Recording Myths We All Believed.

[@AdamSliger]

Quick corrections: MI5**** not MI6 (been playing too much James Bond Pinball) and Mandela passed in 2013, not 2016 (so even when you're right, you're wrong). Thanks for watching y'all, this was a fun one to make so I hope you enjoy it! Get your Producer Planners here in time for the holidays: makethatlouder.com/planner

[@kassemir]

It's also worth mentioning that back masking myths usually "works" specifically because people see the text in front of them. I think it's called "priming the subject", or something like that. But, basically, without the text on the screen, in most cases it wouldn't work, and would just sound like nonsense.

[@jukesjointOG]

@@kassemir Yes and No. Did extensive experiments in the studio in the 80s; you can figure out and practice precisely how to say something backwards, to get it to sound “right” when played forwards.

[@AdamSliger]

oh for sure

[@BenCoultryAfishall]

I have one to add, possibly: Is "Goebbels" being pronounced correctly here for this slice of universe? Where I come from it was always "gerbles."

[@ZLLV]

Why did You use footage of Sony and VEF radios for nazi propaganda part? Sony starts in 1958, and VEF didn't made Volksempfänger radios. Ugly move.

[@mnuzum2471]

One very important correction- Neumann was never known as Telefunken. Two completely different companies. Telefunken was the original distributor for Neumann, and Neumann did make some mics for Telefunken that were branded with the Telefunken logo. They were definitely closely involved with one another for several years, but very much separate and distinct companies. Other companies, including AKG, made mics for Telefunken branded with the Telefunken logo (ELA M 251 comes to mind), but they have always been independent separate companies.

[@devon-graves-studio-D]

Weren't Telefunken the American distributor for Neumann back then?

[@_-_Michael_-_]

Yes as an European I can confirm they were two companies and Neumann is the one that was actually building microphones.

[@mnuzum2471]

@@devon-graves-studio-D Correct. Until about 1958/59 all Neumann mics sent to the US for sale had the Telefunken badge, although made by Neumann. The "real" Telefunken (German company that ceased production in early 1980's) didn't actually make mics, they had others (Neumann, AKG, Siemens, etc) make them for them under license. Neumann then started their own distribution under their own name around 1959. Point of clarification in case anyone didn't know, the "new" Telefunken is not the same company. They are an outfit in the US that bought the naming rights around 2001 and some designs patents to build reproductions of vintage mics.

[@morbidmanmusic]

@@_-_Michael_-_ "Yes as an European I can confirm" in this world, that isn't cred.

[@freudsc4t447]

Telefunken made audio valves (along with other electronic components) or tubes as the Americans like to call them. Some of the best ever made IMHO. It was a natural fit for two German companies as the Neumann mics had Telefunken valves in them back in that time.

[@NicoNice24]

There is a grafiti at a trainstation near my hometown that says "Don't worry be happy - Bob Marley" and above is a drawing of Bob Marley's face. Makes me chuckle every time

[@DarkDesertMovies]

Ringo was an incredible drummer and that is a hill I will die on. He was not a particularly creative drummer capable of wild drum solos. What he was was a human drum machine that could play a crazy shuffle beat rock solid for minutes at a time, and switch to another beat without even the slightest hiccup. Doing all those shows in Hamburg gave him so much practice and experience that I sometimes wonder how much he would have to drink or smoke or drop before he fell out of time. Legend.

[@AdamSliger]

Oh he’s great

[@VallinSFAS]

Ringo was not the official drummer for The Beatles in Hamburg; that was Pete Best. Ringo sat in on some gigs that Pete missed, and the band liked him much better. Ringo officially became a Beatle in August 1962 after they met George Martin.

[@taddallman-morton6796]

I think Ringo played in Hamburg with another band-possibly Rory and the Hurricanes?!

[@johnnhoj6749]

@@VallinSFAS The Beatles returned to Hamburg in November and December 1962 to fulfil a contract. On that visit Ringo was their drummer because, as you said, he had joined in August of that year.

[@richardthelionheart01]

'Not particularly creative' as Come Together lives in everybody's head. Try playing the ride cymbal on I feel Fine. Really - go back and listen to the ride on the verses. I've played and a ton of Beatle bands and nobody - nobody can play this. The tom fills on the verses. In My Life - the whole bloody song. The fills on Oh! Darling - good luck. The 'snare rolls' on Help! and Tell Me Why? NOT snare rolls - single hits combined with floor tom. Go try the one from Tell Me Why at speed. The end drumming on Happiness is a Warm Gun - have you figured that one out yet? Calling a drummer 'solid' is an insult. When we didn't know wtf to say to a drummer we called him 'solid'. Ringo not creative. Just, wow.

