Mixing drums with Eric V.!

Why in most of theses Video the drums sound better before the mixing.......

40 minutes felt like 15 minutes. Fun and informative, thanks !

Man, fundamentally I find your promotional stuff exhausting. Checking in with the Pro Audio channel and 8 of 10 threads you post are you promoting stuff.

That's fine I guess, but please... give us a disclaimer.

Congratulations you just described the internet and every forum out there in every interest and industry. Unfortunately it’s what makes the world go round.

He's not really promoting anything other than Waves Renaissance Compressor (1998), MDWEQ (TDM days), and old Fabfilter and Sound Toys stuff. Workhorse old school dsp make stuff go boom. More distorted than what can be done on a typical analog board yeah but it sounds cool. New Fabfilter Saturn 2 is cool. Distressor kicks are cool. Instant radiation.

I don’t think it was aimed at either of us, for the most part we are pretty good at trying to point out any conflicts of interest. I have also personally stated many times if you consider a former dealer relationship with a manufacturer then I personally conflict with just about everybody so it levels out ( damn it it’s been at least a year since a manufacturer felt I was picking on them).
The original poster on this was our very senior fellow member Kcatthedog who does link a fair amount of videos. But I’ll wager 80% have a fair amount of informative value.

Now I’m not JK, it’s his private little playground and his rules, but I feel I need to point something out. We are lucky enough to have Eric Valentine grace our little corner of the internet, he could be spending his time on the giant purple rabbit hole, is his presence primarily to promote his products? Duh absolutely, but maybe he will like us and decide to spend more time and contribute to other threads thus promoting our little corner of the net. Personally I viewed this thread as clickbate to get EV to contribute a bit more, not sure if that was the intention or not. While not all of EV’s production work is to my personal taste the fact that Chris Thiele did more than one Nickel Creek project with him speaks volumes. ( remember the bassist in Chris’s other big project is from Madison as well and we cheese heads talk so if I wasn’t already a Chris Thiele fan I would be through that route).

OK Since I went down the CS route the original TD of Prarie home companion Buzz Kemper is an old friend and while not a personal client I’m probably as responsible for a fair amount of his kit as anyone and I did sell one of his partners the DDA that sat in his studio for years.

I always learn some new technique from watching EV. Not everything he does is in my specific taste but it does give food for thought and I am super thankful he's willing to share his processes. BTW Eric, I am a HUGE Thile fan. The two albums with EV are my favorites of Nickel Creek. I found his video about recording the last NC album to be especially interesting.

Huh. That is about the last thing I would have guessed as the target for your irritation.

Matt (kcat) posts links to stuff he thinks others might find interesting/relevant. I’ve never sensed an ounce of promotional motivation.

Aggression? Really? Defensive, maybe, and protective of two colleagues since it seemed like one of the three of us was your target... but aggressive? Not what the word means.

All good, very easy on net to misunderstand each other, personally, I prefer beers at Ragan’s !

I don’t think it’s a waste of time per se, for a weekend warrior like me.

 I do suspect if we were watching him do this in real time without him stopping to show and explain, it would go much faster. After all, he’s maybe done this kinda stuff before.

 Cheers,
 Geoff 

Well I’m an oldster too at least on this board. Got my Tascam Porta One in 84,so that means coming up on my fifth decade of recording stuff. Very off and on, and never made my living at it. So, take everything I have to say with a grain of salt etc. I find EVs stuff educational and I almost always learn something. But I don’t really seek it out either. Just glad that he is out there sharing his knowledge. We don’t have mentoring in this industry really anymore. From that perspective his stuff is gold. Yeah, if you’ve been in the trenches doing this for a living I get not wanting to sit through it. Horses for courses I suppose.

Cheers,
 Geoff