Labeling the switch 'enhance' is a genius move. It's going to make your typical guitarist think it's a boost or something so they are all going to toggle it on.
as the guy who actually gets laid i mean bassist it was refreshing to hear you go after the correct targets. my self esteem took its habitual dive with your initial comment but was restored when you put those no-metronome-practice treble types in their rightful place
Its different when you sit there and shame the audience the whole time and hardly talk about blind tests or anything which he constantly tells us to do.
Even though the clipping we hear on Death Magnetic was introduced in the mastering stage (Look up the Guitar Hero : Metallica unmastered tracks), the comment was funny :).
Why do guitarists always clip their recordings? Because the input is labeled "gain", and we reflexively turn it all the way up to hide our imperfect picking. Through the art of decal modification, we can solve this problem. Just scratch the "GA" off and leave "IN", since it's just an input volume anyway.
For those of you at home struggling to get a good sound from your interface, remember that when you press the instrument input button the input impedance skyrockets into something very sensitive. The optimal setup for those instances is gain at zero. Hope this helps and cheers from Puerto Rico. \m/
I'm glad that my main metal client will let me do my job. His amp tone in the room sounds great, but we're gonna have to adjust a bit to give the mic what it wants. Dialing back the bass, turning the volume down, etc.
Hey awesome Judas Priest shirt!!! I was the one who saw you at the Priest and Saboton show!!! Thanks for being awesome, and keep doing what you are doing, cause it rocks🤘
I'm glad I started learning bass a year after I started guitar lessons, my teacher played both instruments, so he could teach me both. I learned how to play drums when I was 20, in my local city pretty much every musician uses drugs, and I don't want that crap around me or my producers studio, my producer is the same person that taught me how to play guitar and bass, I've known him for over 23 years and he's basically family. I track every instrument in the studio, my producer has a really nice 48 channel digidesign board, along with a killer Gallien& Krueger solid state 500 watt bass head, and a 4x10 cab and a cab with a 15' sub and a horn. Six different Marshall cabs, loads of high-end recording mic's, his wicked Peavey XXX head and my Peavey Valveking head. He has an Alesis E-Drum kit, and a Tama double kick superstar or imperial star drum kit, with really nice Zildjian and Sabian cymbal kits. I'm lucky that my producer and brother, takes what he does so seriously, because as a musician I can't trust anyone to work with in my local city. I'll never use an Audio Interface myself, because it wouldn't make sense. Not every musician records on their computer, some of us still are old-school man. Just saying. Nothing I record gets edited if I make a mistake, music comes from the soul, and people are not perfect. Plain and Simple.
I don’t think people realize how easy it is to cut clipping with a scarlett unit. It literally flashes red if you’re too hot and a knob to adjust until it’s green which would indicate not clipping…
I feel like sound engineers and musicians are NOT eachothers' people. There's a kind of beauty to that. Two breeds of human whose jobs kinda depend on eachother, but who naturally despise the other for a multitude of reasons. Anyone who works with the public can attest; the public is mostly comprised of morons who will seemingly do everything in their power to make your life harder than it has to be. And in your role, whether you're a bus driver, a nurse, a checkout assistant, a bar worker or a recording engineer is to take success out of the public's hands and into your own. Musicians are Glen's public. I for one would love to make loads of money for complaining about my job on YT. 😂
Drummer during sound check - Lightly hits each drum, Drummer recording - hits with enough force to put the stick through the skin and moves the mic a bit cause it's in the way. Also congrats on halfway to 1 mil dude!
I had to account for exactly that 2 days ago. drummer insisted on bringing his kit "because I tuned it specially." he shows up and my god, it was a €100 drum kit, with loose skins that sounded like a stack of paper. During setup he then proceeds to play jazz style with brushes despite being a rock drummer. I told him swap to the sticks and BATTER those pieces of shit. in the end, everything is perfect, except the shitty toms tone😂
Holy crap, the amount of guitarists I've played alongside and worked with that go full smooth brain when they attempt to record... it's why I've always said "fuck it, we're playing live off the floor and if you somehow manage to fuck it up I'm letting the engineer kick you in the nuts"
Everything is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough. I've had the pleasure of working with some real prodigies who turned machines into smoke machines without much effort at all.
Not only that, it should work with the high notes of a soprano, of course you can use a compressor in the daw, but that doesn't prevent the original signal from clipping when they get those louds notes
I'm a guitar player... Just found your videos! 'guitarists turn everything in to a smoke machine if they try hard enough'. ... Crying laughing! 🤣 ... subscribed!
idk i think stuff like this, much like automatic headlights in cars, just trains people to not bother learning what they need to learn. so you end up with people driving without their lights at night even MORE often than before
@@davidnika446 they can still be turned off. and people obviously do that because i see WAY more people with their lights off at night than 10 or 15 years ago.
