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I tell you what Kush audio by UBK has some seriously fantastic plugins, not surprised to see Eric using his stuff. His compressors and EQ's are so damn tasty! You gotta try his Novatron compressor and the Clariphonic EQ. The compressor is super transparent, and you will love the top end of the Clariphonic, so hard to describe but just try it already! Great video Eric.

I still come back to these videos ALL the time! Something I would seriously pay good money for is a full stream of you mixing a song (or even just drums) live and talking through your decisions. It's already great to see the end result, but seeing the failed experiments involved and listening along to know how far to push things would be amazing. Hope you're well, all the best!

Omg omg omg. This top 3 greatest mixing and mastering video! Your knowledge is vast and explanations are clear and consise! Its as if i wasnt hearing music before!!! You my friend are a diamond and this video is gold! Much love and thank you from the bottom of my heart! My friends please go high on the friendly skys and listen to the album, whats going on in full AFTER this video. It is magical and will give u an experience like never before. My mixes have already improved thanks to the IDEAS presented! Your love of music reminded me of me. Many wouldnt understand the sheer gorgeousness you so beautiful covered! Music makes tho; we can hear just how wonderful the masters truly were! Just add a bunch of air. Lighten shit up. Its like these mfs just had a “sound good preset” (obvs for THEIR stuff).

Hey Eric! Would it be possible for you to upload the full REW file for the final room readings, maybe Fuzz measure too? It would be incredibly educational! I'm about to demo a pair of MF4 in my studio this week - cant wait!

Incredible stuff. Anybody have a guess at how many db of GR he might have had going during tracking the vocals? It sounds quite compressed.

Amazing to see how much goes into excellence.

Yo, would you please consider making a video about editing. Like how much you lock things to the grid, when you decide not to edit, when you decide to edit. Guitars, bass, vocals etc. Trying to decide what to fix and what not to fix drives me crazy

The Evertune system only maintains the set tuning (good or bad)… it does NOT address any of the issues (i.e. discordant thirds) rooted in the equal temperament based fret placement.

Thanks sooo much for doing this. I’ve loved the record since 1992. Gotta tell ya, though - I’m pausing the video at 57:35 bc I’ve always LOVED the alternating snare drum sound on this. But it’s your prerogative to change it for this. Thanks again for making this!

Great great stuff thanks for sharing

I had a question regarding using effects when mixing in the passive summing console set up. For example, what would your approach be for sending a vocal to a reverb after it has been eq’d and compressed then automated with the ngLEVELER? Since the signal is being processed and changing level after coming out of the computer, wouldn’t you want the reverb to receive that signal as opposed to sending the preprocessed vocal to the reverb in the computer? Thanks for all you do!

Eric, thank you so much for sharing this stuff with us. These are always full of solid GOLD information. I would love for you to do some more of these tech talks sometime if you feel it!

Amazing detailed video, best online! Quick question though. I am going to build the tube traps from the pipe insulation. Should I also stuff the inside with Rockwool? Would that make them work even better? Thank you.

👍on tuning "up" to the note... if I'm sharp, I'll drop below the note and slide up. The process reminds me of the sport of curling 🥌:) as you're tuning up to the desired pitch like sliding the stone down the ice toward the target. Makes me giggle :) Such great videos! thanks!

Obviously he's covered this but anyone knows what converters EV use these days?

Finally. Something I disagree with you on! I am from the same area as you, the same age, very similar tastes, i.e. all paths lead back to Led Zeppelin. But, I looked into The Shaggs, and yes, it is totally freeform, free expression, and that all sounds great on paper, but…🙉

Entire wall, dude! Much more calm

“There’s just tired old machines” *My 70’s Tascam 90-16 working it’s balls off hours and hours every day* lol

GP9 is usually fine, I’m not sure why you are having a problem with them. I pretty much exclusively use NOS tape (I’m a big 456 guy, I’m not too impressed with the in production tapes out there) and I’ve definitely had some issues with 456 but never GP9

So good to have you back!! Id love to see a Story So Far breakdown sometime...

does eric have a compressor in the drum room chain? or are they just hitting the distressor bus for the compression?

Wow! I’ve only just found and watched this! I thought it was Geoff on all the guitars and it turns out it’s all (or most?) of the rhythm guitar is Eric?!? And the intro sweeping is Steve Ouimette!! My world’s a tad upside down now. I need to know more of who played what now 😂 The guitar solo track Bone Down, who is that then, I assume Geoff? Thank you so much for this Eric.

So the for monitoring you have, is it going into your monitors or how are you changing the curve while affecting what you are listening to? Or was it specific to those speakers/software? Great videos!

It's inspiring to see people doing the music the right way.

Hi, may i ask what the difference between the GB Tracker V1 vs V2 is!?

I'm in a T-Ride group on Facebook, and someone mentioned they had a Pro Tools demo session of a song you put together called "Dig a Hole." Any chance you have that somewhere? I would love to hear it.

