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Thank you for your videos, they are really inspiring, i have followed your work with sleep token and Loathe, and really enjoy your hollistic approvach to procution and video making self interviews you make. Mixing is an ever evolving transition, to the point where mixes done 1 year ago, are not to be proud of, at least in my case, but the fact that there is people like yourself is really inspiring and thank you for always helping us underground mixers and engineers! cheers from Costa rica. Pd. i have subscribed for a long time now lol

It when after years of using great mics, going through my mic locker and finding the maudio Sputnik (my first tube condenser) I haven’t used in like a decade or more. I said to myself, why not. Threw it up. Realized that it sounds fantastic and now want to throw it up in vocal shootouts with my “nice” mics. I am now taking inventory of all my gear I never really use anymore.

STEMS link doesn't work(((

MAKE COMPRESSION GREAT AGAIN!

need a part 2

I would be interested to know how it looks like for you in 2024? You still use these plugins or did you add/remove anything :)?

I can confirm I did exactly what he said today and now I am an assistant 😊

If you’re desparate enough you’ll get what you need for a good portfolio . I even started setting up open mics. The more you do the more people you meet and opportunities grow. Putting in effort and showing passion works. Even if you’re not as good as others .

Some people will learn the knowledge and still not be able to do sound engineering . Some people are more audio producers who have more creativity as well as organisation. Don’t get disappointed if you can’t do sound engineering after a few years. Look elsewhere, maybe music business A+R or that type of thing.

I watch this vid instead of mixing 😊🎉

Line Audio CM4s are fantastic SDCs, for about £100. So good on many applications, but I really like them on overheads. And they're tiny too, which makes them very useful. Slightly above the Lauten's price bracket, I really like the Audix drum mics too. Especially the D4, which is also nice and deep but melodic on bass cab too. But with the D2 makes a good tom mic pair. I think I prefer them to the more standard Sennheiser MD421-II, which has an awkward physical design, clip problems and costs over twice as much. The Audix D6 is nice for modern kick, and dubby / subby bass too, nice to have alongside the more classic sounding Beta52A, and I prefer it to the D112 for deep kicks. And the Audix i5 can be more articulate on bottom snare (or guitar amp) than an SM57. Above that price range, Lauten's drum mics are really nice too, especially the snare mic sounds particularly good - would like to buy one.

As of right now, I think I've got 845 plugins? Surely a lot of plugins I will never ever need. Many MIDI Instruments but I think a whole bunch of Synths "just in case"

My problem with microphones, and also outboard gear is that if I love the piece I need 2 just in case I want to record or use it in stereo... I wonder if anyone else has the same affliction. Great selection. One mic that seems like a "hack" on Tom's for me is the CAD m179. It just has the right eq curve to my ears and I have to do little to no processing after the fact. Matt Brown, the drum genius turned me on to this mic and now I have 5 of them.

Your idea of cheap has changed how I think too lol 😂

Enjoyed this George. Making some changes myself. Appreciate it brotha.

Great pair of eyeglasses. What are they?

Really interesting! Thanks for sharing

got a link to that little table on amazon?

I'm late to the party, but I'm completely sold!! Not at it's lowest price right now (around 140 bucks). I'll (un)patiently wait for and offer/discount/promo! This plugin is the real deal!

That makes sense.... That has been the best analogy for recording with different mics. Goes with other things well too for recording and also making a tone. I can't have that warm light in my house. If it looks like the sun is going down, I feel sad or uncomfortable. It is from my childhood and know if I see the sun going down to that kinda color I have to go home and do shit. Then sleep and do shit at school. White light. In a good bulb is my favorite because it reminds me of luxury. But I know people that doesn't care which one. They do care about their rgb stuff on the computer, mouse, gpu, liquid coolers have rgb... But obviously you can buy bad mics. So those are the people that only have warm small lights in their computer and keyboard.

Thanks a lot for the clear explanation on those mics! I use for my the recording for my students the AKG (+/- €325) and they do a pretty good job for the price!

Link is dead😭

Can you reupload the stems?

I went to Monnow Valley to track drums once and the engineer asked me to bring some more drum mics for an experiment. I said all I had was ‘cheap crappy’ ones, he said it doesn’t matter, these cardioids all sound the same!

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Really enjoyed this!

I received my SA4000 MKIII last month after waiting 8 months. You can switch between the E series and G series style comps with the MKIII. I got the Fairchild MOD. I really love it. I was all in the box before this purchase and I feel it's an upgrade to the way I worked before (although, I still love the Softube Bus Processor). Changed my work flow a bit but, it's ok.

I'm using that synth at 2:32 in one of my songs. Think it is the ending of Strawberry Cat. It is funny to hear that sound in a totally different environment.

Two years later we are watching engineers clicking around in Supreme Drummer failing to breathe some live and love into a flat midi track.

wow this channel rules - this is exactly the kind of content I want. I'm surprised my youtube algorithm took this long to show me something from your channel. Those u47 clones in omni against the back wall sound great!

Big love ❤

I’ve noticed that writing music actually keeps the ”buying new plugins” down to a minimum. The less i write the more i buy plugins 😂 Also, buy instruments. It give way more value than another 1176

Electronic avantgarde music, Burial, Trentemøller etc. 🤯 mind blown

A very good drummer and an average producer/engineer can make $100 mics sound like $5,000. A bad drummer and bad producer can make $5,000 mics sound like a smartphone.

I love these vids sitting around the fire with papa George talking about life. They are definitely appreciated. ❤️(The cats were an added bonus)

yes. those drums sounds are great. but I also need to say that this voice over tone is also great...which is sadly a hit and miss thing these days...especially in sound related videos.

I always pictured the people at Sonnox as wearing white labcoats.

The paltec is how the original subbass started in the 90s… thinking about trying it out

I want a deeeep unfiltered George Lever thoughts podcast

Imma keep my 1600 plugins but I keep the ones I need categorized to quick access it The reason why I keep them is that other engineers could also use their favourite ones when they work with me - and if they hook me up with an idea I already have the plugin so...

"Do it because you want to do it" and also show more cats!

I have never felt happy with the jobs I did until 2021. I found out I don't want to work in a job that profits mostly another person who's my boss. I felt burned out and so I started doing something different 2021, the perfect decision. I don't want to hustle, I want a fullfilling job with a meaning. My current job is exactly what I wanted. Not an easy one, not the best paid one, but perfect for me. But that doesn't mean to stop there. I am still a person that needs to study or learn constantly. It doesn't have to be job related, it needs to be something I am deeply interested into. I want to discover new things in my life, try things out. I thing you should never stop being curious. Right now I spend a lot of my free time with photography and traveling. Seeing new landscapes, animals, cultures gives me joy and being able to save those moments in a pictures is great. I know I want to start learning a new instrument in the next years. Now isn't the right time for it, but I won't pressure myself. At the moment I enjoy singing, maybe I will start over with guitar again after failing at firdt attempt learning it. But I always wanted to learn playing drums, it really fascinates me and makes me happy watching and listening drum videos/ tracks for hours.

Thank you George!

you had me at more cats

Mind blowing moments….It’s absolutely ok that I have a day job and I do my audio work when I can. Also stereo widening eq on the master buss.

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Can we just file a petition to hear George more often 😭😭