Find Vance Powell recording at Blackbird Studio in our latest Start To Finish series www.puremix.net/start-to-finish-series-with-vance-powell-the-weird-sisters-blackbirdstudio.html
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Amazing ! The comment you made : "The higher quality at which you experience music the more emotional it becomes". I think nobody could have said it any better!
I still can not believe that I had the opportunity to see and experience Blackbird for myself. Coming from South Africa I never thought that would happen. It really is a magical place.
I was lucky enough to be on the electrical crew that did the grounding grid on this studio!! This place is amazing! They thought of everything. And they are correct when they say about it felling like a house. Amazing job John!!! I remember going to their house and taking down the chandelier in their dining room over the table. Martina had bought a beautiful medallion for the ceiling! Then we put the chandelier back up. Talk about such pleasant people to work for… Nothing like having a great time during your day time gig!
You guys should open a museum. It really blows my mind! I can't even imagine every being able to use all that gear in a lifetime of recording. I wish I could fly over from Australia just to attend The Blackbird Academy and soak up all that knowledge. Unreal!!
It's good to see you John, still kickin after all these years. Your work is music is quite remarkable. In late 2022 still wishing you all the best - Mitch Hylton (basketball and baseball) circa 1970. Peace brother.
First 2 minutes and I’m thinking I was basically neighbors with these 2 guys. Being from Miami, Ok, I was a stone throw away from Joplin and Galena. Now, I am again here in Nashville. I love all those areas. These guys are legends!
they are so used to seeing otherwordly mics that they didnt show us the classic beauties we all wanna see haha. incredible studio. seem like great guys too
This gave me a whole new appreciation for these two guys. I mean, how can you not love how excited John is, how Vance has all that shit memorized, how they pulled all this off even. I really wanted to see the Copper Star power thingy.. That part blows my mind.
Visited Blackbird Studios several years ago. Did a studio tour. When we was at Studio C, we listend to a unpuplished mix of Thriller by Micheal Jackson. It was an unreal expirience. That whole Tour blew my mind.
Went to a summer camp here, this studio is immaculate and everything is thought through and laid out perfectly. Being in the control rooms and getting to handle all those rare microphones and just everything there in general is so cool to experience. They do scheduled tours I believe, I’ve gotten to look at both their facilities. Definitely worth checking out tho if you’re a sound fanatic like myself, it’s unreal.
LOL! @13:55 I love these guys! "Where's the property line? build to there!" haha.. Same thing with the mics..."want a 251?...here's 35 of em..have at it!" Damn it if I don't LOVE "bigger better stronger faster". World Class studio and engineers.
This is not the first time I heard the story about Gordon and the mic stand, but for some reason, I still get goosebumps when I hear it. Absolutely astonishing.
ive seen a number of great blackbird docos and you have totally impressed me with this one....words fail me...if only the world had a lot more people like john and martina in their field.....what a world it would be!!!!!....outstanding vid..cheers...Ty from s.oz
Love that you mentioned TL (Tim LaMoy). I got to work with him for a few years at IEP (became PRG) in DC. He had tons of great road stories and spoke highly of John McBride.
Amazing video! Thanks for sharing this important part of audio recording history and seeing that this book of history is still being written and far from being closed. I'm blown away by some of the narrow minded comments of some peeps here - crap i just answered my own question!
ive always seen that as a problem with these modern studios. back in the day, you needed all this equipment to make anything half good, and the price of studio time was adjusted accordingly. now fast forward to today, no one needs all of this, yet studios are still buying it and using the fact that they have millions of dollars worth of gear as justification for charging $1000+ a day for a b room and maybe use of an engineer thats so out of touch with todays sound. studios are really only set up for the people already making a decent amount off music and record labels. most of the hits in the last 10 years have come out of DYI home studios not some $3m set up. rick rubin been making hit after hit, out of his back yard studio so all this extra gear is just a gimmick at this point. most of the producers i know, arnt formally trained and have 0 idea how to use any of this. give them FL on a 20 yr old laptop and they will make a diamond hit in 15 mins.