@ICKY427 alot of dealerships turn the running lights off to limit battery use. They don't turn them on when they sell, and the new owners don't realize for months. I have only ever owned one modern vehicle, and I do not like how automated everything has become. I had a VW Tiguan, loved how most controls were still analog with textured buttons and dials, most other vehicles I test drove in it's class were mostly touchscreen operated features. Used my backup camera to make sure I backed all the way into a parking space, and that's it.
@@Scoots_McGee Actually I 100% agree. I don't want full autonomous driving either. If a computer runs your car and is it's internet connected, somebody else has ultimate control of it. And heck, the tech companies would have us rely on an app to chew our food for us for a subscription fee if they could. I don't want a touch screen in my car, or spying devices/facial recognition, paid heated seats (yes, that has been tried) etc etc. We're already too dependent on technology that we don't really need. And the smarter our phone get, the dumber WE get!
@davidnika446 innovation is all fine and good, but sometimes it isn't really necessary IMO. I have a guitar amp with companion app. Just bought the newest one, and it has an AI feature, kind of defeating the purpose of messing around with the digital amp modelers and dialing in the sound yourself, trying out the virtual pedals to find the sound on your own. It might be good for beginners if they don't know gear or how to find the tone they're chasing, but it takes away all agency to figure it out on your own
Hey Glenn! About the power part at 3:52. I just looked at the manual of both the 2 and 4. They do run of the USB bus, the 5V input is optional. But you can run into issues if you demand too much from the device. This doesn't work on iOS devices for some reason, you'll have to use the 5V power adapter. Great video btw!
1:23 being a professional bassist for 30+ years, i am beginning to dislike very much the repeated cutting by you, sir... after all.. EVERY band i have ever been in relied on my ability to play bass competently, sing well, mix the band from stage right, mix monitors at the same time and do promotions... AS WELL AS it was my P.A., my van and my place they rehearsed!! how could i do MORE!>?!?!
Me too. But have fun and laugh a little bit. I was practicing bass till my brain melted (like 4 hours). Some bassist actually take the job serious and they play incredible and works for the song. But c’mon, we always see bass players that don’t know nothing, they don’t practice and not even have consciousness about the important role of a good rhythm section. Just have fun and not take those jokes seriously.
OK.. so, in the camera and video world, 'float audio' is a thing. If you are a bit of a computer programmer, you know 'float' just means' numbers with decimals. What 'float audio' actually means is that for each input there are _multiple_ ADC circuits, with different input gains. They are 'mixed' into one floating point audio signal, means you can record signals 'above clipping' (because it would be the signal from the ADC that has an input pad), and if you have a soft signal, you still get the precision of an ADC which is set very hot.\ Anyway, if that exists for multi-channel audio recorders in the field.... why doesn't it exist in audio interfaces for laptop/desktop recording??
So, it's effectively a brick wall limiter built in? Don't we already have those in every DAW? Is the suggestion that guitarists will only not record too loud without a special 'don't play too loud' switch?
The limiter in the daw doesn't affect anything that goes into your preamp. If the source is too hot for the interface preamp, it will clip before it gets to the daw.
My 2nd Gen Focusrite Scarlet 18i20 just shat itself for the millionth and last time, and I just bought one of these to replace it on your recommendation. Guitar brain says it's foolproof, engineer brain says it's bloody good value. Thanks Glenn! 🤘
The chainsaw farting through a distortion pedal. I believe that you described the Metal Zone pedal. Also, I like how Stevie T not only just woke up at 8 PM, but he was right there at the door ready to answer while also wearing a mic. I guess he sleeps next to his door while wearing a mic on his shirt, just in case Glenn drops by, even though it takes him by surprise somehow.
Mr. Glenn Fricker, unfortunately I have to sue you now, because this video and the continuous laughter it caused with tears in my eyes has probably left me with permanent damage. I love your videos .!!!!
Glennnnnn! I lived the life you commented about spending money on equipment, but having no acoustic treatment at the mix location. My early 90s recordings were awful for that very reason. But far more importantly... WE DRIVE THE SAME VAN!
I like these type of videos when the topic becomes a product review. 🎉 It's a more interesting way of telling the story. Felt the Steve cameo funny but could have been a bit more there. Either way enjoyable video.
I find this funny, I have the opposite problem. I find myself recording a signal that's low and needs amplified after the fact to get the levels up due to a fear of clipping the snot out of a track. The main issue I find with this is visual editing, and there not being enough visual signal seen to line up other tracks accurately the first time and I end up zooming all the way in spending time moving things around to get the perfect start points. Nothing I do is on a time aligned grid, and there is no metronome used. I prefer the human aspect and imperfections. We are not robots.
So you’re supposed to click the icon with a white star in order to install the Blackstar software. That seems confusing even if you have never played a bass.
