How to make sonic sound, Quincy Jones, Recording Engineer Skills

[marcuelcajon]

Great interviews.

[jarodc0re]

Does the recording engineer have large talons?

[shaunamcintyre]

at one time.. thriller sounded awful? woaaah.

[skinnymonk]

"Wired up" lol

[naptown15]

RE REVEALS ITS "EASY"

[xorezx1]

I wonder if they make a plugin yet that can keep engineers up for 5 days of mixing...

[bakersfieldmusicnow]

just amazing thanx !

[mindstormsabrewin]

The great thing about the song Thriller is that it is uncluttered. Every instrument is placed perfectly and balanced in the mix. There are no unnecessary digital washes of effects. Every instrument has room to move around every other instrument. Today that song would be destroyed by autotune, WALLS of digital chaos noise, swooping and swirling around in the mix without ANY musical content. 70 tracks of compressed synths all sounding like fingernails on a chalkboard. Thriller is a PERFECT mix.

[duckotaco]

@mindstormsabrewin this is a good comment. I am a music producer, but always learning. You made me think that maybe I too put too much unnecessary stuff in my mixes. Not at the level of uselessness of some productions but still, I can do better. Sure I never use 70 useless tracks, I don't understand why I should insist on endless effect chains like some people do and I do keep it minimal. But still, I have to cut down. Thriller is truly a great song.

[duckotaco]

@mindstormsabrewin not sure how much I'm against "walls of noise" though, to me what matters is conveying a mood, and "walls of noise" can do that. They are also not that easy to make, to layer stuff in an effective way. Trent Reznor but especially people like Jackson and His Computer Band (ahem...) to me are great producers, aren't they.

[mindstormsabrewin]

@duckotaco I am just beginning to get into recording the past few years and I find my favorite albums are all over the map sonically. Nine Inch Nails is a good example of densely layered "walls" of sound. But at the same time those walls are very well defined, even though it sounds like chaos. It is all very well thought out. I think back to the old Queen albums: tremendous layering and overdubbing but carefully designed to be musical. Modern pop songs don't have the clarity of that kind of mix.

[mindstormsabrewin]

@duckotaco Also, some NIN songs are very soft and delicate melodies. Or just synth pads and textures that are very simple. The fact Reznor can switch gears like that from one song to the next is fascinating. I still think Prince has one of the best ears in the music industry. His past few albums are beautiful. As a musician myself I always wanted to write and record my own album. And it's good to listen closely to these masters. I get so many ideas about how to apply such techniques to my songs.

[dicajunior54]

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[noisynerdman]

LOL at the speakers catching on fire!

[emymummy]

i agree too michael should of got alot more credit ...well we *his fans* and his family KNOW michael produce the songs :) and written them :) um i thought michael wrote more then 4 songs on thilller ?????????

[8bobthebuilder]

I still have my first ever Thriller cassette tape from 1983/1984, ---> Thriller is quite possibly MJ's greatest solo album...

[Aariyan096]

i stopped @ 0:627 by mistake & he looked beautiful!

@ 6:29 & 9:10, it seems like he has dimples.

i can actually believe that the speakers caught on fire, eddie was that good.

hopefully the second part of this documentary will be floating around youtube bcos this is going in my favs &playlist.

[RoundSquareX]

@physcohyperchicken I found the rest of the documentary and there are more parts with Michael...Quincy Jones - The Many Lives of Q - BBC - Ep.2

[92lisamike]

Oh, I love Michael so much.

[proent]

fun fact: The song Billy Jean was mixed 91 times by audio engineer Bruce Swedien before he finalized the song with the second mix.

[proent]

haha the Speakers Cought FIre.

[showtruck86]

without a doubt one of the if not the greatest music artist and entertainer of all-time

[mrchic]

The solo was so hot the speakers caught fire 6:58

[SicilianValentina007]

This Is Where The... Michael★Jackson ...MAGiC Was 1st Made! ⬆The Sound AND Vision Was All Created Here⬆ ✦Quincy AND Michael✦ Had An Amazing Beautiful BOND ✦Of✦ Making MUSiC...♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

[BabyJoffin]

What a great documentary. Quincy gathered a great team together - the only one that could do M.J.'s music justice.

