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 🙏
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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 🙏
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!
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.
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 😷🤙🏼
Wasn’t he already in retirement whenever you wrote that comment? I know he has come out of retirement at least once to mix a record, fortitude by Gojira.
@@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? 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That's is a really cool insight to use 3 different reverbs on the same project, it think this technique dials a different characteristic to differentiate the presence of each instrument on the mix.
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!
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.
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.
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”
the long reverb had some pulses in it when he paused it, this gives it the cathedral bouncing of the walls effect, I went to a catholic school in the middle of the city, so spent a lot of time hearing music and talking in large cathedrals.
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'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?!
@@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.
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?
Getting to hear the dry guitar track really does lend credence to the story that Jeff recorded Hallelujah on a hollowbody. (Despite what a lot of people think, Jeff didn't use the Tele on everything on Grace... or even very much at all, by some accounts)
If I recall correctly, he had three electric guitars in the road, his tele, a rickenbacker 12 string and a les paul. Would appreciate any links to info on what guitars he used in the studio 👍🏼.
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.
Available exclusively on mwtm.org/aw-hallelujah
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
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😂 💯
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 🙏
This is one of the best sounding records Andy ever worked on. I still use "Dream Brother" as a speaker checking reference.
Me too
Andy is so warm and well-spoken. Class act all round.
"...not to irritate you..."
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
Buckley was a vocal hero AND a guitar hero!!!
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.
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
I've worked with a lot of producers and mixers, but nobody is as cool, kind or talented as Mr. Andy Wallace!!
I never clicked a link faster than this one. Andy Wallace talking about recording Jeff Buckley, yes please and thank you.
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
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.
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
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.
Andy Wallace has such a delicate ear for all of these subtleties
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 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 🙏
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!
The telecaster was made for Jeff he made it sound like nobody else. An Icon of our time.
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.
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.
Geniuses both of them
Sacred text. What an opportunity. Thank-You.
Genius Jeffrey and genius Andy. Great pairing of true excellences
The man who made soundmix for Nirvana's Nevermind. A legend!
Oh my god, one of my favorite artists of all time! This is priceless to me! Thank you.
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 😷🤙🏼
I have listened to most of these tracks in high res and the sound is amazing. really is some of the best sounding hi res tracks I have ever heard.
Gonna be a sad day when we lose this gem of a mixer. The music world will have lost a legend.
Wasn’t he already in retirement whenever you wrote that comment? I know he has come out of retirement at least once to mix a record, fortitude by Gojira.
The guitar is so beautiful on this song.
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.
I could watch these videos for hours
this great taste-guy made history as well as the greatest and more celebreted musicians
Great to hear any instruction at all from Andy.
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.
I've never subscribed so fast. I hope there's more
Man getting reverb right is some complex artisan shit
Andys work is how i test a speaker. if its sounds good on that i know i can trust what i'm hearing. the man is a mix genius
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.
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)?
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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
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Damn, he must be in the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame!
@@cremetangerine82 Definitely !
@@IndexFossilchannel
Is he?
That's is a really cool insight to use 3 different reverbs on the same project, it think this technique dials a different characteristic to differentiate the presence of each instrument on the mix.
Andy is a genius!!
The guitars sounds like a choir in a church bouncing through the halls. It's wavy like travelling in a room
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 have no idea what i just watched but i enjoyed every second
“Cracking mix Gromit!”
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.
This man should record audiobooks.
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.
Is this the same andy wallace who mixed Nirvanas Nevermind?
Yes.
Yes
What always gets me is how deliberate everything he does is. I'm sure he has moments where he improvises but everything he does has meaning behind it.
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”
Thank you lord for this blessed video. Amen
this is a master magician doing magic on top of magic
OH MY GOD, this feels like an early birthday present
He looks like a john williams of Sound Engineering
Looks freakishly like Hemingway
@@jayrobb9 I see Santa Claus.
What a fantastic man. Mr Wallace! 🙏🏼
Lovely tele sound. Sure a versatile guitar.
Fascinating to get an insight like this - thanks for sharing
love that tone on that track
the long reverb had some pulses in it when he paused it, this gives it the cathedral bouncing of the walls effect, I went to a catholic school in the middle of the city, so spent a lot of time hearing music and talking in large cathedrals.
Jeff Buckley a musical genius.
How did he mic up the cabinet, I see two guitar tracks and an DI, what were the Amps and mics?
Is the short and medium room reverbs actually stereo room mics or is a setting on the 224?
Wonderfully insightful!
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'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?!
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...
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
yes!
beautiful stuff.
Thank you
Andy is a legend
This man is a jewel¡¡¡. Thanks for that. Belive it or not I Iearned A LOT
Miss you Jeff.
Is Andy working with a stereo guitar track to be able to pan left it right? Was wondering how he was able to do that if the signal was mono
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.
Great instructor!
Best video of the day
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?
Getting to hear the dry guitar track really does lend credence to the story that Jeff recorded Hallelujah on a hollowbody.
(Despite what a lot of people think, Jeff didn't use the Tele on everything on Grace... or even very much at all, by some accounts)
If I recall correctly, he had three electric guitars in the road, his tele, a rickenbacker 12 string and a les paul. Would appreciate any links to info on what guitars he used in the studio 👍🏼.
@@bhupashp4091 the Les Paul was his personal guitar. The Telecaster he was famous for playing was borrowed.
Is this the Andy Wallace who worked on Chaos A.D
Jeff was a multi instrumentalist but a prolific guitarist. Wonderful sound engineering.
so he started a dinosaur park AND mixes jeff buckley's guitar? man, some ppl are so talented!
Excelente... As always.
nice, very thorough
I recall reading somewhere that the actual guitar he used on the final recording of Halleluyah was a Les Paul and not a Telecaster?
Really? Doesn't sound anything like a Les Paul. Maybe too much reverb? ;-)
If you love Jeff's music share it with the world ✌ ❤ 🎶 🌎 👏
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.
Que suerte tuvo este hombre de disfrutar de Jeff.....
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..