Well, I've really never had this problem. I like you have been comp recording since the late 90s, & CAME from full ANALOGUE tape studios! Took me a while, (& some study) to learn that spls aren't the same on analogue tape as they are a digital hd! Digital is the opposite: Often less is more on a digital audio signal! DON'T go any higher than ~ -12dB, & you're GOOD! (THAT is the signal equiv of 0dB analogue!)
That would be an Interface that I would recommend to guitarists who want record their own tracks. But in my studio, I have a wood paddle on my desk if they reach for my interface.
I think it would be more practical to have a switch with the options "musician"/"engineer". In engineer mode, the meters are accurate. In musician mode, they're super-sensitive and the gain knob stops working. Problem solved without any extra signal chain mods!
Heh. Public transportation. That's some highfalutin city boy stuff right there. I try luring potential bandmates out into my woods with promises of amps that can actually be turned to 11 without complaint and I STILL can't get people to consistently show up.
This reminds me alot of a post I stumbled across from the late naughties from a grizzled veteran audio engineer who referred to the guitarist as a “zombie twank “ Amazing advice for micing cabs though. But, with Glenn, you don’t need to hunt the internets anymore, you get the cheekiness and great advice right here
This is why every time I record a guitar, be it my own or a bandmate’s, I always record DI. That way if they don’t like their tone, they can change it however they want. Then after they leave I can change it behind their backs!
Cool this is good advise for people starting out, i think 4 out are the best option soundcards you only really need 8+ if you go recording drums. 2 is not enough if you ever want to use external fx. so 4 is the right spot for a sound card. for most users
Dude because of your videos I have taken my ego down several dcbs haha I can now get things down without clipping. I do have more work to do as I am limited with time, thanks for all the help and fuck you Glen.
I was always told to set input gain to where the pick attack consistently bounces right on -6 db when digging in. That protects against clipping from a really hard dynamic strike and is usually heaps of waveform for a good sound. I just don't really understand why we'd need a special interface for this. If you can't manipulate one radial knob and check what it's doing on your computer screen, that suggests you being prepared to record is probably the least of your intellectual challenges.
Hey Glenn, what would happen if you turned on the “Enhance” switch if you were running a drum mic through that channel? I almost bought into the tonewood and vintage tube amp bs, but you are the only one I found that has any tests with actual measurements. Love the channel, and thank you for saving me a metric fuck ton of money.
glen, is it possible for you to make a video on how you get this wide stereo sound using prism? i own prism but i can't get near close to the fullness and wide sound. thank you!
This was so good..."how good was it?" (In my best Johnny Carson voice) It was so good... it was like seeing a missing episode of PIPERS CORNER w Rowdy Roddy Piper!
I thought they just reinvented autogain... 🙄 But according to their page, it's also supposed to mimic an actual amp and add air to mic signal. So, it's more than just a limiter. Would have appeared much more appealing IF Glen had mentioned this in the video... 💡 Note: I've read people say that their Scarlett's clip even if they have the gain at 0! But I think they fixed that (maybe?) on later generations (3rd?)... But that's one of the reasons why I didn't buy a Scarlett back in the day, but a Behringer, which has more features too! 👌
yes, but does it Djent without Tonewood ? "can it drive a 4x12 cab thru the Headphone out ? ... how do you know if you haven't tried it ?" maybe just a vintage30 ?
In a few of the modelling pedals that also double as a USB interface, they have the ability for someone to split the signal into two channels one with procesed guitar and another into DI and the gain can be adjusted to avoid clipping. Been using the ToneX and this mode is super handy before I start anything
The SSL 2 and evolutions and their 4K button? Far from being any sort of autogain, it's a filter supposed to emulate somehow the input channel of the SSL 4000 console, and it's actually gainier (you need to compensate). I quite like it for speech, and it can do interesting things on other sources.
@@riangarianga Some guy tested the 4K button on a frequency analyzer and all it did was add a high self on the high frequencies! Dunno about extra gain... at least it didn't show in the graph nor did he mention it. It's on youtubes, but don't remember who it was. Seen so many reviews...
@@MaximusAdonicus Perhaps that was a test just in the frequency domain (I've seen some guys wrongly testing that way distortion pedals), but you need to check the results in the time domain, too. You can watch a review of the 4K feature in Julian Krause's channel, there's definitely some saturation there. And if you happen to have the interface, you can just connect a patch cable from the monitor output to the line input, and get the results for your use case in real time with a frequency analyser + a pink noise generator (frequency domain), and an oscilloscope plugin + a signal generator (time domain, where you'd observe the saturation/distortion; you need to feed sine, triangle and square waves at different frequencies to get a good picture).
I struggle dialing my input gain in properly. If I have to record something that uses higher pitches they often get drowned out unless the lower notes start clipping. This would make life infinitely less cumbersome!