[@The_Apple_Fritter]

I spent years thinking that Rockwell was a band that had a singer in it that sounded just like Michael Jackson.

[@stephanleo]

Or that the album "What Time Is It?" by the band The Time just sounded a lot like Prince...

[@WatchesnguitarsDK]

Wow… Me too. And here I am, 34 years old, looking it up on Wikipedia because of you , seeing the correct story 😂

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Zappa saying “It looks just like a telefunken U-47” makes much more sense now 🤯🤯

[@themelancholicpaganmusicco2980]

@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 With leather?

[@mikelevitt7365]

Does it have leather?

[@stingray1irwin0]

When I was a voice actor, I did some work for a CBC radio drama on the Halifax explosion. The solo voice work was recorded in one of their anechoic chambers. No windows, and you could hear your heart beating in your ears. Union regulations even stated a five minute break after every fifteen minutes of work or something like that. I actually still get chills typing it out. I'm glad it was a once in a lifetime experience. On the flip side, all the group work was done in the Foley studio, two stories high, full of every kind of door, staircase, and substrate, even living grass, on casters. The art of radio drama used to be spectacular.

[@AdamSliger]

That sounds really interesting!! Thanks for typing this up!

[@busekose]

Another famous example of Mandela effect in music releases: So many people believe that Frank Sinatra sang "Killing Me Softly With Her Song" when it was actually Perry Como singing.

[@Stefan-]

How you could believe that Mandela had died in prison in the 80´s is beyond me since he was released from prison after 27 years in 1990 and then in 1994 became the president of South Africa which he was for 5 years, it was quite a big thing since it also ended the apartheid era so you iMHO would have had to be living under a rock to not notice it.

[@AdamSliger]

I wasn’t born yet so 🤷🤷

[@Stefan-]

@@AdamSliger Sure, but you also didnt invent the expression and i didnt mean you by writing "you", i meant any person that were not a small child at the time pretty much. I was a young adult then and it was well known at the time even here in Sweden.

[@AdamSliger]

Haha yeah I figured I just have no idea either

[@paavoilves5416]

I wasn't born then either and I was a bit confused when I heard of this Mandela confusion

[@scalzmoney]

The weird part is that people only mention "the Mandela Effect" today. I guess the idea is that when he died "a lot of people" thought "didn't he die in prison?" But Mandela did so much after he got out of prison like becoming the first democratically elected President of South Africa. He was big news. That's why I reject the idea of a mass delusion named after him. If you were alive in the 80's and 90's you knew he was alive and he was a big deal.

[@mattalling4299]

One of the most popular studio "urban legends" is that Ringo's drum parts were re-recorded in overnight sessions by Burnard Purdie. There was an interview with Purdie from the 90s where Purdie told the story, and a couple of people from the recording sessions confirmed this.

[@joeheadblues]

Bernie's claim has been widely debunked.

[@joeheadblues]

The postcard Ringo received was sent to him when he left The Beatles for a short period and went to Greece during The White Album sessions, not after the rooftop concert.

[@davidwiggins8377]

@@joeheadblues it’s dated 31st of January 1969, which is a day after the rooftop concert.

[@benjaminedwards9751]

My roommate in 2003 thought that "Red Red Wine" by UB40 was Bob Marley because that's what it said on Kazza Lite when he downloaded it.

[@a.vanwijk2268]

3:52 Slanted windows do have an acoustical function, though different from what you think. Indeed, for the room acoustics of the studio it is not very important. However, for the sound insulation between studio and control room it is important to not have a "wall" that suffers from spring - mass resonance. This is achieved by smearing this resonance out over a wider range by having not just one distance between the slabs of glass. As you no doubt will know it is very important that sounds from different rooms in a studio building do not leak out. The diminishing of glare is just a bonus. Edit: the slanting isn't the key, it's the wedging

[@JimhawthorneNet]

Keeping the same distance of each Mic ensures good Time alignment (thought not phase), simply use your Mic-Cable to measure. You don't need a bloody tape-measure when a Mic cable is right there. Yes, it's a good idea, but if you have any other closer Mics then you should Time-align anyway.

[@andywalex]

The polarity switch is often referred to incorrectly as a phase switch because it is used to mitigate the affect of phase for multiple mics on the same source, but phase is most certainly a relationship in time as the two (or more) waveforms aren't exactly in time. I was taught to use the 3 to 1 rule when using multiple mics on the same source, as in three feet of distance for every one mic on the source. Regardless, it is important to understand, as you pointed out, that the alignment of the waveforms is off.

