Genuinely one of the most important films I have ever seen. Beautifully shot and about a subject matter I care deeply about. Julie talks such sense and is so knowledgeable, I could listen to her for hours. Bravo Myles, bravo, this film has been utterly transformative for me, thank you.

This is the art of NOT cutting and scooping out mid range frequencies in tracks so as to make them sound hifi and modern. We need those frequencies, but we need them to be musical and analog has that for DAYS. You don't cut them, if you can the best way to do it is to figure out a way to pick up those frequencies in a pleasing way so things sound great with them in the mix. Al Smidt talked about this and how he didn't usually use EQ with his mixes...just microphones and placement. I was stunned when I first used an analog EQ and I could boost 2k for days without ever feeling like it was wrong or harsh... it was just musical...and strong pleasing tone. There really is an art to music and sculpting tone...we've just been part of a generation that's been giving digital chill and grit and expected to hear that as music...when if you listen to the best analog records of the late 70's and 80's were WORLDS better sonically. 3D ..open...dynamic...musical. Not anymore. Imagine the bodyguard soundtrack being made today. So sad. I've heard it said that F is a twangy note...it always has been always will be. That's it's color/timbre. It's getting the F to sound musical that takes work sometimes, but the right EQ or compressor....microphone etc...has a way of changing the character of notes so they're pleasing all of the time. It's an art...use all of the colors....transformers...capacitors...tubes...etc that you have at your disposal and screw anyone who tells you it isn't "natural" if you use them to get what you want out of the speakers. It's ART! STAR WARS wasn't real...but we LOVE IT! Jack Joseph Puig talks about using all of the colors of the rainbow in your music...so fetchin cool. And he's right. But what do I know. I'm just an old throwback whos been doing this 20 years.

This is one of the best films I have ever seen about audio engineering. Thank you~!

I came directly (in an analogous fashion) from the August/September issue of Tape Op to this most interesting and inspiring film. It also confirmed many of my longheld notions about music and recording - not that I was a doubter!) I'll soon be replacing the belts on the Tascam Porta 02k I bought for $4.00 at a garage sale.

After 2 decades of building studios for other people, I am finally building one for myself, and this wonderful film is helping me reprioritize my design targets; to create a space rich in resource and possibilities where creation can flow at an ideal pace.

I feel reborn after watching this🤯

Several points that I've been trying to make/prove for years. This woman is an inspiration. I hope to record with her one day. I've been waiting to see this film for some time and it's exceeded my expectations. Great production!

She references the David Byrne book "this is music." Such an interesting book👍

Thanks God I discovered this Documentary 🇿🇦❤

This is inspiring. It gives voice to many thoughts and feelings that have been ruminating in me for years. Ultimately, we must preserve our soulful connection with the tools and machines we use to make our art. Thank you so much for the deep insights.

Thank you so much for making this very informative video on a subject that rarely receives any attention these days. I feel very inspired and less alone in a world dominated by in the box recording combined with too much auto tuning, quantized, and over compressed tracks. Most of the music today doesn't sound musical. Your explanation of the creative process and how our brains perceive music is on point and I wish more of the general audience took an interest in it. I am in the process of constructing my own analog recording studio and your video has reaffirmed that I am not crazy in doing so. Keep up the great work and hopefully one day more people will learn to appreciate the efforts made by those who really understand the craft of audio engineering.

In digital, "happy accidents" are considered "mistakes" and there's a stigma around intentionally not editing it out. People call it "lazy" production. Once the stigma is gone, you can somehow treat the DAW like a normal tape machine and slap on an emulator. Many of us just don't have enough money to get access to a tape machine. But this video gives us access to the idea behind wanting to use it and somehow translate those to the digital bedroom recording space.

FINALLY! Someone who recognizes that modern recordings are too trebly!

Amazing! So inspiring. Thanks Mylo and Julie.

OMG. This so right up my alley!! Brilliant Absolutely Brilliant

This is so special. One of the most inspiring things I have perceived in a very long time. Thanks Myles, Julie and co. Loves it!

What a gorgeous film. Stumbled across it tonight and it has made my weekend. A beautiful examination of creativity and the senses. Wonderful, thank you Myles.