It's funny that the genius meme has simple high-school formulas in it. Volume of a cone, Area of a parabola, Pythagoras' Theorem, a summation series, the quadratic formula, etc. 😂😅
Great video Glenn. What a fantastic product (Blackstar) for musicians to use to enhance their garage jam, C60 cassette recordings like all of mine from the 80's and early 90's..😎😂🎸👍🏻
The enhance switch looks like a cool feature, but what if we just turn down the gain on the Scarlett until the red light stops showing up? Doesn't that do the same thing?
On the scarlett interface you need to have the gain at zero n press the INST button for the correct impedance on the signal, and any additional gain needed should then be adjusted in the amp sim plugin
I just go to a studio and let the professional handle all that stuff when I have something important to record. If it's important enough, it's worth the money. Home rig is for sketches. Props on the CoC over there 🤘
Holy s$!t this was a really funny and entertaining video! I love Blackstar and feel they are pretty underrated. I use their St. James plugin on guitar with Element Bass (obviously for Bass you goobers) for most of my recent demos and really love the sounds I am getting. Love and Chugs 🤘🔥🧡🔥🤘
Hey, Glenn, curious if you have chatted with anyone from FiXT Music or perchance any of their acts, given they are just across the border in Detroit? They tend towards more of the industrial sound, but represent pretty much anything. FYI I am a rebroadcast partner of theirs, and have found so much great music I would have otherwise missed!
@@ThanePlaysGames Yeah, unfortunately... I've read comments saying exact that: that even on lowest gain it clips on Scarletts, at least on the early gens. Dunno if 3-4th are better... The only thing u can do currenlty is use a guitar with lower output pickups (passive) or lower the pickup height or possibly lower the volume on the guitar itself...
So, instead of just turning the volume down a bit, shell out 400 so you can have a sound that's two loud, but which has been limited to death. Great! :)
You went to see Stevie T, and you didn't even kick his ass? What the hell dude? You promised us.
He already kickd him
They're friends 😂
What the heck!
Stevie T is the Line Six Spider of music youtubers.
lmao🤣🤣🤣🤣
Line 6: eww I stepped in shit
Low blow
@@LukeCandelaria cry
@@SilentNightBodomNight corny
Labeling the switch 'enhance' is a genius move. It's going to make your typical guitarist think it's a boost or something so they are all going to toggle it on.
as the guy who actually gets laid i mean bassist it was refreshing to hear you go after the correct targets. my self esteem took its habitual dive with your initial comment but was restored when you put those no-metronome-practice treble types in their rightful place
I feel seen, finally! 🤣🤣 "no-metronome-practice treble" lol
Our voices will be heard lmao
Comments: review more gear!
Glenn: [reviews gear]
Comments: ThIs WaS jUsT aNoThEr Ad!
There’s a problem, here’s a solution, NOT LIKE THAT GLENN.
@@skymustfall
How dare you solve our problems without suggesting us to spend a gazillion buckaroos for a "better" gear?
yeah but nobody needs this
@cgungryfcdjs1352
Um... I didn't watch it for no reason... so, wrong. Thank you for playing, though.
Its different when you sit there and shame the audience the whole time and hardly talk about blind tests or anything which he constantly tells us to do.
“Asking a guitarist to press record is like asking them to solve quantum physics” false, because physicist recognize they don’t know jack shit!
And they love to make some "educated arguments" with "thoroughly researched hypothesis"
unless they are doing string theory
🤘🤘
If only Death Magnetic had this tool.
😂
Even though the clipping we hear on Death Magnetic was introduced in the mastering stage (Look up the Guitar Hero : Metallica unmastered tracks), the comment was funny :).
Are you calling Glenn a tool? ik ik
It really wouldn't make a difference 😂 such shit art
@@HardRocker47Those are the multi tracks, though. I would not be surprised if the stereo mixdown was pretty nuked, too.
Why do guitarists always clip their recordings? Because the input is labeled "gain", and we reflexively turn it all the way up to hide our imperfect picking. Through the art of decal modification, we can solve this problem. Just scratch the "GA" off and leave "IN", since it's just an input volume anyway.
For those of you at home struggling to get a good sound from your interface, remember that when you press the instrument input button the input impedance skyrockets into something very sensitive. The optimal setup for those instances is gain at zero. Hope this helps and cheers from Puerto Rico. \m/
Idk, that clipped guitar tone sounded pretty good. I’m gonna start clipping on the way in and get some of that rich analog flavor
I wouldn't trust us to flick a switch either.
I'm glad that my main metal client will let me do my job. His amp tone in the room sounds great, but we're gonna have to adjust a bit to give the mic what it wants. Dialing back the bass, turning the volume down, etc.
Removing the gain knob on the instrument input would've been the perfect solution for this "problem".
