You can hear Mark's voice almost break up a bit when he talks about a console being thrown out or multitracks being carelessly destroyed. Dude really cares. 😭

Wanted to make it clear that no Beach Boys tapes were lost in the UMG fire and fewer than 10 multi-track tapes are even stored at Capitol or UMG (we of course have hi-res copies). The Beach Boys have always maintained control and storage of their master tapes which is why we have been able to release projects like the Pet Sounds and Smile boxes etc. Hope that helps......... Mark Linett

This lifelong Brian/Beach Boys fan just can't put into words the value of the contribution I feel Mark Linett and Alan Boyd have made in our appreciation of the music these amazing guys made. I just can't imagine having never gotten to hear what these guys did to amplify those incredible original recordings. I send my undying thanks to Mark and Alan along with a request, no, an urgent plea that they try and get the band to agree to a release of the first Carnegie Hall show tapes that I have read exist. The Beach Boys unreleased Holy Grail is a vessel that has not yet been filled up!

This man is definitely one of my favorite producer/engineers. So fortunate. Working with Zappa and The Beach Boys! Great! He has done exceptional work with these great recording artists.

Mark has done a superb job on remixing ''The Beach Boys'' albums.

I have often written about how much gratitude and appreciation we owe to the people who built and operated the technology which captured and preserved the music and performances. Mostly we never know their names or the roles they played, but without them all we would have nothing but fleeting memories of the past. Because of them the past is even more vibrant now than our memories could ever imagine it to be.

at least its nice to know we are going to be getting new beach boy material every year

A fascinating look at Mark's studio and work for the Beach Boys. Thanks to Sound on Sound for posting this, and a special thanks to Mark Linett for his incredible comments about our software!!

Better get that Sunflower set out. It’s fifty years old now.

I greatly appreciate the work he has done, and is doing now. The recent Sunshine Tomorrow, Wake the World, I Can Hear Music sets are wonderful. Thank you!

‘Catch a Wave’ and ‘California Girls’ are a couple of the most incredible songs after having been remastered. I was blown away.

Lots of interesting info here. Grew up during that era and sure enough - it was made for the mono a.m. radio. That's where all of us listened before going out to buy. The period of time, from early to mid sixties stands out for me - not just because of the songs, but how they were made. I could be wrong, but I think the three/four track era has a certain something about it that comes partly from the magic track count number itself - not just musical tastes of the time. It creates a certain work flow. That work flow touches a lot of things - even performance/arrangement. I started out in my teens with an old two track that was subsequently bounced to another machine. Due to the noise floor, two/three bounces were it! No more. The final result was like taking a snapshot. No going back. That end result is often much different than the golden parachute of unlimited tracks with unlimited editing of everything imaginable. The people, ( engineers, producers, musicians, etc. ), who made those songs back then sure were impressive. They had to be - tons of money at stake. I can't even imagine the pressure. Red-light fever would've sent me packing. Imagine the talent these days trying to function in that world - or not? Anyway, great video. Love this stuff. Thanks!

I could spend hours And hours listening to This man And never get tired ☺️

America’s Band is so misunderstood. Thank you for your service.

Great interview. This is our cultural history.

I want to be Mark Linnett when I grow up. Imagine getting to do interviews about remixing the beach boys in your pajamas.... sublime. : )

This legendary producer Mark Linett sales on eBay under the name YourPlaceOrMine. When I first started producing professionally everyday back in 2013 I bought a brand new PC but despite being a PC fan boy I got tired of that PC EXTREMELY fast within a year I ended up going with Apple which is one of the best decisions I made as a producer. I ended up buying a 2010 12 core Mac Pro from Mark Linnett and by the time I was done upgrading it had 5 Hard drives, 1 which was a OWC E2 SSD, 32GB of ram (But it will support 128), amongst countless other upgrades. I eventually just recently retired it barely a year ago not because It wouldn't keep running but simply because Apple basically made them obsolete via upgrading software, drivers, etc *HEY MARK* ... You still owe me and autograph!! ;) (All of the above is a TRUE STORY)

Was well impressed with this guy in the video, he knows his eggs. You could see the experience he's picked up over the years, very talented and knowledgeable. Presented it well as well, kept it flowing, informing & entertaining along the way. I bet producers and engineers the world over will tune in to this video, peers of Mark Linett young & old learning from him. SOS while your at it, (a pun there!) if Mickey Tretow is up to it these days maybe he'll do a 30 min video. Not necessarily all about ABBA but everything else he's done. He might invite you round to his abode, no doubt he's still got a studio. He may not of had a hand in the latest ABBA tracks coming out soon, but no need to leave him out of things.

I vote that someday we should get a 65' Sessions set. It's one of my favorite periods of the band. The Sirus XM radio show from last year had excerpts from the Sessions, I'd heard some new Help Me, Rhonda stuff not on the boots.

an incredible archivist! Thanks for all you've done brother I bought a bunch of gear from CBS Studios, including some incredible Gates Dynamotes I've had restored and brought into the 20th century that I'm very proud of in my studio. Makes me wonder if Brian Wilson and the gang ever used them? Very cool...

