Ep. 33 - Tom Abraham, Front of House Engineer on Tone-Talk! Alice in Chains, Metallica, Motley Crue

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Ep. 33 - Tom Abraham, Front of House Engineer on Tone-Talk! Alice in Chains, Metallica, Motley Crue, Keith Urban, Garbage, Shinedown

[@egodzilla777]

Is there a significant amount of this episode missing compared to the live broadcast?!? ...about an hour?? We want it ALL!! Again, Great Episode!!!

[@tone-talk]

KZbin is taking a while to process the video and render it. Hopefully it should be fully up in the next few hours. Fingers crossed. Thank you!!!

[@egodzilla777]

Thank you for what you Do and how you do It!!

[@MrAletube]

yes,the first 55 minutes are still missing

[@egodzilla777]

Waiting patiently...

[@tone-talk]

I had to email KZbin and ask for support on this issue. Hope it is resolved soon. Thanks for your patience!

[@livingabovethe12th]

Thx for having me on the show boys! ....had a really good time. 👍....Tom.

[@tone-talk]

livingabovethe12th Anytime Tom! Thank you very much for joining us. It was great!

[@Robstafarian]

Thanks for sharing your time, this is great!

[@sam_rules76]

Tom! My man! Hope you're doing well!

[@WyattWillis88]

Please have Mr.Abraham back on he's dropping so much knowledge it hurts. Watched this one 3 times still learning he's one of the greats!

[@bigpapi2658]

I know there was a lot of bad echo and connection issues at the beginning but there was some great things said. I hope the first half gets posted!!!

[@tone-talk]

Big Papi thank you and it should be fully loaded soon. KZbin is taking a long time to render and upload it

[@maddiepcasa]

one of the best tone talks so much good information

[@volodyanikolaev]

01:26 - Bands Tom worked with. 03:23 - "Fireman" gigs. Metallica plays Sabbath. 06:07 - How did this all started for Tom. 10:40 - Being human to humans. 13:37 - Advice for a new guys in the industry. 15:28 - Making good ideas Their ideas. 19:10 - You can't teach everything. 22:00 - Dave compliments Tom. 23:30 - POV on mixing. 26:23 - Floating EQ. Digital technology. 28:55 - Rock-power (delay problems - blame Dave). 33:12 - What was it like working for Marilyn Manson. 35:17 - Staff on tours. 37:40 - Cell Phones. 39:04 - Opening bands question. 40:09 - Too loud drummers. Loudness. 46:35 - Mistakes. 48:00 - Bass guitar tips. 52:44 - Distortion in the mix. 55:08 - Indoors vs outdoors. 57:28 - AiC in Detroit. 1:00:29 - Measuring DBs. 1:01:30 - Mic No Mo. 1:02:57 - Torpedo. IR's. 1:06:18 - Glue in sound. 1:10:29 - Live albums. Backing tracks. 1:15:47 - You don't really need a click. 1:18:53 - Less pricey tickets. 1:20:37 - Friedman speaker sim. 1:23:28 - Working with Butch Vig. 1:25:10 - IEM tips. 1:28:35 - Amps on stage / Iso cabs 1:35:41 - Two Daves. 1:36:16 - In front of Jerry's cabs. 1:39:00 - Modeling amps. 1:45:44 - Metallica these days. 1:47:22 - Analog vs digital mixing boards. 1:52:05 - Technology vs quality. 1:55:52 - Slash's rig behind Dave. 2:00:31 - Favorite bands. 2:10:06 - Robert Baker is in the chat. 2:11:12 - Building second backline for AiC. 2:14:00 - Everyone coming at the same time. 2:15:27 - Harmonica players. 2:17:44 - New AiC album sound comments. 2:20:58 - Cantrell's home gear. Toilet paper story. 2:22:34 - New STP album. 2:24:38 - Favorite speakers and mics. 2:29:09 - Audix mics experience. 2:31:08 - Mixing bands playing in a round. 2:34:37 - Who's brining the PA? 2:35:19 - Shirley became Terminator (movie joke) 2:36:47 - Rob Zombie movies. Body Count band. 2:42:00 - Tom pushing songs in Dropbox folder. 2:43:33 - 100-watt amp question. 2:45:00 - Tom's home audio equipment. Car stereos. 2:48:40 - Knob. 2:49:53 - Everybody is back. 2:52:00 - Tom's available for the show. Check out Tom Abraham.

[@timec818]

Cool show again thanks 👍😊

[@luca4352]

Getting Jerry Cantrell on here would be amazing, also maybe Reinhold Bogner?

[@brianmckenzie1318]

Great show! I thoroughly enjoyed it!!! Thanks to Tom for sharing his stories and knowledge!!!

[@3score10]

Awesomeness x 33 by far my most favorite episode 🤘🏻oddly enough👽

[@justinespinosa7878]

This needs to be a weekly show! You guys are awesome and I purchased a DS an a Friedman board in support and because they're just okay sounding.... 😂 great show!

[@These_go_to_eleven_1959]

Can you and dave get Jerry cantrell on the show?

