Eric Valentine

[MirrorProfiles]

Dude is a total legend, his approach to making records just oozes love and passion for what he's doing and it really shows.

His youtube channel is pretty great, somewhat easy to get drawn into the technical stuff and overlook his musical and arrangement contributions which are a massive part of his productions.

As well as his own youtube channel, this little sound on sound series (specifically on recording guitars) is cool. Just kind of reminds me how cool real amp and real mics and real rooms and desks etc all are. As much as I love modelling, you can't really approach sounds in the same way as you can here (at least not without sucking all the fun out). In a lot of ways, you could probably get a very similar sound totally in the box with less effort but the journey to get there wouldn't feel as intuitive.

 

[bikescene]

I started buying fiberglass pipe insulation because of his videos. He’s not pushing any products, other than his own Undertone Audio stuff, which is a nice change of pace from other channels.

The mix breakdowns are the best of its kind for my tastes.

 

[la szum]

Legend!

Kind of interesting where he has ended up now, and the kind of
music he seems most passionate about given where he started as
a Proggy-Metal kid.

I remember hearing the first thing he produced. I worked in a
Music Retail Store in 1990-93 and when I heard that T-Ride Album
the Production on it just blew my mind. Sounded so clean, fresh, and
unique for that time. It was that

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Courtesy of Eric's old assistant and all round bad ass engineer and mixer Cian Riordan - IR's from Barefoot Studios before they moved out. All free:

barefoot — cian riordan

www.cianriordan.com

 

[bikescene]

Courtesy of Eric's old assistant and all round bad ass engineer and mixer Cian Riordan - IR's from Barefoot Studios before they moved out. All free:

barefoot — cian riordan

www.cianriordan.com

Thanks! No idea if I would’ve run into these otherwise.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Legend!

Kind of interesting where he has ended up now, and the kind of
music he seems most passionate about given where he started as
a Proggy-Metal kid.

I remember hearing the first thing he produced. I worked in a
Music Retail Store in 1990-93 and when I heard that T-Ride Album
the Production on it just blew my mind. Sounded so clean, fresh, and
unique for that time. It was that

I used to love T-Ride. He was also the bass player in that band.
And they were a fun live act.

Especially how Eric used a side chained gate on totally distorted funk rhythms.

The two guys playing guitar on that album Steve Ouimette and Geoff Tyson is who I did the Guitar Hero 3 thing.

 

[zib]

T-Ride - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Actually he was drummer

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

T-Ride - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Actually he was drummer

Well rhythm section all look the same to guitarists... :-)

 

[DrewJD82]

I generally always watch his videos when they pop up in my feed. Definitely some useful info to be gained about recording guitars and getting guitar tones the old school way.

 

[zib]

T-Ride's album was really great !

 

[la szum]

I was working in a Record Store when that came out and it blew
everyone away by how fresh and innovative it sounded. It really
stood out amongst the crowd at the time. Great sonics!

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

I was working in a Record Store when that came out and it blew
everyone away by how fresh and innovative it sounded. It really
stood out amongst the crowd at the time. Great sonics!

That album was my fave when it came out

 

[MirrorProfiles]

EV's put up a Pro Tools session of a QOTSA style song, quite cool to check out.

Its interesting how its kind of well recorded, but definitely has some "issues" too. The magic is how it all comes together and all the little nuances add their own magic to things.