I was beginning to think Serban was a mythological character, spoken about in fables by engineers. Now I know he's an actual real guy! It's great to finally hear him speak...I'd love to hear more from him.
@samharris6046Ай бұрын
To have both Serban and Manny on a call is insane!
@scottphillips161Ай бұрын
Serban and I have know each other since 7th grade back in Montreal. Not only is he talented mix engineer, but he's an amazing guitar player (he gave lessons to my brother and me). He was also the repair tech at Musicircle back when we were at CEGEP, the pros starting bring their guitars to Serban. But most of all, he's genuinely a real great dude.
@musicproductionstreams8021Ай бұрын
Nice!
@projectonerecАй бұрын
Tell him to do more interviews and help combat his frustrations with modern mixers.
@DruDillyАй бұрын
This is a rare Serban interview. Thank you!
@kev_kokoАй бұрын
serban spoke
@josepapiiiАй бұрын
Not only that but there's people that feel proud the more tracks they have
@nashse7enАй бұрын
I saw that classical music dude jackob i guess and he showed a FL studio project with over 830 tracks with such a proud smile. 🤣
@rome8180Ай бұрын
And like 20 of the tracks will be synth layers serving the same purpose in the song.
@witte_reus12 күн бұрын
superb mixing skills, great harline. some guys have it all.
@therosspalmerКүн бұрын
😂
@dillonmealeyАй бұрын
Wow, he spoke!
@ch3l53a1Ай бұрын
More please!!!!
@petercastle4381Ай бұрын
The interview the World been waiting for congratulations. We need a whole series Serban Ghenea knowledge mixing series Pop Soul Rock, i like to see him do it on a behringer wing console because they have over 40 fx on board. No other console has this. I run the behringer wing | studio music production group on f book.
@gregoryivesdolbyatmosmusicАй бұрын
I agree with the lack of experience in the former. I get way too many projects that there has not been any decisions really made. HENCE I always get several references from either the artist, label, or in film scoring that I do, a spotting session with either the director or producer who may be in charge of the decision making process in the end to know what they really want in the project or how they want the audience to feel.
@AllThatJuice20810 күн бұрын
4:59 It’s true, and it’s actually not all bad-if you’ve achieved something with 8 plugins quickly, you can then start cleaning it up to preserve the result you’ve ALREADY HEARD with just 3. I used to do the same with reverb. I’m even thinking sometimes: what if I slap reverb on the mixbus and mix into it, then remove the reverb? Because, you see, it emulates the acoustics that we especially don’t have when mixing on headphones. That’s what these new software tools do-the ones that emulate rooms and studio acoustics. The thing is, it’s not the reverb itself but what you do with your gain staging, EQs, and compression WHILE listening through it. Like we normally do with slight compression on a mixbus (maybe a tape emulation or even an actual tape). That’s kind of what happens when you mix on those stiff Yamahas or even the CUBE, or when you mix in MONO..
@cptboogyАй бұрын
Notice how you can see everyone else's workspace but Serban's camera is pointing up 😂
@andrewrice9383Ай бұрын
Yeah, I think last I read he was using proac 100s for nearfield and quested or dynaudio farfields. As for the rest of it, I don’t know.
@cptboogyАй бұрын
@@andrewrice9383 I'm well aware of his setup, just an observation as Serbian is known to be "secretive."
@andystein48796 күн бұрын
Lol I got to mean John and had a peek in serbans room but couldn't talk because he was on a phone call :')
@ganyimiklosАй бұрын
First time Sherban talks…
@jonathanrichard6881Ай бұрын
Whats Up Young Guru!!🎧📻
@NLGVIDEOS2Ай бұрын
Back in the day...that,s where I'm from. Ampex, Sully, MCI...
@vadimmartynyukАй бұрын
Extremely useful info
@YawsoundsАй бұрын
All them legends in one stream?! 🤯
@kingech_B15Ай бұрын
Talking about tape 😅
@YawsoundsАй бұрын
@@kingech_B15 😆
@Mixedbyjojo355Ай бұрын
Covid made Serban speak on camera!
@alexkramer696911 күн бұрын
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
@AA_MusicGuy1111Ай бұрын
Where is this from?