Wow. Truly am appreciating so much the incredible amounts of energy she’s put into the analyses... thank you for sharin bud 🖖

Oh wow this almost made me cry ! Not the loud crying of pain , more of a silent tear streaming down my cheek , thank you , humans , thank you nature !

Great film and fascinating topic. It’s also cool to hear that Julie studied with Bill Leader, just like I did. He was my hero in those days because of the Pentangle/Jansch/Renbourn recordings.

Yet another treasure. I am slowly digging through your videos, taking my time, and I am just blown away again and again. Thank you so much for what you do. It really helps me to calm down from all the stress and news about the war.

this is so beautifully shot and conceived. McLarnon speaks so thoughtfully and intelligently about her philosophy. utter truth. this gets to the heart of what i love in humanity. thank yoU!

There is a whole other realm of awareness here. This is certainly a gift. Thank you for sharing.

This made me really think about the how and why...as any art should. Always with any M. O'Reilly vid I know that this will be interesting and good for both eyes and ears. Since the Tegan and Sara days of yore, it has always been a pleasure to see a new offering on this tubus...long may it continue!

So amazing, love this, wow, how inspiring! Thank you ❤️

I could listen to her all day , I love her analogies

Fantastic watch and insight. Thank you!

I love this! She is an amazing person.

Great documentary we need more people like that in music.

Myles does it again!

What a beautiful film - thank you a lot!

Love the part re creativity. Constraints promote creativity. Taking people out of their comfort zones allows for this. Recording to tape with no undo option would definitely take me out of my comfort zone 😁

100% on point. Ace. Brilliant. Sums up the importance of external environmental variables on an individual/s process and so much more Also the fluid and fleeting nature of “inspiration”….. internal and external energies colliding … Mad respect for her ability to articulate something so complex yet fundamentally core to one’s own approach, outlook, longview, no-view etc.. life, process, intent, proactivity vs reactivity.. im gonna stop here because …… well.. stop it with the masterclass/tedtalksProXpyramidfuckstick etc already! View this excellent doc for free. Eyes closed, ears open,

This is just utterly incredible

Great video ! You have a beautiful studio and ethos to your music production, I’ve learnt a lot just from listening to you. Thank you for the inspiration ! I’m a mature student studying Audio and Recording at Demontfort University. If there was ever a chance to come and visit you and your studio, to learn maybe some of your musical philosophies, that would be a blast. I must admit I do get irritated with DAW’s and computer based recording methods and would love to see the analogue side of life in the studio. You’ve been truly inspiring. All the very best. George

Nice and great work.... Keep going and preserve that knowledge.

At least !!!! Marvelously well explained. Thanks thanks and thanks again !! ❤❤❤

Well and truly a special work of art. To say I am inspired would be an understatement.

a truly inspired, fundamentally sound. doc. thank you for so generously giving sound a contextual shape.

Excellent!!

Magic. Thank you.

This is wonderful

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

Gorgeous, thanks.

Wonderful, thank you.

Fantastic. Spiritual.

Profound reflections on Sound - Julie is a legend

Love this so much.

Love this so much

LOVE THIS

As the owner of a small digital home studio, I find this absolutely fascinating. I'm just a hobbyist and although the idea of a nice big tape machine and analogue miser are really enticing, it's so far beyond my means as to be impossible. I do things though that make my life easier. I have simple templates that I use so that I don't spend much time messing around and can get right to the music. I also use analogue emulation plugins to tame the sound and make it sweeter. At least I hope it is.

Well done.

Beautiful watch.

Gives me hope!! Thanks to everyone responsible.

Just brilliant.

Outstanding.

Marvelous!

Just great, i´m myself an analogue addict and the only downside i see as an upside is that people seems to rehearse more when they understand the limitations. If you turn on the Radio, there´s no music from 1998-2005ish when digital was at an all time low, but plenty of analoge recordings going strong..

I love this.

GENIUS.

