This is the best i could find. This blew my mind actually. Some of Grace from Bearsville studio where he recorded the song. Backing track but vocals are prominent th-cam.com/video/VH_djcUPhs0/w-d-xo.html
My only Jeff Buckley story. In the late 90s, I worked for an insurance claim office in Irvine, Ca. A lovely woman named Mary offered to give me two CDs that her son made, one was Grace and live in the Cafe CD. I still have Grace. At the time he had already passed, and I recall meeting Mary at doors of the office, I asked what she was doing? She told, she accidentally sent the master tapes to the wrong office. She was a sweetheart.
I grew up in Memphis. The very first time I heard Grace, I was hanging out with all my musician friends - in an apartment a block away from Jeff’s house. I wish I’d known at the time!!!
When I first listened to Butch Vig's mixes of Nevermind, I thought they were OK but you do an equal loudness comparison against Andy's, there's no competition - Andy Wallace's mixes blow them out of the water.
@@UnforgivenIV I'd go so far as to say if he hadn't have mixed Nevermind and RATM's debut album, they would have been forgotten about in a heartbeat and not sold 10m+ copies.
These engineers are the unsung heroes of music. Huge thanks to all the engineers I never even thought of and all the joy they’ve given me listening to music 🙏
It's because this is not a Tele' on this, like on "Corpus Christie Carol" or things who are just JB with a guitar (you can hear it on the legacy edition).
Wow, this is crazy to me. Deconstructing an iconic, instrumental piece created by a man who has since long gone, more than 25 years later. Mr. Andy Wallace, I'm happy to see you're alive, well and doing what you're doing all these years later. And thank you so much for your contribution to Grace.
I met Jeff twice in the same week in July 1995. Went to see him in Edinburgh, where he signed a pile of post card merch I had bought for friends and then bumped into him and his tour manager at Glastonbury that weekend where we sat and shared a joint. A lovely guy and a great influence. I still have my autographed ticket from Queens Hall in Edinburgh.
awesome i share a joint with Jose Manuel aguilera from La Barranca once i know how magic that could be, I hope you meet this guitar master some day guys
He played La Belle in the Cowgate the year before this and was incredible, the things he done with his voice that night. I think he played Gleneagles around the same time and there’s footage of it somewhere online. He was pretty close with Liz Fraser at the time so spent a bit more time in Scotland than he ordinarily would have. Music kind of died for me after he passed, and it coincided with the end of the line for britpop too. A fantastic era to grow up in for sure.
I discovered Jeff while listening to the radio many years ago. That one line "did you say no this can't happen to me" is the first line I heard of his, I paused thinking "this is different and special". I then did some research to find out who it was. No one is like Jeff for sure.
If I someday become 1% of the engineer Andy is, I'll be really happy. The man is a legend. Grace is definetely one of my all time favorite albums and all the production involved in it, the arrangements, the mixing and mastering, every single aspect of it is so perfect.
@@WorshipFog777 Come on bro let's get real. Buckley's guitar sound had more to do with his ability as a player than just adding some reverb. It was the icing on the cake. If you listen to sketchs for my sweetheart the drunk you can hear that magic was there even on rough home made demos.
I feel the Tom Verlain produced tracks (disc 1 of Sketches, are not far off being equal to Grace. The Sky Is A Landfill, Everybody Here Wants You, Morning Theft, Opened Once, Vancouver. Those 5 songs can stand alongside the tracks on Grace.
The only other guitarist in my music collection that I think had a sound somewhat like this is the Smiths Johnny Marr, produced by young Stephen Street in songs like back to the old house, unlovable and a couple of others. Andy Wallace is the best though!
@@cremetangerine82 Some of them: Mtume - Juicy Fruit (1983) e Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock: The Album (1986) m Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell (1986) e/m Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986) e/m The Cult - Electric (1987) e/m Slayer - South of Heaven (1988) e/m The Front - The Front (1989) p/e/m New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation (1989) m The Godfathers - More Songs About Love & Hate (1989) m Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss (1990) p/m Radio Active Cats - Radio Active Cats (1991) p/e/m Sepultura - Arise (1991) m Head Candy - Starcaster (Head Candy album) (1991) m Fear Of God - Within The Weil (1991) m Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) m The Rollins Band - The End of Silence (1992) p L7 - Bricks Are Heavy (1992) m White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One (1992) p/e/m Sonic Youth - Dirty (1992) m Helmet - Meantime (1992) m Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992) m Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal? (1992) p/e/m Nirvana - Hormoaning (1992) Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion (1992) m Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face (1993) m Fishbone - Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe (1993) m Sepultura - Chaos A.D. (1993) p/m Toadies - Rubberneck (1994) m Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (1994) p Helmet - Betty (1994) m Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) p/e/m Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record (1994) m Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Strategem (1994) m Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime (1995) p/m Blind Melon - Soup (1995) p Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995) m Seaweed - Spanaway (1995) m Front 242 - 06 21 03 11 Up Evil m Sepultura - Roots (1996) m Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996) m Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire (1996) m Rush - Test for Echo (1996) m Sense Field - Building (1996) m Silverchair - Freak Show (1997) m Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen (1997) m The Misfits - American Psycho (1997) m Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill, Y'all (1997) m Soulfly - Soulfly (1998) m Phish - The Story of the Ghost (1998) p/m Bernard Butler - Friends and Lovers (1999) m Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipeout (1999) m Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon (1999) m Tonic - Sugar (1999) m Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999) m (3, 6, 7) Sevendust - Home (1999) m Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill (1999) p/m Disturbed - The Sickness (2000) m The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention (2000) m Mudvayne - L.D. 50 (2000) m Soulfly - Primitive (2000) m Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000) p/m Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2000) m