Sylvia Massy: Unconventional Recording
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- Master recording engineer Sylvia Massy shares secrets behind some of her infamous recording experiments, from piano demolitions to potato filters, and her new favorite tools. www.linkedin.com/learning/pat...
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What a passion she shows us!!! A true artist with a creative/intelligent open mind...:) My deep respect for Sylvia!!
Sylvia Massy is a class act. Totally undersells herself in every interview. Amazing talent!
Sylvia Massy has made some of the best sounding records of all time, love her work sooo much, what a legend!!!
admire her attitude towards recording, might have to adopt some o that. Also the comments about her not being economical - apparently she likes to use fairly budget mics. For example, she once recorded Billy Corgan and everyone in the session blind tested a variety of mics on his vocal ranging from mega expensive/hyped to a humble wee SM58 - the 58 won in that particular instance. So she's probably saving some money there towards her piano smashin fund...
Got her book "Recording Unhinged" a couple of weeks ago. Loving it. Some awesome tips and stories in there.
She got me at "I love gear" :)
I just purchased the book "Recording Unhinged" - and immediately became a fan! ❤
She’s awesome - she brings a very cool energy with her, something rare and genuinely unique. 👏👏👏
I love the painted art. And everything else! This is a fantastic and motivating video. Thanks Sylvia!
Sylvia is so inspiring. I say it all the time. While there is a basic standard in sound there really isn't any rules that dictate how we create. Having fun creating should be the goal. You have to experiment.
Sylvia Massey is so inspiring. Beyond the far side of the moon with creativity and talent.
WOW MY hero. Very inspiring person and we need more people like her in the industry. She is the future of the industry, Very engaging speaker as well.
Sylvia is crazy! Crazy good!!! Love her free spirit and willingness to try it all. I play in a Country & Western dance band here in Las Vegas about as far from what she does with Tool and the rest as you can get but what she does and stands for transcends the musical style. Amazing. Come and produce us, we are ready. :)
"He had a shotgun"
OK a shotgun mic
"He started shooting the piano"
Hold on
So much fun and so inspirational. Can't stop watching these Sylvia Videos. OMG!!! I just realized I think I worked with her at Tower Records when I first moved to Hollywood!! I thought she looked familiar. Oh man now we have to work together.
she seems like the MOST fun!! i would LOVE to make a record like this
Love this! Studio itself as instrument! Love the eclectic nature!
She’s my favorite producer! Get her book. It’s great.
Love the way you think outside the box! Cheer to Sylvia!
this woman is very inspirational...and I love her eyes. LOL
I love her "eyes" too! :D
They smile!!
Very cool techniques with impressive catalog. Thank you Sylvia, Guitar Doors Record Label.
I am so happy to find out about Sylvia! Thanks
It's a shame she never produced a Sonic Youth album. Their unconventional, experimental sound with her unconventional experimental approach would've been amazing.
inphanta Yeah, the police would’ve be called 😂
Or make an album on a $3k budget sans computer.
Stanley Kubrick: Making a film is really just having the ability to buy stuff.
Oh yeah, and all that world of knowledge ‘stuff’.
NEBRASKA
@@higbyprigby9648 ???
@@higbyprigby9648 This comment is really really stupid. She's like, the person who's known for using the shittest stuff. She's made plenty of records spending less than $3k, because her bands play live.
cant wait for Silvia massy plugins
haha that could be cool
Waves Potato Filter haha
@Mindaugas Kaminskas All I want to see is the Waves Army Man Compressor. I can get most any sound I want, but I have yet to hear a plugin that sounds like her compressor.
@@joellouisfire I cant stop laughing hahaha
@@joellouisfire I laughed so hard.
She's awesome. This is inspiring.
I'd LOVE to work with her! Wow! Talk about inspirational!
his reacation is just priceless, almost an emotional rollercoaster 6:55
creative genius... love it!
Thank you for the advices!
I don't even know what records she's produced but she's one of my favorites solely because she paints during sessions
This video.. IS.. NECESSARY!
wow, je suis tellement impressionné. Sylvia tu es géniale. I got 5 tapes recorders 1\4 in studer, otari, ampex mono and it's so fun to create with those; youre right.
That was inspiring, thank you!
THIS IS GREAT. i JUST lOVE SYLIVIA AND HER OUT OF THE BOX THINKING! Whats life if you can't shoot a few pianos! Love it just love it!!!!!!
She has a great speaking voice. Anyone else?
Nah... I personally suck.
nope. not me
Saint Jabroni she does
Saint Jabroni Yes..every time I talk I use my speaking voice.
outstanding!
Silvia Massy is amazing !!!
I love Sylvia. She’s a genius. I would love to work with her.
LOVE her!
She's the best, the absolute best
What an amazing person!
I want Sylvia to Produce our album. Love her unconventional style.
we love you sylvia!!
