Make Your Mark With Adrian Younge 

This guy is the pure definition of fly

Much respect for the lone producer/artist.

Today's R&B artists would shit themselves walking into this studio. This studio will truly test their actual talent. Only the OGs would come in and feel right at home. And may complain that it ain't big enough. His studio is the new Motown Records.

I nodded every 3 seconds..everything he said, resonated

This made me get off my butt and go back into the studio right after the video ended. So freaking inspiring!

Jesus that was incredibly inspiring he is one hundred percent correct

Always liked SSL. My favorite studio in Birmingham Alabama is Bates brothers recording. They have an SSL board.

Adrianne young my homie from back in the day!!! Bridges!!!!! He kept the freestyle dance scene rockin in L.A.!! Congrats his band for movie Black Dynamite, workin with Rza, producing doing his thing!!! I remember him as a dancer, Dj n dance event promoter back in the day!!! I would love to do something with Adrianne music n dance wise. Bring back tha funk!!!!! #adrianneyoung

This dude's got swagger for days. I dig what he's layin' down. Find YOUR sound no matter what THEY tell you to play or how to play it.

Wow. The coolest guy I’ve never heard of.

bro this man is in my head!!!

The interview Adrian Younge deserves!

I still have my Yamaha MT400 and 2 track Tascam cassette deck. That saturated sound you can’t recreate with plug ins. Adrian is my dude 💯

"Learning how to be dope on wack equipment" 🙌 💙💯

Damn, listen to that guy when he speaks.

The organic growth of his philosophy is trial and error with vision. Everything he says resonates because the heart of what he says has the weight of experience driven by curiosity and imagination; zero hubris. Respect. This is a man you can trust with your art.

A team is always better than a one man show, cause in a team someone focuses on music writing, someone on recording,someone on mixig etc etc.... the examples are countless out there... but hey once in a while a magnificent talent appears....

One of the best in the "make your mark" series! Let's all step up the chemistry and be the best versions of ourselves" thanks Adrian and Vintage King for this content! excellent!

Coming from someone who's deep in the "making music in a whack little home studio" phase. This is super inspiring.

Very nice old Vintage studio🤩😍😎💪💪💪

Adrian Younge knows what he's talking about. I really liked the fender videos about his instruments and this one is excellent as well! Thanks VK for this nice interview

I absolutely LOVE the Op Amp Labs board that he's using. It's an all discrete, minimum signal path console that sounds very good. I also love listening to him talk about music... all great stuff in this video!

I love this genius, he was the revolution i needed in my workflow.

just gonna say this as a multi instrumentalist but also a bandleader that it's really great to do totally solo records especially because there's nobody to organise or deal with (as Adrian correctly point out) but also there's a real magic to recording to tape with a live band and everyone's giving it their own flavour and the camaraderie that occurs in those moments... the stress of screwing up a taped take while six of your friends were killing their performances is large but also fun.. so make records both ways :)

I need to meet this guy! This sound is what I’ve been trying to achieve in my productions.

Much Gratitude.

Everything Adrian said here rings so true! Would love to hear some all-ribbon mic recording sessions Adrian! That’s my thing for some time now and people come to my “studio” because of that. RCA Variacoustics on overheads for drum set is incredible! Stephen Sank is my mic guru, his father John Sank designed the RCABK 11 thought to be the best ribbon mic of all time. Look him up! He will use original RCA ribbon stock and has all the original tools and knows his stuff!

Nice, I have Always felt. Don't follow the trends, learn to follow and hear whats inside of you. It takes time......if your in a rush then follow the trends. You Have to be a student of the craft

My favorite producer! Thank you!

This is pure gold.

This is really great! Thx for sharing your story and concept. Some juice for my studio project :)

I'm sharing this with EVERYONE I know

Wow... Im glad I found this guy. 😌

An authentic artist

Been following Adrian for years, so much respect the for him. He inspires me to keep pushing forward with my own sound.

What a DOPE interview!!! Inspiration

✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 Very inspiring!!! I love music keep it up Adrian

I'm feelin' this. I started with a 4 track recorder and a Casio keyboard with four 0.7 second sample banks (bridgeable into 2 x 1.4 sec). Now I'm playing live bass and programming / sequencing the drums.

I really love this guy, he’s a wonderful eccentric freak of the purest sense and he really got to the essence of the original hip hop sound . His records have a sound all to themselves..he reminds me of a modern Joe Meek , Audio Alchemist Genius comes in many forms and Mr Young has it in abundance

Such a humble guy....

very inspirational 👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿

100% musical wisdom!

