fleet of Macs and a fleet of interfaces (all supported, of course), and it just works for every level of your facility. I think it's pretty telling when Apple releases a mini-documentary about Skywalker Sound, and it features Pro Tools throughout.

Seeing that Blackmagic acquired adapted and evolved Fairlight as the audio editing stack inside DaVinci Resolve means it has a DAW lineage that predates even SoundTools.

Thank you and don't beat me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!! I should've been more clear.. You are speaking from experience as well as those who spoke on the subject who are Producers/Engineers. The thing is from me being a salesman at Sam Ash and from doing recordings, there are some people say "Industry Standard" but with respect they aren't in the industry. Some people even think that the PT will fix their mixes without them taking time to learn the system. For the industry guys that I watch on here and you mentioned yourself it is daw competition and you will use what you came up on. I don't see you or the pros belittle people based on saying they use certain daws. From experience I'm learning find what the studio or people are using to be diverse outside of what you use so you will be able to work with them. Thanks so much for your input and that feedback wasn't to throw off subject lollllllllll I'm sure you will see stuff. I don't want to mention names but there is a guy go in on this subject and avid. You may know him or of him. Thanks happy new year!!

Finally an opinion from someone actually in the industry, TH-cam has created so many self proclaimed experts lol

Things change, I remember when……………..

I can't wait to see you speak on this subject of Pro Tools being industry standard......... They've had a debate almost 2 weeks now.

have been enjoying your stories for many months thank you until the rivera amp and now the walter guitar i thought you just did pro audio any other guitar stories ? maybe aspen pittman as he did amps and high end audio i did a chat gpt search about walter’s guitar and the result suggested Shadowsky could be the builder

Hi, we’ve only discovered the Mana on youtube after our design was made. The console is aimed at both recording and being creative with stems in the studio or on stage. Say, an 808 drum machine, a mic and a bass. It is not aimed at DJs, but at creative artists/producers that want a hands on analog experience. See it as an instrument. It also features an 18 I/O usb interface to immediately stream your DAW to its analog modules. The base cost of the console is 4800€ ex vat. Add another 1000€ for a fader combination. For that amount you get a 26dBU analog console with tons of headroom, 22 inputs, 10 500 series slots, big transformers and discrete opamps on the outputs, programmable scene memory, stereo busses and auxes, dual FX engine and an 18 I/O interface with ESS sabre DACs. Whatever comes on top of this are the 500 series modules you buy.

If memory serves, I think Rivera (also forgot his first name) designed amps for Fender and those "Rivera-era" Fender amps are very highly regarded. I'm a guitarist (among other things) but I always hated going into Guitar Center because there would always be multiple dudes blasting their blues licks as loud as they thought they could get away with. There was a great video on YT years ago called something like "What It's Like To Work In A Music Store" where a music store employee just stares into a camera as you hear this relentless cacophony of guitars and maybe some other instruments.

Bosomano... 😂

RODEC cost 15K+ which is crazy. Like really crazy

I remember it being really difficult to explain to customers that you couldn't get an adapter to plug a mic into the MIDI port. But honestly USB simplified things a LOT; before that, I remember having a really hard time myself understanding how to assign channels and stuff.

I remember a customer innoccently ask ‘what is this M1D1 interface?’, which gave us a chuckle. The most common hurdle was that it was not audio signals over the wire, and some folks couldn’t grasp the concept. The player piano analogy usually worked though.

Get yourself a supportive wife, end of story.

I love your stories

Hi there. My dad was a sound engineer at QVRS - Chuck O’Brien. Not sure if you knew him, but, he had lots of stories about his time there and how pivotal it was for the rest of his life. He passed yesterday so I started looking up stuff and found this.

Yesssss!!!!!

212 North 12th Street... Philadelphia was the world capital of music back in the 70's. This should be a touristic highlight!

Definitely, I'm a huge fan and i would love to hear about it even in the early days back when the guy from Britny Fox was in Cinderella. He's a lovely person and should do this for sure. Take for example Kiko Loureiro (ex Angra and Megadeth) and how he did some storytelling about funny things that happened in the road and little curiosities and backstage things, that's super cool. Anyway please Tom do that for your fans we love you ❤

i think it is a really wonderful idea!🩷🩷

It would be great if Tom had a channel where he could talk about stories and topics. Tom has always been my favorite artist

Yes, it'll be amazing! Please! Some of us can't have a chance to see him live because we're from outside the USA, so it'll be a good connection with him. I saw someone suggest he should write a book too, and I also agree.

Crazy that you can be so successful in music mixing that all you need to put in the title is someone's first name and everyone knows who you're talking about

that's a shame.. my MTR100 is working perfect and it auto align superb too!

In the earlier days, musicians had an army of professionals, with collective years of experience behind them to push the them to create the the best product possible. Compared to anybody and everybody creating music alone in their bedroom, is just so ho hum.

I miss these kinds of interludes 😅

Whenever I see Jeff I say, "Hey where's George?!"

😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is hilarious!!

The owner was a scoring composer?

Hm, the metrics seem off because clearly the best video was the one where Jeff got the new car painted... 😅

yeah man, please keep going with these....it's such a welcome bit of entertainment and info. Thanks for doing them.

Happy new years!🎉

Well I, for one, certainly enjoy your channel and industry insight. Happy New Year!

Tama is my favorite drum company ! Their drums sound amazing live.....recorded, not so much. (It seems the dryer-sounding Gretsches & Ludwigs sound better in a studio !?) No idea why the Tama's never sounded as good in a room as they did on a stage !? I'm glad to have a kit that was made in Japan - it's over 20 years old and still looks / sounds new!

I was hired by a national broadcaster, and one day, someone called my private number asking if I could sneak in an extra radio commercial for their charity. They figured that, as an engineer in charge of the "buttons," it would be easy for me to pull off.

many such cases sadly. its really insane how much gear ive loaned that never made its way back to me without hunting them down.

You can only tell its doing something if you wish to push the signal hard. for example the drum buss could be in the reds while other elements are not.

I think we have 10 sets of Dunlavys not counting center speakers. Absolutely love them all

Yeah Tom, do it

Never ask them to have a point because they don't know what one looks like.

Yes Yes Yes Please tell Tom to write book or even just lyric book Japanese fas are waiting to see him for so long too.

Yes! I hope more professionals from the music industry (artists and everyone including engineers, PR guys, roadies, you name it) take notes from your channel, George! Nobody is getting any younger and these stories are such a wealth of knowledge, experience, and comedy!

"Hey guys why not triple it and you'll have spares if anything goes wrong with the equipment!"

lol! Some people are just on another planet.

What happens on the road, stays on the road, after 47 years as a sound engineer I’ve seen enough…