[@Gatchi]

One I still see even literally earlier today is that some people believe that Eminem and Linkin Park collaborated on a song(s) together, because there were fan-made mashups that made their way onto things like LimeWire, Napster, and iMesh. I think there's a lot of these fan-made mashup VS legit collaboration discrepancies.

[@latheofheaven1017]

Interesting myth about Neumann. I worked in recording studios constantly between 1981 and 2009 and never once heard it mentioned. Is this one of those things that has grown up with internet social media?

[@AdamSliger]

Honestly no, I really only ever heard it in studios until Ye brought it up on Infowars

[@paavoilves5416]

I haven't heard that the NS party itself would've been in the design process but I've heard that they used them or something.

[@rlibby404]

Small correction regarding Limewire, you say "all because someone decided to upload the song with the wrong credits." The truth is that it wasn't always (or usually) intentional. Limewire did not require a user to upload the song, rather, most users gave Limewire unrestricted access to all of their connected hard drives whether they were aware of it or not. So, if someone searched for Bob Marley, and you had a mislabeled song on your hard drive, other users simply downloaded it just like any other file. I had a few personally sourced live bootlegs of various bands leak to the public this way. Also lost all my music files once because the cheap external hard drive they were stored on was getting too much traffic and died.

[@AdamSliger]

yeah haha I guess "seeded" would be a better word. The good ol' days, using all your bandwidth to do crimes

[@mal2ksc]

@@AdamSliger Now you need all your bandwidth for games and their massive updates.

[@tepetti]

At some point it was like a meme. Every reggae song was circulating the internet credited to Bob Marley 😂

[@AdamSliger]

It’s true 😂

[@realraven2000]

10:45 I think that a lot of people probably mix Mandela up with Steve Biko.

[@toddgreenwood9631]

Ah ... I feel that I'm obliged to comment. At 13 years and a young guitarist in the mid 70s I would collect pop bottles and sell them to a local shop keeper who also sold records and tapes and I would spend most of my earnings on recordings. I bought Deep Purple's Machine Head (on 8-track) because I thought it would be fun to learn Smoke On The Water the correct way in stead of the way we all played it when trying out a buddy's cheap guitar. I got it home, donned my beloved headphones (the huge Jana head phones you can see in my little picture) only to discover that Deep Purple was a much weirder band than I thought and also discovered that Smoke On the water was not on this tape. Looking at the songs titles, they didn't seem to match the music I was listening to. These songs were creepy and scary. But real heavy also. I thought about taking the tape back to the shop keeper and explaining the packaging mistake but kept it because I was so curious about the creepy strange and quite demonic music. This is a small town and we didn't have access to a lot of music info and being exposed to this kind of art left me intrigued and disturbed and I took provisions to make sure my parents didn't hear me listening to Satin on an eight track. I read about disturbing trends in music in Time and Macleans magazine and this would be my only way to explore these subversive sounds. (the term punk rock was not yet in use in North American media just yet it being 1974). It would be a while before I would learn that the album was by Black Sabbath, their first and self titled album. Some how something in the universe needed me to hear music I wouldn't have chosen otherwise. True, untainted HEAVY METAL. Was it a warning?

[@AdamSliger]

that's a wild story!

[@toddgreenwood9631]

@@AdamSliger Ha ha. Thanks. Glad you liked it. You have a wild channel. I'm really enjoying it. I also have fairly prominent ADHD and I just watched you vid on ADHD hacks. I'm sitting at my recording desk right now and I must relearn some singing parts so I'd better go before you get another story. Cheers.

[@AdamSliger]

Cheers 🤘🤘

[@georgecrenshaw6309]

One of the famous miscredited songs is "Diamond In The Back" by Curtis Mayfield. Both the song title AND the artist are wrong. But the Mandela Effect kept this error going on for more than twenty years. It is actually called "Be Thankful For What You Got" by William DeVaughn. He recorded it twice: the original hit version in 1974, and an updated version in 1981.

[@MistyMusicStudio]

Feeling so validated about not measuring my overheads rn lol. Excellent video ✨👏

[@AdamSliger]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙌

[@corybarnes2341]

yes and just place your speakers anywhere in the room you wish as well. Stereo imaging is a lie.

