Theo Katzman on How To Capture Your Most Authentic Performance in the Recording Studio 

Needed this message today, thank you. Especially when you self-record or self-produce, the fact of comping can set up this trap of endless perfectionism that can cause you to disembody your own voice and take the whole fun out of singing when you're aiming for that final take on deadline. This gives me confidence for today's recording session 🙏

Theo really "Hit the target" here

Theo delivered so many amazing lines in this interview that it's hard to list them all. And, to be fair, Ari did an outstanding job interviewing Theo.

This interview was amazing! ❤

Theo has been his authentic self since at least 19 years old and probably earlier. great to listen to him and heed advice

I see where he's coming from. But I don't really value my performance abilities or my voice, so for the projects I'm working on right now, I'm planning to do a great deal of comping and post. Katzman and the other artists he works with are extremely talented and I love his process for his work. When he works with Vulfpeck, it's my understanding that almost everything is just as it came in on that take, with the exception of backing and doubling and stuff like that. He seems to uphold this practice in his solo work as well. When they recently covered Katzman's "What Did You Mean (When You Said Love)" as "What Did You Mean By Love?" they dubbed Antwaun Stanley's vocals for the very reason he's talking about here. But it was exception to the rule and they even put a disclaimer in the music video about it. I have so much respect for Katzman and the other artists under Vulf Records. They are so, so good at what they do, and if you are unfamiliar with them, I think the song I mentioned before is a great starting point. Theo Katzman's original version on his own channel and the recent cover on Vulf's channel. It's a beautiful song, and both versions are very moving. I hope to someday raise my talents to the level where "authenticity" would be a good thing. I'm not there yet. I think I'd rather write songs than perform them anyway. Theo can do both extremely well.

Goat Ari! With special guests GEEKS ME EVERY TIME! When u coming to Lagos ?bro

Why is there an edit after every sentence?

Its really funny what he's saying combined with the fact that there's like a billion jump cuts.

spoken like a true son of a jazz musician.

Love this

Amazing man, authentic

Say that to some very popular artists today, who will splice 3 different parts of 'a word' together. 🤣😂🤣 Totally down with recording an actual performance. Was literally just discussing this topic with people ❣️👍👍👍💜💜💜

Interview cut 50 times for the shortie 🧐

Love this! I'm 100% in this camp. I'd rather have a great take as an iPhone voice memo than a pretty good take on a Neumann that needs to be comped 15 times

It’s highly genre dependent, comping the hell out of a blues or funk track makes no sense, but not taking the time to make a pop record perfect when everyone else is, is a death sentence

Dude cares too much

Gate keeping lol