[blacksanta100]

@underakeithspell 4 of the 4 songs Mj wrote for thriller were hits 2 of them went #1 BillieJean Beat it THe girl is Mine and Wanna Be Startin Sumthin

[mjj69able]

if you hear the demos of all his music, you ll hear that Mj already had 80-90% perfect! he never got enough credit for his gr8ness as a producer himself

[humannature11]

3:37 I love him!! He was a great producent too!!

[lovelyoneandonly1]

It's ironic that they focus on Billie Jean for almost half of the video because Quincy wanted to cut that song from the album. He also wanted to cut Smooth Criminal from the Bad album.

Quincy is a great producer and musician, but MJ wrote the biggest hits on Thriller. MJ also produced Dangerous and wrote almost every song, and Dangerous is a much more comprehensive, polished album than Bad, which Q produced.

[heyheymaja]

hahah, he didn't swear, he said "that's smelly"! <3 that would have been sooooo insanely cuuuuuute to hear :D <3

[THEEingeniousNERD]

I can't watch part 1, but thanks for posting, I've never seen this before.

[TMANHwy79]

This is the greatest!!

[bianca112594]

this is GREAT! I mean really REALLY REALLY GREAT! thanks you very much for posting this. woooo! :))

uh.uhmmm.. is there part two? :D

[bianca112594]

this is GREAT! I mean really REALLY REALLY GREAT! thanks you very much for posting this. woooo! :))

uh.uhmmm.. is there part two? :D

[Lauren78100]

Love himmm!

[jbastosferreira]

Michael was great. The world knows that Michael was giant, but not know how. Neither own Michael was aware of his genius and the size of its importance to the art.

[xXFreakiiMerviiXx]

Wow thank you for the Video! :)

[Catherine2300]

thank you for sharing this, it's for the first time that I could hear from these people and learn how Thriller was made. Very interesting,For me Thriller album is the greatest and not because it's the best selling album ever, but because the music is genuis.

[blackbarbiie89]

No wonder he made the Ladies Faint

Just Listen to his Voice

OMG 3:37

I LOVE Him!

[HappyBunnyLOLRIPMJ]

I love this album my fave song from the album is Human Nature and Billie Jean

[QuesoGr7]

Speaki of Sonic, thanks for making him more awesome than he originally was MJ! :D

[EarthSong11]

oh God at 03:29 Michael is gorgeoussss O_o ohh my that smileee makesss me flyyy

[EarthSong11]

i love him endlessly

[RoundSquareX]

sorry physcohyperchicken if I never responded back to you. Don't worry, I remember seeing the second half but it went on to just talk about other projects by Quincy Jones. The documentary was more of Q than MJ.

[KeepTrue56]

I didnt know Quincy called Mjackson smelly...

LOLOLOLOL

thanks for posting.

What I like about Mj he is always humble and always mkae sure to thank Quincy and ROd temperman.

[TheDangerous858]

great video. im wondering if i should save it. alot of MJ's videos have been cancelled due to terms of use violations.

[KeepTrue56]

I saved this to my pc.

[TheDangerous858]

i did too. i guess i was a bit peeved when i realized alot of Mike's videos were being removed from youtube.

[RoundSquareX]

In the 80's, all the credit seem to go to Michael most of the time. He diserves credit no doubt. That album and those songs would never been able to do what they did without MJ's touch. I think what they wanted to do was just bring out the impact the other three members of this team had on the success of Thriller. I had always wondered when I was a teen why Triumph didn't sound as good as Off The Wall. MJ had done a lot of writing/producing on Triumph to. It was still great though.

[RocStarr913]

@RoundSquareX If you ever read Michael Jackson's biography The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, it's been said that Quincy Jones took some of the credit for "Billie Jean" that he really didn't deserve, especially since Jones did not believe in the song because of its long intro and its title.

[martianflash]

MJ usually didn't take credit for his work. He wrote the most successful and unique songs and still didn't take the credit for it. Anybody else would go crazy beating their own drum with even a single song like his!