[@AdamSliger]

Even when I measure I still end up adjusting for phase half the time so 🤷🤷

[@cbrooks0905]

@@AdamSliger you might need a new tape measure. 😂 Every time I record drums measure from the center of my snare to my overheads, and every single time when I pull it up in the daw the microphones are perfectly in phase.

[@cpsedmonds]

Whilst the Axl Rose story is true, it gets an unfair amount of exposure compared to the very similar events from Dennis Wilson for the Beach Boys song "All I Wanna Do". Except Wilson did it in 1968!

[@AdamSliger]

No wayyyyy

[@leopoldbluesky]

@@AdamSliger You can hear it if you bring the volume up during the fadeout

[@HeuPolleu]

Correction: The Beach Boys Song is called "All I Want To Do". I want to point that out because they released a song called "All I Wanna Do" the next year, which was completely unrelated (other than having almost the same title). Giving their songs names was not their strong suit.

[@RichRobinson]

You are spot on with the Glyn Johns. I came to this conclusion myself many years ago. It is fun to play around with and Glyn Johns is still a hero. Good video!

[@AdamSliger]

Thanks! Yeah I only have respect for Glyn! The technique rules for sure.

[@DeAthWaGer]

There's a huge list of parody songs incorrectly attributed to Weird Al thanks to the early days of song sharing.

[@muzzymikeonthemic]

There was a metal Legend of Zelda song that, for the longest time, I thought was System of a Down because it was labelled as such on lime wire and it actually kinda sounded like them…

[@MrmiK3]

Link he come to town

[@chrisgately4358]

The "47" in the Neumann / Telefunken U-47 came from the year that it was introduced, two years after the collapse of the Nazi regime.

[@adamcoe]

I've actually still found it helpful to measure the distance of my OHs, if for no other reason than it helps me make a decision quicker on where and how high to place them. It may not be "necessary, but I've definitely preferred the sounds I got vs just throwing up a pair of mics and sticking them at the same height whereever they look good.

[@AdamSliger]

I’m neutral on measuring cause I’m gonna check the phase anyway. But it’s a good practice to measure!

[@ATLS702]

Lots of people think ‘Diamond In The Back’ is by Curtis Mayfield due to a popular KZbin upload. Really the original artist is William Devaughn, though it has this vibe about it that makes Curtis feel plausible, same as ‘Don’t Worry be Happy’ between Marley and McFerrin

[@BoxrattlerMusic]

Hi Adam. New subscriber, I was told by a producer/ engineer whilst recording at a studio in Liverpool UK that in fact Bonhams drums and cymbals were recorded separately to achieve that sound. A reliable source I might add. Thanks enjoyed your vid. Cheers. Tony.

[@AdamSliger]

Welcome aboard! Interesting lore about Bonham for sure!

[@BoxrattlerMusic]

@AdamSliger Certainly made me listen to some of those songs a little more closely and it makes sense that it might be something that would kept strictly on a need to know basis, knowing how producers are. No doubt a killer drum sound either way.

[@song-mode]

i also think i remember glys saying in that video you showed, that in addition to the right drummer, there was a pretty specific compression setup, dialed to a certain sweet spot, that had to go along with the mic-ing technique.

[@AdamSliger]

Yeah, I did see he wanted the gain staging to be a certain way too

[@craigbrowning9448]

Two Blues songs that get mixed: They Call It Stormy Monday- T-Bone Walker. Stormy Monday Blues- Billy Eckstein.

[@glOOmyART]

what i remember from the p2p days is that "i'll stop the world and melt with you" by modern english was widespread credited to the cure funny sidenote; when i first heard "come on eileen" by dixys midnight runners i thought it was the cure and when i first saw the video of "friday i'm in love" by the cure in 1992 i thought "wow, boy george cut his hair and has a new band" - i was completely clueless about music until my late teens (b. 1979) 😂

[@ImaginationMeme]

@@glOOmyART funny enough i also downloaded melt with you back in the day as well but that version was misattributed to Marilyn Manson and was actually a pop punk cover of the song

[@adamcoe]

yeah but *where* on eileen

[@knight733]

i remember hearing the gnr "myth" from one of the members kids on tik tok saying "please stop spreading that around she was my babysitter"

[@trollingisasport]

lmao Starting with Nazt propoganda. Good way to lock viewers in.

[@hockeytalk6084]

Right lol I was like OK this is going to be good 🍿 😂

[@stayrad.]

Wow you literally did an entire video based off of Internet trolling. Amazing.

