Favorite Music Related YouTube Channels

Yeah... I'm not on either party's side or anything but that went down right when I was starting to do more than make coffee and it was the talk of the studio business.

Its interesting to have observed a cultural change from the inside and then hear other people's recollections from other perspectives 20 years later. Somewhere around 05 I realized I was never going ty o gave a chance at becoming Jimmy iovine or even bob Clearmountain

A very non-shiny, non-commercial channel I've loved for more than a decade:

https://www.youtube.com/@vinyljunkie07

For anyone into 90s house & techno, Martin's random lofi jams on his room full of old gear are hard to beat. Martin is just one of those people that can mess about on anything and make a track I'd listen to all day, sans-video. The talent always comes through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSX1RvaidUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vrQdiOLPQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMWqvYI7VIY

That guy's hella cool.

I've been watching a lot of documentaries lately trying to remember the 90s from the rock side a little better because I'm doing this thing for @ThCraymer and he's really into some of the bands I listened to as a young asshole whenever I wasnt blaring pummeling industrial, acid house and Detroit techno which was my favorite music if I was driving. I haven't used my spx90 this much in years.

https://youtu.be/YlvmTp6-SwU?si=vgbK6-sREVP_w6ZP

Like halfway through this documentary I went "damn! I forgot aout medicine, those guys were cool!"

Like halfway through this documentary I went "damn! I forgot aout medicine, those guys were cool!"

Listening to "The Buried Life" right now... I don't know if they were ever on my radar. They sound familiar, but no memories are rushing back. Good band though :)

I first heard them on the Crow OST and got really into them. They didn't put out that much music.

EDIT: I'm going to date myself but I was really stoked about the crow when it came out because I loved the comic which I first encountered when it was collected by Tundra which was Keven Eastman of TMNT fame's extremely mismanaged publisher... they did From Hell around that time. I look back and I really feel like that was a magic time... it's not just nostalgia. I swear its not. The crow comic may gave turned me on to joy division...

Man, I'm drinking beer and deep diving Trash Theory on YouTube because... why not? This guy is reminding me of music I forgot like Lush. I'm kinda stalled on mixing, I had an out of tune bass track that derailed things when every tuning plugin failed to deliver... quel surprise! My ears are exhausted anyway. I had Cramer's DI guitars blaring through old amps all week. I wanted to keep room sound out so I went with the amp closet with a tent of blankets but my neighbors could hear it and I think it bruised my kidneys. Thom Cramer likes low end.

I first heard them on the Crow OST and got really into them. They didn't put out that much music.

EDIT: I'm going to date myself but I was really stoked about the crow when it came out because I loved the comic which I first encountered when it was collected by Tundra which was Keven Eastman of TMNT fame's extremely mismanaged publisher... they did From Hell around that time. I look back and I really feel like that was a magic time... it's not just nostalgia. I swear it's not. The crow comic may gave turned me on to joy division...

I had no idea The Crow was published by the TMNT people, makes perfect sense though. I have a buddy who was one of those rare I-loved-TMNT-when-they-were-just-a-violent-indie-comic ppl (I have zero emotional connection to TMNT of any kind, but I'll admit the cartoon theme song rips) . He was also into all things The Crow the way some people are really into all things Jesus and Biblical. I swear he was The Crow for halloween like 6 times, lol. But yeah, that was THE soundtrack CD, back at the height of the soundtrack CD boom. STP waaaay over-delivered on that one; their track should have been saved for one of their own albums, IMHO. I hope some Record and/or Film Exec got an insane Xmas bonus for getting all those bands onto one movie-promo disc.

EDIT: Looks like the song did end up on their second album... I must have been sick of hearing that one by the time that album dropped or something, lol.

Man, I'm drinking beer and deep diving Trash Theory on YouTube because... why not? This guy is reminding me of music I forgot like Lush.

Sick. Any of his vids you can recommend? I've only seen like 3 so far.