I love this dudes work!!!

Much respect to Adrian, this is some amazing inspiration here!

Wow great video What a humble dude. He is so correct about listening to the instruments Great stuff guys

I love this guy he's such an inspiration! "Let the rekkid spin!"

I agree! I'd rather use a tascam 4 track cassette and a Alesis 3630 compressor than protools and plugins

Definition of a real musician.

What a collection! I feel where Adrian is coming from a lot and will check out his music. Thanks for sharing, VK!

Truly inspiring!!!

I LOVE his creation process theory!

Adrian is such a HUGE inspiration. Talent is one thing; however, THE WORK ethic to achieve the impossible...that is ineffable.

Like a rousing call to arms, to up your game.

This Guy is incredible, and doing a really noble thing musically by not taking the easy way out. It’s crazy how scarcity can create innovation and teach you what to do and how to win with what you have 💯💯💯

Loved this. The man speaks some truth.

I'll redo my WHOLE sample collection over in his studio and I'm using MANLEY gear.

Great attitude and awareness

you and your Studio are UNIQUE !!

Loving the new album, so great to get some insight into the process

Wonderful video, great to see you put in such devotion and time. I went through the same attitudes and excuses with musicians, and although not "successful", I built a studio, and recorded all the instruments and vocals on my last CD, with the exception of some keys parts my niece recorded. Thanks for making this! I kind of validates my own situation. Sincerely, Joe Logsdon, RU-vid.

Love how he explains music

Really amazing and inspiring video. Smashing work, Adrian and Vintage King!

Take notes children this man is giving you trade secretes

Amen, Brother!!!

Excellent. Dope studio

Words of wisdom !

6:20 this happened to me when I read somewhere that bbc had left a bunch of equipment on jamaica broadcast bussines and jamaicans star using all this analog equipment And that how dub and reggae were born

My man. Respect

Thxxxx Sir !!!

so real!!!

truly inspiring. I been wanting to learn keys, even subbed to an online keys program, so I can replay basslines and samples.

This is my cat...Respect ✊🏿

So dope

KING & LEGEND

Yes sir! 💜💜💜🎵

Damn. I needed to see this. Very inspiring.

Great interview 👌🏾👌🏾

This guy rocks.

great thank you

Mannnn Adrian is soooo dope!!!!

I just noticed no computer

Wow that was nice

This was inspiring AF.

Really really cool. 😎

I loved the Chemist metaphor

dope!

thank u for this video

I completely understand

Damn, I don't even know who this guy is and by the end of his video I'm a fan of his and want to listen to his music

This Man is the Truth!

Just my perspective, I think being able to have "technology" is a great thing too, just because you have unlimited takes, doesn't mean you have to. I have this song that me and my production partner initially put together as a demo for another singer, and my production partner recorded scratch vocals, and they were not perfect at all, because that wasn't the intent since someone else was going to be singing that song. I thought instead of letting the song just sit and not be used, I remixed it and remastered it, and I released that song on my current album, and although not perfect people still like how the song came out, and others not so much, but if you do the best you can do, be it analog or digital or both, ride the process out sometimes, you never know what may happen. The point is, you can have all the bells and whistles and not have to go in with a a microscope all the time. Either way it goes, the end consumer weather it's perfect or not, are always gonna have something to say. We know that we can always do better, right? Everybody sees the same piece of art differently, and at that point, just let it be what it is going to be. I had to learn that myself mixing and mastering things for my company, because like Adrian said, you gonna hear things different than that mixing/mastering engineer. Learn the tools, it's not gonna be perfect all the time. I took band in middle school and high school, never ever even thought about being a music producer, never thought about starting a band, never thought about the music entertainment in that fashion or hey I want to do this or that in the music industry, NOT UNTIL 10 years after I graduated did everything else just kinda fall in place. I started my music production/artist management journey in 2002 because of one of my best friends asked me how I felt about starting a company with him, and everything was learned as I went, there was no tutorials, I am self taught as well, we all have our own paths to the music, just as long as we stick with it, that's the important thing.

Want to chill at a speakeasy with this man.

I like this guy! You could say he da “Illest”

❤️

What’s that amazing looking piece of gear at 0:09 ?

It’s crazy cause I never took band class in school and I know the guitar bass and piano all the instruments connect you can apply each skill to the others

A true GOAT

Expressive mane

The man is a music genius. I love mutil instrumentalist

An opening with spats gets an automatic like👍🏾