[@Rompler_Rocco]

An amazing cover of the Mario Bros 2 theme attributed to The Minibosses was on Limewire. The rendition wasn't heavy- mainly clean electric guitar and drums, most likely recorded together in a room. Trying to find it ever since has been a dead end.

[@michaelcaplin8969]

I'm surprised someone who deals with audio thinks that Telefunken ever made microphones. Telefunken never made a single microphone. They are not a microphone company, and never has been. NEUMANN is the microphone company that made all the microphones. Telefunken was just the US distributor for the Neumann mics. Just like you can buy a microphone cable off of Amazon, but it doesn't make it an Amazon cable :) Nice video!

[@UCS0608]

Well, they probably do because on the mike it says "Telefunken".....?? 😛Being an audio-engineer I use microphones, I'm not checking out every day who's the distributor of a certain mike. And, isn't it strange that a distributor puts it's name on a mike? But hey, Zappa was wrong, we have rewrite history.... 😆

[@michaelcaplin8969]

@ If you are an audio engineer, you KNOW that Telefunken was the US distributor of Neumann mics. Just the same way that if you are designing cars for a living, you KNOW that Ford made the first cars. You are not going to find a single person on this planet worthy of the title «professional audio engineer» who doesn’t know this. Some «bedroom producers» may be confused yes, but someone who knows the old microphones and how to use them would absolutely know this :) it’s one of the first things you learn when you start in the professional studios, as some old engineer will inevitably lecture you on the history of their Telefunken branded U47s, they love talking about them

[@busekose]

For so many years, I thougt Michael Jackson was singing "Eni vici voke" instead of "Annie, are you okay?" in Smooth Criminal.

[@alephestudios]

2:33 But science was tied to politics, everything they did was supervised by the Nazi party, so a request from someone in the office to deliver a better microphone has a very high chance of having happened. Their tentacles were all over the country in every industry. Medicines and technology didn't escape. We have the soda Fanta from that fact and the classic Vocho car, from a huge number of examples. The Nazi party, although it leaves a bad taste, did accelerate science and invented many things we use today.

[@mal2ksc]

Quality tools are quality tools, regardless of whether your goals are creative or destructive.

[@JoeStuffzAlt]

The Ringo thing has happened with other bands. There's a few times where a band recruits someone like a keyboard player or a guitarist that sings, and the new singer could outdo the lead singer. However, the current lead singer is iconic, and the new band member is often fine being an instrumentalist

[@metalheadblues]

John from RHCP comes to mind

[@HiggsBosonandtheStrangeCharm]

...slanted windows does have an audio function........minimize transmission.......tapered cavity stops standing waves between the sheets........often different thickness of glass on both sides also reduces transmission at any given frequency.......

[@AdamSliger]

This is a common misconception. There will not be standing waves between two pieces of glass. They don’t have enough “soundproofness” to create that sort of trapped reflection. If they did, the sound wouldn’t get in between them in the first place, because the “outside” of the glass would be creating its own standing wave on the inside of the room. Obviously there will be some reflection from pane to pane but not to the point where standing waves are going to be an issue. Standing waves inside your room are a consideration, though.

[@AnWe79]

Once at a flea market, I noticed the demo song, for some audio gear was Let's Stay Together by (I don't remember exactly) Desmond Dekker or Curtis Mayfield. It was clearly the original Al Green version though.

[@RraMakutsi]

One of my favorite Napster finds was a bluegrass cover of "Gin & Juice" by The Gourds... it was labelled as Gin & Juice by Phish, but I could tell instantly that it was not Phish. It was years before I found out the actual band that did the cover... that track slaps (even Snoop agrees, lol), and should be sought out by anyone who calls themselves a music lover! 🤘

[@jooei2810]

The most influential channel is KZbin and alphabet controls the voice.

[@RewardThe]

Surely it would be easier to add a video link rather than a window

[@AdamSliger]

Depends on your definition of easier, I suppose! Once the window is in, you never have to think about it again, which is nice.

[@brinepacer]

Damn some of these were really surprising. Interesting stuff!

[@paulmdevenney]

Limewire? Non of this modern stuff. Napster gave me "Dream On" attributed to "Led Zeppelin"...which was of course actually by Aerosmith. Took me a long time to find that one out. The backwards thing is a well known phenomenon where we find patterns that simply don't exist. It's particularly effective when you are told the phrase to "hear" in advance. There's a great online lecture on it, if only I could remember where it was.

[@michaelcottle6270]

One pre-limewire misattribution story. One run of the 12" Blue Monday had the A and B sides swapped and my local record shops got this version, so my whole peer group thought that Blue Monday was an instrumental and "The Beach" was the version with vocals. Didn't realise for years...

