Jacquire King: Producing James Bay
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2015
- We visit the world-famous Blackbird Studios in Nashville to meet Jacquire King, the Grammy-winning producer of James Bay’s Chaos And The Calm.
In a follow-up to our May 2015 article on the making of the album (sosm.ag/may15jamesbay), King opens up the session files, revealing the production, arrangement and mixing techniques at play on three track from the record.
Over the course of the video, Jacquire demonstrates the importance of foundational percussion tracks, and walks through his drum production techniques using the track ‘Collide’. Then, using smash-hit ’Hold Back The River’, he shows us how he uses natural spaces for “performed reverb” on vocal tracks for a sing-along quality. He finishes by discussing the arrangement and bass sound on the emotive ‘Let It Go’.
Over the course of the video, Jacquire demonstrates the importance of foundational percussion tracks, and walks through his drum production techniques using the track ‘Collide’. Then, using smash-hit ’Hold Back The River’, he shows us how he uses natural spaces for “performed reverb” on vocal tracks for a sing-along quality. He finishes by discussing the arrangement and bass sound on the emotive ‘Let It Go’.
Quick links:
0m29s - The importance of foundational percussion tracks.
4m35s - Drum production techniques on ‘Collide’.
28m16s - Using natural reverb for vocals on ‘Hold Back The River'
31m37s - Arrangement and bass sounds on ‘Let It Go’.
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I jaquired so much info
Hahahaha
I can just imagine how much time they spent on checking each and every phase, and here we are listening to all of it with every type of cancellation due to the way the voice was recorded for the interview.
Sounded like a flanger on the mix bus :)
SOS videos are top notch. Just the content of the interview alone would be enough, but its the combination of the HD video, lighting, camera angles, screen recordings, pristine dialogue, and interesting questions that make these so enjoyable and informative. In my opinion, these are the best videos of their kind on CZcams. Thanks for your dedication SOS! I won't take this for granted.
Man that was jam-packed. So much info in 41 mintues. I love the way Jacquire works, using the DAW, console, and outboard all in harmony, clearly not a one-or-the-other sort of extremist. He seems to get the best of everything. Love it.
this was awesome make a million more mixing vids like this plz!!!
Thank you so much for producing James Bay album Chaos And The Calm! I bought this album and I love it!
Outstanding piece. The methods and insights are invaluable but are especially useful because you hear it all properly. This is exactly how recording/production videos should be - thanks
Nicely done! Much to hear, see and learn from. Thanks so much!!
I love the chamber vocal idea. Totally wouldn't have thought of that. Worth watching the whole 42min to get that nugget.
Great video. What gets me is the amount of tracks that go into a single song. Pretty amazing.
Another amazing video. Thanks SOS!!
Great video - interesting techniques, easy to comprehend, and fantastic insight to production for a hit record. Loved the use of the chamber room and also the aspect of mixing loops, programming and live recording produce something modern but heartfelt.
Tremendous interview and learning experience. Thanks SOS and
Jaques.
Great video, I would like to see more of this type of stuff.
Thats a great great video
Thank you very much !!
this video is crazy good!!! thank you!
Really good lecture; plenty of info.
BRILLIANT, This is one of the most JAM PACKED 40 minutes of useable knowledge EVER...!
Between Warren Huart and SOS I don't need anything else...!
Although I like this context much better since the actual session is being used.
Please keep them coming ASAP
you can tell those ProAcs sound amazing just in that room, I wish I could hear a pair next to my Ns10s
Awesome !!
How great is 1 of my favorite song of the year
This is what production really means and looks like. Nice job brotha 👍🏾
SoundOnSound once again making the other production interview magazines look like amateurs! I have been a subscriber coming on 10 years and I'm glad you are now making consistent videos with the quality of your fine publication! Keep up the good work it is MUCH appreciated :-)
Great!
Awesome vid! :-)
Thanks for all
The iPhone story in the very end was a funny one!:D
+kodin music The ProAcs are right there at the console which is probably where he spend most of the mix.
Awesome, I want to learn the console board for the audio mixer I mean the machine behind you , kindly may you guide how can I start
I do the same analog channel 1 to 8 trick with 2 160a but the drums come from a live running sp1200.
If that background vocal snippet mentioned at the end was recorded on a smartphone using one of RODE's new iPhone adaptors it could have sounded quite professional perhaps (assuming that it wasn't in fact recorded with such a device).
Footloose intro ;)
Hello, what is the drum sample that he said he used please? Thank you so much.
Holy crap those waves are compressed! they all look like table tops! Good to know
Hello ,
what is this console?
thank you for your reply
Eric Darken ...that guy have amazing ideas on percussion. You can hear him on very well on productions like "cappuccino afternoon". "Sunday drive , romantic interludes". "Between in the lines " this are instrumental productions.
I love you
How do videos like this record his voice and record the direct feed audio from the music he's playing, is it on a separate computer system? Then they just snap the video to audio?
We take a direct stereo feed from the mixing desk into a separate audio recorder and then sync this to his voice recording coming into the camera.
Wait, are those rockit 5's? Weird. Not that they're not great and all, but the wall of stuff behind him and the Rockits confused me. I'm guessing this is an extra room in the back or something.
