Behind the Recording of Led Zeppelin IV

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  • čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
  • Led Zeppelin's fourth album was sound of the band cementing their place as one of the biggest hard rock bands of all time. Songs such as ‘Stairway To Heaven’, Rock N Roll’ and ‘Black ‘Dog are true rock classics. This is the story of how it was recorded and the techniques and equipment used.
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Komentáře • 96

  • @topfloorstudio2684
    @topfloorstudio2684 Před 3 měsíci +6

    I had this album on cassette, wore it out and now I just searched my cd collection for half an hour and *found* *it* !!!.... I'll be jamming this all day tomorrow at work!!

  • @houdinididiit
    @houdinididiit Před 3 měsíci +7

    First vinyl album I ever owned as a kid. God was it special. Still is.

    • @toranada
      @toranada Před 2 měsíci

      My first Zep album about 1976.

    • @xXSHOCKCOLLARXx
      @xXSHOCKCOLLARXx Před 2 měsíci

      Got that one for my Christmas and it still my favorite in my vinyl collection

  • @w.harrison7277
    @w.harrison7277 Před měsícem +2

    My all time favorite Led Zep song is Kashmir. That's the song I play when I've been climbing up Mt. Shasta for hours and in the zone of suffering. For me Kashmir is a song about the trials of human suffering, like crossing the Gobi desert.

  • @andrewfiddes446
    @andrewfiddes446 Před 2 měsíci +7

    i seen the song remains the same film at a party and was hooked went out and bought iv the very next day i became a zep fanatic love all their albums equally

  • @sunlightpictures8367
    @sunlightpictures8367 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Such an amazing album. It was the second album I bought as a fledging guitarist in the early '70s. Here's a fun fact: Headley Grange was haunted, according to Page in an interview. When they first arrived, he ran up the stairs to claim his bedroom. In the room, he saw an apparition that sent him running down the stairs and he was quoted as saying, "I'm not going back in there."

  • @spumpstein9374
    @spumpstein9374 Před 3 měsíci +7

    The references to putting the harmonica through an old Fender Princeton amp mention one speaker missing (implying more than one speaker was stock) and the use of tremolo effect. The late-1950's tweed covered Fender Princeton shown has only one speaker (as do all versions of the Princeton), and it did not have tremolo. Tremolo was introduced to the Princeton in 1961, during the 'brown panel' era, when the Princeton went from a single-ended, 6V6GT design to a push-pull design requiring 2 6V6GT output tubes. The 1960's Princetons were very different animals from the 1950's tweed Princetons.

    • @AllenGarberGuitarFun
      @AllenGarberGuitarFun Před 2 měsíci +1

      I don’t know where they got this reference for the way the harmonica on “When the Levee Breaks” was recorded. I’ve never seen any interview referenced with anyone in or around the band that mentioned this Fender Princeton business.

  • @aschule5684
    @aschule5684 Před 3 měsíci +7

    This album was my introduction to Led Zeppelin in my ninth year of life in 1972 just before my tenth birthday.
    Already very affected by the music of those times and very much a lover the Beatles and such, this album changed my life forever. It was magical in so many ways and began a very different path on my musical journey. From the echoes of Robert's vocals and the riff of Black Dog all the way through to the thunder of Levee breaking it shook my soul in a way no music before it had. It was a spiritual experience, Led Zeppelin IV will forever be "that album" for me!

  • @jamesrae7597
    @jamesrae7597 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Zep 3 has always been my favorite. That acoustic side is brilliant. At the time Stairway to Heaven was played continually 24/7 and to this day I can do without that song.

  • @messi8921
    @messi8921 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Great album.
    Brilliant videos, I hope you do every Zeppelin album 😂🤘

  • @whiplash415
    @whiplash415 Před 8 dny +2

    We need a led zeppelin 3 video on this

  • @jamescarlucci9867
    @jamescarlucci9867 Před 8 dny +1

    Extremely interesting, this is the greatest album ever recorded in my opinion.
    I was always intrigued by it, thank you for sharing it...

  • @mattdylan664
    @mattdylan664 Před 3 měsíci +4

    thank you for taking the time and effort to research compile and bring all the stories, photographs aand music together and taking us on a journey through the process of the makings of one of the most innovative and brilliant albums ever laid to wax!