[@AdamSliger]

that's interesting!

[@VictorLaMonde]

I oversaw the construction of a voiceover studio in the late 1990's that included a soundproofed booth. The acoustic engineer who designed the booth installed a window box with 2 panes of glass that were not slanted but each pane was thinner at one end than the other. Like a wedge.The panes had nothing to do with the acoustics or light reflections but helped with sound proofing.

[@AdamSliger]

Interesting! I’ve never seen that before

[@imark7777777]

Fascinating about the drums. Sure there's phase cancellation but all the live situation I've seen it used it's like is that really the top on your worry list.

[@alessandro.favero]

I would probably say yes, phase when multi-miking drums really is top of the list! I think Glyn reacts that way because he's always had a good intuition and he's very rock n roll about it, "use your ears not a tape measure, you nerd" type. Which I understand and appreciate. But from that to "phase isn't THAT important" there's a big gap! Phase is the no.1 killer in the world of great drum sounds.

[@michelleneeds4165]

​@@alessandro.faveroI would say phase issues can really screw up your recording especially when using tape, as there is no way to know anything is wrong until you listen back and that killer take has a large unprofessional WHOOSH slices straight through the middle of your track. I mean it could be a happy accident once... Not a good idea to make a habit of it tho...

[@CricketStyleJ]

Slanted walls make the studio more defensible in a siege.

[@AdamSliger]

Facts

[@johnbellerjeau8466]

So I never post in KZbin comments. But the glen John’s technique is solid in the right context. He said go try it and I agree. But I wouldn’t call it a myth. It’s just what you want your focus to be. Add close mikes to it as needed. But it’s still something any engineer should know.

[@officialWWM]

I record acoustic guitar outside all the time! If you want zero reflections and the most natural acoustic sound, outside is the place to do it :)

[@adolfnoise4673]

☔🌧good idea....as long as you don't live in Hamburg, northern Germany 🌧☔

[@officialWWM]

@ nope. I live about as far from there as possible. I’m in Hobart, Tasmania :)

[@blinksy7201]

The Ohio Players’ “Love Rollercoaster” and its notorious murder myth

[@NicleT]

Excellent video. You could make a series of these Studio myths. Also, just want to point out that four ads was a bit too much.

[@AdamSliger]

They put 4 ads in this one video? I gotta look into that!!!

[@AdamSliger]

And yes I will def be making a series!

[@thomastucker5686]

We don't need windows with 4k monitors. I would think avoiding windows altogether in the studio would be the best practice. That said, I would prefer a studio with a south facing wall that is full glass to let sunlight pour in. The natural light makes me happier and will most likely negatively affect the acoustics. If glass could be shaped into an acoustically friendly shape, I would prefer a half glass recording studio.

[@AdamSliger]

That would really be something! There's a studio called Pale Moon Ranch that you should look up, it has a beautiful big window with a gorgeous view in the live room!

[@thomastucker5686]

@@AdamSliger my studio is dark and I think it sucks out some forms of creativity. That said, the room sounds good. Many of my creative ideas happen outside the studio, sometimes in sunlight, next to a window with a nice view. If I built a studio from scratch, I would figure out a way to have it brighter with natural light. I need to fake some natural light in the studio, it is just too dark. Funny, as a younger man, dark studios were my expectation and I didn't care at all. As an older person, 59, I feel particularly light sensitive, as in, I go through a depressive state for the short months of daylight and I cannot sleep without nearly total darkness. I particularly crave sunlight in the day and want zero light during sleep and if elected president of the US, I will maintain 16 hour days, year round, with full sun and only rain during dark hours.

[@WrathOfWood]

Ive had multiple whole albums been named wrong and had conversations with people about the wrong things and did not know until I stumble across the real thing, what a mind f

[@UCS0608]

10:39 The people that were surprised that Mandela passed away in 2013 must have been living under a rock, because his release from prison was world news and later he even became president of South Africa. So it's kinda sad that this is actually called the Mandela-effect.... 🙄 Besides that, it's weird anyway, because somehow those people apparently knew he was in prison in a time when there was not so much tv, yet somehow they totally missed his release and what happened after that in a time where everything he did was covered on worldwide tv.... 😳

[@MixMeMcGee]

That intro is unhinged! 😂👏👏

[@deantiquisetnovis]

The company is called Telefunken with a „u“ like in You

[@scarfypedia]

I love how everytime some famous wealthy person has a cRaZy studio story I just sit there like... oh so... a crime. lol.

