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The sounds BT can produce and make so clean, crisp, clear and impactful is beyond human. I have loved his style since a kid and im in my 30s now and still continues to impress me with what he releases. Really deserves to be recognized with the greats of han zimmerman, Ludwig Göransson etc.
I love Brian because hes not only a superb musician and the worlds most sought after producer but he absolutely loves everything about his craft. The gear all the nuts and bolts. His enthusiasm is infectious.
Ooob howvi wish the camera work was actually in sync with bt pointing at his gear. Utterly outstanding gear collection. Also BT created flaming June, one of my favourite tunes of all time.
Just listened to This Binary Universe. Some of the best electronic drum tracks i've heard. All the details of a real drummer with deliberate small glitches and pauses and fx used to make it sound better. Mixed perfectly. All sounds so clean
I remember reading an article in the '90s where BT went totally into the box and was raving about it...at the end of the day, ITB always comes back to hardware. PS, whoever was filming this...good lord.
Such a well organized monster studio. For me this guy has instant cred when he speaks highly of both the Chroma Polaris and the JX8P which many people dismiss. He knows.
Incredible. Seems like a full-time job just to keep up with the maintenance and understanding of the setup. I don't know how i would function in a 'lab' like that. I kinda think that if i had the fundage for something like this, i wouldn't. I'd want maybe 5 synths, a simple single rack of effects, and that's about it. But, i'm too old to learn new stuff at this point! Can't deal with all the tech issues that i have even with my far simpler setups over the years.
Same. Tried switching daw but at this point I really don't see the need to learn a whole system from scratch once again. And even in the daw I limit the amount of plugins but rather learn the few that I use really well. But hey, just slap a preposterous amount of side chain on every channel and you're done. Apparently.
Yeah, I seriously doubt he really needs all of those synths. It's more of a collection, whether he'd admit that or not. He might fire up a vintage synth every so often for a type of sound that it's good at making, or just for the fun of it, but there is little that the vast majority of them could do that his modular synths couldn't (and then some), which is why he usually uses those. That's still an awfully nice and LARGE collection to have, though--one of the largest private collections I have ever seen. Given that, I'm kind of surprised that there isn't an EMS Synthi in there somewhere. If the goal is to be able to produce just about any kind of sound, then you'll probably want one of those in your arsenal. There are some others I can think of, but they're even harder to find.
I would love to see a video that explains how he manages the wiring and connections (MIDI, Audio, Power.) For anyone with a large collection, this becomes a difficult problem to solve.
I have a large synth collection. Using 4x MOTU midi xpress XT units, 64 channels of audio io via 2x apogee symphony units, and APC power conditioners. Not a difficult problem to solve at all. Just a costly problem to solve.
Super cool of you to share your pride and joy with the RU-vid World. Your knowledge on the subject in focus is incredible! I will listen to your music. Thanks again! So many incredible toys and layouts🎉
THAT..... WAS........ UTTERLY........ ENTERTAINING for a synth addict like myself and BT student since 95 Love and peace to you guys from Prague (via UK 15 years ago) Edit..... er cleaning, dusty pots??? I would imagine along with that amazing design it's probably dust proof in there too 😉
Glad BT mentioned the importance of ‘playing’ with gear and letting it take the lead. I do this regularly with my small collection of outboard gear to keep it fresh.
BT on another planet. I worked for the label that did his first release. Met him once. Was always the standard for what I thought a producer should be. Hi bar baby ☝️
Damn... my hero... Gotta love the Voyetra SPG on the 4 Mhz IBM PC; this is Diehard from the forum, keep your music alive and keep writing in 2023, you are such and inspiration to so many :)
Thank-you for sharing this! I love BT's selection and implementation. Having had two professional recording studios myself, I know how difficult it can be to get everything right. I would've like to see more of the console. Does he have a fader/DAW controller? After seeing this, I'd like to meet BT!
If you ever meet him. Slap his hand hard and tell him to chill a bit with all the side chaining. It's so much overkill it's unbearable and doesn't pay tribute to all these beautiful synths, on the contrary. Let the synths do the talking don't you agree? Thanks in advance.
@@christdolphin69 it sounds like he's saying "F4", but not sure why. He probably just stumbled speaking trying to get through all the synths in a hurry. I have a demo of the Korg DS-8 on my channel, but not that exact one that I sold to BT.
I clicked on the vid because I saw a "Quasimidi Raven" in the thumbnail and "BT Studio Tour" in the title - Whaaaat!? Then he mentioned he used it on "Mercury & Solace" which is my alltime fave!
6:04 Joy Division had this ARP Omni 2, but by the time New Order was rolling, the replaced their Omni with an ARP Quadra which has the same string section. New Order didn't use the OMNI.
Obviously these are just show pieces. No ones patching synths on a step stool, breaking their neck and fatiguing their arms with old LCDs you can't see in the blue underglow of the rope lighting and no one is unplugging and dismounting these to do so. It's just a museum, built on nostalgia and powering a brand. Most his time now is spent as a salesman of software or hyping NFTs.