Toadies - Hell Below / Stars Above (2001) m Staind - Break the Cycle (2001) m At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000) m System of a Down - Toxicity (2001) m Slipknot - Iowa (2001) m Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform (2001) m Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island (2001) m Oleander - Unwind (2001) m Systematic - Somewhere in Between (2001) m Fenix TX - Lechuza (2001) m Powerman 5000 - Anyone for Doomsday? (2001) m Puddle of Mudd - Come Clean (2001) m System of a Down - Steal This Album! (2002) m Trapt - Trapt (2002) m Disturbed - Believe (2002) m Taproot - Welcome (2002) m Pacifier - Pacifier (2002) m (1, 4, 8) Trust Company - The Lonely Position of Neutral (2002) m Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (2002) m Earshot - Letting Go (2002) m Korn - Untouchables (2002) m Staind - 14 Shades of Grey (2003) m The Distillers - Coral Fang (2003) m Fuel - Natural Selection (2003) m Pete Yorn - ‘’Day I Forgot’’ (2003) m Rooney - Rooney (2003) m Linkin Park - Meteora (2003) m Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance (2003) m Revis - Places for Breathing (2003) m (1, 4) A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (2003) m Blink-182 - Blink-182 (2003) m (4, 5, 8, 11) Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (2004) m Sum 41 - Chuck (2004) m (1, 4, 7-11, 13) Patti Smith - Trampin' (2004) e System of a Down - Mezmerize & Hypnotize (2004/2005) m Rise Against - Siren Song Of The Counter Culture (2004) m Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil (2005) m 3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days (2005) m Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) m Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer (2006) m Kasabian - Empire (2006) m Elefant - The Black Magic Show (2006) m From First to Last - Heroine (2006) m Biffy Clyro - Puzzle (2007) m Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival (2007) e/m Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (2007) m Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full (2007) m[3] Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor (2007) m The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (2007) m Kelly Clarkson - My December (2007) m Airbourne - Runnin' Wild (2007) m 3 Doors Down - 3 Doors Down (2008) m Shiny Toy Guns - Season of Poison (2008) m Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (2008) m Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (2008) m Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) m Plain White T's - Big Bad World (2008) m Gallows - Grey Britain (2009) m Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down (2009) m Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (2009) m Kashmir - Trespassers (2010) p Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare (2010) m Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain, In The Cloud (2011) m Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011) m X Japan - "Jade" (2011) m Blink-182 - "Natives" from Neighborhoods (2011) m The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law (2013) m Skillet* - Rise (2013) m Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King (2013) m Linkin Park - The Hunting Party (2014) m Ghost - Meliora (2015) m A Day to Remember - Bad Vibrations (2016) m Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage (2016) m The Voidz - Virtue (The Voidz album) (2018) m Ghost - Prequelle (2018) m
This is the engineering version of Bach at a full church organ playing a two-part invention: you're floored at every gesture, yet you realize it's nothing compared to what he and his instrument are capable of.
I always wondered how Buckley's guitar sounded so ethereal, knew it was reverb but didn't know it was many types mixed together, Andy Wallace did a stellar job 😌 🎧 💫
But here's a mystery: I saw (and heard) Jeff Buckley live (Tuesday, 21 February 1995 in Berlin) - and he sounded just as ethereal! Live! Never before or after did I witness a guitar sound as mesmerizing as his.
@@tobiasmeissner1967 that sounds like a great gig :) I've watched the Chicago one on TH-cam and agree he does have a similar sound live, there's a part in Hallelujah just before the main riff starts where the guitar has an almost carousel like quality which I've always found lovely
@@alexanderwood3465 Carousel is a good description. And when you were IN this room, it sounded as if every note was a little diamond raining down on you. It's difficult to describe: like crystals, but in patterns or waves. And then: his voice, tearing through the crystal patterns like through a curtain, but not cutting, more like connecting. I know I sound like a madman, and no, I didn't take drugs, I never do. It was just a unique experience.
SOOOO... We don't know what reverb, what amp, what compression, how many channels, what mics, what guitar, what EQ, etc etc etc. Other than that, great video!
Guitars • Fender Telecaster USA 1983 for lives performances (with Seymour Duncan Hot Lead Stack in the bridge) • Gibson Les Paul Custom 1874 for studio Amps: • Fender Vibrolux, for very clean tones Effects: • Alesis Quadraverb, a digital multi effects. He uses a Taj Mahal Reverb preset modified Mics: • Neuman U87 in the amp (front and back) IMHO, you can get a similar sound on others guitars. I use a Strat with bass tone at 4 and treble tone at 7. You can try to get PTB and 7-tone (Neck/Bridge) mod
The reverb he's using (or at least the one he used on the original) is the Alesis Quadraverb, in case you're interested. It's still surprisingly inexpensive on the used market!
Thank you dear Andy Wallace. I’ve always loved the ethereal forlorn call of Jeff Buckley’s guitar playing. This explains it all in plain English. Covid watching in Hawaii 10/320 😷🤙🏼
This is awesome. I would love to hear more about that whole album, specially the overall sound of the song Grace, the violin doing staccato in the second verse, the tone of the toms, the and of course Jeff’s voice.
Imho Hallelujah aint the best track in Grace, the remarkable thing is how they filled the space with so little elements... I would honestly be more interested on how mixes like "So real" just feel like they keep growing and growing 😲 they obviusly had to cut frequencies each time a new element was added, but it is so perfectly done, you only hear more and more layers 😍😍😍😍
This is why I can’t trust guitar players. They be like rosewood boards sound darker than maples. “Sir the entire guitar was different. Different scale. Different pickups. Semi hollow vs solid”
I am by no means a production student but I have done a little bit of production on my course and a lot of those knobs and buttons do the same thing but just for a different track. You can put multiple different effects on different tracks so like he talks about short length reverb and long length reverb, with producers like him he will have different reverbs on a lot of different tracks to work out the best sound.
andy wallace and terry date are national treasures. sometimes you can just tell when someone's a great person and they bring that to music in a huge way.
