Name: [Teaser] Grammy Award Winning Recording Engineer Reacts FTIsland, TWICE, SNSD, KNK, WINNER & more!
Uploaded: 2018-01-19T11:34:15.000Z
Duration: 7 min 18 s
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My name is Steven Roessner. I'm a professor at the University of Rochester in the audio music engineering department

I am also a Grammy Award winning engineer

For I've been doing it for probably too long

By that I mean there's a lot of high frequency content both guitars vocals the kick drum even is very clicky

There's not a lot of like bottom ends to the mix like it's there. It's present

But to me it's just this sounds like after

You know five six songs my ears are started going to be fatigued because they're being assaulted with high frequency content

All the time, but then again, that's a trait of this particular. Type of music

Almost to the point where I feel like there might be some stuff, that's a little out of phase

But it's not necessarily bad. It just seems like I have sounds that are 
outside the boundaries of the speakers and the stereo mix

Vocals are just too loud. I think it's a combination of the EQ

They're so forward that the rest of the band is kind of like

I like the song. I like the production the arrangement is really cool the way it goes from like really loud the chorus

I Can hear everything clearly vocals sound great. I like the horn arrangements

And their placement I get here to the guitar and then

in the intro of the bass guitar doing the slap

There's particular notes in that part where I feel like I don't know if I really like that because they pop out and they almost

It's an interesting part, interesting sound, but it might be just a little too much

In general when you're working with electronic songs or electronic

samples, it's a little easier to mix because

The sounds already pretty much set for you

It shows up with the samples on the kick and snare and the synth stuff

You're adding delays you're adding reverbs

To make it more interesting or different than the stock sample

This is a very playful mix, I'm getting lost in it which is a good thing

There's a lot going on a lot to take apart. It's kind of fun to listen to

Something I've noticed in all these songs so far. Is that pretty much anything rhythmic is right in the center

Anything harmonic is way outside like guitars even like the guitars are also providing rhythm here, but they're mainly a harmonic instrument

Going every which way, but like kick, snare, everything's just always tight center.

I Like that there's a slight back echo on the du du du du, it's very subtle, but very nice, very well done

I'm going to go ahead and agree with the YouTube commenters

that this might not have been their best foot to start off on only because

It's like they're throwing in everything to see what sticks

The engineer... that's a challenge to make this all fit

That was interesting what they did with the voice there, pitch shift up

Not bad, might wanna try that on something I'm doing right now actually

So there's not a lot of clarity in this mix. It's all very

Jumbled together. I can hear the vocals I hear things

Vocals sound great right here, and the depth of field is very nice

So the layers, the instruments, I can hear the stage

kind of this way as opposed to just this way, I can hear this way and this way

And it's very creatively mixed as far as like the vocals are center, and then on this chorus part

There's a lot to listen to it's a really dynamic mix as far as like

Stuff going on, everything is very clear everything's very nice

Balanced it's not top heavy. It's not bottom. You know light. It's very

I Kind of enjoy that that high hat almost like woodpeckery kind of thing that's going on.

Yeah, it's it's a very It's it's a different take on that sound

Sharp thing and this has a little more reverb and a little more depth to it

So I kind of enjoy that most of the time when you hear that. It's very

precise and this kind of like fills in a little bit better

Something things come in that's like it becomes unbalanced to a point where it's like oh this is kind of distracting

I Enjoy that they're not using traditional

Samples, that we've heard through the other songs like I haven't heard really a sample that I've already heard before

I Feel like because I liked the mix of BLΛƆKPIИK and I like the mix of this

at this entertainment group knows... Knows what should be done

I have a gut feelings that whoever decides like this song can be released they have a good ear