@iamalexenglishАй бұрын
Right? I wanna see the full stream!
@joaoandre_bassАй бұрын
It was stream during Covid. But that was about all he said about mixing.
@johndozesoph4136Ай бұрын
The Grammy Facebook. there's another video, but he doesn't go into much detail in this or the other video. it's not what the webinar was about anyways
@strawbryminiwheatsАй бұрын
nice thanks for sharing
@cmb_cworldАй бұрын
based
@peterkeereman2751Ай бұрын
You really need to have a vision and a feel as a producer, that pulls you in the right direction and forces you to make decisions ( with maybe some related alternatives ), otherwise it's better to do some other activity. I also think that, if you have the possibility to work with an absolute top professional like Mr. Ghenea, it's important to ask yourself how you can best utilise his time and experience in your project. Making them do lots corrective stuff and going through lots of tracks is an absolute 'no go' as far as I'm concerned. You need to share your ideas and see how they can take it further. In that way their work can be applying their experience in a technical and creative way.
@StvrkАй бұрын
Where is this clip from???
@retro3038Ай бұрын
Where can we find the full video ?
@SirDLeeАй бұрын
Behringer Wing🎧🎙🔈🔉🔊🎼🎵🎶Behringer Wing
@precisionsoundworksstudioАй бұрын
Great vid. Who is that in the hat? Also, top right with the long, blond hair?
@elbear98Ай бұрын
Top right with the long blond hair, Ann Mincieli, Alicia Keys' engineer.
@precisionsoundworksstudioАй бұрын
@@elbear98 Thank you.
@drgondabeatАй бұрын
in the hat is Ivan Barias… my professor at Drexel haha…
@torbjorn.hedbergАй бұрын
This is a quite old video, right?
@DjD1MAHАй бұрын
if you get ableton live light you could actually work like the way he is describing
@p4493Ай бұрын
😂
@DjD1MAHАй бұрын
@@p4493 why not it only has a certain amount of channels so you have decide what to bounce down to a group
@Rohme.3328 күн бұрын
Max Martin doesn’t send him 200 tracks?
@roberteismann1929Ай бұрын
And almost every Drake song could have been done with 8 tracks.
@evanmuller1967Ай бұрын
I don't really understand what he's saying... he wants to receive a more finished product so he has to do less work? What even is your job at that point? Love Serban as much as anyone, but if you receive a mix with printed effects, and everything sounds good.. what is even left to do other than mastering? Is his genius just volume automation and panning?
@petercastle4381Ай бұрын
With the best sounding records and 22 Grammys billions of listens of his mixed songs. His way Al Schmit and Tom Elmhurst is the right way . We just have to listen and take notes.
@Doctaj54Ай бұрын
You need to become a full time mixing engineer and you will very clearly understand what he's speaking. It's a headache with some projects.
@evanmuller1967Ай бұрын
@@Doctaj54 yeah, I guess so. I’m working with such low stakes myself that it all seems baffling to me. I would track, produce, mix, and master myself in sequence. Getting stems with printed fx and mixing, panning, automating, etc just doesn’t feel like a separate job to me.
@Doctaj54Ай бұрын
@@evanmuller1967 but it is a separate job and that's the point I feel he's making. Sometimes you get plugins or printed efx that the artist or producer don't want you to change. They want a great mix but those "Don't Change this or that" requests have a direct impact on getting that great mix. Even those sessions you get where you're told you have 100% freedom to do whatever can be a nightmare... because a lot of the mix decision are really production and/or creative decisions being force onto the mix engineer. Then when you send the final mix, the artist asks you to change this or that. And we have yet to talk about finding and fixing any technical issues within the recording before the actual mixing is in full swing. Oh, and they want that great mix finished in by the end of the day.
@GingerDrumsАй бұрын
Hey I can weigh in to this: as a mastering engineer its always surprising how much I can do with a stereo track. If I have 5 stems I can essentially remix all elements from there. The musicality, openness and balance can be corrected, but also whilst retaining the effects and decisions from the producer. If I mix a track with 8 stems or 10 I can do all the important mix work... if I need more granular stems I can always ask for them