I'm struggling a little with the last piece of advice he gives. Or rather, how to implement it in the box. If I used one reverb, and then sent various instruments to it. How would I EQ the send, without applying EQ to the source sound, or the reverb itself?
@@RobHaccou This would be an extra step to accomplish fundamentally the same thing as just placing an EQ plugin above the reverb. In both cases the EQ will be applied globally to ALL instruments arriving at that send, not just a single guitar. I am actually not sure how you would accomplish what Andy is saying, it's a great question. Even on a real SSL there is no place on the patch bay that I'm aware of to grab a single instrument on its way to an aux send. Only thing I can think of would be using the small / monitor fader as your send and switching the EQ into the monitor path, but then you forfeit the EQ on the channel path.
Great question and it's actually easier to accomplish in the box than on a console. In Pro Tools let's say your reverb aux is picking up signal on bus 4. Any instruments which you want to go straight to the reverb with no EQ applied to the send just get sent directly to bus 4. The guitar Andy is talking about would get sent to bus 5, which would go to a separate aux with only EQ on it. Unlike your other auxes whose outputs go to the main mix bus, the output of bus 5 would be bus 4. Hope this makes sense.
@@RobHaccou Yeah after I typed everything out I realized that's what you could have meant. I really have never heard of anyone doing this let alone on a console but at the same time it's Andy Wallace yknow?!
i look at this big analog thing and im like man that looks so confusing how do i know what any of those controls and knobs and switchesdo???? it looks so complicated but then i see that they are exactly like the knobs and sliders i use in my daw and my plugins so i know exactly what everything is and its not complicated at all lol.
I just finished recording my new album with Jeff Martin from The Tea Party and he knew Buckley very well. We stayed up late a few nights in the studio and talked about Grace. It was a dream come true for me 🙏
@@nachovaldivia8 It's possible, but I don't consider myself to have very good pitch, but I doubt I would be THAT far off if I tuned my guitar by ear, and Jeff was a genius... Anyway: I am sure there was a piano in the studio. And tuners existed in the 80s. In most cases from the 60s-80s when the pitch is off it's because they experimented with the tape speed for emotional effect or to changes the tempo.
aronhidman1 hey man chillout, we’ve all tuned guitars sharp before. I mean yeah Jeff was a genius but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have dumb little moments. Also yeah the tape sounds a little fast
Thank you David. I’ll stand by this for my defense of my position on full albums over singles. In full album sequence mixes are allowed to be houses. Different rooms and hallways, different surfaces. Are their ghosts in the house? There’s a basement....fear This song shared time with other songs on the album and there became a presence. A spirit that printed into the work. Good on you.
theres something thats so "official music industry" about these videos. which is weird to think bc the"industry" now is ppl making music on home setups
Thanks... a bit inspiring though... whatever I had plans for, I guess now I will be fiddling around with my mixers and such for the next few days... and waking up the springs in my fender twin... Cheers
So did he record he record the guitar DI and stereo with two mics in the room with the amp? And then later send the DI to two different reverb returns and blend the DI and all the three different reverbs all together?
A Printed Reverb is when you are working on a song in the Studio and you find a Reverb or an Effect that is really magical, the Engineer will 'print' it on to the Tracks of the Master Tape. Sometimes this is just for reference and sometimes this would be used for the actual final Recording. This makes the magic easy to recall for when the time comes to Mix the song because the Effect will be exactly the same as what you had when you first cut the Tune, since you've committed it to Tape. Now, the instrumentation of this particular Tune is so sparse that you have the luxury of printing each Effect on its own pair of Stereo Tracks. In the early days of making Records, the number of available Tracks you had to work with was limited so Engineers would often print the Effects along with whatever Instrument they were Recording, very often on the same Track. Of course you had to be very careful in your decision making and use just the right amount of Effect, because you couldn't remove it if you added too much. This is why Engineers are trained to Record Instruments Dry and add the Effects later in the Mixdown, process, but many great Engineers and Producers have ignored this rule and trust their gut instinct, as long as it feels right in the moment. Many of these same great Engineers know just how much Effect to commit to Tape from years of experience with Recording Live to Stereo or directly to Disc. This a lost art that most new Engineers never get to learn. Another instance of when you would print an Effect is if you need more Effects than you actually have, so you could use the same hardware over and over for different things by printing the Effects. These days with virtually unlimited Track counts and total recall of nearly every parameter and Mix move, we don't tend to worry about these problems.
Always such a privilege to watch the greatest of their art in action! Andy Wallace is one of the few that I consider as bigger than his art, he's a legend! Best Regards from François in Montreal, Canada! 🎼🃏🎶🎵🙏👏👏👏💯💯💯🏆🌠
@@jimmysupafly1547 Hi my friend!! Nice to meet a fellow Montrealer here! 😁👋 Yes it's crazy, my son just went for a covid-19 test this afternoon, he is sick for a few days now and myself I am, but not that much, we'll see!! The effect of the covid-19 on the music industry is huge. But there are opportunities that are opening too. More and more, artists accept to do remote music productions so I associated with some producers of different countries to make music for artists remotely and the formula works really well. Artists also want to mix and master themselves because of the restrictions of going in studios so we are teaching that as well. Gradually more artists will want to make the whole process from their home, especially the fast-growing category that I call the "social media artists" which is the new model of "music star" of 2020, and the covid-19 situation will expand the popularity of these artists since the music fans can not longer assist to music shows.