Class Myles enjoyed that :)

Not to be all negative but the reality of trying to work on that business model today is extremely difficult. Clients expect recalls and automation and demand perfect results. I asked one of my buddies about the possibility of recording to tape and he laughed! No we’re not going there he said! However for me personally I love analog and mixing on a desk. I think I’ll start out with a two track reel to reel and eventually get a 2” like she has. I just want that experience

10:00 Updates - that's what I friggeen hate about digital! Analog doesn't need updates, it just works.

Splendid

That's why I love my tiny Tascam DP008 portastudio: no screen!

Anyone have any links to the research she's discussing? I'd like to learn more about this topic of sight impacting our hearing.

Lovely 😍

A lot of very interesting stuff here, but there is no strong argument against digital recording, as a medium, or as a practice. Trusting the sound, and not the screen is a discipline. Putting yourself and artists in a creative zone Is great, when you can afford to hire a residential studio in the country… If you can’t, then develop the discipline of putting in hours every day in your bedroom studio… As regards happy accidents, nobody is forcing you to go into Pro Tools or whatever and move shit around. You can choose not to.. You can record ensembles live in a room with digital too…;) Neither does it forced you to over process, or overproduce… All of the stuff about restrictions helping creatitivy Is bang on, as is the psychology of Slow versus fast thinking. There are a number of pitfalls that people can fall into while using digital audio, But that is down to the method, not the medium itself.

Beauuuuuuutiful

I was born 1952. I can't have digital. A local jazz guitar/music teacher is the same. He's 78. I am new on this gizmo. I got a computer and joined social media Dec 2016. I listen to the YTubes on here. I complain a lot. I say, just please...give me the music. I don't want all the clutter. I don't want to know and hear how they are mucking about with the sound. I like me playing the guitar at 2/3 am. Even with 2 fingers out of commission, as I've damaged a nerve, beats this digital shit. Light is colourless. That is all your eyes detect. Only light. I fish. My best fishing tip is stop thinking. We are hunter gatherers. You do not want noisy bastards around when you are trying to catch wild animals for food. I can switch off for hours and not make a sound. I fish at night. Sometimes the silence give's you the creeps. Music is not just in the sound, it's in the intervals as well. I am a Marxist. "Psychology" is the psychology of capitalism. Unless you live on another lawless and know nothing planet.

YES YES YES!!!!

Nicely produced video ----- I would never use analog recording - To me it is a silly reversion into the past - But this video is quite interesting

Man!!!!💪💥✌️🔥

perfect

Gud Vid..

What's the name of the Junior Brother song on this?

Funny to introduce mystical stuff about “healing frequencies” after all the science. Does streaming affect mental health? I doubt very much there is any research backing that up. But Spotify et cetera do sound shit.

That sounds like a nice place to make music

beautiful stuff!! but please remember people, analog is not the answer to everything. you don't have to choose. you can do both. I think she is right about a lot of things but the fact that we can now buy a bunch of budget gear and a decent computer and make decent recordings is a beautiful thing. its what got (starting)musicians away from needing a big label to pay for a professional studio and able to diy their album. not hating here, analog can sound amazing and working with tape and an analog desk is a beautiful craft. but in the last few years of this analog revival I have heard people say that you can't make a good sounding recording when working digital, and that's just not true, there are multiple albums out there that prove that. "we don't have happy accidents in digital" 16:30 erm.. I have nothing but happy accidents when I'm workin digital. again, not hating, I am conviced her studio in that setting wil produce beautiful recordings and all the power to her.

yeah...

I don't think she left anything out concerning focusing on the why.

"choice paralysis and decision fatigue"