Hey awesome Judas Priest shirt!!! I was the one who saw you at the Priest and Saboton show!!! Thanks for being awesome, and keep doing what you are doing, cause it rocks🤘
I'm glad I started learning bass a year after I started guitar lessons, my teacher played both instruments, so he could teach me both. I learned how to play drums when I was 20, in my local city pretty much every musician uses drugs, and I don't want that crap around me or my producers studio, my producer is the same person that taught me how to play guitar and bass, I've known him for over 23 years and he's basically family. I track every instrument in the studio, my producer has a really nice 48 channel digidesign board, along with a killer Gallien& Krueger solid state 500 watt bass head, and a 4x10 cab and a cab with a 15' sub and a horn. Six different Marshall cabs, loads of high-end recording mic's, his wicked Peavey XXX head and my Peavey Valveking head. He has an Alesis E-Drum kit, and a Tama double kick superstar or imperial star drum kit, with really nice Zildjian and Sabian cymbal kits. I'm lucky that my producer and brother, takes what he does so seriously, because as a musician I can't trust anyone to work with in my local city. I'll never use an Audio Interface myself, because it wouldn't make sense. Not every musician records on their computer, some of us still are old-school man. Just saying. Nothing I record gets edited if I make a mistake, music comes from the soul, and people are not perfect. Plain and Simple.
I don’t think people realize how easy it is to cut clipping with a scarlett unit. It literally flashes red if you’re too hot and a knob to adjust until it’s green which would indicate not clipping…
I love how you turn into the sweetest guy ever when you meet other people, always so polite. Much respect, Glenn!
I feel like sound engineers and musicians are NOT eachothers' people. There's a kind of beauty to that. Two breeds of human whose jobs kinda depend on eachother, but who naturally despise the other for a multitude of reasons.
Anyone who works with the public can attest; the public is mostly comprised of morons who will seemingly do everything in their power to make your life harder than it has to be. And in your role, whether you're a bus driver, a nurse, a checkout assistant, a bar worker or a recording engineer is to take success out of the public's hands and into your own. Musicians are Glen's public. I for one would love to make loads of money for complaining about my job on YT. 😂
Drummer during sound check - Lightly hits each drum, Drummer recording - hits with enough force to put the stick through the skin and moves the mic a bit cause it's in the way.
Also congrats on halfway to 1 mil dude!
I had to account for exactly that 2 days ago. drummer insisted on bringing his kit "because I tuned it specially." he shows up and my god, it was a €100 drum kit, with loose skins that sounded like a stack of paper. During setup he then proceeds to play jazz style with brushes despite being a rock drummer. I told him swap to the sticks and BATTER those pieces of shit. in the end, everything is perfect, except the shitty toms tone😂
Thanks to some sneaky editing, we still haven't seen Glenn and Stevie in the same room at the same time. Hmmm.
Wait a minute...They are the same person!
Holy crap, the amount of guitarists I've played alongside and worked with that go full smooth brain when they attempt to record... it's why I've always said "fuck it, we're playing live off the floor and if you somehow manage to fuck it up I'm letting the engineer kick you in the nuts"
Everything’s a smoke machine if you try hard enough 😂
That’s a t-shirt
Everything is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough. I've had the pleasure of working with some real prodigies who turned machines into smoke machines without much effort at all.
@@michaellorenz7177my favorite part is where you told the same joke, only worse.
People can bash Steve all they want, but he flushes more guitar skill down the toilet each morning than everyone bashing him can even fathom.
Could you never do a video with Steve ever again?
Steve is awesome though!
Hahaha
get them a 32bit float interface for the direct sound and that's it
Not only that, it should work with the high notes of a soprano, of course you can use a compressor in the daw, but that doesn't prevent the original signal from clipping when they get those louds notes
Glen: "All musicians are dumb!" Also Glen: Calls a switch a button. 😉
Well, that proves his point, then?
@@psychochicken9535 Indeed. 😁
Well, he never excluded himself, technically 😼
Our engineer handed our lead singer an unplugged mic just so he would stop jerking off the real mic in the booth.
I was hoping ST could get through a gig without pulling a face, then eight seconds in……
I'm a guitar player... Just found your videos! 'guitarists turn everything in to a smoke machine if they try hard enough'. ... Crying laughing! 🤣 ... subscribed!
idk i think stuff like this, much like automatic headlights in cars, just trains people to not bother learning what they need to learn. so you end up with people driving without their lights at night even MORE often than before
No you don't, because the headlights come on automatically. No?
@@davidnika446 they can still be turned off. and people obviously do that because i see WAY more people with their lights off at night than 10 or 15 years ago.
@ICKY427 alot of dealerships turn the running lights off to limit battery use. They don't turn them on when they sell, and the new owners don't realize for months. I have only ever owned one modern vehicle, and I do not like how automated everything has become. I had a VW Tiguan, loved how most controls were still analog with textured buttons and dials, most other vehicles I test drove in it's class were mostly touchscreen operated features. Used my backup camera to make sure I backed all the way into a parking space, and that's it.