@@themagicianofsound yes two of my good friends are signed musicians and were touring before Covid hit and now have been doing weekly shows on Instagram to stay sharp. I've noticed others as well. What makes great entertainment at home for us and mind you for much less money but it still really makes you realize how important that live music in a venue is. I wish musicians nothing but the best in these hard times and want them to know we really appreciate them taking the time to stay connected with their fans and fully intend to get back to concerts when we are allowed.
@@jimmysupafly1547 I 100% agree, about live performances, in days when music is free, it is difficult to make revenues with streaming as 1 millions views pays a musician generally between 2,000$ and 4,000$. Who gets millions views among artists to be honest... So yes live shows are critical for those who really want to earn money strictly from their music. Music has never been hit so hard in history, especially that we have no idea how many months or even years this situation can last.
Available exclusively on mwtm.org/aw-hallelujah
We need guys like Andy Wallace to record all of their knowledge for future generations. It would be so valuable.
100 percent !
what do you think this is?
@@eLStromy Sure....
Absolutely. A.i could never recreate 1 the human element of mixing in a million years
@@basehead617😂 💯
I wish they'd release some of the isolated vocal tracks from Grace
I'd love isolated vocals and instruments from every grace somg lol
This is the best i could find. This blew my mind actually. Some of Grace from Bearsville studio where he recorded the song. Backing track but vocals are prominent th-cam.com/video/VH_djcUPhs0/w-d-xo.html
Congrats to artificial intelligence, app called Moises and many others can do that
@@salvagedsandwhich7886 uploaded in 2009 when those apps weren't even a thing lmao
Andy is so warm and well-spoken. Class act all round.
"...not to irritate you..."
The fact - that we’re hearing Buckley’s original guitar track and Wallace is mixing it so beautifully - is so haunting, and mystical.
Exactly. It's otherworldly really. Revisiting an artistic moment by someone who left us long ago, done in a much different time.
Those hyphens made me gag
@@drmedwuast If you enjoy gagging- then you'll appreciate this comment- because it's just for you. - Phun Sun Wizz
How is it mystical? It’s a recording. I hated when he died too, but jeesh.
It sure is
My only Jeff Buckley story. In the late 90s, I worked for an insurance claim office in Irvine, Ca. A lovely woman named Mary offered to give me two CDs that her son made, one was Grace and live in the Cafe CD. I still have Grace. At the time he had already passed, and I recall meeting Mary at doors of the office, I asked what she was doing? She told, she accidentally sent the master tapes to the wrong office. She was a sweetheart.
I grew up in Memphis. The very first time I heard Grace, I was hanging out with all my musician friends - in an apartment a block away from Jeff’s house. I wish I’d known at the time!!!
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@@clicheguevara5282 that's cool x
@@dangermouse. hell yeah
Andy Wallace is probably my favourite mixing engineer of all time
When I first listened to Butch Vig's mixes of Nevermind, I thought they were OK but you do an equal loudness comparison against Andy's, there's no competition - Andy Wallace's mixes blow them out of the water.
@@DrRinse When you see Andy Wallace's name credited on an album, you know it's going to sound great. It's as good as a recommendation.
@@UnforgivenIV I'd go so far as to say if he hadn't have mixed Nevermind and RATM's debut album, they would have been forgotten about in a heartbeat and not sold 10m+ copies.
These engineers are the unsung heroes of music. Huge thanks to all the engineers I never even thought of and all the joy they’ve given me listening to music 🙏
The best sounding telecaster ever thanks to two geniuses.
It's because this is not a Tele' on this, like on "Corpus Christie Carol" or things who are just JB with a guitar (you can hear it on the legacy edition).
Wow, this is crazy to me. Deconstructing an iconic, instrumental piece created by a man who has since long gone, more than 25 years later. Mr. Andy Wallace, I'm happy to see you're alive, well and doing what you're doing all these years later. And thank you so much for your contribution to Grace.
This is one of the best sounding records Andy ever worked on. I still use "Dream Brother" as a speaker checking reference.
Me too
Is this the same andy wallace who mixed Nirvanas Nevermind?
Yes.
Yes
Millions hear his work day in day out, and are inspired by it. Most without knowing who he is.
“iT’s tHaT sHreK sOnG!!!!”
@@drmedwuast i think theyre referring to Andy, not Jeff
Man getting reverb right is some complex artisan shit
Buckley was a vocal hero AND a guitar hero!!!
He looks like a john williams of Sound Engineering
Looks freakishly like Hemingway
@@jayrobb9 I see Santa Claus.
It goes like this: the 4th, the 5th, the minor fall, the major lift.
Hahahhahaaa
Is this describing a plastic surgeon's typical patient over their lifetime?
Hallelujah!
The chords actually move like that in the song
You'd never guess this is the man who mixed Reign In Blood, but he did
I met Jeff twice in the same week in July 1995. Went to see him in Edinburgh, where he signed a pile of post card merch I had bought for friends and then bumped into him and his tour manager at Glastonbury that weekend where we sat and shared a joint. A lovely guy and a great influence. I still have my autographed ticket from Queens Hall in Edinburgh.
wow. smoking a joint with jeff. incredible. tell me more !
It was a long time ago man, just sat and chewed the fat.
awesome i share a joint with Jose Manuel aguilera from La Barranca once i know how magic that could be, I hope you meet this guitar master some day guys
He played La Belle in the Cowgate the year before this and was incredible, the things he done with his voice that night. I think he played Gleneagles around the same time and there’s footage of it somewhere online. He was pretty close with Liz Fraser at the time so spent a bit more time in Scotland than he ordinarily would have. Music kind of died for me after he passed, and it coincided with the end of the line for britpop too. A fantastic era to grow up in for sure.