Thank you Mark! Guys like you are hero’s in music history keep it up. Please release physical copy’s even if it’s limited. Big Fans still want that

CBS: "Artists' masters... a waste of space' let's get rid of them. UMG: oops... a fire destroyed our catalogue, don't tell anyone for 11 years. Someone whistles half a note of a song: let's sue the living crap out of this guy!

i've done syncing by hand from a 4 track to an 8 track mci....back in the day to get a better generational mix of 4 tracks where the originals were saved...usually they would record tracks 1 2 3 and mix on 4 and then overdub back over 3 2 and 1 ..losing the original first generation tracks...there was no digital....slipping was done by hand..a finger on the flange .monitoring using null to keep it honest....this guy ..mark..did amazing work on these....notice he didn't mention the multi channel versions which are great...a really great interview...with some snippets of altec.. rca fairchild and others...

This is really good.

Very clever man, wonderful desks and other equipment, thank you for all this wonderful info Mark, I am sure that the sounds you produce and reproduce are fantastic. Love this and thanks so very much for this few minutes of magic!

I sure wish we could get a "Friends" remastered set.

Really enjoyed this! Mark is a really nice guy and always willing to talk all things sonic regarding the Beach Boys. As an old school collector, I really do wish that they would release the download only stuff on CD, even if its through their own website. The packaging on the Wild Honey sessions cd was outstanding. Food for thought???

Interesting video. Thanks! Mark has seen and done it all. He's a walking talking audio encyclopedia.

Fantastic insight into Mark Linett’s Geakdom. I have an old Teac Model 5B 8trk mixer with honking gr8 VUs but unless I find a modest 7” 4trk open-reel, gonna hafta let it go & sulk over the 246 Portastudio. Never mind. But meanwhile look @ that gear there!? Mixing heaven working with genius Brian Wilson & some fantastic music. Pets Sounds onward to me feels nicer, more space, more 2 listen 2. Gobsmacked the finds stories ML coming out with.

The 1967 Wild Honey re-release is fantastic! Had no idea how great that album was.

So, universal music group didn't have any Beach Boys master recordings that went down in the fire along with the other 100.000 burnt master tapes? Does UMG have the beach boys in its catalog?

great interview

13:01 - The final overdub certainly shows on "Help Me, Rhonda" and "Don't Worry, Baby" (at least, the versions included in "Endless Summer"). Lost of coughs and studio prattle !

It's interesting to hear how we all connected.

This is nothing short of amazing! Wow!

Dear Mark Linett, i saw this complete vid and find it really interesting. Just a sugestion : Why not make a kind of a 'Concert' of your pile-up of the Good Vibrations Mastertapes ? A mix of these tapes and all their the styles (Western, ... ) or at least of the Best Of or the most exquisite of them, just like a real classical concert, where you have the winds, the strings, playing all around the same theme (here : Good Vibrations in all it's styles). Why not a double Vinyl LP or double CD or somewhere on the Digital platforms... And maybe you can do this for other Beach Boys Songs of which you have also several mastertapes. Good luck and thanks in advance.

Thanks SOS, great! I shared on my songwriting and production playlist.

This is REALLY great! Thank you!

Fascinating stuff!

That was a fascinating insight into a subject I wish I understood better than I do. Backtracking to the topic of the U.K. 50 year copywrite issue. Whilst it easy to understand the “unfairness” of it when your discussing the likes of the Beatles , Stones , Beach Boys etc you have to factor in the groups that were great but never quite rose to be the cream of the crop and 50 years down the line just wouldn’t sell enough product to make it a viable release if everyone involved needed to be paid. By passing into the public domain it becomes a viable prospect for businessman “X” to release something that only sells 200-300 copies worldwide , at least that way it’s still being given a chance to live with people that still care rather than being locked away in a dusty vault unplayed and un-remembered because it would be expensive for the potential financial returns.

I would sit for hours just to listen this guy stories. It's very hard to mix songs that people already know without messing it up or losing its original escense.

Great work attitude and commitment, but above all: QUALITY.

Fascinating interview.

This is such a great and informative interview

Why was he listening to Phil Spector multi-track masters? Is there a forthcoming project of remixing Spector's work? That would be fantastic to hear some of those songs in full stereo.

God damn this is gold

thank you for this.

Fantastic interview

Awesome!! Thanks. GB..

A shame Dennis and Carl Wilson passed away so soon and not be a part of all of this. Wonder if the other Beach Boys are working with Brian on these tapes, or maybe just Brian?....

It's incredible and tragic that people just dumped stuff. In particular, tapes.

This is great!

Dennis singing GV!

Computers are great at subtraction: given both the second to last tape and the final one you can get the difference, which will be just the new sounds. Of course maybe I misread digital extraction, and more fuss will be needed if the original mix included compression or other processing while sucking in the previous sound.

A video about a top-notch recording producer/engineer and the sound is in mono. How’s that for irony?!!