Elsif This is Studio G - Jacquire's own room in Blackbird. The computer is on the left side of the room and there are ProAc monitors either side of the mixer.
Gotcha, that's about what I assumed. It's also in the thumbnail... oops:)
+Elsif Rich here from KRK. He mixes on Rokit 5s. Ever since Kings of Leon's big record forward. The Rokits are his NS-10s. :)
That's really cool to know. I have a pair of those same models, and you do get very used to how they sound. That IS the most important thing right? Not the price tag, but what you do with them. :)
+Elsif totally. Well said. Look up Dave Jerden. He is mixing on Rokit 5s too.
That was a great fucking interview.
What's the console?
Eric darken is a beast on percussion.
AKG C24 room is very cool))
what is the name of this song and artist?
thankx u u for your info will be good to do some recordings with you if is okay greetings yusufsbeat
what DAW are you using to mix on ?
what type of mouse is he using? I once saw Scheps using it also. Is it more comfortable or what?
Kensington 64325 probably great mouse...
He has KRK monitors 😳 Unbelievable.
this guy is a beast!.. he used a iphone!.. genius!...
Kodin Music It's about what monitors you are comfortable with, not how "High End" your monitors are period! I hate KRK monitors but I mix better on them because they make me focus on what I'm doing and listening to the music and not the monitors if that makes sense.
Rich here from KRK. Curious, which KRKs do you use?
I used second generation rokit 8s at the studio in the audio school I went to.
Don't get me wrong, they are good, they just don't have the sound I generally look for in a monitor speaker. I like my monitors to be less polite. I find it hard to really make anything to really get the rokits to sound bad which is a blessing and curse. I probably worded my comment poorly but I should really say I'm not a huge fan of the rokit series of monitors.
+Doug Payne First, I love honest opinion. I am the Product Manager so I love the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Good makes us feel like we are on track. But Bad and Ugly help us make better products. :)
I wouldn't use the 8s for mixing. Especially if you are in a smaller room. Also, my audio engineers fixed an issue that there was with the Gen 2s. They tuned the port lower than the efficiency of the woofer. This gives you lower extension in the low end but it clouds up the frequency response. Can you get your hands on some Rokit 5s? Would love to hear what you think.
Rich Renken I did hear about the improvements made to the new Rokits, at home I use a set of Yorkville Sound YSM 6 monitors, I bought them 2 years ago and I must admit I was close between the Rokit 6s and the Yorkvilles. The Yorkvilles have a similar sound but they are more midrange focused which I do like.for mixing. I will say that I think the Rokits are a great bang for the buck and don't really fatigue your ears like some competitive monitors which is great for longer sessions.
+Doug Payne Good stuff. Thank you for sharing. :)
what mixer is that?
guitarzpt Looks like a Quad Eight sidecar.
Shame you didn't cut the mic when he wasn't talking. all that effort and sounds like phasey crap?!
Woah!
WHAT DAW DO YOU USE?
Pro Tools
god the phase on those drums must be a nightmare lol
MacGyver turned to mixing?
Jacquire's mic is constantlly phasing with PT output. This is terrible 😩
Why are you dividing mic placement when you don't need to. This an old 4 track low budget technique. You just need to direct mic a drum kit then you don't have worry about instrument bleed from one part of your mic or the other. Use more mics and less knob twirling.
What do you mean by dividing mic placement?
when the drums are solo sound slike half moon run
but a nicrophone in the toiltet but flash the toilet first xD
Putting a mic in the toilet... czcams.com/video/mz7ycZzAIoU/video.html&t=1831
Don't we have convolution reverbs to avoid having to do that ourselves? :)
Jason Bateman's older brother lol
Only 3 minutes in, 3 minutes talk about the loop/clicktrack. Apparently a loop gives the mix a professional modern quality and an edge. Opinions. Weird opinions.
He only said "modern". Loops are a modern thing.... umm.. Makes sense no?
So what you're saying is that loops don't sound modern and don't help an organic rock track feel more professional and modern? That's totally a wrong statement. His opinion is not weird, yours is.
too bad he uses this KRK monitors, his mix is probably great, but imagine his mix on some hiend monitors like adam, focal, etc
He also uses ProAc and Amphion monitors (very high end). It's a smart idea to check your mix on cheaper speakers. Also it matters how well you know the speakers, not just how nice they are. He knows the Rokits and can mix on them but he also mixes on much more expensive speakers, some of which are visible in this video (the ProAcs). Also, the KRK's are flatter and nicer sounding than NS-10's (which have a 6db lift at 1.5k) and MOST mix engineers use NS-10s either for checking, balancing midrange or for their entire mix.
No wonder this sap got sucked into Luna.
such horrible reverb lol
You mean the natural reverb from a well designed multi million dollar recording studio featured on dozens of gold and platinum records' drum and vocal sounds?
Listened to the released Track and to my taste, it is not gelling together. It feels over produced in a non pleasing way.
Other than having all physical instruments laying around. I can do all this Shyt, from my phone with Apps. Anyone want to record with me? Inbox me.🤤
So much phasing on the cymbals