@@theauldscientist I wish i'd known that at the time. Yeah great time for me as a budding guitarist, lots of great influences including Jeff.
I discovered Jeff while listening to the radio many years ago. That one line "did you say no this can't happen to me" is the first line I heard of his, I paused thinking "this is different and special". I then did some research to find out who it was. No one is like Jeff for sure.
If I someday become 1% of the engineer Andy is, I'll be really happy. The man is a legend.
Grace is definetely one of my all time favorite albums and all the production involved in it, the arrangements, the mixing and mastering, every single aspect of it is so perfect.
Interesting, but a better title might be "Buckley's Reverb".
Yep
Agreed, it sounds magical
Its part of the sound, its his sound
@@WorshipFog777 Come on bro let's get real. Buckley's guitar sound had more to do with his ability as a player than just adding some reverb. It was the icing on the cake. If you listen to sketchs for my sweetheart the drunk you can hear that magic was there even on rough home made demos.
@@ozymandias2726 and I agree with you on his playing, of course. But still the reverb is a factor for how he sounded.
Grace is my all time favourite album ! " Sketches " teases with further genius that we all missed out on.
So very true
I feel the Tom Verlain produced tracks (disc 1 of Sketches, are not far off being equal to Grace. The Sky Is A Landfill, Everybody Here Wants You, Morning Theft, Opened Once, Vancouver. Those 5 songs can stand alongside the tracks on Grace.
The only other guitarist in my music collection that I think had a sound somewhat like this is the Smiths Johnny Marr, produced by young Stephen Street in songs like back to the old house, unlovable and a couple of others. Andy Wallace is the best though!
I've worked with a lot of producers and mixers, but nobody is as cool, kind or talented as Mr. Andy Wallace!!
i would pay endless amounts of money (i'm broke) to sit in that room with him and the master tapes. mojo-pin would have been mind blowing to me.
The guitars sounds like a choir in a church bouncing through the halls. It's wavy like travelling in a room
When I like the sound of a record and I look at the name of the Mixer ... it's always written: Andy Wallace
What other albums has he worked on besides “Grace” and “Nevermind“ (Nirvana)?
@@cremetangerine82
Some of them:
Mtume - Juicy Fruit (1983) e
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock: The Album (1986) m
Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell (1986) e/m
Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986) e/m
The Cult - Electric (1987) e/m
Slayer - South of Heaven (1988) e/m
The Front - The Front (1989) p/e/m
New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation (1989) m
The Godfathers - More Songs About Love & Hate (1989) m
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss (1990) p/m
Radio Active Cats - Radio Active Cats (1991) p/e/m
Sepultura - Arise (1991) m
Head Candy - Starcaster (Head Candy album) (1991) m
Fear Of God - Within The Weil (1991) m
Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) m
The Rollins Band - The End of Silence (1992) p
L7 - Bricks Are Heavy (1992) m
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One (1992) p/e/m
Sonic Youth - Dirty (1992) m
Helmet - Meantime (1992) m
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992) m
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal? (1992) p/e/m
Nirvana - Hormoaning (1992)
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion (1992) m
Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face (1993) m
Fishbone - Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe (1993) m
Sepultura - Chaos A.D. (1993) p/m
Toadies - Rubberneck (1994) m
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (1994) p
Helmet - Betty (1994) m
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) p/e/m
Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record (1994) m
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Strategem (1994) m
Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime (1995) p/m
Blind Melon - Soup (1995) p
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995) m
Seaweed - Spanaway (1995) m
Front 242 - 06 21 03 11 Up Evil m
Sepultura - Roots (1996) m
Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996) m
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire (1996) m
Rush - Test for Echo (1996) m
Sense Field - Building (1996) m
Silverchair - Freak Show (1997) m
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen (1997) m
The Misfits - American Psycho (1997) m
Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill, Y'all (1997) m
Soulfly - Soulfly (1998) m
Phish - The Story of the Ghost (1998) p/m
Bernard Butler - Friends and Lovers (1999) m
Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipeout (1999) m
Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon (1999) m
Tonic - Sugar (1999) m
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999) m (3, 6, 7)
Sevendust - Home (1999) m
Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill (1999) p/m
Disturbed - The Sickness (2000) m
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention (2000) m
Mudvayne - L.D. 50 (2000) m
Soulfly - Primitive (2000) m
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000) p/m
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2000) m
Toadies - Hell Below / Stars Above (2001) m
Staind - Break the Cycle (2001) m
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000) m
System of a Down - Toxicity (2001) m
Slipknot - Iowa (2001) m
Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform (2001) m
Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island (2001) m
Oleander - Unwind (2001) m
Systematic - Somewhere in Between (2001) m
Fenix TX - Lechuza (2001) m
Powerman 5000 - Anyone for Doomsday? (2001) m
Puddle of Mudd - Come Clean (2001) m
System of a Down - Steal This Album! (2002) m
Trapt - Trapt (2002) m
Disturbed - Believe (2002) m
Taproot - Welcome (2002) m
Pacifier - Pacifier (2002) m (1, 4, 8)
Trust Company - The Lonely Position of Neutral (2002) m
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (2002) m
Earshot - Letting Go (2002) m
Korn - Untouchables (2002) m
Staind - 14 Shades of Grey (2003) m
The Distillers - Coral Fang (2003) m
Fuel - Natural Selection (2003) m
Pete Yorn - ‘’Day I Forgot’’ (2003) m
Rooney - Rooney (2003) m
Linkin Park - Meteora (2003) m
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance (2003) m
Revis - Places for Breathing (2003) m (1, 4)
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (2003) m
Blink-182 - Blink-182 (2003) m (4, 5, 8, 11)
Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (2004) m
Sum 41 - Chuck (2004) m (1, 4, 7-11, 13)
Patti Smith - Trampin' (2004) e
System of a Down - Mezmerize & Hypnotize (2004/2005) m
Rise Against - Siren Song Of The Counter Culture (2004) m
Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil (2005) m
3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days (2005) m
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) m
Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer (2006) m
Kasabian - Empire (2006) m
Elefant - The Black Magic Show (2006) m
From First to Last - Heroine (2006) m
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The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (2007) m
Kelly Clarkson - My December (2007) m
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild (2007) m
3 Doors Down - 3 Doors Down (2008) m
Shiny Toy Guns - Season of Poison (2008) m
Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (2008) m
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (2008) m
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) m
Plain White T's - Big Bad World (2008) m
Gallows - Grey Britain (2009) m
Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down (2009) m
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (2009) m
Kashmir - Trespassers (2010) p
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare (2010) m
Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain, In The Cloud (2011) m
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011) m
X Japan - "Jade" (2011) m
Blink-182 - "Natives" from Neighborhoods (2011) m
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law (2013) m
Skillet* - Rise (2013) m
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King (2013) m
Linkin Park - The Hunting Party (2014) m
Ghost - Meliora (2015) m
A Day to Remember - Bad Vibrations (2016) m
Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage (2016) m
The Voidz - Virtue (The Voidz album) (2018) m
Ghost - Prequelle (2018) m
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Damn, he must be in the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame!