I don't know if it's the universe talking to me or it's just a happy coincidence but I want to share this with you. You seem like a straight up guy......I wrote a couple Beatlesque sounding songs a few months ago that sound like the early Beatles. I just finished watching Peter Jackson's "Get Back" and then I happened to get on RU-vid afterwards. I'm not sure why, but this awesome video showed up in my "suggestions" panel to watch. So I clicked on it and I was intrigued from the very beginning and watched it in it's entirety. I was floored to find out that you have the mic's from the Beatles rooftop concert and that you were so heavily into the Beatles. I was in the front row in 2018 when Geoff Emerick gave a very compelling presentation and all the "back room" stories about recording the Beatles albums up until Abbey Road and he graciously signed my "White" album afterwards. Sadly, he passed away about 6 months later. If you are interested, I'd like to share the songs that I wrote. I'm pretty sure you might like them. In any case, what a terrific walkthrough of your Studio "Complex". You are quite a guy. Rick
@@markussagichnicht5494 Scenario; a client's tagalong brought it in, an engineer intercepted it, politely explained the signal shouldn't pass thru that piece ... lack of transparency, etc. Engineer retrieves a superior piece from their legendary inventory, and all involved happily proceeded thru their session. Schooled and somewhat embarrassed, the client simply left it behind, and loved every minute of Blackbird.
@@FOH3663 yes maybe. but blackbird should not store such a sh*t besides some other legendary high end equipment. maybe removing the upper lid of the case and using it as an ashtray would be acceptable :D
That was all-in-all awesome. Thank you very much. On a side note, I do not believe that "Atmos" will establish in any household but in cars and some home theatres. Sadly, people do not even have a nice stereo system at home anymore
Love this tour but the absolute Hallmark of the facility, Studio C's acoustics, wasn't explained very well at all. Yes, surface detail about the wood diffusion elements, the 10,000 page document, the steel beam support, etc. ... aside from the very cool anecdote about the blind individual, nothing about 𝙬𝙝𝙮 the approach they took was the 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡 approach. It would've only taken a minute to explain... inspiring others to focus on "the room" ... as it is vital. Still, dig the content. Much appreciated.
I thought it seemed pretty self explanatory, they said it makes it like mixing outdoors without walls. The absorbers aren’t like diffusers, diffusion scatters. These gulp up the waves kill them
@@christopher6673 Well, outdoors without boundaries would emulate an anechoic space... that's not at play here. This is exactly why I expressed they missed the mark explaining, ... sharing the premise of the acoustic path they pursued. It's genuis in both effectiveness and simplicity. Engineer Massenburg and acoustic physics guru D'Antonio, examined each 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙩 breakthru in studio acoustic's evolution over the past several decades. Beginning with Hidley's designs incorporating flush mounted mains and bass trapping from the 60's. With Newell, Hidley went the Non-Environment approach in the 70's, around the same time Davis' introduced LEDE room design. The 80's Hidley brought us flush mounted Kinoshita monitoring in Non-Environment criteria w/infra-sound sub extension. Then Massenburg intros RFZ rooms.... Then Dr Toole illustrates data that perceptually sidewall reflected energy can be beneficial. Ultimately, D'Antonio and Massenburg implement Blackbird's Ambechoic environment ... whereby the space operates diffuse down to 100hz, w/trapped, tightly controlled decay below that point. For 50+ years, designers have addressed sidewall energy in a progressively advanced manner driven by greater experience and understanding. Blackbird is such a step forward in this regard... I felt it warranted greater explanation.
Amazing facility absolutely aw inspiring ⁉️ You do know you can get most of that gear is now available in plug-in format you should really check it out 👍
I know you guys are like the best in the world and Im basically just a decent live guy but I’ve found kind of shockingly so, that when ive board taped shows, sometimes ive gotten the best sound of some of the crappiest gear. Just to say that one set of gear, that an engineer is tasked to work with can be made to sound acceptable or amazing even if it does limit a vision of one’s creativity. Sometimes i wonder if the restrictions of old gear and studios made better music. Sometimes I wonder about gear. Like if ill ever hear anything like all those vintage mics.
*the facility is AWESOME! .............................. However, all that gear and facility and you all resolve it into PROTOOLS..... Yall do not think something is missing? Cause i question any ones HEARING that can not hear what it does the sound.*
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