[@zoomosis]

Interesting video! I remember a lot of comedy songs were misattributed to Weird Al Yankovic back in the Napster days.

[@kevinlentz7604]

Got the planner thanks

[@AdamSliger]

Appreciate you!

[@waynepayne864]

ah this video helped my recording ability thanks!

[@malobre32]

lol he mandela effected the mandella effect story or is it the mandala effect?

[@jesseywinkler7921]

Ok so I was one of just a couple guys on a BEAUTIFUL studio build (check out earthwork studios in Newark Ohio) and I can 100% tell you that the reason studio windows are slanted is due to acoustics. However it's not the room acoustics. It's soundproofing acoustics. Slanted windows prevent vibrations from one window passing through to another, there y transferring sound from one isolated room to another. The slant doesn't completely remove the transfer, but it lessens it a lot. At earthwork studios we used a thermal/acoustic treated glass that was 2 thin pieces of glass with neoprene pressed between. It DOES help with glare, but the real reason is soundproofing. Oh and as far as my credentials, I built every window box in the studio, by myself, from scratch, and worked directly with the engineer who designed the windows, for specifically this purpose.

[@AdamSliger]

I’m not sure how the slant would improve the overall isolation from room to room. In theory the more air between the two panes, the better more isolation between rooms. So you’d want the panes as far apart as possible which is going to be achieved by keeping them parallel. I’d be curious how much slanting the panes changes the level of sound that passes through if that’s the only variable. But also everything you do in acoustics has consequences regardless, so I’d be curious to run tests on this myself. Which gives me an idea for a video 🤔

[@jesseywinkler7921]

@AdamSliger Keep in mind I'm an audio engineer, but also not THAT kind of engineer so I only have a vague understanding as he explained it to me: The sound waves vibrate one pane, and that pane projects the vibrations to the pane near it. If both panes are parallel it creates more sympathetic vibrations from one pane to the next given the panes are nearly identical in their resonant frequency. By angling them both outward it creates minor phasing fluctuations that prevent quite as much sympathetic vibration. But the engineer and I discussed this stuff almost 15 years ago and my memory may not be 100% because of "bad musician life choices", but this is the gist of how it was explained to me. Oh, also thanks for replying! Honestly didn't expect a thoughtful reply!

[@ojay6675]

That reverse audio was kinda freaky idk

[@JoeStuffzAlt]

I was looking at 4:16 to see if the dancing girl was actually singing into the mic.

[@LinusStudios]

Cool vid

[@AdamSliger]

Thank you!

[@VictorLaMonde]

I'd like to know if it's true that the engineer walked out in disgust during the recording of the Velvet Underground's Sister Ray.

[@AdamSliger]

I’ll have to dig in

[@HowiSpangler]

This was great dude! Your videos are looking so good. I used the “hitler mic” on our “girls” album. Ha ha. Always wondered if that was true or not.

[@AdamSliger]

thanks dude, been enjoying yours as well! and yeah i guess file it in the "sorta true but not really" category lol

[@BillAltman]

Vic produced our record!

[@AdamSliger]

That’s awesome!

[@alephestudios]

8:45 they did put phrases in reverse but not the ones you showed

[@devon-graves-studio-D]

The slanted window is to eliminate standing waves between the two panes.

[@AdamSliger]

Standing waves between two panes isn’t really an issue, parallel panes is better for isolation from what I understand. The glass isn’t really trapping much sound between the panes to even create standing waves.

[@devon-graves-studio-D]

@@AdamSliger Everything is an issue :)

[@AdamSliger]

That’s the truth lol

[@mnuzum2471]

@@AdamSliger You are correct that standing waves does not really apply to parallel or offset window placement. The critical concept is acoustic coupling/sympathetic resonance, and unfortunately parallel panes is not better for isolation or reducing that coupling. The glass doesn't really "trap" sound regardless of placement. Glass is reflective and resonant and becomes membranic with vibrations, like the head of a drum. With parallel glass (especially if the air between is trapped/sealed) it pretty effectively transfers energy from one pane to the other. Having offset angles helps to prevent the panes from as effectively conducting sympathetic vibrations between each other, otherwise if parallel they behave much like the resonant head on a drum (which is a parallel reflective and resonant surface) which amplifies and extends any internal resonance. Having the surfaces parallel allows the most amount of internal reflective energy to bounce directly back and forth and excite both heads, or panes of glass. Offsetting them vastly reduces this energy. The viewing improvement is merely a side bonus. It is much like the computer game "pong". A direct hit in a straight return has the strongest velocity of reflection. Returning the ball at a severe offset reduces the direct energy and slows the ball down delaying it's arrival time and velocity by having the reflections loose energy by hitting edges. Same with sound waves. Parallel surfaces allow the most efficient transfer of energy back and forth. Angled surfaces reduce the direct internal reflections, forcing more of the energy to be lost in the process.

