the video is very much out of context. in the full video he explains how he was specifically looking for that old 70s like press conference sound that is given by the old tape recorders. hence why the press conference vibe line. it's still pretty random but not as random when you see the whole thing :D
@@bogdanavramuta2748 Oh I hope I didn't come off negative or aggressive! I just meant that I had never heard anyone use that term to describe a sound, I thought it was neat :P very insight comment though, thank you
Bogdan Avramuta even without the explanation, I think I accurately got what he meant by that. I love the way interviews sound in some of that old footage. It somehow how sounds both a bit muted and yet somehow more present that later, “clearer” recordings.
Most the time I love the sound of purely just recorded instruments, but there is a place for this tape reamping, most important to recognise where it will serve the song, rather than wack it everywhere all the time. Thanks so much for the knowledge especially the eq tip was masterful!
...That’s great Kevin...but when I told you it would be okay to crash on the couch in the back of my Pawn shop you promised me it would only be temporary..Can u return this gear to the front now? I have a customer interested in the laptop.. also where is the leopard print skirt the mannequin was wearing yesterday?
damn this man produced tyranny by the voidz, i know some people either love or hate that but it's one of my favorite records from the past few years. highly recommend if you like that blown out tape sound
You know -- I've always had human sadness as a "liked" song on spotify due to its' strange and unique production -- I'm now listening to the album and wow I'm quickly agreeing with you-- Next level engineering and mixing here!
@@chesterf5946 hell yeah man, i recommend checking out the whole album. it's kinda bloated at times but the production fits the songs perfectly. virtue is another great album by them, though they start to move away from that lofi sound a bit there.
Just checked it out. pretty sweet actually. The guy still looks like he only puts on clothes to make people stare at him. And you absolutely do not need a rack of 40 year old, virtually obsolete gear to achieve results like this...
I like to run my mixes out to my old sony tapedeck that uses 'metal' or whatever. Thing is, the same tape has been in there for YEARS AND YEARS. I'll record the 'loop' then just run it back into logic pro x and trim it up. It's a good technique that's served me well.
I love him, reminds me of my favourite peps, how dope, I love finding people like this. I also love recording drums on tape, first pass straight to tape always sounds the best & reamped on the way to digital to give it that extra before it even hits the computer, it creates some problems though but in many ways is worth it
Love his records, but for those of us without Studers, patchbays & expensive fab filter plugins, I suggest the plugin “Sketch cassette”. I put it on almost every drum track. Makes loops sound real.
The J37 from waves is a pretty neat one too if you want that reel to reel tape emulation. And if you really want the closest thing to Studers or Ampex, UAD has the plugins for both and they both sound phenomenal. Ampex sounds great on the master bus and Studer is great for tracking tracks!
@@Mr.MagnumDong I put that J37 on everything and then bounce them in place. I sure miss my 388, though. I sold it back when 1/4 tape was $80 a reel. Now you can get new tape for 30 bucks on Amazon. Sigh...
i’ve never seen this guy before, but upon seeing him for the first time i want to know him, he seems so cool, like who i want to be when i get older (also, this was a great tutorial)
Absolutely disgusting comment section. A bunch of losers with bedroom studios talking about a six time Grammy winning producer’s fashion and creative choices. I don’t even like The War on Drugs but that record through good monitors/headphones is incredible sounding. Shawn literally never misses and brings out the best of whoever he’s working with.
i like to take my mixtape and run it through izotope vinyl, then direct out into a 1994 Sony Walkman cassette player, then I mic the speaker on that and finally send the signal over AM radio to my studio 400 miles away, really provides that Analog Warmth. it's s u c c u l e n t
What he is doing has technical results, as he showed with the fab filter but he is motivated by the visceral feeling which informs his decision to compliment the technical.
Is he recording the drum tracks to tape then playing back and recording into pro tools? I had this idea to get real tape saturation but haven’t tried it yet
M T I think he is recording the playback head back into Pro Tools as he is sending Pro Tools out to the tape machine. That is the way I use my tape machines, I find it results in less pitch and timing fluctuation.
