We ain't Fictitious! ❤‍🔥

tf is this music man

I miss him.

want to come there and study so badly 😢

I thought he said “I am three years old and have earned every minute of it”

Such a loss to musical world! RIP, Steve - so much respect for this brilliant and generous man!

He’s making a lot of blanket statements about digital while simultaneously admitting it’s completely foreign to him … you just print zeroed out stems of your final session and save raw audio of the multitracks, it’s really not that complicated. Granted you need to migrate your data to new storage mediums every so often, but that’s no different than needing to properly store your beloved analog tapes. His experiences with people not being able to open their archived digital sessions sounds like user error to me.

I think he is short sided on digital. From a DAW prospective after 25 years I can access everything I have at the drop of a hat. I made sure to transfer my media into digital .Wav files. All my old masters are easily recalled from 25 years ago. I was meticulous though and an old record that didn’t get the love may be different. Concert your tracks on tape to digital asap and back up on 3x spots. RIP Steve you are the professor of my generation in production and mixing. I wish I had been your studio Intern. 😢

What the fuck with the camera?

A man of dignity, RIP

When Steve talks it becomes clear that he was a student of history and philosophy - loads of perspective, beyond your typical modern person.

I like Albini but the digital vs. analog talk is complete bs. Of course you are able to read digital music in 2024. Sure, for some formats you need older machines but hey, a tape machine is not exactly a new invention and if you’re talking of “expired” equipment, you must admit that tape machines are just that as well, so… This is just nonsensical nostalgia with no substance behind it whatsoever. …and I say all this being the frontman of a band that makes 60s/70s inspired music and I LOVE the vintage sound. Nevertheless truth is that tape brings you no sound benefits. You have to be superstitious to believe in this. Unfortunately the recording community is overpopulated with superstition, voodoo thinking, self delusion, etc.

“If you have a any further questions feel free to send me an email or whatever, I’m always around” RIP Steve 😢

Man….he was something truly special.

One might think the the people recording this master class by a renowned recording engineer could have somehow mustered up the foresight and ability to make the questions being asked at the end somehow magically be able to have been heard on the video recording. Maybe I am asking for too much.

goodbye, sir. rest in peace.

Analog is far superior to digital sound, yet, as most of you know, you can backup to multiple HD’s stored in multiple locations and cloud storage. I don’t see investing a boatload of money into a full analog studio for the purpose of archival integrity. It makes complete sense for a guy like Steve Albini and I can respect it, yet for most of us it’s totally absurd.

R.I.P !!!!

I don’t care what Steve says Shellac’s music is beautiful. RIP Steve you were one of the best.

Humble as it gets. Cheerio Mr.Real One

Damn, he really had the wrong idea about digital audio in the beginning... I sorta understand what he means by "losing the sessions" as in the session file might not work in the future, but you can still extract the PCM files recorded on them... That standard hasn't changed and will probably never change... and even then, it's an open standard, making a PCM decoder is basically trivial. Tapes WILL degrade with time and copies will have a penalty in quality. Digital copies will have NO quality loss whatsoever and can be stored in a pletora of different formats... It's actually the other way around, analog physical tapes have their days numbered where digital recordings will live on. It's a shame that the dismissal of digital audio comes from not understanding how it actually works... Losing the sounds of a midi synth plugin, sure, but anything that has been bounced to a PCM file will always be there...

I am glad he didn't want to put the scuzzy smarmy interviewer on the Guest List

I wish he could have recorded Maurizio Pollini playing Chopin. It would have been great. What a brilliant humane man.

I love his recording of The Breeders record. Partly, it's the band. But his bass and drums are so rich on certain sounds, and it was so different from a lot of the dryer, thinner recordings I was hearing at the time. It feels so present and alive, and those cymbals and guitar pop just right in their contrast. I'm still trying to accept that he's gone. He brought recordings to life. Neat guy.

I’ve watched it again , as much as possible in the past few days ! So sad , such a loss ! R.I.P Rocker ❤

Genius/ legit human.

That's cool he mentioned Jason Molina. I highly recommend him you won't be disappointed.

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This is terribly a huge fucking loss....I'm not musician or any sort, but I have utmost respect for him. The fact that I will not hear anything from him ever again is unimaginably hard to swallow.

Steve is the Fugazi of audio engineers.

Steve - we miss you so much already. ❤

RIP STEVE

RIP....What a loss!

Anyone done this bachelor and can give me some information on what it was like?

This sux sooooooo bad....god im sad...RIP PUNK PIONEER 😥😥😥

R.I.P.

RIP to one of the best to ever do it, music today simply would not be the same without him

Se fue un grande!!!!

coolest&realest* rip

Rip Steve, Thank you for all your amazing work

RIP Steve. You really were one of my heroes. Gonna miss you much.

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Rip Steve😢😢

Wonderful interview. I love Steve's ballsy, sometimes-iconoclastic view of things.

Anybody know the name of the Red Solo cup band??? I'd quite like to know the result of that recording style 😂

Thanks for this!

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Albini is smart with a lot of great ideas and knowledge.

are there any drivers (including this one) that can send different audio to multiple tracks? e.g. i'd like to send some audio from reape into fl studio mixer track 3, and some different audio into mixer track 4.

I would love to see Rick Beato interview Steve Albini. Their personalities would be very fun to watch interact