I'm kinda stalled on mixing, I had an out of tune bass track that derailed things when every tuning plugin failed to deliver... quel surprise! My ears are exhausted anyway. I had Cramer's DI guitars blaring through old amps all week. I wanted to keep room sound out so I went with the amp closet with a tent of blankets but my neighbors could hear it and I think it bruised my kidneys. Thom Cramer likes low end.

...gauche of me to propose this, I'm sure, but why not just re-record that one part in-tune? Wouldn't that be faster than Melodyne-ing every load-bearing note that is too many cents north or south? Cramer seems like a pragmatic/big-picture sort of artist. I don't think he's gonna hate you too hard if you needed to swap out the bass.

...gauche of me to propose this, I'm sure, but why not just re-record that one part in-tune? Wouldn't that be faster than Melodyne-ing every load-bearing note that is too many cents north or south? Cramer seems like a pragmatic/big-picture sort of artist. I don't think he's gonna hate you too hard if you needed to swap out the bass.

Nah that's what we did. He got me a new track about 2 hours ago? I actually mentioned the tuning issues immediately but wasn't sure if it was maybe shoegaze style points and wasn't something to worry about. Plus I bugged him to cut an extra lead vocal and didn't want to demand he like re-cut everything. When I got the di recording into an amp it just became intolerable every couple bars to have the anchor of the song wobbling flat and sharp so I pressed the point. That's hard when theres a Kevin shields approach to pitch on all the guitars. And Iayers of distant miked warbly vocal harmonies.

Edit: I probably should be making a youtube video of this one so bedroom guys can see every pitfalls that come up and the moving parts of pre-mixing, because almost nothing recorded at hone is good to go when it gets to me. This instance I'm like an extra producer too, flying in drums, committing new sounds to tape from existing DI parts, putting stuff into tibe amps... replacing vanilla plugins with toys that probably haven't even been emulated as plugins yet... trying to get sone excitement going so it sounds less like a dude in an apartment with a laptop and the same focusrite scarlett everyone uses these days lol

Right now my rule is that everything has to have moved some air before I try to mix in earnest. On a song like this l, just getting everything into open mics immediately makes it sound authentic.

Edit: I probably should be making a youtube video of this one so bedroom guys can see every pitfalls that come up and the moving parts of pre-mixing, because almost nothing recorded at hone is good to go when it gets to me. This instance I'm like an extra producer too, flying in drums, committing new sounds to tape from existing DI parts, putting stuff into tibe amps... replacing vanilla plugins with toys that probably haven't even been emulated as plugins yet... trying to get sone excitement going so it sounds less like a dude in an apartment with a laptop and the same focusrite scarlett everyone uses these days lol

I think you doing rough, old-school life-stream style videos would be a great idea. I'd watch 'em.

We've probably reached that point where everyone making YT productions that rival Netflix-quality isn't the thing that moves the needle anymore, at least in terms of time it takes to make such videos, vs the payoff you're likely to get. I suspect some scattershot cinema verite of you wrestling with typical scenarios would resonate more than a scripted, sparkly, well-lit video with a cringe YT-face thumbnail.

Right now my rule is that everything has to have moved some air before I try to mix in earnest. On a song like this l, just getting everything into open mics immediately makes it sound authentic.

I'm all for recording real ambience over emulating ambience, but I haven't listened to a rock record with my analytical production-focused ears in so many years that I can't even open my mouth on this topic. I can go hard on pop/r&b/electronic/hip hop production, but with rock, I have returned to a state of quasi-naïveté... I just listen like I'm 14 and ignorant. It's kinda nice.

I actually went for a really close miked sound on this one and built a blanket fort around the amp closet to get a really dry signal. Just driving a speaker so hard that you have to put a pad on a condenser that close up really adds a lot of flavor that just doesn't cone from modeling. There's just something magic that usually happens when you turn alternating current into sound pressure and then turn it back to current and record it.

Maybe this isn't music related but it is to me...

We are going to pump you up!

I actually went for a really close miked sound on this one and built a blanket fort around the amp closet to get a really dry signal. Just driving a speaker so hard that you have to put a pad on a condenser that close up really adds a lot of flavor that just doesn't cone from modeling. There's just something magic that usually happens when you turn alternating current into sound pressure and then turn it back to current and record it.