@@Scoots_McGee Actually I 100% agree. I don't want full autonomous driving either. If a computer runs your car and is it's internet connected, somebody else has ultimate control of it. And heck, the tech companies would have us rely on an app to chew our food for us for a subscription fee if they could. I don't want a touch screen in my car, or spying devices/facial recognition, paid heated seats (yes, that has been tried) etc etc. We're already too dependent on technology that we don't really need. And the smarter our phone get, the dumber WE get!
@davidnika446 innovation is all fine and good, but sometimes it isn't really necessary IMO. I have a guitar amp with companion app. Just bought the newest one, and it has an AI feature, kind of defeating the purpose of messing around with the digital amp modelers and dialing in the sound yourself, trying out the virtual pedals to find the sound on your own. It might be good for beginners if they don't know gear or how to find the tone they're chasing, but it takes away all agency to figure it out on your own
Hey Glenn! About the power part at 3:52. I just looked at the manual of both the 2 and 4. They do run of the USB bus, the 5V input is optional. But you can run into issues if you demand too much from the device. This doesn't work on iOS devices for some reason, you'll have to use the 5V power adapter. Great video btw!
1:23 being a professional bassist for 30+ years, i am beginning to dislike very much the repeated cutting by you, sir... after all.. EVERY band i have ever been in relied on my ability to play bass competently, sing well, mix the band from stage right, mix monitors at the same time and do promotions... AS WELL AS it was my P.A., my van and my place they rehearsed!! how could i do MORE!>?!?!
You forgot to add "Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk." 5/10.
It's not your fault you are a bass player
You’re still the bass player.
Me too. But have fun and laugh a little bit.
I was practicing bass till my brain melted (like 4 hours). Some bassist actually take the job serious and they play incredible and works for the song. But c’mon, we always see bass players that don’t know nothing, they don’t practice and not even have consciousness about the important role of a good rhythm section.
Just have fun and not take those jokes seriously.
Yes, but how many bass players have you met that fit Glenn's stereotype?
🔥 this has been stewing in your brain for a long time, Glenn. I love the intro.
OK.. so, in the camera and video world, 'float audio' is a thing. If you are a bit of a computer programmer, you know 'float' just means' numbers with decimals. What 'float audio' actually means is that for each input there are _multiple_ ADC circuits, with different input gains. They are 'mixed' into one floating point audio signal, means you can record signals 'above clipping' (because it would be the signal from the ADC that has an input pad), and if you have a soft signal, you still get the precision of an ADC which is set very hot.\
Anyway, if that exists for multi-channel audio recorders in the field.... why doesn't it exist in audio interfaces for laptop/desktop recording??
So, it's effectively a brick wall limiter built in? Don't we already have those in every DAW? Is the suggestion that guitarists will only not record too loud without a special 'don't play too loud' switch?
I’d guess that the enhancer is before conversion, so the converting it self doesn’t clip. If you apply limiter in your saw, you’re still clipping.
The limiter in the daw doesn't affect anything that goes into your preamp. If the source is too hot for the interface preamp, it will clip before it gets to the daw.
Awesome guest appearance. You and Stevie can get apoplectic like you're actual band mates
Sorry, I’m a guitar player and don’t know what “apoplectic” means. I’m 55 and have never in my life heard that word. Can you please clarify?
My 2nd Gen Focusrite Scarlet 18i20 just shat itself for the millionth and last time, and I just bought one of these to replace it on your recommendation. Guitar brain says it's foolproof, engineer brain says it's bloody good value. Thanks Glenn! 🤘
The chainsaw farting through a distortion pedal. I believe that you described the Metal Zone pedal.
Also, I like how Stevie T not only just woke up at 8 PM, but he was right there at the door ready to answer while also wearing a mic. I guess he sleeps next to his door while wearing a mic on his shirt, just in case Glenn drops by, even though it takes him by surprise somehow.
Mr. Glenn Fricker, unfortunately I have to sue you now, because this video and the continuous laughter it caused with tears in my eyes has probably left me with permanent damage. I love your videos .!!!!
Glennnnnn!
I lived the life you commented about spending money on equipment, but having no acoustic treatment at the mix location. My early 90s recordings were awful for that very reason. But far more importantly...
WE DRIVE THE SAME VAN!
I have a line 6 spyder III and a BCRich warlock....😮💨....🤣😂
lol. I'll trade you for a ham sandwich.
Now you have to start a brutal death metal band. You can do it
I have _three_ Warlocks ^^
I have a Line 6 Spyder that a previous owner wrote over the name "5150" in black sharpie 💀
@@TheRealxVincent it might be owned by EVH himself tho
I like these type of videos when the topic becomes a product review. 🎉
It's a more interesting way of telling the story.
Felt the Steve cameo funny but could have been a bit more there. Either way enjoyable video.
Now that's what I call an add read. They have to be happy with you today Glen.