@@cremetangerine82 Definitely !
@@IndexFossilchannel
Is he?
The man who made soundmix for Nirvana's Nevermind. A legend!
This guy knows how to demo a reverb. It annoys me when some people put on reverb at 5 or 10% on a pad synth...to "demo" it. Totally useless.
This is the engineering version of Bach at a full church organ playing a two-part invention: you're floored at every gesture, yet you realize it's nothing compared to what he and his instrument are capable of.
There's something haunting and beautiful about the raw sample. It feels like Jeff is present there when he stripped down all of the engineering.
...that's what I felt too.
It is something to listen to a complete pro while you have not a single clue what he is talking about. But you know he is right
I never clicked a link faster than this one. Andy Wallace talking about recording Jeff Buckley, yes please and thank you.
I always wondered how Buckley's guitar sounded so ethereal, knew it was reverb but didn't know it was many types mixed together, Andy Wallace did a stellar job 😌 🎧 💫
But here's a mystery: I saw (and heard) Jeff Buckley live (Tuesday, 21 February 1995 in Berlin) - and he sounded just as ethereal! Live! Never before or after did I witness a guitar sound as mesmerizing as his.
@@tobiasmeissner1967 that sounds like a great gig :) I've watched the Chicago one on TH-cam and agree he does have a similar sound live, there's a part in Hallelujah just before the main riff starts where the guitar has an almost carousel like quality which I've always found lovely
@@alexanderwood3465 Carousel is a good description. And when you were IN this room, it sounded as if every note was a little diamond raining down on you. It's difficult to describe: like crystals, but in patterns or waves. And then: his voice, tearing through the crystal patterns like through a curtain, but not cutting, more like connecting. I know I sound like a madman, and no, I didn't take drugs, I never do. It was just a unique experience.
@@tobiasmeissner1967 don't worry mate I see sounds in a similar way so I know where you're coming from
@@tobiasmeissner1967 beautiful description
SOOOO... We don't know what reverb, what amp, what compression, how many channels, what mics, what guitar, what EQ, etc etc etc. Other than that, great video!
Tele in a fender (I’d hedge a bet that it’s a Princeton) but other than that we don’t know indeed...
Guitars
• Fender Telecaster USA 1983 for lives performances (with Seymour Duncan Hot Lead Stack in the bridge)
• Gibson Les Paul Custom 1874 for studio
Amps:
• Fender Vibrolux, for very clean tones
Effects:
• Alesis Quadraverb, a digital multi effects. He uses a Taj Mahal Reverb preset modified
Mics:
• Neuman U87 in the amp (front and back)
IMHO, you can get a similar sound on others guitars. I use a Strat with bass tone at 4 and treble tone at 7. You can try to get PTB and 7-tone (Neck/Bridge) mod
@@SolamenteVicio you’re missing an SPX-90
But all together great list - Cheers & Happy Holidays 🎄
@@SolamenteVicioOne more reason to buy a vibrolux
The reverb he's using (or at least the one he used on the original) is the Alesis Quadraverb, in case you're interested. It's still surprisingly inexpensive on the used market!
All the bumps of the frets left in the take. As it should be.
GO FORTH AND MAKE SOULFUL RECORDINGS, LEAVE IT ALL IN THERE.
Gonna be a sad day when we lose this gem of a mixer. The music world will have lost a legend.
Thank you dear Andy Wallace. I’ve always loved the ethereal forlorn call of Jeff Buckley’s guitar playing. This explains it all in plain English. Covid watching in Hawaii 10/320 😷🤙🏼
Geniuses both of them
“Cracking mix Gromit!”
This man should record audiobooks.
This is awesome. I would love to hear more about that whole album, specially the overall sound of the song Grace, the violin doing staccato in the second verse, the tone of the toms, the and of course Jeff’s voice.
Andy Wallace has such a delicate ear for all of these subtleties
Please, I need JOHN MAYER in this, maybe with Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
Imho Hallelujah aint the best track in Grace, the remarkable thing is how they filled the space with so little elements...
