Daniel Lanois - In The Studio 

The way he plays that steel guitar so beautifully and smoothly, makes it seem like the guitar is a sentient being on its own and is howling its story. 5th time I’m watching this now, stunned every time.

if you are wondering, don't be skeptical when he starts calling out the notes, just keep watching. this isn't a jam in the classical sense: it's his vision for what the sound is going to be, so he is acting as conductor. the way he uses the console halfway through is pretty slick.

I love all the natural light. Not a screen in sight. What a lovely, warm, and inspiring space! It must be a joy to create there.

This is amazing audio wizardry.

Daniel Lanois music is so interesting and I believe he has reached the highest level.. Hard for me to explain but It sounds like the Canadian forest, the steel towns, the bayous, the deserts. It’s a landscape that triggers emotions and it’s a genre per se. To make a comparison when I listen to some jazz records I see the hustle and bustle of NYC, the streets the lights of a town that never sleeps. 🙏

Wow, his use of the mixer as a dubbing tools is amazing. Channeling Lee Perry, King Tubby techniques and completely taking it to another place.

Picturing Arthur Morgan sitting in front of his tent on a peaceful summer evening. Enjoying a cup of coffee with his stew by the campfire.

Him and Eno together! A match made in heaven

Put me in a such a good mood

Pure magic in that studio. So inspiring to watch this video. The sounds triggered here. The movements of the musicians. The stirring emotions from the strings of that steel pedal guitar. This unfolding beauty. It's intensely inspiring. Daniel Lanois rocks! Thanks so much for this one!

Divinely gorgeous! Like a clear night in the desert...✨✨✨

Daniel's movements are very soothing, and obviously it fits his music perfectly

This is just magical to watch!

Wasn't that aware of this guy until I watched a few Eno things on you tube recently. I love slide and steel guitar, but also electronic "treatments" to use an Eno-ism. Steel guitar is an instrument I want to try. I used to have a big bunch of reverbs and tape echos with assorted guitar pedals, and the sounds you can get with such simple (compared with modern stuff) equipment, are remarkable. The very simple device on steel guitar that makes a big difference, is the volume pedal. Very nice stuff.

Awesome Musician(s). Great director. Really nice work FACT mag.

truly beautiful

This is so great... He needs to produce one of my songs.

Awesome to watch the process and the music is hauntingly beautiful.

This is the guy who played the guitar in Deep Blue Day by Brian Eno.

With the amazing rocco deluca too ❤️💙💜💖💚♥️🎵🎶🎼 xxx

I’ve been devouring his ambient albums with Brian Eno. Such an interesting sensibility built on the infinite tone and harmony generator that is the pedal steel.

golden sounds. wicked.

Those vintage Neve consoles..... magic stuff

that sound is so beautiful omg! would never thing someone looking like that would come out with a sound like that. amaaazzzing stuff though regardless!

Very authentic setup driven by a knowledgeable man!

Amazing !

Wonderful !

lol at the guy lighting up! 4:37

I was just playing Goodbye To Language here at home, and earlier in the day, Apollo, too, when I found this... "Yeah Man." (7:28) Quite !! And Rocco The Rock - cool! The dudes are so chilled - nice. So glad I found them both.

I love Daniel

Very very cool. My co-worker turned me on to this disc "Goodbye to Language" and at first I was thinking "oh great..more New Age atmospherics". Then as the music progressed, I was drawn in...almost hypnotically. Does this music contain hidden binaural beats that can induce altered states of consciousness? Anyway, I love this and am listening to it over and over again. There is a lot going on here and it is very moving. The melodic structure ropes you in and transports you in to the core of the record. Amazing work! I had a conscious OBE after listening to this music for 2 hours. I'm a guitarist and amateur composer and producer.and been playing guitar and keys for 40 years...and want to jam with Lanois and Deluca!

DOPE!!!

so good!

Oh, they can try, but they'll never replace THIS MAN with a plug-in.

I miss you guys. I hope to see you again one day xxx

In his studio the mixing console is a musical instrument as much as a pedal steel guitar is.

Holy sh**

This guy's a magician...

Really cool video! I'm just curious what was on Dan's hat that he had to cover it up with tape

oh yeah this is the good shit

Check out his tiny desk concerts live performance on youtube as well or whatever it's called. That one blew me away. Calling out the notes is a little different, still classic Lanois sound though, what with the slidey steel guitar and such. Amazing producer and musician. One of my all time favorite artists. His latest lp Flesh and Machine is a solid album too imo.

lol.. Dude burns one for the mix..

Hermosa musica. Sigan creando sonidos espaciales.

Roast a hog leg when the mix starts. Ace!

Gonna need 3 Neve consoles, boys.

Yes 👍🙏

Genius

anybody noticed his cap front covered with a tape? :)

What is he clicking with his right thumb on the pedal steel?

I wonder what that thin, little taped on stick Daniel flicks with his right thumb is? Is that a digital “clicker” that provides some sort of marker on the audio track?

i love how he has to tape over his hats logo

shit just got real

I don't get. Why always the ball cap? But I sure recognize this guy's genius throughout the soundtrack of our lives

Lanois loves some scrape guitar.

so fasenating

look up sonho durado by him its his best peice i think...

Any idea what that little thumb trigger he uses is? Taped on with blue tape? I've seen him play this guitar so many times, but I've never seen him use what looks like a thumb trigger.

When did Lanois become a biker?

Feels like I"m listening to an unreleased Red Dead 2 End Credits track.

Awesome climate

I got so drunk at his place one time it was embarrassing but notheless had a great time !!haha Danny boy

What's the switch that he touches every now and then beside the lap steel? What is it for?

What’s the right thumb clickey thing on Daniels slide guitar?

This man has forgotten more about music, than what emerging artists will ever learn.

The Homie with the glasses looks like Cowboy from Full Metal Jacket.

WOW

What does that little thing do that he is hitting with his right thump while playing steel guitar?

What does he keep tapping with his thumb of his strumming hand?

"I will do nothing with my right hand". . does something with his right hand. . .haha

Whats the little switch he keeps flicking ?

what is that thing he jeeps clicking??

Someone please tell me what the little stick is he keeps hitting with his right thumb, I must know!

Check out the similar work of steel pedal player Bill Stafford.

Anybody know, with certainty, the exact gear used to create the sound starting @ 2:11? The exact model?

What does Daniel keep thumbing that thin piece with his right thumb?

очень круто

Haven't found the answer to this below, so if you know: What's the steel pedal switch that he touches every now with his right thumb and then beside the lap steel? What is it for?

was this tune in Red Dead Redemption?

Who is the person in the sleeveless t-shirt seated with the mixer and recorder remote?

who is the other guitarist?

I want what hes having.

Rick Rubin who?

Wat instrument at the biggining

🤍

"not good to drink and play this instrument" ...lol

no computer, just hardware

"staggeringly beautiful"? Yes. "Americana"? Not so much - he's French-Canadian.

Wonderful! (Apart from that annoying alarm sound - totally unnecessary imo)

Wow, that pedal steel is about is about as nice as it gets. Prob $25k

bad rythm track. really bad. but magic steel guitar

stunning!