[@tone-talk]

Guitarded_ 5150 it’s in the works. Thank you!

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

@@tone-talk did you ever get that worked out? My most influential guitarist on my guitar playing style ever and would love to listen to his perspective on how to achieve his tone in detail..

[@tone-talk]

@@88_TROUBLE_88 hi not yet. Sorry

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

@@tone-talk it's still there amongst the list of guests to aspire to having on the show

[@MrKenward777]

Great episode! Very cool to hear the perspective of a veteran FOH sound engineer!

[@MitchGift]

By using the side chain insert the bass guitar note will automatically be raised every time the drummer kicks his drum. To be clear the direct out on the mixer from the kick drum channel into the bass players compressor.

[@johnparsons6750]

As a guy who runs sound for my little band, this show was really interesting and informative.

[@douglasdog1]

1:39:00 Axe Fx vs Tube. Interesting!

[@BenCoombs]

Great show guys!!

[@tone-talk]

Ben Coombs Thanks Ben!

[@windellpenton]

This is why I predominantly listen to blues now ... it’s real

[@ForeverDownByLaw]

You guys rock. Want to see you get 100k subs!

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

Ju3b and y @Ryan because your generation has grown from birth into a reality where supercomputers fit into little phones that can access every single idea ever recorded in history at the touch of a button and a verbal command to execute a search for any type of information you can possibly conjure up in your mind.. I see people panicking because they know this generation will be the ones in power soon when the last of the Gen X'ers die off and they didn't bother to read the instructions manual and Gen X didn't bother to write it down in the first place, so it's all fucked.. All of it, so completely fucked, and everyone knows it but won't speak on it since everyone is too arrogant to admit they have no idea how to do it.. Can you build a microchip? Know anyone who can? Sure, you think, the nerds got it covered, but what happens when there's no nerds left to design new chips or anything else for that matter and the world is sitting in a few feet of water because the fuckin polar caps melted and the plants won't grow because there's a fuckin perpetual acid rain cloud blanketing the whole world and every time someone sneezes everyone runs in terror since all the diseases mutated and evolved resistance to antibiotics after everyone kept using antibacterial soap and the oceans weight shifting over the continental plates causes mass earthquakes which trigger volcanos which blacks out the sun and the rest of the plants die but everyone says don't panic since we can grow shit indoors with lights like bud but a solar flare fries the electric grid across the globe and no one can use phones GPS television etc.. All of this looming and VERY REAL not just some horseshit paranoia but *actually about to happen* and that's why you see the mad dash all around you to consolidate the resources and countless TV shows about barn-find hidden treasures being pawned for pennies because they know damn good n well this shit is really going to fuckin happen any day now and hell, we're overfuckingdue for it at this point and most of the illuminated enlightened people are surprised it's lasted this long so every day when you open your eyes and the world is not on fire like a scene out of some dystopia nightmare, make sure you pinch yourself to make sure you're actually awake because it won't be too much longer before the 1st domino falls and once that 1st one tumbles its game over for all of the rest because they're all so inter-dependant on each other that it'll be ½ way over before the roosters start with their obnoxious shit in the morning, I'm pretty sure.. ..Or maybe it's because the anonymity of the internet (or the "Information Superhighway" as they called it in Omni Magazine which I was reading at 8 years old in 1988) has caused such pervasive and normalized epidemic of acute narcissism affecting everybody that everyone has given up on the ideas of their ancestors which sought to put and end to all of the evil and injustice of the Dark Ages in a slow but steady progress towards utopia through the distinguished concept of capitalism driven by industrial revolution, but culminated in the dried up pussyfart known as the Hippie movement that was hijacked by the Marxist-communists (yes, seriously) which stripped us of what was left of our dignity before it infiltrated all of the pillars of academia which then subverted that path to utopia and replaced it with the absolutely and completely divided, conquered Orwellian nightmare you see around us today with the Reds in the driver's seat mashing the pedal to the firewall because they know fully-well what's coming and they want to exploit every last resource available while it remains as such because it's 11:59pm on a day when tomorrow never comes.. At least that's what I heard on some omniscient 41 yr old jaded and suicidal ex-convict told me in the comments on some KZbin video, so.. You know... Take it for what it is and don't give it too much thought because I seriously doubt that dumb motherfucker has any kind of special perception or insight into the mysteries of existence any more than anyone else.. I mean, what is he? The fuckin chairman of the board of the Council of the Wise & Learn-ed Wizards of All-Knowing, Excellency Most Supreme or some shit? Nah, bruh. He's just some shitdick bumpin his gums on the Internet so he probably needs to change his draws and brush the turkey potpie crumbs outta his beard before we take his word for anything other than the cyber-LARPing (yes, that just this instance became a thing) that it is, because we're not näive enough to be indoctrinated into his opioid- and hallucinogen-induced view of where the world is headed.. Nah, we don't have to rely on old-ass burnout queefs like that guy anymore now that Jake Paul won the Heavyweight championship belt and is perfectly capable of leading his army of sycophantic flunkies gallantly into the Future™, do we? Hell nah, FOH boomer! Haha or Gen X'er whatevs same thing fuckin prehistoric ancient mummy motherfuckers actin like they got some kinda useful insight or some shit, like experience has blessed they asses with some kind of otherwise inaccessible perspective on this shit lmfao bitch plz miss me with that dum shit, fuckboi lol ♾֎☄⌁⌁☠⚠ð ⚰⚗⚕✂ ᕦ( ▨̅ ͜▨̅ )ᕥ✂✂✂

[@tomulator]

Another “winner”! Thanks gents.😎👍🏻

[@tone-talk]

Tomulator Thank you!