Since the copyright laws are what they are, does this mean that in some time, everything that Mr Ross Bagdasarian recorded will finally get released on CD

Great interview, great content! Thank you very much :)

awesome !! where are those remix ? can't find them.

Was Stephen Desper the original engineer

fascinating and mighty impressive interview - but I have to say listening to the Pet Sounds remix was a bit underwhelming - mostly due to excessive usage of reverb - that consistant wash of reverb took away from the distinction of the arrangement - the instruments could have been better highlighted too - just my opinion ...

This is very interesting 👍🏻

Always blows my mind thinking about the low prices the good analog gear used to fetch before they “came back” into fashion. What’s the new version of that? Will it be ADAT machines? Should we go buy up all the early Digi 001 boxes, as an investment into the near future time when everyone wants to re-recreate that sound? Serious questions lol - I want to be that older guy that says “heh heh, I got this for 15 bucks when everyone thought that analog sound was the most important thing”

Yeah DAW is great and the send effects capabilities & built in effects justify its usefulness as far as I'm concerned but it sounds too synthetic. I proudly still record on an MTR @ home.

Did Universal burn up The Beach Boys catalog too?

I saw WIP as a radio Station on the letterhead in the beginning. Philadelphia. What's your connection, Mark?

Ironic: interviewing an audio engineer, the mic or pre-amp is DISTORTING! In these days of digital, keep the MAXIMUM audio level below -3 db

We want TRUE STEREO Beach Boys....fuck remixing the duophonic garbage....and what's the problem with O.G. Brian Wilson Mono mixes....leave it alone....i respect the man's work...but I respect B. Wilson's more

Great interview! Pros about the production of this video: cinematic depth of field, good editing (B-rolls, different angles), and close micing. Cons about the production: The color correction is not done well, with highlights blown out to white on skintones. Also there was clipping on the audio (how ironic!). This could have been due to improper recording technique (mic volume too high on camera or field mixer) or due to improper post-processing (gain too high or too much limiting).

So is the Stereo mix of Smiley Smile that sonically superior first generation master he references?

@29:38 Actually it's an *Electro*-Theremin on "Good Vibrations," not a Theremin _per se_. If you Google both of those, you'll see that although they make (broadly) similar sounds, the Electro-Theremin (invented by trombonist Paul Tanner and inventor Bob Whitsell) is a VERY different looking beast, and MUCH easier to play! If you've ever had the chance to try playing a true Theremin, you'll know how darn DIFFICULT it is. But thanks to Paul and Bob, Brian - and almost every 1950s sci-fi B-movie - had it MUCH easier!

Mark, you guys did a really poor job on the Sunflower Sessions/Feel Flows. It sucks… I’m a BB fan no more thanks to you and Mike Love.

very good interview, sadly the voice recording could use some work since the highs are very harsh, around the 5min mark some de-essing was forgoten for sure :(

Get Jeff bridges to play him in a movie

Interesting, but an explanation of some of the terminology would have been nice.

where's the remixing???

I bet this dude, hates the eagles😜

Is that a bathrobe he's wearing? He's a real life The Dude. Awesome work with the Beach Boys although occasionally too much reverb or treble. Those are nitpicks, otherwise, keep 'em coming! I really want to hear a legitimate release of the backing track of When Girls Get Together with sessions. There's something about that track (the 1969 version) that is hypnotic.

App, 10:30 -- love the Beach Boys, but I'd say their nineteen-sixties albums are full of filler.

Kind of sad how once revered sought after gear becomes trash because of new technology. Mixing in the box currently is so advanced with amazing replicated plug ins of the old gear that outboard gear is really not needed and it will only get better. Recording we are still in the infancy for in the box. The latency and other quirks still favor classic and new outboard gear over plug ins. I guess one day will be recording 100% in the box and outboard gear will be back in the trash.

Walla. :-)

Cool story, bro.

this is a big problem This guy talks down his old gear moves to Digital because its not about good sound it's about getting it done. NO STAGE, bass overblowen, Bright as hell highs He sits in his PJ,s i heard enough

"making stereo from mono" - wtf ?

interesting …. always love an engineer …. without one you will not sound as good ...

what does he mean when he says "pristine 47s"? u47s?

All those creds and you can't afford a nicer sweater?

Please stop screwing with the original mixes. We all know that UMG let the masters burn but stupidly remixing The Beach Boys from low-quality copies of the multitrack doesn't make people forget how deceptive UMG is or how tragic the loss was!

Any record i have heard thats been remastered is just ruined.

Most over-rated band in history?...God only knows, California Girls, Good Vibrations....fantastic tracks.....the rest.....hmmmm.....the Beatles were on a much higher level in my mind.....don't be mean if you disagree, I'm just putting my thoughts out there. Cheers xx

the music sounded so much better on tape and in mono.. digital is fake and your brain picks up on that..

Great to hear!! Thank you for your excellent work! 🙂👍

I read somewhere that in the Capitol Records tower they have kept and catalogued all of their obsolete recording equipment and keep it in storage. There must be some interesting reasons why somebody there made that decision.