Love Steve T! Cool seeing you guys work together
10:44 THAT'S WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT I WANT THESE CHAINSAW FREQUENCIES
I find this funny, I have the opposite problem. I find myself recording a signal that's low and needs amplified after the fact to get the levels up due to a fear of clipping the snot out of a track. The main issue I find with this is visual editing, and there not being enough visual signal seen to line up other tracks accurately the first time and I end up zooming all the way in spending time moving things around to get the perfect start points. Nothing I do is on a time aligned grid, and there is no metronome used. I prefer the human aspect and imperfections. We are not robots.
So you’re supposed to click the icon with a white star in order to install the Blackstar software. That seems confusing even if you have never played a bass.
Well, I've really never had this problem. I like you have been comp recording since the late 90s, & CAME from full ANALOGUE tape studios!
Took me a while, (& some study) to learn that spls aren't the same on analogue tape as they are a digital hd!
Digital is the opposite: Often less is more on a digital audio signal! DON'T go any higher than ~ -12dB, & you're GOOD!
(THAT is the signal equiv of 0dB analogue!)
That would be an Interface that I would recommend to guitarists who want record their own tracks. But in my studio, I have a wood paddle on my desk if they reach for my interface.
Glenn, that was f*cking great! 🤣 I haven't laughed that hard for a while! Thank you🤘
Glad you liked it!
I think it would be more practical to have a switch with the options "musician"/"engineer". In engineer mode, the meters are accurate. In musician mode, they're super-sensitive and the gain knob stops working. Problem solved without any extra signal chain mods!
Did you notice any extra latency or compression distortion/coloring with the enhance switch?
Been a while since I heard an epic rant, thanks for this!
Heh. Public transportation. That's some highfalutin city boy stuff right there. I try luring potential bandmates out into my woods with promises of amps that can actually be turned to 11 without complaint and I STILL can't get people to consistently show up.
More drummer jokes! I’m a drummer and you are so correct. We are always banging our sticks on everything we see!
I show up conveniently at the end of practice , so I get all the hanging out without any of the learning songs
The Audient Evo series has something similar, only it sets the gain automatically based upon input level, still cool to see BS branching out :-)
I love that they called the Limiter "Enhance". Of course I don't want to LIMIT my track, but ENHANCE? I sure want that.
Nice albatross
This reminds me alot of a post I stumbled across from the late naughties from a grizzled veteran audio engineer who referred to the guitarist as a “zombie twank “
Amazing advice for micing cabs though. But, with Glenn, you don’t need to hunt the internets anymore, you get the cheekiness and great advice right here
This is why every time I record a guitar, be it my own or a bandmate’s, I always record DI. That way if they don’t like their tone, they can change it however they want. Then after they leave I can change it behind their backs!
Cool this is good advise for people starting out, i think 4 out are the best option soundcards you only really need 8+ if you go recording drums. 2 is not enough if you ever want to use external fx. so 4 is the right spot for a sound card. for most users
I feel attacked…. Because… these… go to 11
Dude because of your videos I have taken my ego down several dcbs haha I can now get things down without clipping. I do have more work to do as I am limited with time, thanks for all the help and fuck you Glen.
I was always told to set input gain to where the pick attack consistently bounces right on -6 db when digging in. That protects against clipping from a really hard dynamic strike and is usually heaps of waveform for a good sound. I just don't really understand why we'd need a special interface for this. If you can't manipulate one radial knob and check what it's doing on your computer screen, that suggests you being prepared to record is probably the least of your intellectual challenges.
Hey Glenn, what would happen if you turned on the “Enhance” switch if you were running a drum mic through that channel? I almost bought into the tonewood and vintage tube amp bs, but you are the only one I found that has any tests with actual measurements. Love the channel, and thank you for saving me a metric fuck ton of money.
Another ad disguised as original content, boring. You've got a $100k Neve console and zero content of you producing bands with it. What gives?
It's a channel about RECORDING! This is an audio interface for RECORDING! This will help everyone in music production!
glen, is it possible for you to make a video on how you get this wide stereo sound using prism?
i own prism but i can't get near close to the fullness and wide sound.
thank you!
Just commenting to say Yay Albatross! I have loved that riff since the first time i heard it and it never fails to make my head bang!!
This was so good..."how good was it?" (In my best Johnny Carson voice) It was so good... it was like seeing a missing episode of PIPERS CORNER w Rowdy Roddy Piper!
I thought they just reinvented autogain... 🙄 But according to their page, it's also supposed to mimic an actual amp and add air to mic signal. So, it's more than just a limiter. Would have appeared much more appealing IF Glen had mentioned this in the video... 💡
Note: I've read people say that their Scarlett's clip even if they have the gain at 0! But I think they fixed that (maybe?) on later generations (3rd?)... But that's one of the reasons why I didn't buy a Scarlett back in the day, but a Behringer, which has more features too! 👌
Guitarist here. I have no idea what 'Enhance' means but I'll definitely be cranking that gain knob.
yes, but does it Djent without Tonewood ?
"can it drive a 4x12 cab thru the Headphone out ?
