Behind the Recording of Led Zeppelin IV

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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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@topfloorstudio2684 4 ай бұрын

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!!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Cool! Such a good album to play from start to finish, enjoy! 🤘

@Tyrell_Corp2019 4 ай бұрын

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

@toranada 4 ай бұрын

My first Zep album about 1976.

@xXSHOCKCOLLARXx 4 ай бұрын

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

@aschule5684 4 ай бұрын

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!

@davemason6870 4 ай бұрын

Yup. That must be a good feeling.

@Bryan-jd7os 4 ай бұрын

Excellent!

@titmusspaultpaul5 Ай бұрын

I had the exact same experience. A BRILLIANT album. It's funny how the press where so anti Zeppelin, for no real reason, and just kept on piling negative press on them since they first came out (I think it was mainly the brittish press too). That's the reason they didn't put the band name on the album, or their name. One of the press told Page the "only reason they sold albums was because of the name". Of course Page took this to heart. Even so, the press kept giving the album bad reviews, and spoke negatively about them.... but the album sold MILLIONS of copies. A few years ago Rolling Stone came out and said it was one of the best albums of all time. They also apologised for all the negative reviews, saying it was a thing of the times where the press just layed shit on them, and they were wrong to do this. Good on them for saying that. Anyone who listens to this album can tell its brilliant. If you don't like the style of rock'n'roll, then fair call, but you can't argue it's brilliance.

@sunlightpictures8367 4 ай бұрын

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."

@andrewfiddes446 4 ай бұрын

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

@MmeDesgranges Ай бұрын

Fuck yeah!

@w.harrison7277 2 ай бұрын

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.

@jamesrae7597 3 ай бұрын

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.

@derrylallen 28 күн бұрын

that just tickled me, finding out this was released on my birthday. Such a classic ,what a human lol

@spumpstein9374 4 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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.

@jamescarlucci9867 Ай бұрын

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

@mixingmasteringonline Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@mccloysong Ай бұрын

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

@mixingmasteringonline Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@KeithMcHenry-sn9hg 9 күн бұрын

Quaalude out 714,jeff Beck was the man rest in peace

@messi8921 4 ай бұрын

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

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

😅 Thank you! I’ll try 🤞

@whiplash415 Ай бұрын

We need a led zeppelin 3 video on this

@mixingmasteringonline Ай бұрын

Good idea!

@TK-fk4po 4 ай бұрын

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!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Great memories, 😃 you were moving up the rock n roll leagues!

@poindextertunes 4 ай бұрын

You made the right choice my friend 😂

@mattdylan664 4 ай бұрын

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!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 😃

@AllenGarberGuitarFun 4 ай бұрын

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.

@fgsproducer 4 ай бұрын

Great video as always!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

@chumbels 4 ай бұрын

Monumental. One word.

@duggles4735 4 ай бұрын

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.

@randomyank7777 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant . Excellent post !

@mixingmasteringonline 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@WeaponsEducation 2 ай бұрын

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!

@Superdelphinus Ай бұрын

Weezer?

@brianwarner308 4 ай бұрын

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!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

@glenjamieson2524 4 ай бұрын

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

@ProfessorKenneth 3 ай бұрын

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👍🏻

@vinylarchaeologist 4 ай бұрын

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.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info 🙏

@w.harrison7277 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@JP-hs6ii 3 ай бұрын

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.

@maxine2798 4 ай бұрын

Bonzos Jensen interceptor featured.

@OfficialEvermore 4 ай бұрын

Good video!! And nice editing

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@OfficialEvermore 4 ай бұрын

@@mixingmasteringonline no problem!

@danielwhite7380 4 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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.

@bob-rogers 4 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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

@blairmichaelhogan4502 4 ай бұрын

Jones played mandolin on Going To California.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Cheers for the correction! 🙏

@duranjerome 4 ай бұрын

3 was their best album

@jamesrae7597 3 ай бұрын

I am with you on that.

@BIZARBIES 4 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

what’s wrong with the rest of the album?

@BIZARBIES 4 ай бұрын

@@Nobodyimportant696 nothing.

@poindextertunes 4 ай бұрын

you’re missing out on a great album sadly

@JuniorFarquar 4 ай бұрын

That's silly

@Nobodyimportant696 4 ай бұрын

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

@311superfly 4 ай бұрын

71? Damn I was born 9/23/1968

@owenmiller1218 4 ай бұрын

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!!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! It was from some session demos for the album.

@chumbels 4 ай бұрын

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

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

😅 close enough!

@DrRock2009 4 ай бұрын

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

@CutiePie-hh3gg 4 ай бұрын

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

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 4 ай бұрын

zep rivaled the beatles with the excellent backmask on stairway

@luizjose778 4 ай бұрын

Grande Led faz do fisical graffitt

@Strange-Songs 4 ай бұрын

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

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, looks like it. Looks very awkward to play..

@macchiatoultrac6046 4 ай бұрын

ZEPPELIN III when???

@danielwhite7380 4 ай бұрын

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

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

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

@Boleskinebeatz 4 ай бұрын

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

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

@@Boleskinebeatz this video has it i think plus lots more, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNVpg9mEvLzRlHk.html

@dspguitar Ай бұрын

Sounds like the rhythm tracks during the guitar solo in Stairway to Heaven.

@markwood3389 4 ай бұрын

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

@mixingmasteringonline 4 ай бұрын

Good spot! Maybe all the noise reduction options they had?

@sabbracadabra8367 4 ай бұрын

Critics still aren't sure about it. Lol

@MakingaStink 4 ай бұрын

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

@BCTGuitarPlayer 4 ай бұрын

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...🤷‍♂️

@TRUMP-2024-STF 2 ай бұрын

Lol