Berried Alive | FIRST-EVER LIVE PERFORMANCE | NAMM 2025 | Zomberry
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Charles Caswell performing Zomberry at the Legator Guitars booth at NAMM 2025.
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Berried Alive posted a video from another song with his guitar input isolated. So the haters can’t say shit.
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Notice how it's markedly less tight than this video (Zomberry)? Yeah... That's what everyone's concerned with for years, and it's a good thing.
Everyone knows that Charles is a very skilled guitar player just like everyone knows that Lucas Mann is also an objectively skilled guitarist. The problem is that they artificially inflate their skill with editing and miming in their videos (and in Lucas' case ROS live shows too) which creates an unrealistic standard for everyone that's watching. The problem is that these dudes CAN play their shit, but they choose to be dishonest about their ability. They're not the robots they want you to think they are.
This video (Zomberry) STILL has an inaudible level of live guitar in it, which is a problem. This is NAMM, where you can see hundreds of artist demos that don't share this problem on a daily basis.
The video you posted in this comment seems to be real. There's string noise, there's no robot-level tightness... I'm inclined to believe its real, but notice how its a much less technical song. This is the same thing Ichika Nito did a few years ago where he played only his easy, dreamy, chill stuff at NAMM and didn't rip anyone's face off with technique like he does in most of his videos.
If you do the equivalent of cry wolf with your guitar playing for years, people are allowed to treat you with suspicion when you try to repair your public image. Caswell is among the least responsible in this fakery situation because Berried Alive has always been a studio project. There has never been a faked live show where he tries to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. With these NAMM performances, that has changed and it will be important to analyze them to understand the validity of what the people in the audience heard.
My opinion is that we heard more backing track than anything else here. Charles is obviously skilled and I'd genuinely love to hear him plug straight into an amp with no mics/laptops/headphones/tracks and just rip some riffs. Surely he could do that, right? Some cellphone audio with no DAW running in the background would have been nice here.
@@RX120Dthey’ve posted plenty of raw camera audio clips on all their platforms. As far as backing tracks are concerned, go take a look at Jason Richardson’s NAMM performance at the Ernie Ball stage. He was literally playing to a full ATR track, sans vocals.
@@RX120D "The problem is that they artificially inflate their skill with editing and miming in their videos" bro EVERY popular band does this. What are you even talking about? Unless it says LIVE PLAYTHROUGH you have nothing to complain about. Charles is as legit as anyone else.
@@RX120D I initially thought the guitar should be a bit louder in the mix too. However you can clearly hear some mistakes here and there. E.g.: 0:09 (and another moment in the Pearanoid video). There is some reasonable truth to argument of the the backing track thing, but on the other hand, it also depends on the camera and microphone setup (angles relative to the amp, etc) that captured the footage. All around, to me his performance at NAMM seems quite honest enough to me.
Much love dude! Thanks for coming out to see us, it was awesome meeting you! 🍓🤘🔥
Glad I was able to make it!
‘Haters all claim my shit is sped up’
Love it man!
He's still using a highly produced back track with a click. It's very impressive, but still...
Its quite literally 80% a back track..... 😂😂😂😂 D riders gonna D ride though.
@@mablesfatalfable6021 You're criticising something like this for not sounding "raw"? The part that confuses me about the criticism is what it is that people are actually expecting to find here - this is digital-sounding, synthy, tightly-gated, nippy, quick, extravagant, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else, does it?
I'm a fan but I don't think it's sped up, I think it's punched in, so definitely "studio enhanced" significantly and like he's good but he's significantly sloppier than the recordings (which is fine) but like it would be cooler if instead of trying to deflect and act like he's played in those parts (which given the most likely punched in nature is like half true) he maybe just sat down and showed us what he does in post, like he has so many cool ideas and I'd be really interested in seeing the process behind his production.
no they don't... but it's 100% clear that he uses midi tracks in his videos...the live performance isn't even close to be as tight and it's horrible for the ears
He's the real deal. Awesome !
That's why you primarily hear a recorded track.... 😂😂😂😂😂
@@mattbarker1411wrong
@@mattbarker1411you might not see his multieffect pedal that is out of videoframe
Pay atension to his legs when he switches patches
Its not pre recorded well his backing track is prerecorded duh but main guitar is not
This man is ridiculous insane, he took some Rings of Saturn shit to another level hahaha' i love his songs, effects and all stuff
dude yeah the midi guitar, guitar miming, and ego driven trip he's on makes Lucas Mann's ego look like a grain of sand😆😆
It’s so cool seeing him still do his thing. I saw him live when he was still in Reflections back in 2012 at a venue called the Beaumont in Kansas City. Super nice dude.