Music Production techniques. When you listen to music it's not gonna make a jot of difference. If you think you have a better production style, post it on TH-cam so we can all hear it.
tape machine can be perfectly remodled in software. Yes it would be more fun and enjoyable to do it with tapes, but not everyone can afford the time and money to do so.
Unfortunately not true. Check out some blind tests on TH-cam, the plugins sound better than with no processing, but nowhere close to the real thing at all.
That is the Analogue send / return insert from Pro Tools going on Output 6 or 'Analogue 6' to the tape machine in this case and back in to the Pro Tools Channel
Just drag it in post till the waveforms line up as best you can then mute the original source if there is too much flanging. Or keep it in if you like the effect or drag it behind the beat and pan it to make it wide. Try within or beyond Haas and see which sounds cooler. There's so much stuff you can do. Keep the tape one dry and send the original 100% to the reverb for a bright tail or the reverse. Just experiment.
He's just calling it snare for shorthand. If you listen to Brittany Howard's Sound Exploder interview about this song, she explains that he set up the drums in this bizarre way.
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This guy is def the guy I thought that’d be explaining tape
Lmaooo
still funny as fuck months later
That EQ match trick was pretty sick. I always added more highs before sending through tape but that takes it to another level
“Press conferency vibe”. Never heard that one before lmao
the video is very much out of context. in the full video he explains how he was specifically looking for that old 70s like press conference sound that is given by the old tape recorders. hence why the press conference vibe line. it's still pretty random but not as random when you see the whole thing :D
@@bogdanavramuta2748 Oh I hope I didn't come off negative or aggressive! I just meant that I had never heard anyone use that term to describe a sound, I thought it was neat :P very insight comment though, thank you
@@juliantaylor5956 not at all mate. just wanted to give you the full story
@@bogdanavramuta2748 thank you for explaining. I was a little concerned about the dude.
Bogdan Avramuta even without the explanation, I think I accurately got what he meant by that. I love the way interviews sound in some of that old footage. It somehow how sounds both a bit muted and yet somehow more present that later, “clearer” recordings.
I don't remember this episode of Portlandia.
i’m dead
😂😂
So true
Omg! Amazing 😂
You nailed it!
This is the guy who made Alabama shakes sound and color. Amazing album, you can really hear the production skills
For reallys???? Yeah. That record had some delicious tasty sauce. Damn
He added a lot of *colour* to their *sound* lol
Shawn just mixed it Blake Mills produced.
One of the best engineers currently. Really cool techniques. I’m going to try this on my cassette deck.
Most the time I love the sound of purely just recorded instruments, but there is a place for this tape reamping, most important to recognise where it will serve the song, rather than wack it everywhere all the time.
Thanks so much for the knowledge especially the eq tip was masterful!
If Portland and Brooklyn gentrification society had a chairman, this guy would be it.
Lol
The accuracy of this comment
...That’s great Kevin...but when I told you it would be okay to crash on the couch in the back of my Pawn shop you promised me it would only be temporary..Can u return this gear to the front now? I have a customer interested in the laptop.. also where is the leopard print skirt the mannequin was wearing yesterday?
priceless
damn this man produced tyranny by the voidz, i know some people either love or hate that but it's one of my favorite records from the past few years. highly recommend if you like that blown out tape sound
You know -- I've always had human sadness as a "liked" song on spotify due to its' strange and unique production -- I'm now listening to the album and wow I'm quickly agreeing with you-- Next level engineering and mixing here!
@@chesterf5946 hell yeah man, i recommend checking out the whole album. it's kinda bloated at times but the production fits the songs perfectly. virtue is another great album by them, though they start to move away from that lofi sound a bit there.
@@yungyeshua. I thought Virtue was like Tyranny Lite...as in, not good. But Tyranny is like God tier.
Just checked it out. pretty sweet actually. The guy still looks like he only puts on clothes to make people stare at him. And you absolutely do not need a rack of 40 year old, virtually obsolete gear to achieve results like this...
@@efsedita For me we can't compare Tyranny and Virtue, they're juste totally different and it's not the same story, the same vibe
perfect outfit for explaining tape.. proper 60s hippie vibe who went to india!