A quarter-century of brilliant DSP Engineers, people who could be making much better money at big tech companies, toiling away in a heroic effort to make the above statement untrue... yet here you are, spitting in their beer. ;)

Personally, I don't have enough experience with real or virtual cab-mic'ing to have an opinion either way, but I'll take your word for it.

Maybe this isn't music related but it is to me...

We are going to pump you up!

It IS curious that this bit (and maybe Toonces ) never got a movie, when pretty much any other sketch that lasted more than 2 seasons had at least one theatrical run.

Also unrelated: I remember moderating forums in the '00s... a constant battle of reminding people to stay on-topic, trying to not sound like a cop or a heel when reminding people to play by the guidelines, splitting OT conversations into new threads, banning committed trolls (then re-banning them when they created new accounts)... now here I am, your co-conspirator in taking every thread on an ADHD joyride through uncharted country roads. There is nothing "Moderate" about our approach, lol. Our moderation style is some kind of absurdist performance art.

I don't do traditional forum/BBS moderation here. Life's too short.

I don't do traditional forum/BBS moderation here. Life's too short.

There also just isn't much of a need for it here.

Traffic is low anymore... and we never had a lot of rules.

On further consideration, I think I can whittle down my "hidden gems" recommendations to 2 channels:

Dance/Electronic composition, arrangement, and production

• https://www.youtube.com/@Bthelick/videos

Music Theory Essentials

• https://www.youtube.com/@DavidBennettPiano/videos

Bethelick

If you are trying to make dance music of any kind (especially any flavor of house), Bethelick is gold. They use Ableton Live for all videos, but what they are teaching is equally relevant to every DAW or hardware sequencer.

There is zero fluff, no eye candy, no algorithm-gaming BS, no faces, and no "one simple trick" charlitanism. It's just hours and hours of all the things I wish someone could have shown me when I was first getting into electronic production decades ago, broken down into topical lessons.

This channel does a good job of taking the time to explain any music-vocabulary words they use in-context, as well as covering some theory concepts as-needed, but anyone who feels less-confident on that front should also check out:

David Bennett Piano

Despite having "piano" in the name, these are musical vocabulary & theory lessons that apply to any popular genre and any instrument.

There are a ton of theory-focused channels on YT (yay!), but the way David presents and illustrates each topic is (in my opinion) the best there is right now. Whereas more familiar faces like Rick Beato or Adam Neely are explaining things in a way that requires you already have a decent theory foundation (which is a fair assumption, given their audience), David makes no assumptions about your prior understanding, but get's through the topic at hand without wasting a ton of time re-explaining fundamentals.

Personally, I consume a few different theory channels that treat Hard Bop like a competitive sport, but when I want the clearest and cleanest way to explain a given concept, and illustrate it with examples people will recognize, I turn to David.

I forgot about Bennett, those are great videos.

Last time I checked youribe also still had most of Howard Goodall's BBC specials including all the episodes of his epic Story of Music. Well worth multiple viewings.

I forgot about Bennett, those are great videos.

Last time I checked youribe also still had most of Howard Goodall's BBC specials including all the episodes of his epic Story of Music. Well worth multiple viewings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Y6NPahlDE&list=PLX_3mlborR3gZIwKFbuY1hlGJuzlzwiyJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbOWi6f_IM&list=PL50762AA8F9B1D143

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8PpGukzCE&list=PLIiLqk8xb6kOC872ckMCqfBbyEv-suXLp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5jt6BD3Ik&list=PLizmcyyQU5iaNuCixeEJfwyWaoxwSuQAl

These?

I'll check 'em out. Cheers!

Yup. Thise 2 are great and there's also '20th Century Greats' and 'Big Bangs.'

Yup. Thise 2 are great and there's also '20th Century Greats' and 'Big Bangs.'

10-4.

I updated the list above to include complete playlists for all 4 BBC series.

Thanks!