Where's the haters that claimed his shit was sped up?
Dude i know right, idiots
No it’s real. But it still sounds like shit. What the actual f*** did I listen too?
😂 It still sounds bad. He's playing to a click track with a pre-recorded backing.
@@braxtonvestal777truth
Hes literally miming the shit dude..... Listen to it for fucks sake. 😂😂😂😂😂
The man the myth the legend. I really hope this will motivate him to do more stuff like this, like clinics and stuff, I'd watch it all
Despite all our criticisms, and I am one who does, the guy is phenomenal... like truly remarkable.
Holy fuck hes nuts 😂 I could tell but doing this consistently live is diabolical 😭😭😭😭😭
i was at the edge of my seat, my feet were intense
👌🏻
Hell yeah that’s so sick
All of the haters seem pretty quiet about this so far lol. Almost like they got berried alive or something...
hi there neeelson
You're praising a back track.... 😂😂😂😂 Thats all you hear for 80% of this....
@@mattbarker1411 you're clueless to what raw audio is compared to a backing track
@@mattbarker1411 Every performance @ namm is played over a backing track and hes playing the whole time and playing all the technical parts himself. What more could he have done? Probably nothing because you sound like a hater and no amount of evidence will change you mind.
@@bdegree88 Tell me you've never been to NAMM without telling me you've never been to NAMM...
Im so fucking jealous right now. Wish I coulda been there
Fuck yeah dude. This guy and his wife kick ass. Been a fan for only a couple years, but I'm a fan for life.
Love to see it, he's been grinding so hard for years.
Hell yeah 🤘🏻
BEAST
Absolutely insane
Awesome!!!
Insane work 🔥
Bro, fukkin right! Lets go
0:52 is such an awesome riff
sick!
He's better than all of us...and I'm perfectly good with that.
He really is, and there are so many people who aren't good with it so good on you man haha
This is actually insane!
Never in a million years would I have thought I could get to see him play his BA pieces live. I didn't think it was possible. Not that he can't play it rather how he was going to pull off all of his effects while playing live.
Were you there? I noticed a few things about his pedal/processor that I found quite interesting. I have it on video, but I cropped out those parts.
@kane_eightee I was but unfortunately had another booth to tend to. I was running back and forth just to get quick glimpses when I was given permission lol. Would of loved to of had time to dissect his board and really watch his feet while playing.
What did u find interesting? Please share haha
He has patches available on the Headrush Prime Cloud that anyone with their Prime series can download for free. He likely has it set up in rig mode where one switch turns off / on multiple things at once.
The effects are likely tempo synced to a DAW running in the background. You can use MIDI in the DAW to send triggers to the guitar processor to change patches, enable/disable FX, automate volume swells and EQ curves, everything you could imagine.
I do this in my own bush league-ass jams with my friends. Drummer just plays to the click from the DAW and off you go; no need to tap dance on a pedal board. It's very easy. You can even do it with VSTs like the Neural DSP stuff; free VSTs work like this too.
Glad haters can finally hear what I’ve know since Chuck was 20. Best guitar player I’ve ever heard! And one of the nicest dudes ever🤘🤘🤘
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Lol Caswell is a machine dude...
Wild stuff!
Hatets gonna hate. This guy sick man!
Please make it a thing where you bring a couch or a chair to every concert xD
I hate that this means it's possible to be this good
the pick "clapped" against the muted frets sounds awesome. i wonder what other sounds could be brought out with it. i like using percussion with heavily distorted guitars inbetween riffs, and this might be a new way of doing that. deadmutes and scrapes sound cool too but very different to this. this has potential because those are such short percussive sounds. cool stuff.
WTF even with additional heavydrugs and a Carolinareaper in my ass i will not able to run so fast and precise on the guitar 😅😅😅 As a Boomer will Never Understand these New "Directions" on guitar playing , but it's Cool 😬🔥🤟
Funny how the backing track plays the same line as the "main" guitar, and its louder in the mix. 😂 At this point play with a guitar hero controller
Phones don’t exactly have the best microphones but I guess you’re not smart enough to understand that. Feel free to see the pinned comment and hear isolated guitar. 🙄
That was legitneth.
Yow!!
He's real. He's him.
Let the envy flow
Howd it feel being in front of a crowd? Would love to see you guys live!
Its like Skrillex
Are these the string noises Lucas Mann was talking about? 😅 Top notch performance! ❤
Do you have the full demo
I recorded the entire exhibition, but there are many parts I won’t upload. His playing is 100% legit, but there’s no entertainment value in watching him take a few mins to switch up the programming on his processor.
