Tape Echo on D'Angelo's Drums - Russell Elevado

[@mixwiththemasters]

Full video available exclusively on mwtm.org/re-dangelo

[@Gundogdogdog]

Just hearing the isolated tracks on this video is flippin awesome !!!!

[@nathanjon9586]

when he isolates isiah sharkey's guitar and hard pans the track and the double left and right! SOUNDS AMAZING hahahah made me hoot!!

[@keithmiddleton6907]

We met at the Grammy's when these cats won for this very album. What an honor to meet him! What an incredible album. So much hard work put into it pre and post, this is why it is held in such high regard.

[@moonsofourmother2815]

This room is intimidating!

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

Nah.

[@newmanbeing3212]

it's just fun watching somebody of that skills level mixing such a damn groovy tune!

[@farvezafridifaizurrahman6980]

I recommend you get the album. IT IS FULL OF SOUL AND SEXY GROOVES.

[@simke123]

Which album is that exactly?

[@ikechiihemeson6023]

Simmke Black Messiah

[@RoseGoldSound]

That was sick! The tune is really good and the tip so simple I wouldn't even think about it in context but the vibe it adds is undeniable IMO. I'm trying this next time for sure !!

[@xgin2637]

Till it’s done is my favorite song in the world. I play this record dozens and dozens a times every month. D’Angelo is the best to me. The lyrics. The Music. The Mix and Master is incredible. Thank You Russel.

[@shkwave99]

Amazing. So many different kinds of artistry go into the production of an album. Very cool!

[@priscillaraeburn5070]

This room sounds very sweet. Well sound proofed.

[@hershiekopper]

More Russel!!

[@savantgarde8534]

Noah Hershkop damn right!! Only reason i just subscribed

[@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer]

Tape echo everything.

[@fuzzupuzzu]

wow what a song, what a studio, what an engineer, anything he does is gonna sound good!!!!

[@4theluvofyou]

we need more from Russell, he is a musical genius!

[@ClémentCeni]

the drippings, amazing!! David T. Walker is the master of this, check the intro of never can say goodbye

[@ma9aja]

Bro! you are a student of the guitar.

[@cruxmusic245]

Man this is fantastic.

[@nickmandleberg]

Always loved this song

[@deepdubonline]

So informative, thank you !

[@sleazydunlop1697]

dude knows what he's doing... amazing stuff here

[@presc13nt]

Russel is an absolute LEGEND !!!

[@jamesbrasfield2944]

All this time, I thought Questlove was just playing ghost notes all through “Till it’s Done” (not the obvious ones) You mean to tell me ALL THIS TIME?

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodtr3590]

I LOVE my Fulltone tape echo. Such a great piece of kit. If you like echo on drums, check out the drummer in Dub Trio. Dude will blow your mind.

[@lxxwj]

i remember being absolutely floored by their live performance of cool out and coexist like 10 years ago. their pocket is amazing too

[@anxiousmindmusic]

Isaiah Sharkey

[@Diax1324]

I use my Catalinbread Echorec on my drums all the time. Great tone.

[@ORGANICsoulJAZZ]

Finally, a good recommendation.

[@nikkomorgan]

I wish you could just buy and episode. I'd buy this one!

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

Till its done! Yessuh

[@MrArtVein]

*The Drippings*

[@user-ps2vw6hk9x]

Great tip!

[@EllisNova]

ENGINEERING TIP - Try using a triplet delay on hi hats! :)

[@domagojoinky8262]

Walking On The Moon by The Police. They used it on hats.

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodtr3590]

..and pretty much every trap beat ever. ;)

[@oeJamesoe]

where's your grammy?

[@ኪጃና]

@J WAV so pretentious

[@ኪጃና]

@J WAV respect the accountability :) I think trap producers can still be geniuses when you consider the limits their genre imposes

[@AmauryCastillo]

Amazing tip,

[@beatsdrumming7992]

any real musician needs guys like this.. the engineer is the key to your sound..HAIL MUDNOC STUDIOS..

[@johnjarmsen9754]

If only someone told mozart he could've been a real musician if only he had a good engineer

[@beatsdrumming7992]

@@johnjarmsen9754 1st off none of u are mozarts.#2 if he could have an engineer back then 9 out of 10 he would if he recorded in modern day format.Not a good analogy but heyy..

[@Itoldyouso15]

@@johnjarmsen9754 stupid comment

[@WoozyYami]

@@beatsdrumming7992 I just put an EQ on the master and boost the lows way up, boom. no need for engineer.

[@bboymac84]

pretty cool!