@@Winter-zv1dv I figure he does make use of his extensive synth collection on occasion, but like BT said himself, most of the work he does with synths is with his ARP 2600, Roland System 100M, Obeheim SEM, and Eurorack system, plus a few other synths he has near his mixing console, like the Midimini (rack-mounted vintage Minimoog Model D board retrofitted with MIDI) and Yamaha DX7. The rest are only powered on individually (actually by section) when he decides to use them. So yes, for the most part, this is a museum--a really cool environment with which to surround the working part of his studio.
You're right, there are not one but *two* Moogs: a vintage Midimini conversion in a rack at 9:34 and a new (reissued) Minimoog Model D at the bottom that isn't shown well but mentioned at 14:31.
I would never want something like this, what's the point, such a mess? You can do pretty much everything within a computer, considering all sounds are compressed for streaming at the end of the process these days! Cleaning all that stuff must be a nightmare too. I see this as a vanity project, but realistically, to use in actual music production, pointless when you can open a VST of pretty much any synth these days and get extremely accurate representation.
I totally agree, although i would keep space for maybe 2 or 3 physical synths to just play and jam with. Id only use the pc as a basic sequencer but im older so its a comfort zone for me.
Uh, so much stuff. I think I saw Yamaha CS1X, you can replace that junk for Yamaha An1X; and I didn't see Roland Jupiter 8, but with all this synths you don't need it; you have Roland Juno 60 and the whole army of other synths. I would be lost with so many options, haha.
Love the gear run through, and have big respect for the enthusiasm, but tbh, when he talks, I'm not always getting where he's coming from. Noticed that initially when was guesting on Sonic Talk.
This is a great example of gear acquisition syndrome, I am happy with my Arturia keylab 49 ,daw and slew of vsts. But seriously I hope paid the house off
Good point. All this gear is amazing and would be fun to play, but honestly. The right person could produce the same music with a daw, controller, arturia v collection and some other vst. This is impressive though if one has the money.
Yeah, I hope he didn't take out a home equity line of credit to buy all of this stuff! He's been collecting for many years, though, so he probably got most of this stuff while it was still relatively affordable, and it has only appreciated tremendously in value, so look at this as a smart financial investment rather than a frivolous (because who really *needs* all of these synths?) expenditure.
@@haro82 Like BT said himself, he mostly uses a handful of modular systems for his work. The vast majority of the synths in his studio aren't even powered on unless he decides he wants to use them, and in practical terms, there are few sounds they could make that his modulars couldn't. Now, his Eurorack system is quite impressive, but looking at the vintage modulars that he said he uses the most, there is only an ARP 2600 (legendary for good reasons, but still not the most powerful), a small Roland System 100M (just one case is pretty small for a 100M), and a small Oberheim SEM-based system (they can get a lot bigger than this!). These are great, but I'm just saying the main synths he uses, as a set, aren't exactly mind-blowing, especially given the sheer scale of his studio collection as a whole. Put it this way: I've seen significantly smaller professional home studios that pack more variety and raw synth power than this one. One example is Vince Clarke's studio. As impressive as it is in terms of scale to people like us, it seems small and limited compared to BT's at first glance, but what matters, in practical terms, is precisely what he's got. In addition to the basics (e.g. 2xMinimoog Model D, Juno-60, Juno-106, Jupiter-8, Pro-One, Prophet-5, JP-8000, et al), Vince has 2xARP 2600, an ARP 2500 (more of a beast than its already large size would suggest due to its switch-matrix system), a large Roland System 100M in six cases, a towering Roland System 700 (sounds different and much "fatter" than the 100M), an EMS VCS 3 Synthi (bigger than it looks with its pin-matrix, and very unique sounding), a Serge Modular (another unique-sounding synth), an E-mu Modular (analog, not an Emulator sampler), a large SEM-based system, a PolyFusion Modular, a Korg PS-3300 (unique and very powerful semi-modular synth), a Synton Syrinx, an Oxford OSCar (yet *another* unique-sounding synth!), and an RSF Kobol (small keyboard synth with morphing waveforms for, you guessed it, a unique sound). He also has a small but useful Eurorack modular system (Doepfer A-100 series), just to provide even more variety. That's just off the top of my head. He has "only" like maybe 50 or so synths, total, it looks like, but his is an extremely eclectic collection that can be used to produce just about any sound imaginable. Of course, what really matters is what one does with what they have, and the Arturia V collection for like $300 on sale should realistically be more than anyone really needs, in terms of synths. Both of these guys' synth collections are overkill, but they sure are neat to admire. My point is not to "measure dicks" in one way or another, but it's interesting to see how these collections differ in focus.
BT, I can sit in front of the sea with my guitar and sing to the breeze, I can sit on the top of a mountain watching the eagles go by, with my guitar and sing.There can be a power outage in town and I can still sing and compose with my guitar, you with all this you can't even carry it in front of the sea, you can't even play on a mountain top, let alone turn this on if you didn't have electricity, as John Denver once sang with his acoustic and six strings ..."Country roads, take me home...To the place I belong, West Virginia, mountain mama...Take me home, country roads..."
Haha Klaus Schülze from Tangerine dream?? Maybe you meant Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream? You have a nice big music room with great gear! Have a nice Christmas! greetz