For example, nobody cares to see him bring the guitar back into proper tuning after ripping a song that knocks it down a bit.
@ I think a lot of people would love to watch the entire demo myself included
Was it just those 2 songs?
@@joetalento5486No, he also played at least the solo of Ready To Rot, as well as that other clip he was posting in Instagram that sounds like a Car Bomb lead
Aliens if they smoked crack
Looking forward to seeing what the first outlandish theory that this was mimed or sped up is. No matter what he has ever done with his mixing/mastering or effects, it has always been undeniable to me that he is one of a kind and a true virtuoso of his craft.
Guitar Pro's booth :
It's impressive. The technicality in insane and it's cool to listen to for 3 mins but that's it. It's just not musical. Too computerized. I bet this dude could play some Manhattan pretty easily.
comeout haters hahahahah
@@mablesfatalfable6021 hating on backing tracks and production might actually be the most stupid thing ever when talking about modern music. He can play his parts live and thats what matters.
@@Elias-qj7dqnah. Over reliance on them may be the dumbest thing ever. Youre praising fraudulent players. Period. Backing tracks are ok, them being the entire song, and being played louder than your sloppy playing essentially resulting in you very nearly miming shit you can't actually play...... IS NOT.
@@mattbarker1411 he isnt miming wtf and there is no over reliance when he can play all his shit with just a metronome literally go onto his youtube to see his raw footage or ask one of the sound engineers to give you the DI before calling someone a fraud with no evidence other than "he is using backing tracks" is he supposed to play the drums and bass aswell as the other guitar part simultaniously for it to be legit?
It’s unbelievable and sad to see so much hate, jealousy, and ignorance from people. Unfortunately internet anonymity reveals to us how much it truly exists.
@@mablesfatalfable6021 "over-reliant on production" good music is good music stfu
Needs another Fretwrap
looks just wrong😂...then suddenly chip tunes🎉
So many glazers in the comments
I think he needs a few more fret wraps
there’s one fret wrap and then another wrap behind the nut
💯😂
HAHAAH THE BACK TRACKS , this guy is so fake
Literally everyone that performed at NAMM had backing tracks. Jason Richardson played to a full ATR backing track, sans vocals. You’re just a jealous fool. Feel free to follow the link on the pinned comment to hear a version where Charles’ guitar was isolated.
that has to shut down a lot of people for a little while.
Maybe if he played it.... You can't hear what he's playing for a solid 80% of the song due to his sped up, prerecorded back track that was mixed about twice as loud as his guitar..... You probably think Lucas mann is legit too..... 😂😂😂
@@mablesfatalfable6021 he is literally one person. He played as much as possible. What else do you want from him? To just cut out all backing tracks and pay a shitload of money to get band members that are talented enough to perform this with him live?
@ pepe profile pic. go touch grass my g
@@Elias-qj7dq No. Not that. What we want is for him to not play a backing track of the guitar line he himself is playing on stage. Everything else is fine. Play to the album tracks if he wants, just mute the damn guitar performance you're there to play so we can hear HIM play it, not a computer.
@@mattbarker1411you must not understand being a music producer.
Have fun with your buddies in a garage and make that 90s music you love so much.
Backing tracks are too much for you to understand.
Ok now try Djent
This shit doesnt sound enjoyable at all
Go listen to Metallica
Dudes such a fraud. 😂😂😂😂 It's all a backing track aside from the chugs. And you all eat it up. 😂😂😂😂😂
Jealousy is an ugly thing bud
Go listen to Jason Richardson's set and then talk about a backing track, lmao. Barely anything was in the backing track, he played all of the leads. Room temp IQ people, man.
WHERE IS THE VIDEO OF YOU AT NAMM PLAYING YOUR AMAZING MUSIC ?????😂
@@andrewconant807 Jealousy is different from not wanting to be lied to.
Was really hoping to go on your channel and find shredding videos to justify your hate but alas, you suck.
Would be cool if you could hear it.
Sounds like trash.
Some of the music you listen to might sound to someone else like trash as well. Let people enjoy things
You’re trash, buddy.
@ I’m not telling you not to enjoy it. I’m just letting you know I think it sounds like trash.
It might sound different than your evanescence album you cry to in your car when nobody is watching does Not mean it is trash. He is very talented and doing something different.
@ hell no bro. Not only does this sound like complete trash, but it’s clearly not as clean as he claims it can be in his fake ass videos. This guy is a scam artist at best.
And how the hell did you find out about my evanescence habits?
Sick!