Hi Eric. We would love a new update from you. Best Regards Thor Ivar

28:39 snaps 31:34 breath 34:00 overheads 39:18 overhead snare 41:47 snare tone 45:29 kick drum 46:47 kick sample 48:40 loop drum 50:10 cymbals 54:21 bass 59:50 clavinet 1:04:20 clavinet 2 1:06:07 strings 1:16:00 vocals 1:19:06 led vocal 1:27:13 bridge vocals 1:30:10 bgv buss 1:32:40 bass sc delay 1:33:01 drum buss 1:34:51 string buss 1:38:20 mix set up

1:17:16 Feet 🤤

Hey Eric! what a great episode! I was on ProStudio Masters' site today, supposedly HIfi tracks straight from the studio, but it's obviously often post heavey handed mastering. I was wondering if you could make a list of your recent records ( or older) that are self mastered,with no loudness in min? records 100% to your taste, no butchering by a label ? thanks !!! Best

Hey Eric, do you know the album Enderness by A.A. Bondy? For more of that modern day Bill Withers vibe. Super underrated album. Spencer was amazing! Hope to one day hear all the other material you mentioned. I’ve probably listened to Kissing Tree 100 times now.

This is amazing 🤩 Is this available for sale?

Hey Eric, your content is very helpful and I really value it. Thank you! When the time comes for another video on tracking, I would really love your perspective on how you address multi-mic phasing (of course on drums). If I use All-Star as an example, You have mics facing all different directions. 3 kick mics up front and a K/S mic facing opposite, then a tube 47 + 2 OH and a Coles as distant mics. I’d love to try out your techniques, but how you make this all cohesive makes my head spin. I know you’ve done drums mixing before, but a video directly on PHASE relationships is something I havent had taught in detail. Thanks if you can get to this!

With the melamine foam are you not concerned that they have formaldehyde in them in regards to a health risk ?

And what was the difference in your actual sound what did it improve ?

Edit: It was a dealer at a very well known retailer that told me unfairchilds were no longer in production. It was a direct email to me.

How do you feel about others ripping off your Unfairchild design? Stam cough cough

00:00 General Chat 41:42 Kick Drum 1:16:31 Snare Drum 1:27:49 Toms 1:39:23 Room Mics 1:52:32 Percussion 1:57:41 Bass 1:59:40 Guitars 2:20:04 Keyboards 2:26:20 Vocals 2:53:40 Music/Vocal Bus (Mastering) I love that drums get over an hour and bass gets under 2 minutes haha

Great Work!

Eric Valentine is the fucking goat. I appreciate the hell out of these videos.

This is so funny - we're all obsessed with fancy plugins, and yet here's a pro sculpting pretty good drum sound using pretty much only gate, saturn, decapitator, some eq and some basic waves compressors...

Thats tape compression

For a Q&A: Would love to hear your view on how to mix and record Strings & Horns :). And when is it again that you insert your limiter while mixing?

Hey Eric, I know this is unrelated, but I’d love to see a video (if it’s something you’d be interested in of course) where maybe you could talk to some of the Louder Now era Taking Back Sunday guys and go over some of the other tracks on the album aside from MakeDamnSure. I love that album and your production on it is incredible! Would be super cool hearing you and Fred talking about what went into some those songs, or maybe even touching on tracks that didn’t make the final cut.

Hi @mrwev we uploaded a video of a studio build in Australia and made some VPR panels, would love to know what you think of the room ? ua-cam.com/video/enaDJalOx-E/v-deo.htmlsi=agIOjPQWs_iLZ2lP

Hi Eric, love all your videos. We made some VPR panels for my studio , check out our little video ua-cam.com/video/enaDJalOx-E/v-deo.htmlsi=wAOFLhxEzpN9pjA5

I wanted to ask about your EQ philosophy. Not in relation to this song, but in referencing something I've heard you say quite a few times over the years: "I have to carve out space for xxxx". In super dense mixes, you always do such an amazing job at representing the entire frequency spectrum, with what seems like no "holes" top to bottom - almost like white noise. Is there a strategy or process with that? In other words, if you carve out 6db of boxiness on a drum buss at 500Hz, do you think "I can give that space to the Wurlitzer"? I don't imagine that's something you consciously strategize on, but I'd love to hear more about how you avoid buildups in certain areas and achieve such a nicely distributed frequency spectrum. Thanks! And I really appreciate all the time you take to share!

Hey Eric! Your efforts in documenting your build and giving us access to them is just phenomenal! I salute you sir! I had a questions - I wanted to know if Ill get similar results if I use a rockwool pipe insulation instead of fiberglass. I dont have access to fiberglass tubes here in India. Would much appreciate your thoughts! Anybody else who has experience with this - please let me know your thoughts

Wow!! How did I miss Spencer Lee? What an incredible voice. And what a totally amazing track

The drum sound is just brilliant, I've seen you do this type of processing a couple times, but man, never gets old.