[@djcoolcliff]

Well if you know D, his style of drums is from jay Dilla where so off time is better than just straight all of the time!!! This is where Quest Love got his style for sure! Shout out to Isaiah Sharkee on Guitar!!!!

[@rickylovesyou]

Jdilla and D developed their beat style or playing in the pocket independently of each other, they never influenced each other it was just the direction two cats of similar levels of genius gravitated to.

[@outer.box.dissemination]

@@rickylovesyou ✊🏽

[@Barney-ii1no]

@@rickylovesyou Questlove has admitted being influenced by Dilla

[@pigknickers2975]

My Life Version: Put on the delay, drummer comes in and freaks out about it and I have to take it off!

[@01bgunnell10]

Kinda the best sound ever.

[@farvezafridifaizurrahman6980]

MY FAVOURITE SONG IN BLACK MESSIAH. TILL ITS DONE

[@therealredmoney]

mine too!!!!

[@605gbird]

Look at that healthy hair!

[@GodOfMedia]

Well, shit... Guess I'm looking for studio effects now, always wanted one of these for my board but now I have a reason for it.

[@betalingsringen]

This might be a stupid question... but how the fuck does that HUGE desk integrate with the DAW?

[@kalleklopsklopsmann1891]

the console is USB powered, just stick it into the laptop and you're done

[@sethtaylor7519]

USB Powered console... you're joking, right?

[@matthewphillips5950]

J. H. Jørgensen There's usually a few ways for the desk to communicate with the DAW, most commonly the 9pin DIN connector, (which may terminate in an RS-442 connector which runs into an interface card on the pc. There are usb connectors like keyspan that eliminate the need for the card.

[@natenauseda7749]

Here's a real answer: It does, and it doesn't. The SSL 9000, the console that he is working on, is an analog desk, but it does have DAW controller functionality, in a limited way. You can use the large faders, mutes, and solos on the console to control some functions in your DAW. I don't believe the 9K software allowed you to manipulate what parameters the faders, solos, and mutes controlled. In this scenario, the engineer is using the DAW for playback, editing, and probably some light processing; he is using the console to process, route, sum, and possibly automate. He does not seem to be using the DAW controller function built into the console. Lot's of people loved these consoles for their ability to integrate with the DAW world, though, compared to todays DAW controllers, the DAW controller capability of the 9K seems limited. If he is using the automation on the console, he is most certainly using a common clock with the DAW so that the desks automation syncs with the DAW. I hope this was helpful!

[@amaldc-brc]

In this case pro tools is just really sued as a super customizable tape machine or extension of the board. In the film world with consoles we use pro tools a recorder basically. So he's mostly just recording everything he does with the board into pro tools if that makes sense. But there are boards that are completely integratabtle with pro tools. Like the Avid s6, s3, icon etc..

[@notarealperson87]

yo, its been almost 4 years and the description still says you're releasing your "21th" video series

[@GL0697]

Roy Hardgroove Rh factor. Yep this guy.

[@williammckinney3362]

I totally agree with putting delay on the drums, but it seems like a huge waste of time to mess with a tape echo when you can put a low pass on a good DDL we have much more control

[@theloniousleedexter]

mmm drippings

[@Gundogdogdog]

Is there a way to watch the whole video?

[@mixwiththemasters]

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[@cakershake]

would it hurt to smile once in a while. Stoic

[@elijah7525]

raise your game, you're getting freebie, Smile

[@natenauseda7749]

The tension on the cable stretching from the output of the tube tape echo makes me nervous.

[@jayplay7578]

Nate Nauseda .... Me Tooooooo!!!!

[@michaelsabrsula8381]

"21th"

[@ilikemyrealname]

Lol what was that very last sentence??

[@presc13nt]

"So .. this is what D'angelo likes to call .. the drippings"

[@RockyNeville88]

liu kang! your soul is miiiiine

[@yasha12isreal]

He looks like Joseph Gordon-Levitt 🤔

[@basscubs]

God damn confusing... unbelievable how we all choose our craft, and just go for it.

[@navboi12]

Vital tip: "Save the tape!"

[@jasper24601]

I don't get why the desk has to be so big!