I would honestly be more interested on how mixes like "So real" just feel like they keep growing and growing 😲 they obviusly had to cut frequencies each time a new element was added, but it is so perfectly done, you only hear more and more layers 😍😍😍😍
Is this the Andy Wallace who worked on Chaos A.D
I love teles because the neck pickup can sound such as a celestial harp
I've read that Jeff didn't use the Tele on Hallelujah. (But yes, Teles can sound magical!)
@@heldmusic He used a semi hollow I think for the album version.
This is why I can’t trust guitar players. They be like rosewood boards sound darker than maples. “Sir the entire guitar was different. Different scale. Different pickups. Semi hollow vs solid”
juka421 I just nod along thinking to myself (I have no idea what you’re talking about)
Matto it’s like someone saying “I love the floral notes of this incredible red wine”. And you responding “it’s Trader Joe’s two buck chuck white wine”
How do you even learn what all those knobs and buttons do..? And how do ever come to a decision on what to choose... it’s mind boggling
I am by no means a production student but I have done a little bit of production on my course and a lot of those knobs and buttons do the same thing but just for a different track. You can put multiple different effects on different tracks so like he talks about short length reverb and long length reverb, with producers like him he will have different reverbs on a lot of different tracks to work out the best sound.
andy wallace and terry date are national treasures. sometimes you can just tell when someone's a great person and they bring that to music in a huge way.
I'm struggling a little with the last piece of advice he gives. Or rather, how to implement it in the box.
If I used one reverb, and then sent various instruments to it. How would I EQ the send, without applying EQ to the source sound, or the reverb itself?
Send the send to a separate bus/channel and EQ it.
@@RobHaccou This would be an extra step to accomplish fundamentally the same thing as just placing an EQ plugin above the reverb. In both cases the EQ will be applied globally to ALL instruments arriving at that send, not just a single guitar. I am actually not sure how you would accomplish what Andy is saying, it's a great question. Even on a real SSL there is no place on the patch bay that I'm aware of to grab a single instrument on its way to an aux send. Only thing I can think of would be using the small / monitor fader as your send and switching the EQ into the monitor path, but then you forfeit the EQ on the channel path.
Great question and it's actually easier to accomplish in the box than on a console. In Pro Tools let's say your reverb aux is picking up signal on bus 4. Any instruments which you want to go straight to the reverb with no EQ applied to the send just get sent directly to bus 4. The guitar Andy is talking about would get sent to bus 5, which would go to a separate aux with only EQ on it. Unlike your other auxes whose outputs go to the main mix bus, the output of bus 5 would be bus 4. Hope this makes sense.
@@daddyzhoam This is exactly what I mean!
@@RobHaccou Yeah after I typed everything out I realized that's what you could have meant. I really have never heard of anyone doing this let alone on a console but at the same time it's Andy Wallace yknow?!
Genius Jeffrey and genius Andy. Great pairing of true excellences
Jeff Buckley a musical genius.
The telecaster was made for Jeff he made it sound like nobody else. An Icon of our time.
i look at this big analog thing and im like man that looks so confusing how do i know what any of those controls and knobs and switchesdo???? it looks so complicated but then i see that they are exactly like the knobs and sliders i use in my daw and my plugins so i know exactly what everything is and its not complicated at all lol.
so he started a dinosaur park AND mixes jeff buckley's guitar? man, some ppl are so talented!
Oh my god, one of my favorite artists of all time! This is priceless to me! Thank you.
I just finished recording my new album with Jeff Martin from The Tea Party and he knew Buckley very well. We stayed up late a few nights in the studio and talked about Grace. It was a dream come true for me 🙏
Thank you lord for this blessed video. Amen
this great taste-guy made history as well as the greatest and more celebreted musicians
I love this. I hope he does a video of silverchair's guitar sound
Andy is a genius!!
Sacred text. What an opportunity. Thank-You.
I wish we could clone Andy a million times.
you ear... god gift 👍❤ love from nepal
Is the tape running too fast? Or did Jeff Buckley tune his guitar a quarter tone (approx) sharp?
He used to play in 432 Hz
@@David.G. That would make it lower in pitch, though. Not higher. I was thinking maybe they sped up the tape for sonic reasons. No idea really.
Jeff probably tuned the guitar by ear and it got a little higher than standard
@@nachovaldivia8 It's possible, but I don't consider myself to have very good pitch, but I doubt I would be THAT far off if I tuned my guitar by ear, and Jeff was a genius... Anyway: I am sure there was a piano in the studio. And tuners existed in the 80s. In most cases from the 60s-80s when the pitch is off it's because they experimented with the tape speed for emotional effect or to changes the tempo.
aronhidman1 hey man chillout, we’ve all tuned guitars sharp before. I mean yeah Jeff was a genius but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have dumb little moments. Also yeah the tape sounds a little fast
Lovely tele sound. Sure a versatile guitar.
I've never subscribed so fast. I hope there's more
Wow I was lucky enough to see Jeff live in Wolverhampton uk
Must have been 95' as he did a tour of the Western downs, from Bath, Stratford, Birmingham through Manchester and finishing in Gleneagles, Scotland.
Young folks, this is as close as you can come to watching Picasso paint, a true master at work.
You can also just watch the documentary "The Mystery of Picasso" by Henri-Georges Clouzot which literally shows him painting for like one hour...
i'd love see him talk about "king for a day fool for a lifetime" by faith no more. he produced that album.
That’s Matt Wallace. Not Andy.
@@m2productionsonline it's andy wallace..
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_for_a_Day..._Fool_for_a_Lifetime
matt did the other FNM albums..
Alesis Quadraverb Taj Mahal preset
this man is actually a wizard that turns knobs rather than casting spells, same thing imo
Thank you David. I’ll stand by this for my defense of my position on full albums over singles.