[bbyd33]

omg yeeess from where did you took the part at 3:29, daam he looks sooo finnee!

[MN222298]

from where you took the part at 3.29...this interview

[trizwan05]

MJJalwayesandforever - ur so right!!! MY God, he's so sexy...and that voice... ;-)

[MJJalwayesandforever]

OMG, Michael, oh Michael you gave me almost a HEARTATTACK on 03.29 - 03.42! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;O OH GOD, SO DAME HANDSOME, THE MOST HANDSOME MAN EVER LIVED!!!! <3<3<3

[Fashion4life]

they should give more credit to michael as a producer ... I think Quincy did a great job but Michael gave his all and was a great producer!! peace :)

[PoetGerri]

I agree Fashion. They did seem to be stroking Quincy just a little too much and made Michael's input almost a side note. I must say this is a wonderful video describing the whole album making process. I really love behind the scenes stuff on how the great things - songs, plays, movies, etc. - are made. What an awesome production team they all were, and how they turned the entire music industry upside down with the album with the kick-ass beats. Kudos to you all!

[KeepTrue56]

I agree fashion, they are blowing up quincys head a lil bit to much here.

People cant forget Mj produced. and he wrote and composed the baddest songs on that album with the sickest beat and lyrics.

billie jean

wanna be startin somethin

beat it

****************************

and by sickest and baddest i mean brilliant.

[Fashion4life]

@KeepTrue56 Yeah I know right? Well Im not a big fan of Quincy no more after what he said about Michael after his death.. I feel that if he had a problem with MJ he should have done it while he was still alive... Quincy is still a great producer and so, but I dont like him as a person like i used to.. MJ was a great producer, just look at Bad, Dangerous, HIStory, Invincble albums^^ peace n love :)

[KeepTrue56]

what did quincy say about michael after his death.

[dyhard678]

you don't know what Q said about MJ after his death?

[MsSexismylife]

what did quincy say after mj's death bro?

[dyhard678]

he said that MJ wanted to be white. I'll send you the vid.

[JSlayer108]

He did?

[dyhard678]

@JSlayer108

did what ?

[JSlayer108]

Said he wanted to be white. What vid was that?

[gregoryjjasadirana94]

dude he never said that they reversed his words he said in the video that his skin broke out by pimples and his discease

made him suffer and the pimples made him feel bad his father teased him for his pimples and he couldn't look in the mirror

and they edited the vid

they think they are funny

[JSlayer108]

@gregoryjjasadirana94 Now that makes a lot more sense than what was said before. I knew Michael couldn't have said anything like that. He had it best if anything and I doubt he would ever think of jeopardizing it. Who would.

[gregoryjjasadirana94]

type in michael jackson admits to cosmetic surgery you will see how they

have reversing his words.

tose people need to get a live.

[Televison15o]

@dyhard678 send me the vid

[dyhard678]

@Televison15o I sent it in you shared vids area. Enjoy. It is a real shocker. The nerve of this man to call him a brother and say that type of shit. MJ's own freaking brothers wouldn't have went that far as to have said some shit like that w/ the exceptions of what Latoya did. LOL

[dyhard678]

@Fashion. I agree. They did put a little too much into Q. However, all three of these men made music history no less. As for Q, I love his music, but I have lost respect of the man. Particularly of his ignorance that even MJ himself openly detested. That does not take away my view of him being a genious, but the dude has serious issues with opinions and thoughts about ppl which make him seem uneducated and dumb.

[ljonesluv]

@Fashion4life Thank you so much for saying this, because I was just thinking, are they trying to take credit and vision from Michael, placing everything on Quincy? If Michael cried because the sound he envisioned wasn't there, then why is it that they won't admit that he had much to do with the recording of the greatest album ever? I mean, what are they doing, now that he is gone physically? Brother!

[IVH93]

Michael was a genious, really! <3

[hcone90]

is there a part 2?

[RoundSquareX]

Actually this is part 2, part 1 link is in the side bar, I have not found part 3. See the link in the side bar, copy the title at the top of part one and put that in the search engine and see what you can find, I will check later for some more.

[sugercoatedvenom]

what is the name of the documentary? thanks