... how do you know if you haven't tried it ?"
maybe just a vintage30 ?
In a few of the modelling pedals that also double as a USB interface, they have the ability for someone to split the signal into two channels one with procesed guitar and another into DI and the gain can be adjusted to avoid clipping. Been using the ToneX and this mode is super handy before I start anything
I hate when brands go for switches that say "enhance" or "4K". Yeah, that's not what they do. Just call it autogain or limit
The SSL 2 and evolutions and their 4K button? Far from being any sort of autogain, it's a filter supposed to emulate somehow the input channel of the SSL 4000 console, and it's actually gainier (you need to compensate). I quite like it for speech, and it can do interesting things on other sources.
@@riangarianga Some guy tested the 4K button on a frequency analyzer and all it did was add a high self on the high frequencies! Dunno about extra gain... at least it didn't show in the graph nor did he mention it. It's on youtubes, but don't remember who it was. Seen so many reviews...
@@MaximusAdonicus Perhaps that was a test just in the frequency domain (I've seen some guys wrongly testing that way distortion pedals), but you need to check the results in the time domain, too.
You can watch a review of the 4K feature in Julian Krause's channel, there's definitely some saturation there.
And if you happen to have the interface, you can just connect a patch cable from the monitor output to the line input, and get the results for your use case in real time with a frequency analyser + a pink noise generator (frequency domain), and an oscilloscope plugin + a signal generator (time domain, where you'd observe the saturation/distortion; you need to feed sine, triangle and square waves at different frequencies to get a good picture).
I struggle dialing my input gain in properly. If I have to record something that uses higher pitches they often get drowned out unless the lower notes start clipping. This would make life infinitely less cumbersome!
I wonder what the difference is between the Enhance button on that interface and the PAD button on my interface.
It's funny that the genius meme has simple high-school formulas in it. Volume of a cone, Area of a parabola, Pythagoras' Theorem, a summation series, the quadratic formula, etc. 😂😅
Great video Glenn. What a fantastic product (Blackstar) for musicians to use to enhance their garage jam, C60 cassette recordings like all of mine from the 80's and early 90's..😎😂🎸👍🏻
195 euros in France at Thomann's. That's pretty unexpensive, and here it goes in my list of things to buy x) thanks, Glenn ;D
I feel attacked and I need some time to work on a rebuttal.
The enhance switch looks like a cool feature, but what if we just turn down the gain on the Scarlett until the red light stops showing up? Doesn't that do the same thing?
On the scarlett interface you need to have the gain at zero n press the INST button for the correct impedance on the signal, and any additional gain needed should then be adjusted in the amp sim plugin
I just go to a studio and let the professional handle all that stuff when I have something important to record. If it's important enough, it's worth the money. Home rig is for sketches.
Props on the CoC over there 🤘
Holy s$!t this was a really funny and entertaining video! I love Blackstar and feel they are pretty underrated. I use their St. James plugin on guitar with Element Bass (obviously for Bass you goobers) for most of my recent demos and really love the sounds I am getting. Love and Chugs 🤘🔥🧡🔥🤘
dedicated power will give it more headroom - i'd take that any day over bus powered
Am I the only one who thought that the bad recordings actually sounded pretty good. Are my ears just that bad?
0:58 Medeia is a great band, glad to see their vocalist here
Hilarious, and the visuals. Great stuff.
I've never had problems *recording*...
Hey, Glenn, curious if you have chatted with anyone from FiXT Music or perchance any of their acts, given they are just across the border in Detroit? They tend towards more of the industrial sound, but represent pretty much anything.
FYI I am a rebroadcast partner of theirs, and have found so much great music I would have otherwise missed!
classic guitarist behavior: super expensive mclaren, shitty interface.
good job Glenn!
HAHAHA I loved the intro!!
".....Enhance"
"...... enhance"
"Enhance"
"Just print the damn picture!"
what if i have a 2i2 and turn the gain all the way down on it and it still clips? is there anyway to fix that
You need to put the switch to instrument from line!
@@MaximusAdonicus if its already there and still does it am i just out of luck ?
@@ThanePlaysGames Yeah, unfortunately... I've read comments saying exact that: that even on lowest gain it clips on Scarletts, at least on the early gens. Dunno if 3-4th are better...
The only thing u can do currenlty is use a guitar with lower output pickups (passive) or lower the pickup height or possibly lower the volume on the guitar itself...
So, instead of just turning the volume down a bit, shell out 400 so you can have a sound that's two loud, but which has been limited to death. Great! :)
Love hearing Glenn play Corrosion of Conformity
As a drummer, i agree with us drumming on everything but our drumset 😂 Why is that so true?
I love Stevie T. His humor is what it is, but there is no question he is incredibly talented.
Shoot, you sounded like Patrick Star when you said, "uGh, SoRrY gUys! My MoM cAn'T dRiVe ToDaY"