  • @AllenGarberGuitarFun
    @AllenGarberGuitarFun Před 2 měsíci +1

    The Vox Phantom XII electric twelve string was also used in conjunction with the Fender Electric XII on “Stairway To Heaven” from the untitled fourth album.

  • @mccloysong
    @mccloysong Před 14 dny +1

    So much I still didn't know about this. Great research.

  • @TK-fk4po
    @TK-fk4po Před 3 měsíci +3

    I remember hearing this album for the very first time when I was a kid away on a camping trip with the Boy Scouts. The opening vocals and the guitar riff on black dog just floored me. Suddenly Kiss was no longer my favourite band!

  • @duggles4735
    @duggles4735 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I don't think I've run across your channel before. I expected to see the same old tale of magic mic placement on "Levee" whilst leaving out the Binson. Nicely done.

  • @fgsproducer
    @fgsproducer Před 3 měsíci +1

    Great video as always!

  • @randomyank7777
    @randomyank7777 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Brilliant . Excellent post !

  • @glenjamieson2524
    @glenjamieson2524 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Oh so that’s why the guitars on Black Dog sounds like bees in my skull

  • @chumbels
    @chumbels Před 3 měsíci +1

    Monumental. One word.

  • @brianwarner308
    @brianwarner308 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Awesome awesome video man. I have heard this story and read this story so many times and you brought so much new stuff to it that I never heard before and new pictures that I never seen before. Bravo work man I really enjoyed it!

  • @JP-hs6ii
    @JP-hs6ii Před 2 měsíci +1

    I agree that the solo was done on the Fender Dragon Telecaster. (Page has stated so in multiple interviews.) The amp however is probably not the Supro. That amp has a unique sound and the solo sounds different. It could be the VOX AC30 (or 15) which Page is known to have used or some other amp. Page hasn't elaborated.

  • @vinylarchaeologist
    @vinylarchaeologist Před 3 měsíci +1

    From what I could find online, the first version of the Mobile Studio was in a BMC truck (as you can see on the Headley Grange photos). It was only in 1979 that it was moved to the DAF truck.

  • @maxine2798
    @maxine2798 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Bonzos Jensen interceptor featured.

  • @OfficialEvermore
    @OfficialEvermore Před 3 měsíci +1

    Good video!! And nice editing

  • @ProfessorKenneth
    @ProfessorKenneth Před 2 měsíci +3

    Black dog wasn't that song written by Jones? Jones had more to do with zeps songs more than page/plant did. Zeppelin were a great collage band. Zeppelin lV is my favourite record by them👍🏻

  • @danielwhite7380
    @danielwhite7380 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Amazing video and such great, intriguing info. Why would Jimmy plug straight into the board as opposed to an amp micd up? Interested to know the reasoning, such ingenious designs by this man. Jimmy was a monster.

    • @mixingmasteringonline
      @mixingmasteringonline  Před 2 měsíci

      Thank you! He was just in pursuit of something different I suppose. Lennon did it on Revolution too and overloaded the tube desk for that tone.

  • @blairmichaelhogan4502
    @blairmichaelhogan4502 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Jones played mandolin on Going To California.

  • @bob-rogers
    @bob-rogers Před 3 měsíci +2

    The "recorders" on Stairway are a Mellotron keyboard. Probably the same sound tapes as the Beatles used on Fool on the Hill.
    The Echorec is also featured on the mandolin track on Evermore. On the official video they show a photo of the tape box and it says Robert played the guitar.

    • @mixingmasteringonline
      @mixingmasteringonline  Před 3 měsíci +2

      Cool didn’t know about the Echrec on evermore. I think actual recorders were used for the recording and Mellotron were used live to recreate it.

    • @aschule5684
      @aschule5684 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@mixingmasteringonline I believe you're correct, it was actually a recorder on the recording and re-created with the mellotron live !

  • @BIZARBIES
    @BIZARBIES Před 3 měsíci +11

    When the Levee Breaks is a song that I can honestly say I've listened to 500 times. I won't listen to anything else off from 4, but Levee is to good.

    • @Nobodyimportant696
      @Nobodyimportant696 Před 3 měsíci +5

      what’s wrong with the rest of the album?

    • @BIZARBIES
      @BIZARBIES Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@Nobodyimportant696 nothing.