I'd be happy with half of this guy's swag
I'd be happy if he'd take a shower.
buy a leather jacket that doesn't fit, for starters
Im pretty happy with none of this guy's swag
I didn't know he mixed the "Jaime" album, that record is simply brilliant from the sound engineering perspective, it sounds incredible.
I love how he experiments.. the mad scientist of sound. Love it!
I like to run my mixes out to my old sony tapedeck that uses 'metal' or whatever. Thing is, the same tape has been in there for YEARS AND YEARS. I'll record the 'loop' then just run it back into logic pro x and trim it up. It's a good technique that's served me well.
I love him, reminds me of my favourite peps, how dope, I love finding people like this. I also love recording drums on tape, first pass straight to tape always sounds the best & reamped on the way to digital to give it that extra before it even hits the computer, it creates some problems though but in many ways is worth it
Love his records, but for those of us without Studers, patchbays & expensive fab filter plugins, I suggest the plugin “Sketch cassette”. I put it on almost every drum track. Makes loops sound real.
Thanks for that. I'll check that plugin out.
The J37 from waves is a pretty neat one too if you want that reel to reel tape emulation. And if you really want the closest thing to Studers or Ampex, UAD has the plugins for both and they both sound phenomenal. Ampex sounds great on the master bus and Studer is great for tracking tracks!
@@Mr.MagnumDong I put that J37 on everything and then bounce them in place. I sure miss my 388, though. I sold it back when 1/4 tape was $80 a reel. Now you can get new tape for 30 bucks on Amazon. Sigh...
This was a for sure gem, nice little trick here
super helpful workflow by the masters!
Gotta see this episode. Seems like a true artist
i’ve never seen this guy before, but upon seeing him for the first time i want to know him, he seems so cool, like who i want to be when i get older (also, this was a great tutorial)
If you smoke a ton of weed and do a bunch of psychedelics, you’ll be this guy someday
Aim higher...
@@artrock101 dude has won six grammy’s...what have you done?
@@hazelelcamino7453 ask your mother
And my tape deck arrives today, can't wait to try these techniques out myself.
Absolutely disgusting comment section. A bunch of losers with bedroom studios talking about a six time Grammy winning producer’s fashion and creative choices. I don’t even like The War on Drugs but that record through good monitors/headphones is incredible sounding. Shawn literally never misses and brings out the best of whoever he’s working with.
Should have used rc-20 IMO
Underated comment
LOL
Noobs
Yeah and OTT
Yo, just checked who produced The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understading, came here to express my admiration for this guy.
i like to take my mixtape and run it through izotope vinyl, then direct out into a 1994 Sony Walkman cassette player, then I mic the speaker on that and finally send the signal over AM radio to my studio 400 miles away, really provides that Analog Warmth. it's s u c c u l e n t
Here have a pretzel 🥨
❤️
This guy is a genius. Brittany Howard's album sounds amazing.
Love this guy...he is so in the zone
Even more tapier. Excellent.
Sounds like a ring binder snapping closed, through a tape machine :)
Not that there’s anything wrong with that...
Gregg Juke It’s nice
My right ear loves that tape colored beat
OMG what a secret sauce epiphany. The match EQ to pre EQ tape = mondo trickeration
You can kind of do the same thing with dynamics aka companding
This guy is very knowledgeable.
Here for the vibes!
Bank manager in a Halloween costume
This guy really is a master
What he is doing has technical results, as he showed with the fab filter but he is motivated by the visceral feeling which informs his decision to compliment the technical.
I love that explanation. Yes
‘Press-conferency vibe’ should be a standard preset in all EQs
Shawn! Genius with sound.
Hell yes to videos to this
This guy looks like he's had a bush dragged through him backwards
dude has produced amazing albums
His hair is vibey
Def got a chill vibe
This video should be titled "A Really Complicated Way of Adding Hiss To Your Tracks"
Good one, that Fabfilter eq trick.
Nightclubbing, we’re nightclubbing...
You get me closer to god...
this is brilliant!