[@AdamSliger]

While this is true, angled surfaces also cut down on the amount of distance you can get between each pane, so your isolation will be better with parallel. As with all things acoustics, it’s a case of “pick your poison” and adjust from there haha

[@themelancholicpaganmusicco2980]

Those kanye jabs earned you a sub

[@christopherroa9781]

That was NOT the intro I expected lol

[@AdamSliger]

😂😂

[@Darrylizer1]

13:44 who is Glyn Jogns?!

[@danielprietog]

Yes, I actually LimeWired Wheatus as Weezer.

[@PressuredSpeechBand]

Just realized I've been calling them "Newmen" mics my whole life!

[@AdamSliger]

Happens to lots of folks!!

[@jimorgain63]

ha ha i thought 'my name is michael, i got a nickel 'was the jackson five

[@D.F.Gentry]

Anyone remembers the ‘Half the Man I Used to Be’ song by…? 😅

[@rainingkind]

Phish didn’t do the bluegrass version of Gin and Juice?

[@killer268]

ZZ top- Black Betty, System of a down - Zelda song... Shit there were dozens if not hundreds, those were just the first two that came to mind.

[@SHUTDOWNOfficial]

Perhaps the most notable misattribution for me has to be "System of a Down - Legend of Zelda". The actual song is called "The Rabbit Joint - Zelda", which was funnily enough released on May 1, 1998, a month and 29 days before System's debut. It's really good btw

[@muzzymikeonthemic]

Yes!!!! Just commented this but had to double check the comments for someone else who pointed it out

[@Lefrog65]

There used to be song parody’s incorrectly attributed to Weird Al … I’d have to tell my friends Weird Al didn’t do that one. And I think at this time Weird Al knew about them on Napster or whatever wrongly giving credit for song parody’s that he even said something to the like that his songs are more family friendly.

[@AdamSliger]

Yeah, it was the 9/11 one!

[@Lefrog65]

@ idk about that one right off, there was one called “What if God smoked cannabis”

[@redcollard3586]

Well that's certainly one way to start a video. Damn.

[@alexagabriel3424]

i remember downloading somebody’s watching me and it was labeled michael jackson 😭

[@AdamSliger]

What a tune!!

[@fel8308]

WHAT IS THAT INTROOO??????????????

[@AdamSliger]

myth #1 was a doozy

[@takeonemusic5537]

Now everybody knows that Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa after he was released from captivity definitely didn't disappear so what is he talking about???

[@theduppykillah]

Goebbels bears a striking resemblance to Jason Miller in looks and intent. Yikes.

[@123jkjk123]

"Postcard written by Faul" - I guess we know which side you are on on this.

[@AdamSliger]

👀👀

[@SatelliteSoundLab]

the glyn johns bomb drop goddammm

[@AdamSliger]

he really flexed on us all

[@mariesyvian8187]

i wonder if I'm not sick but I'm not well by blink 182 ever got mislabeled

[@Gerardoooooooo]

Let's not be too naive either... Today they don't call it "Ministry of Propaganda", but come on, it’s still propaganda.

[@finnsterling6514]

One cool Faul story is the 1 ONE 1 X ^ HE DIE on the Sgt Pepper bass drum. I don't think he actually died but there are tons of clues which are creative, cool, and kinda creepy. Do I think McCartney died? No. Do I think The Beatles or someone in The Beatles camp created all these clues? Yeah, I sorta do.

[@AdamSliger]

We’ll never know for sure 👀👀

[@finnsterling6514]

@@AdamSligerUnless, of course, Paul/Faul dies before Ringo and Ringo fesses up to everything...

[@RickyMontijo]

Lol thought I clicked on the wrong video

[@luckymenace4048]

Coffee runs are fun tho lolll

[@richardgarcia6379]

It looks like a telefunkin u47, with leather? With leather lol Frank Zappa joes garage is the only reason I no what a telfunkin u47 is lol I always sang along and one day I had to look it up and then I was like “ok and also the content of the song was much more clearer”

[@AdamSliger]

Frank Zappa knew what's up!

[@whytide.]

crazy hook