    • @poindextertunes
      @poindextertunes Před 3 měsíci +4

      you’re missing out on a great album sadly

    • @JuniorFarquar
      @JuniorFarquar Před 3 měsíci +3

      That's silly

    • @Nobodyimportant696
      @Nobodyimportant696 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@JuniorFarquar people have the attention span of a household fly these days. to him that’s a single.
      I get it.

  • @owenmiller1218
    @owenmiller1218 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Amazing video. Very informative! What is the background music. It sounds like Zeplin but maybe in a different key. What did you use for the music? Thank you!!

  • @duranjerome
    @duranjerome Před 2 měsíci +1

    3 was their best album

  • @WeaponsEducation
    @WeaponsEducation Před 26 dny +1

    Led Zeppelin put out 4 (Four) albums in 1968, 1969, and 1970. Zero chance that will happen again from any good band today, there are none!

  • @w.harrison7277
    @w.harrison7277 Před měsícem +1

    Its hard to believe Led Zep IV came out in '71. Its hard to believe that if you were fighting in World War II, then Led Zep would be recording just 23 years later. The two seem like radically different times in history, yet only 23 years apart. 23 years ago was 2001, that doesn't seem like a different era, yet Led Zep and WWII don't seem like adjacent eras.

    • @mixingmasteringonline
      @mixingmasteringonline  Před měsícem +1

      Almost unbelievable really Every year must have been like 5 during that period!

  • @CutiePie-hh3gg
    @CutiePie-hh3gg Před 2 měsíci +2

    Kramer's recording and mixing was so muddy it sounded like a record from the 1930s

  • @311superfly
    @311superfly Před 2 měsíci +1

    71? Damn I was born 9/23/1968

  • @DrRock2009
    @DrRock2009 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Looks like a BMC truck outside Headley Grange? 🤔🤷‍♂️

  • @luizjose778
    @luizjose778 Před 3 měsíci

    Grande Led faz do fisical graffitt

  • @Strange-Songs
    @Strange-Songs Před 3 měsíci +1

    0:34 What is that instrument on the far right? Balalaika?

  • @user-fu2mi1nd5l
    @user-fu2mi1nd5l Před 2 měsíci +1

    zep rivaled the beatles with the excellent backmask on stairway

  • @chumbels
    @chumbels Před 3 měsíci +2

    The rolling truck stones thing was right outside( smoke on the water)..I may have botched the quote

  • @markwood3389
    @markwood3389 Před 2 měsíci +1

    2:02 What is "A complete set of Dolbys"?

  • @danielwhite7380
    @danielwhite7380 Před 2 měsíci +1

    What's the track playing in the background circa the 3 minute mark?

    • @mixingmasteringonline
      @mixingmasteringonline  Před 2 měsíci +1

      It’s a tape of demos/rehearsals for the album.

    • @Boleskinebeatz
      @Boleskinebeatz Před 2 měsíci

      @@mixingmasteringonline interesting..where did you find that?

    • @mixingmasteringonline
      @mixingmasteringonline  Před 2 měsíci

      @@Boleskinebeatz this video has it i think plus lots more, czcams.com/video/Jo9PvSWVmdE/video.html

  • @macchiatoultrac6046
    @macchiatoultrac6046 Před 2 měsíci +1

    ZEPPELIN III when???

  • @BCTGuitarPlayer
    @BCTGuitarPlayer Před 2 měsíci +4

    Brilliantly recorded LP. But I'd have paid the extra 1000£ to NOT live & record at Hedley Grange: a dirty, freezing, haunted, rat infested mold pit. But Jimmy did love his haunted black magic buildings...🤷‍♂️

  • @AndrewGrey22
    @AndrewGrey22 Před 2 měsíci

    1:46 - Who is the goddess on the left?

  • @MakingaStink
    @MakingaStink Před 2 měsíci

    I thought stairway was done on a j-200 (beginning)

  • @sabbracadabra8367
    @sabbracadabra8367 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Critics still aren't sure about it. Lol

  • @spiritualarchitect4276
    @spiritualarchitect4276 Před 3 měsíci

    LZ III incredible? Ah... no. Not even.

  • @masterballs8571
    @masterballs8571 Před 2 měsíci +2

    IV is perhaps one of the greatest and best produced albums of all time

  • @CutiePie-hh3gg
    @CutiePie-hh3gg Před 2 měsíci

    Kramer's recording and mixing was so muddy it sounded like a record from the 1930s