Very inspiring dude
Homie needs to send some clippers through his hair
Hahah ahahah why is this so funny
Hahahahahahahahahaha
This is amazing
Such Vibey!
Is he recording the drum tracks to tape then playing back and recording into pro tools? I had this idea to get real tape saturation but haven’t tried it yet
M T I think he is recording the playback head back into Pro Tools as he is sending Pro Tools out to the tape machine.
That is the way I use my tape machines, I find it results in less pitch and timing fluctuation.
That way is actually better than what he’s doing here
is this concept really that hard to figure out? Of course he is doing that. It's not rocket science. Ever heard of a send?
His studio is like Loki's In that Vampire flick with The Ancient One.
Swag with the Masters
Yes yes yes thats audio porn!!! Wowo you know i LOVE It!!
won't the tape return have latency? how does one correct for that in a practical way
Take a shot whenever he says tape machine
I like vibes.
Whoooah. Bob Harper after a mental break!
Gold
so Tape = Vibe, gottit
He must be the king of swag
Are those Leopard print daisy dukes? Nice!
Dope and clever
I swear these top shelf mixers are born with elf ears. Picking up a mosquito fart from 200 yards easy.
I ran through some tracks through a cassette and back into the computer and it sounded like garbage.
try that fab filter trick he mentions. or buy a better deck. or dont.
Nice
Do it again with a distortion pedal.
Put it through a Boss Metal Zone. Thank me later.
happens to have huge tape machine in corner omg
running things through things
If I had a quarter the fashion sense this guy has I'd be set
Weird how so many dudes are commenting on fashion instead of
Music Production techniques.
When you listen to music it's not gonna make a jot of difference.
If you think you have a better production style, post it on TH-cam so we can all hear it.
Impressive vocabulary
tape machine can be perfectly remodled in software. Yes it would be more fun and enjoyable to do it with tapes, but not everyone can afford the time and money to do so.
Unfortunately not true. Check out some blind tests on TH-cam, the plugins sound better than with no processing, but nowhere close to the real thing at all.
big incel vibes in this comment section... these peoples' heads would literally explode if they saw who he's married to
v i b e y
What’s wrong with all these people joking on his appearance? He looks sensational!
Slate do a decent tape plugin if you're broke like me and want to experiment!
Dope
Bagpipe Studios?
What is the A6 plugin that controls the mute of tape machine?
That is the Analogue send / return insert from Pro Tools going on Output 6 or 'Analogue 6' to the tape machine in this case and back in to the Pro Tools Channel
Amazing video. Guys a genius. Clothing is a war crime.
Vibe
I wanna party with this guy.
HE'S HIGH RIGHT
I feel like this is bound to create time alignment issues, anyone have tips on how to avoid that?
Just drag it in post till the waveforms line up as best you can then mute the original source if there is too much flanging. Or keep it in if you like the effect or drag it behind the beat and pan it to make it wide. Try within or beyond Haas and see which sounds cooler. There's so much stuff you can do. Keep the tape one dry and send the original 100% to the reverb for a bright tail or the reverse. Just experiment.
@@NoQualmsTheArtist Thanks for the tips!
@@CYB3RC0RPI know I'm way late. But some Daws let you delay track playback to adjust for timing
How can you make it that far while not knowing the difference between a snare and a kick?
He's just calling it snare for shorthand. If you listen to Brittany Howard's Sound Exploder interview about this song, she explains that he set up the drums in this bizarre way.
That ain't a kick! Sound like a big/loose snare to me
that's a snare sound?
what’s those pants ?
What monitors are those
Yamah HS8 I think
@@jakobole yamah ns10m
@@timotheoleszkolivernois9826 Looks too large for those....
Let's talk about that outfit.
Was this recorded in walmart?
His monitors are sitting on the desk?
It sounds more like two plastic containers, than drums.
And, in the end, most people listening to this song used iPhones and earbuds. They couldn’t tell if this was a snare drum or a trash can.
Hipster wants more tape saturation and a latte with almond milk
Six grammy’s, what about you?
@@hazelelcamino7453 7. How about you?
he's dressed funny
But why?
Think what would happen if this guy is a President?
This man's clothes have a gluten intolerance