Also, the first song is so mediocre that it was an utter insult to that console. Fascinating, when people get ahold of such gems they usually throw sh*t at it instead of making real art.
I liked the bands more as they went on for sure! Also, be realistic y'all, it's not like they're paying the bands. for these vids i feel like companies just get people who are local or friends. I would not have used any triggers in the recording of the drums (unless you could show the sample module running through the console) but it’s not my vid, and overall it was still solid. Big ups to all the engineers who were able to get the console back to working order :)
@@Nooely sounds exactly like plugging into a regular interface into a DAW and you’re not gonna convince me or most of the people in the comments otherwise
@@freepoco2 well yeah what exactly did you expect? It’s broadcast quality transformers from the 60s, they won’t sound a lot worse than new ones. What made the old records sound ‘old’ was the vinyl pressing and all the compression that was needed for the stylus to not jump out of the grooves. Tape also doesn’t make records sound old, you can scan it in perfect quality. Also back then, radios and television recordings made everything way noisier. The console sounds beautiful and the mixing is better than on any of the Beatles records. The musicians that played here, well yeah, that’s subjective if you like them
@@mirkomarkovic3438 sorry but if you think this console sounds worth the price tag, maybe you need your ears checked. You’re paying for vibes only if you buy this.
After reading all of the comments, it looks like most listened to this audio on either a laptop or a cell phone 😂😂 If you don’t hear the depth of the frequency response, the incredible clarity of each instrument without getting in the way of each other, a musical top-end warmth that doesn’t let one shrill frequency through, the deep and bouncy bass response that never flubs or blooms/booms on certain notes in a way that overpowers the speakers you’re listening through….. If you can’t hear any of that, then you need to find yourself a set of studio quality speakers, headphones, or earbuds. Music recorded through a piece of the highest quality should be reproduced with high quality.
I bought the Abbey Road album in ‘69. Out it on my dads dynatron radiogram. Wow - the silences were black, the bass deep and fast, vocal presence - sounded way better than previous albums, and still sounds amazing today on my ‘high end’ set up.
Amazing work on a beautiful console. I liked some of the performances, but it also really shows how great gear is just one aspect of how a great recording is made
Missed oportunity, dear Reverb team! Why didn´t you show all the knobs and talk about technical details (the built-in compressor, EQ etc.) and instead torturing us with these mediocre to horrible "artists"?!
@@p0llenp0ny I disagree, I liked the performances. Just cause it’s not quantised or auto tuned to shit, it’s live. Either way, why be a dick when the people involved will be excited about the video and reading the comments? You’d have to be someone who thinks your own taste is more important than crushing a bunch of young musicians performing live with no masking under a fair chunk of pressure. I think that sucks. Glad I don’t think like those people.
As my producer friend says, most people just don't get it. Marvelous effort that makes me so happy. It must be worth a fortune to the right people who purchase this Console. Where it goes I don't know. My thought would be USA.
Is Rosalie Cunningham playing Paul McCartney's bass that she bought of him? That would be appropriate! Very cool they got this back together and are using it to record again.
Great historic piece of technology. Missed opportunity to tell people how they work in detail and showcase how the different controls impact the sound. Instead, you recorded some mediocre bands and artist into them that basically sounds like everyone else. People who are interested in the stuff want a technical breakdown of the equipment. Not...this.
I hope it goes somewhere that will use and take care of it! I also wonder if the restoration process and fabrication of new parts means they could build more?
Only just started watching this, but I'm wondering if this ended up in Mark Knopfler's British Grove Studio. I think they have something similar-or maybe precisely this one.
‘69. That’s 55 years old. Try not to make us oldies sound older than we are. Btw, those compressor’s and eq’s are definitely that console’s secret sauce. Drums, bass & guitar especially sound great. (I assume any triggers are going through the console too right? I sincerely hope it goes to a really really good home that suits it well.
Please dont sell this to some private collector where it'll sit in some guys collection and never get used again. Sell it to a studio cos the old girl deserves to be used to make albums.
Sounds like its missing a lot of the high end and it for sure doesn't have a very open sound. Then again that could just be bad mixing. Just wanna go turn up the eq at around 3k+
If you're going to showcase such a pristine console, the producers of this video could've hired better musicians with decent songs. This music is HORRID! If nothing else, run a DAW into it with good musicians and songs and do a real mix from a good engineer.
The ‘Waves Abbey Road REDD’ plugins were modeled after these. Abbey Road gave Waves access to this console to study and create plugin emulations and they are currently on sale for $35.
@@mirkomarkovic3438 I disagree. I usually don’t buy into plugins like that and I had them for a few years before bothering to use them, but was pleasantly impressed with them when I did.
No. The REDD is a totally different console. That was a tube console (used on most of the other Beatles Albums). TG consoles were the move to Solid State from tube for a cleaner sound, but they still sound a bit like the REDD in vibe. I believe the actual Abbey Road album used both of them, but the mixing was done on the TG.
How on earth do you get all of the music sounding so poor with all that awesome gear? Never mind the poor songs and music but even the mixes are terrible...
A console won't make any studio famous at this point. Or keep them open for that matter. An artist with money will buy it and have it at their own studio, like Kravitz and Grohl have done.
You probably should have gotten Dave Grohl or Jack White or someone with feel to record on it for this video. Hell why not fly Andy our there just to solo a bit with a drummer.
In my own small way, I've recorded bands on various sound desks, from vintage Neves to Soundcraft to Calrec to SSL. Vintage Neves, great, SSL, crap. But it became about huge sound desks, automation and computerisation. Engineering excellence in terms of sonic quality went out the window.
To the people saying the artists sounded bad, that’s what this console does. It makes good bands sound great and bad bands sound awful. It’s a super honest console and that’s what makes it great
oh FFS sake. more Beatles wankery. they would have sounded the same with a bunch of 57's and any old condenser into Garageband. they were a BAND. it was all about the performance.
Don't like the music recorded.. so kinda lost me there.. If you're not recreating something previously recorded on it then there's no point in the video.. there's no reference
i dunt get tit , . ppl or slaging of a bands like boo jussed cos dey boing boing boing n bleep bloop n dat ,. , but dat is wat dey ale sownd like i tink is dat rite
