i know fred is always doing these kinds of characters as a parody but somehow deep down i truly believe he's playing himself but slightly exaggerated 😂
@@frankmarsh1159 He literally calls it an echo chamber. Which if you follow the Abbey Road model should be a big open concrete/tile lined room in the basement with a speaker at one end and mics at the other. But I think that's all part of the joke.
women love a guy who's passionate about something. Just take reasonably good care of your health and appearance, have goals, and know how to be a good listener
Dude in all honesty the drums sounded freaking next level. I dont know who there sound engineer was but damn, people would spend a lot of money to get that sound.
im convinced the sound engineering for this skit was intentionally done at a recording engineer's level. When he does the "no no no no" beatles vocals, he's moving his head mic to mic and his voice is actually panning through the audio left and right relative to the mics.
@@crazycats535 Yeah it's just a completely standard Aeron chair. What's extra good though is if you look up photos of Electric Lady Studios, they actually are using black Aeron chairs.
the punchline is essentially that jack white was able to build and create his own studio label, record and cut everything himself and source all the vintage gear he wanted. almost like a mythical figure for audiophiles who follow him
I love how he says: "I just put some new equipment at the recording studio. Bring your beer." He says it in such a typical microphone voice, you know the type of voice radio hosts use.
That would be on the B side of the Pet Sounds album... ya know..where the weird 'unreliable shirt' goes that only hardcore fans enjoy! Hardcore Pet Sounds fans.
Dude, when the echo is going on and Lance goes to stand up and he makes him sit down and points up like, "you can't leave now, listen to this symphony".
"I've got all the top quality stuff. I just need the top quality people. I just gotta attract that ONE important artist, but it hasn't happened yet. It's a matter of getting people up dere, youknowwhatImean."
Imagining being alone with someone in the studio & they’re playing a tom & staring at you like Fred is at 1:50 & it kills me, so ridiculously hilarious
Just watched the 2016 Jakob Dylan documentary "Echo in the Canyon." I recommend watching that and then watching this again...it will make this sketch funnier still.
I love that they got Jack White to play in this and just stand around. Like Brad Pitt's cameo in Deadpool: an intentional waste of immense talent in both cases, and it's so damned good!
I love how NO ONE on Portlandia ever gets hip to themselves. It is the unspeakable sin. After that you have to take the next plane to New York, and the dream of the '90s is dead for you.
Canyon, canyon, canyon, canyon, canyon. Gets up to leave, shoves him back down like something new is gonna happen. Lol. This character is my favorite of Fred’s. Gavin Quinn
I spot the Wurlitzer 200A electric piano... famously used by Supertramp! Not only that, but to the left is the Fender Rhodes Stage 73, used by Steely Dan and other groups.
I like that this bit works on multiple levels. On a high level, it’s a funny exaggeration of an audio enthusiast who has gone all in on his passion. On a low level though, he’s referencing real world equipment and effects that are legitimately cool and are probably well respected in real world audio/music/studio communities. That echo chamber was clutch.
JACK WHITE, y'all. Fred, good gawd....this gets my goat every time. I worship Jack white as my lord and savior and "brother" and Fred, boy, I love you, too
0:33 Love how he has what looks like a Shure Beta 52A (for a kick drum) placed behind him on the kit in a spot that makes absolutely no sense. You know Fred did that on purpose just to see if other studio geeks like us would notice.