One of the Greats with a great sound..Also A Thumper Custom Kit Yeah!
Excellent!
Amazing lady!
yup,,, very similar,,, great to meet u
She is briliant
amazingly inspirational
Bloody fantastic
She is So crazy, LOVE HER!
Sylvia massy is a Great producer recorder and mixer of music 🌹 I love her pro studio and her job , and she is a very pretty woman too ;)
Analog song is amazing!
wao wao waooooo again its amazing
I so! want her to talk about, or even briefly mentioned? her work with the band "Machines of Loving Grace"
Great Sylvia
So she literally recorded on a potato. Great video, gotta get her book now!
I wish I could have experimented more when I was working in a studio but my clients always had limited budgets so I had very little time for that sort of thing.
Sylvia is just AWESOME FANTASTIC BRILLIANT!!! .
this is a huge piece of music history IMO
It's cool to be friends with one of the most powerful and creative women in the music industry!! She's just the best...
All these instructive videos have smiley smiley public relations people. OMG
This lady is incredible
She is so awesome...
What a beautiful spirit. I aspire only to be 'big enough' to work with her someday.
she's so greattttt
I really want to work with this woman and learn everything she can bring us
she's my hero...and friend...
what a lady!
very impressive
wow she's creative
Love her.
Sylvia is freaking awesome
btw, don´t try the amp thing if you don´t know what you´re doing... You´re gonna fry you valve amp using it with no load.
Shhe did say is was a solid state amp
"Sound that's in my ear's eye" :) ^_^
The "Speaker-As-A-Microphone" trick was first used by The Beatles while recording the 'Paperback Writer'/'Rain' single. Geoff Emerick almost got fired for doing that!
Raymond Kitchen it’s nice seeing the origin of the trick. Every time I see a producer in a video mention they act like they invented it
Just met you an subscribed..
1 word sold me😉
ANOLOG...
An your passion for it..
An the way you bring out the gadgets...
My first video watching of you and all the gadgets around the tinker with to make all these neat sounds.
Was always fascinating to me...
You Lady Sylvia Rock!!!!👍🤘🤘🎸🎸😉😉
PS. Are you the original inspiration behind Tools art??????😉😳😆😆
So what plugins did you/she do with Waves after all?
awesome.
i like her passion for music. u can see it in her eyes. \\M//
It's interesting because the piece she talks about, "Disgutipated" really isn't all that loud. What they did do was use those sounds as percussive elements which artistically brilliant and amazingly practical.
Genius Mam
Sylvia Massy just made my list of “people I’d most like to party with someday”
I like that the Razor Bladed amp speaker was from a Line 6. :D
Recording bass in a submarine. Go ahead and top that one!
I'll record a drumset on ISS when I get the chance. When the recording is finished I'll record a special FX for the outro: Drumset being sucked out into space trough airlock...maybe the Drummer will join for dramatic effect...depends on his performance :P
Pauline Oliveros recorded in a giant empty cistern. "Deep Listening". A musical treasure.
She’s a blast!
What plugins did she create with waves? Are they available?
She's great.
Gotta have the silliness behind the madness of a Mad professor...The world will never get the mind of an Electronic engineer of the future. I still love the Pickle powered sound trickle !!!
oh goodness...she paints so well
What is the average potato impedance? I love Sylvia!
I love that you don’t use a conventional control room!
Sylvia rocks :)
i love her
Musically relevant, aesthetically inspired, spiritually charged, joy infused, who-wouldn't-want-to-play there Studio!
Whenever people talk microphones diagrams and things to do or not to do, I'm always kind of flabbergasted. Recording is pretty much only experimenting. My dad started recording during the mid-60's when the first Neumann came to French studios and they figured out how to use those new microphones at the time to record a certain tone of vocals that we later on called the "french touch". You had to figure ou everything. They only had plate reverbs and EQ, maybe compressor, but my dad never used one. The 24 tracks console he was using had to be custom-ordered by his boss because there wasn't a 24 tracks at the time... and if you plugged something the wrong way, it immediately fried on you. Oh and the noise floors were 10x higher than the most basic USB interface you could get...
Today have all the tools in the world yet I find engineers to be so damn conservative. Refreshing to see this!
Niiiicccee! I am a computer science EE professional for decades, but I bow down to you!
However, I think you really need some dynamite!
Beard Guy101 - you are probably right. Maybe I shouldn’t have recommended the dynamite 🧨
What an imagination, the true spirit of music
I'd love to see a collab with her & Andrew Huang. I feel like they have enough similarities in approach that they'd hit it off, but she could teach him so much about analogue stuff.
I love how experimental she is
She warms my heart.
I tried some of these things on my last session with some new clients. They're not coming back. I ended up eating the potatoes though...and I suppose that's what matters. Inspiration!