[@MrUltraworld]

Should have used Tom to mix this episode.

[@bjm9650]

Thanks!!!

[@bigpapi2658]

Oh, BigPapi, like poppy seed and David Ortiz. Absolutely love the show!!!!

[@timec818]

So cool show so much learn on that show 👍

[@tone-talk]

Thank you!

[@MitchGift]

Bass guitar mic the cabinet and a direct line. Then use the direct out on the mixer input channel into the side chain insert on the compressor/ limiter for the bass guitar.

[@windellpenton]

Check out the band Bishop Gunn.. Small Mississippi band that’s breaking out.. they have been opening for Skynyrd and Blackberry Smoke.

[@markinthemix6055]

As far as not hearing the AXFX in a live situation, is it just a matter of mids? I'm respectfully asking. I have used a Rocktron Prophecy live and now a Kemper and to my ears it seems its a matter of mids. Rather than turning up the volume, i just add more mids and it seems that I can now be heard. jamming in my room at home yea I like it thump and the mids a bit down but just saying. I will admit that I may be totally wrong. for any BASS situation i still use an amp.

[@andrewkoumis4070]

He was saying it's the overtones. Some mids, maybe. It's an element that's hard to put your finger on but it doesn't "cut" through the mix as well.

[@BoostYourPerformance]

This. Is. Amazing 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

[@spencerdeaton7202]

Y’all broke the internet

[@MrAletube]

when i hear all the problems in doing a simple videochat between 3 people,i wonder,did we land on the moon?Really?With that technology?

[@tone-talk]

MrAletube most of the time it works but sometimes the Internet gods don’t want to cooperate

[@LikeigiveAFaboutU]

Could you please get anyone from Sonic youth or anyone who has worked with them, on the show? I want to know what their amps and pedals are throughout their years as a touring band. Lee Ranaldo especially, would love to know what all they had access to and used.

[@3score10]

Awesomeness x33!

[@MrAletube]

since companies started selling subwoofers,people went crazy and now everybody is pumping bass frequencies that mask all the critical ones and most important,the vocals and the guitars,i mean,its not supid techno rave music,its rock and roll. Also using normal subs,which are omnidirectional,you can easily hear the boom boom wherever you are at hundreds of meters of distance.

[@FunDiMaio]

I was at the Monsters of Rock show in Buffalo. Every band sounded amazing except Dokken. The instruments were coming to my ear one at a time. Crazy. I always wondered who was at fault. : )

[@tone-talk]

Robert DiMaio doubt it had anything to do with Tom.

[@FunDiMaio]

Probably not, but I thought it was interesting hearing about that being his first big gig. I thoroughly enjoyed the show. Great info and Tom knows his stuff!

[@RagdollOC]

How ironic that a show which the guest is a Soundman, has the worst sound! LOL

[@markinthemix6055]

WOW I saw the Silver Sun Pickups once and I literally could hear nothing. NO Detail in any instrument and even the vocals. It was a noisy fuzzy raspy guitar and band sound and a totally incoherent vocal mix.

[@davefriedman6539]

well he most likely was not mixing

[@markinthemix6055]

I agree thanks for your comment. Dave..... can I ask a question regarding guitar necks. I have always been under the understanding that a quartersawn neck is stiffer and more stable than a flatsawn cut. I NEVER EVER hear reviewers comment on this and if so, it's rare. I just watched the review and demo that aww crap I can't remember his name. Anyway he's one of the popular youtube pages for lessons and demos. He ordered a Cali with maple neck, birdseye maple fretboard, and the color was a vintage white I'm guessing. Great Demo.

[@KenGotGuitar]

Sound guy of the stars but he has 2 mics on and a feedback loop going on the live broadcast....hmmm.

[@tone-talk]

kenseido64 that has nothing to do with Tom. We had some internet issue so I’m sure you have heard of that before rather than make a nasty comment. Tom is an amazing FOH engineer. His sound being interviewed has nothing to do with him.

[@KenGotGuitar]

Tone-Talk...sorry not trying to sound nasty. It was just ironical for the professional sound engineer to have sound issues. The echo we were hearing on the broadcast is what i hear everyday in computer conference meetings when the person with the issue has 2 mics on and doesnt know it. He even elluded to the multiple connections later.

[@BigDaddyChumChum]

Dude. How about mixing your sound right now. Your mic sucks. Echo is ridiculous