In full album sequence mixes are allowed to be houses. Different rooms and hallways, different surfaces. Are their ghosts in the house? There’s a basement....fear
This song shared time with other songs on the album and there became a presence. A spirit that printed into the work. Good on you.
theres something thats so "official music industry" about these videos. which is weird to think bc the"industry" now is ppl making music on home setups
Good call. I get all of the same sounds Andy’s getting here in my Logic Pro X set up in my home studio.
Thanks... a bit inspiring though... whatever I had plans for, I guess now I will be fiddling around with my mixers and such for the next few days... and waking up the springs in my fender twin... Cheers
Thank you so much for this. We helped to sell this Telecaster through VintageandRare.com in collaboration with Chelsea Guitars in NY some years ago.
It was recently sold again to Matt Bellamy.
@@peterball6097 Yes by our friend Matthieu Lucas in Paris.
If you love Jeff's music share it with the world ✌ ❤ 🎶 🌎 👏
The guitar is so beautiful on this song.
When will Andy Wallace have a MasterClass?
He has done many MWTM Seminars and he has many long tutorials on our website: mwtm.com/wallace
This is the only cover of this song worth a damn. Everyone else's attempt can SUCK IT!
Ya,.,,,I agree...then can suck it big time...ahaha
🖤
Is the studio in Woodstock gone now?
It's a home now
So did he record he record the guitar DI and stereo with two mics in the room with the amp? And then later send the DI to two different reverb returns and blend the DI and all the three different reverbs all together?
this is a master magician doing magic on top of magic
Any guitarist want to create this tone watch Paul Davis video
Andy is the original Architect from The Matrix
How did he mic up the cabinet, I see two guitar tracks and an DI, what were the Amps and mics?
so does that mean he used 3 reverbs on one guitar?
Loved Grace since I bought it the week it came out, so remember Andy’s name from the liner notes - but never heard/seen him until now. Fascinating.
and here we are, folks...at the wise corner of TH-cam
OH MY GOD, this feels like an early birthday present
okay who put this on "Every KennyBeats beats breakdown" playlist
So which one is he using ?!? All of them ? And what's the "Printed reverb" ?? This is just confusing.
Printed is the actual reverb that's on the original mix. He's attempting to emulate that sound using plugins
A Printed Reverb is when you are working on a song in the Studio and you find a Reverb or an Effect that is really magical, the Engineer will 'print' it on to the Tracks of the Master Tape. Sometimes this is just for reference and sometimes this would be used for the actual final Recording. This makes the magic easy to recall for when the time comes to Mix the song because the Effect will be exactly the same as what you had when you first cut the Tune, since you've committed it to Tape. Now, the instrumentation of this particular Tune is so sparse that you have the luxury of printing each Effect on its own pair of Stereo Tracks. In the early days of making Records, the number of available Tracks you had to work with was limited so Engineers would often print the Effects along with whatever Instrument they were Recording, very often on the same Track. Of course you had to be very careful in your decision making and use just the right amount of Effect, because you couldn't remove it if you added too much. This is why Engineers are trained to Record Instruments Dry and add the Effects later in the Mixdown, process, but many great Engineers and Producers have ignored this rule and trust their gut instinct, as long as it feels right in the moment. Many of these same great Engineers know just how much Effect to commit to Tape from years of experience with Recording Live to Stereo or directly to Disc. This a lost art that most new Engineers never get to learn. Another instance of when you would print an Effect is if you need more Effects than you actually have, so you could use the same hardware over and over for different things by printing the Effects. These days with virtually unlimited Track counts and total recall of nearly every parameter and Mix move, we don't tend to worry about these problems.
Sad....the number of buffoons coming in here to get a thumbs up by questioning this man's skill as a producer/mixer! Fools!
Always such a privilege to watch the greatest of their art in action! Andy Wallace is one of the few that I consider as bigger than his art, he's a legend! Best Regards from François in Montreal, Canada! 🎼🃏🎶🎵🙏👏👏👏💯💯💯🏆🌠
Hello from a fellow montrealer. Stay safe now that we went red level for covid.
@@jimmysupafly1547 Hi my friend!! Nice to meet a fellow Montrealer here! 😁👋 Yes it's crazy, my son just went for a covid-19 test this afternoon, he is sick for a few days now and myself I am, but not that much, we'll see!! The effect of the covid-19 on the music industry is huge. But there are opportunities that are opening too. More and more, artists accept to do remote music productions so I associated with some producers of different countries to make music for artists remotely and the formula works really well. Artists also want to mix and master themselves because of the restrictions of going in studios so we are teaching that as well. Gradually more artists will want to make the whole process from their home, especially the fast-growing category that I call the "social media artists" which is the new model of "music star" of 2020, and the covid-19 situation will expand the popularity of these artists since the music fans can not longer assist to music shows.
@@themagicianofsound yes two of my good friends are signed musicians and were touring before Covid hit and now have been doing weekly shows on Instagram to stay sharp. I've noticed others as well. What makes great entertainment at home for us and mind you for much less money but it still really makes you realize how important that live music in a venue is. I wish musicians nothing but the best in these hard times and want them to know we really appreciate them taking the time to stay connected with their fans and fully intend to get back to concerts when we are allowed.
@@jimmysupafly1547 I 100% agree, about live performances, in days when music is free, it is difficult to make revenues with streaming as 1 millions views pays a musician generally between 2,000$ and 4,000$. Who gets millions views among artists to be honest... So yes live shows are critical for those who really want to earn money strictly from their music. Music has never been hit so hard in history, especially that we have no idea how many months or even years this situation can last.
Andy Wallace should mix my sweetheart the drunk
“The Duke” Andy Wallace
Mixed Hybrid Theory and Meteora :)