[@grunions9648]

Well assuming you're not joking: Each vertical strip represents a single mono audio channel so just a drum kit would traditionally take up many of them (each drum might have a microphone, then the room will probably have stereo microphones. Each stereo instrument would take up two channels. The vertical strip includes the fader at the bottom for volume, and then various knobs for sends, equaliser, etc). Then, during mixing you would send groups of these channels to other channels, to allow you to process them as a group (this is known as using a 'bus' to send channels to an 'auxiliary' channel). Each of these groups then takes up two more channels (one for left and one for right) and you often will also be sending some of these auxiliary groups to yet more buses/aux channels. My projects typically use around 80 stereo channels, so 160 individual mixer channels are required. Yes you could do all of this with just 8 tracks, but it would be very restrictive indeed.

[@MyManDan]

@@grunions9648 but the Beatles did it with 4 tracks!!?!?!? OK I’m kidding I only aspire to know what I’m talking about at this point. In all seriousness, what type of projects are you working on that take 80 stereo channels? Orchestra? Film scores or something?

[@grunions9648]

@@MyManDan Yes, traditionally you would 'bounce' tracks, so that's recording a group down to a single channel. You can keep doing that and work with very few tracks. Using so many is just a luxury as you don't have to commit to each decision, you can go back and change mixes etc. There's definitely an argument for committing to changes and using fewer tracks, I only use so many because I can really.

[@jasper24601]

@@grunions9648 Wow thank you very much! I wasn't really joking, rather baffled and amazed. And what you said made complete sense! I suppose I'm just used to Logic, where it's all condensed into a single flat screen, and a lot of things are already taken care of for you. Also I'm relatively new to music production and will probably never touch a mixing desk...but thanks for the serious reply :)

[@grunions9648]

​@@jasper24601 Sorry I didn't mean to imply I had a physical mixing desk that size, it is mostly virtual, but I assumed you were wondering how mixers worked. It's the same principle in Logic though in terms of mixer routing.

[@siriusfun]

He had something groovy/usable around 2:40 to 2:50, but then lost it... I've been doing this effect for over 30yrs - it's all about the drag.

[@rickylovesyou]

Cool, what albums have you mixed that are on the level of Voodoo?

[@Barney-ii1no]

@@rickylovesyou you got him

[@kwameeyiah]

Can't even hear the echo,but it sounds awesome

[@nichttuntun3364]

Serious?

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

Its just a sublime kind of bounce.

[@jeremyjohnson7676]

He's using a real tape echo hardware and not a VST plugin. And there's a reason for that: You can "somehow" mimik the sound of a tape echo, but you can't replicate the unpredictable character and spatial depth of a real tape echo. End of Story.

[@Jonpoo1]

Yeah okay I’ll use a real one when I get my studio and mixing desk but until then it’s a VST...

[@tekis0]

There are a lot of great tape echo plug-ins! There are even solid state pedals that do a good job.

[@OnBendedKneeMusic]

I agree with a few of the posts here. The drums sounded out of time with the slap back effect.

[@pigknickers2975]

Agreed, there's no way the drummer would have agreed with it. Didnt sound that good to me. The loose sound it gave was more than most mix guys are going to get away with.

[@trevorellis-guice5794]

D Angelo loves loose drums. There’s a vid where Questlove was told to play off beat. Also drummers in my experience are too anal at times and lose sight of feel.

[@trevorellis-guice5794]

This guy mixed his 2nd album so they have a great repoir. Keep that in mind too

[@rickylovesyou]

Listen to voodoo and you will know the sound hes going for. Its all about putting it on the off beat.

[@nickdijcj1]

21th lol

[@tuskedbeast]

Huh. That echo he decided on made the drums sound rushed in places to my ears.

[@kalleklopsklopsmann1891]

it's rather so that everything else is playing very "late", even without the echo

[@benodaboy]

Yeah but it's so viby you don't really care. You just end up enjoying the "out-of-kitler'ness" of it.

[@gormlessgit430]

It’s not the echo that’s creating that effect, the drummer is playing with a “drunk” feel so it seems like he’s playing behind or ahead of the beat sometimes. You can hear a similar groove in Believe by Q-Tip featuring D’Angelo. 👍🏻

[@Leimertstudiosllc]

lets be real, the tape echo really has only been done right in the hands of the scientist, king tubby, lee Perry etc..

[@niallcameron6433]

That's nonsense. Sorry mate, but there's lots of people that use tape echo in lots of different ways with great success - the above video is but one example.

[@jesleeivan6082]

is this Liu Kang? XD

[@Davidchromatic]

Ok...I know he's hella better than me but this SUCKED..! 😐

[@tarolin-tw]

This is just a tiny fraction of a three part mixing breakdown dude.

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

What specifically sucked king of protools?

[@bobbymarco274]

Off timing bad

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

You got a bad ear.

[@Barney-ii1no]

you dont know about swing, kid