While I can understand and for the average person can agree with vision distracting hearing, I disagree that you cannot maintain both. As a musician, amateur recording engineer but most critically for THIS topic an avid competitive online FPS multiplayer gamer, find that not only is it possible to maintain both at a high level but for high level gameplay performance is CRITICAL. There are many audio cues in modern games, and many share the same frequency space. Not only do you need to be able to tell what each sound is and its source, but also its distance, direction, verticality, speed of repetition and more, and all while isolating it from the rest environment and its ambient sounds. At the same time you cannot close your eyes as your ability to aim and fight, as well as your ability to navigate are completely reliant on your vision. Also when your opponents are hiding or attack suddenly from around cover, the ability to visually identify an opponent QUICKLY as well as adjust your aim and track them are crucial, at the same time you must be carefully listening for call outs from your teammates, listening for potential other enemy footsteps, gun fire, the possible pulling of a grenade pin or its bounce relative to your location, trying to hear when your opponents are reloading so you know when you have a window to push for advantage. And all of this requires Accurate split second processing, analysis and decision making WHILE maintaining enough mental bandwidth to be able to physically execute the required inputs. In many FPS games at mid to high levels individual engagements can last as little as 200 MILLISECONDS, with the final play of Tournaments with thousands to HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Pounds/ Dollars ect on the line being decided by less than a quarter of a second. Back to the idea of reducing visual stimuli to enhance hearing for studio applications, YES for someone who is not used to dealing with a lot of stimuli sources simultaneously I can understand where you are coming from. BUT like any skill this is something that can be trained, Fast paced Multiplayer gaming can be used as a form of OVER-exposure therapy that eventually increases the amount of mental bandwidth available to you. As you said, once you get good and comfortable with that mental load, the processing difficulty and by extension the required mental bandwidth drop. Leaving you with the ability to accurately observe MANY things at the same time with little to no hindrance to your vision OR Hearing. This can easily be applied to digital recording like Pro Tools, or any other DAW. And other than the old school analogue vibe for the artist, being strictly Analogue ONLY is at the very least a little short sighted. I'm not going to argue that analogue has nothing to do with the sound or feel of a recording as it CLEARLY does, BUT the down side that digital DOESN'T have its own sound, is also one of its biggest strengths and advantages. As long as you are using high quality equipment the is NO difference between recording DIRECTLY to tape, and recording the exact same way but into a DAW then from the DAW to tape. While limitations CAN breed creativity, the thought of losing an otherwise "perfect" performance due to a single mishap is maddening. At least by using a DAW as a middle man should something go wrong on one track, that otherwise would have been good enough to print on the final record. You could specifically delete the ONE offending track, re-record that then send the whole recording RAW to the tape machine. That would allow for a highly flexible tape recording setup with backup reliability and if you ADD nothing within the DAW, absolutely ZERO audible digital footprint, Just the Pre-Amps colour into a Clean ACCURATE DAW that does NOTHING to the sound by itself, but easy to backup and edit, sent straight to tape for a pure analogue sound, with the flexibility of digital.

Digital is "ugly" because it tells the truth. Analog's characteristics are owed to the engineering that is trying to compensating for the technology's limitations. The smart studio of today takes advantage of the recall, editing, and pure economics offered by the DAW, while also having a well-suited collection of analog preamps and signal processing. I came up on tape and consoles and yes, I have a soft spot for that softer, more saturated and harmonic-rich top end. But any decent engineer knows how to capture that without relying on 75-year-old technology.

Ahhh yes, playing instruments with one's fingers aka "digits". No matter what you do, you can't ever be "100% analog" can you. Long live the WOOOOO. Good sound is good sound; how you get it is not important in the end.

99.9999% of you watching will NEVER be able to work with analogue tape. You will never have the amount of talent in front of the mic that's required, because that talent doesn't exist anymore in musicians. Most of you will never be able to accept the fact that your ENGINEERING has to be best of the best to be able to pull directly on tape WITHOUT EDITS, because analogue tape doesn't allow you to... you can't use stacks of FX, non linear editing, comping... And you have to be able to tolerate mistakes. Takes are never perfect, and that's just not acceptable anymore in big labels (not that I like it to being that way, that's just the way it is). No autotune, no drum replacement... nothing. Most of you will never have the MONEY to have analogue studio because the equipment is very expensive, prone to breaking and needs constant and expensive maintenance... tape itself is also VERY expensive... and you can't record on it multiple times because it degrades fast. So yeah... nice documentary of people who are on top of their game and have the possibility to do this, but most of the people that want to do analogue, never will. and you won't sell gazillion records just because you used analogue tape... so there's no return on investment...

Waste of time. This has more to do with her psychology than the psychology of analog.