hey chris liepe here one step closer linkin park chester bennington
yes studio multi-tracks super excited to get into these show you all the production goodnesses that
is that are lincoln park whatever i'd be really careful with linkin park the copyright owners
tend to block things very very often as a result i must be extra brief with my playing snippets
and leave gaps in between when i do play things but you know i only even have a prayer of doing
these because i'm an education channel i teach people how to sing so the format of
this video is what allows these videos to even be here so enjoy these tracks with me
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join me alright let's get into this we'll start as has been the thing with some instruments drums
those are some organic sounding drums more organic than i would have expected
so great
listening to just the overheads
oh you really get a sense for the room
cool bass
oh you hear how they trimmed in in the digital file they went in
and they got rid of the noise in between that's cool
that's a very common thing uh with with really amped up bases i've done that in a lot of things
that i've i've produced as well you hear all that buzz this lanky strings hitting those frets
this is part of the sound and it sounds amazing you don't really get much of a sense for for the
detail of the bass especially uh in the studio mix it's really fun to hear that
but it also teaches us a little bit of a lesson sometimes your instruments will
be quirky sounding and run with it right dig into the quality of the instrument and
dig into the quality of your voice don't shy away from something that sounds or that you
feel like sounds a little off or weird lean into it and see what happens a lesson from the base
here's where you might get in trouble i gotta play these shortly but guitar
i like hearing those little cuts every once in a while you hear that thing in there
these were recorded in the digital domain and that was a punch without a fade before the stuff got
consolidated into one file i also like this here these are backing parts synths some backing vocals
that's pretty cool to hear that little clicky sound
how fun
all right let's get into these vocals and especially pay attention to
the placement in the stereo field and the way that the delays and effects follow his voice also
the way that he crescendos his brutality and grit and desperation into his voice he
was one of the best at this being able to be so clean and angelic
and then sort of sneak the the grit and and emotion into it oh it's just
and if you ever watched him live you heard him do this too so fun i cannot take this anymore
yep saying everything i said before
that's cool the the delay in time with the four it comes in just for the four i warned you i'd have
to stop a little bit more often for these vocals so that this video can remain on youtube follow
the journey with me also notice the sort of cup sound this is a band limited sound that they're
using and they open it up later on different tracks all these words they make no sense i find
listen ignorance notice how the the delay from far trails over this next phrase also notice this cut
breath oh so cool i'm blessing ignorance less i hear the less you say you'll find that out anyway
that's one of those crescendos i was talking about right
it's so cool he goes less i hear the less you say it would say it starts to heat up i'm
he's like finding bliss and ignorance there right he's sort of ambivalent and then it goes
anyway just like before yes
he's got that out front and then
the clean panned out in the stereo field super cool everything you say to me
this is neat the way they have these divided up we get a a
front row audible seat to the the may right here
and then we have these separate should be one step closer to the edge listen to all the different
ways he's saying these things or they're saying these things take me one step closer to the edge
we got this guy up here and then we got these guys that are sort of
like half whispering one step closer one step closer it's kind of cool and then
it's those layers it's all those different characters
that make this work but if you listen here
you have the same sort of thing happening but it becomes the focus
it's like the same group is there more intense i need a little room to praise
i'm about to break also notice the band limiting continues on this main line where the eq has taken
some of the lows and some of the highs out and it's kind of like this we have the full fidelity
around him in those gang vocals interesting i didn't hear it that way until now
i'm about to break full fidelity right there i find the answers on so clear
oh are we at the end of that clear
clear like the rasp over that and then the delay picked it up clear
wish i could find a way cut breath there again wish i could find a way to disappear
all these thoughts they make no sense hear how right here especially notice the pitch is not
perfect the delay is trailing over uh awesomely there all these thoughts they make no sense
i find bliss and ignorance like sense and and ignorance are are a bit out of pitch
sort of but it fits the angsty thing he's going for these thoughts they make his thoughts dots
it's really important to note how forward jester is when he sings getting his face
out of the way thoughts thoughts thoughts thoughts thoughts thoughts thoughts us now
that's that's that that sort of speech forwardness in this context
it makes pitch take a very secondary role to the like he's punching the thing he's talking
to that's not even a person these thoughts they make no sense i find bliss and ignorance nothing
seems to go away okay now listen how he crescendos the grit again here go away over and over again
i love how chester would would close his mouth over and over again
and have that wonderful like balance between that that almost whispered sound with his
there's like three things going on which is what makes his grit so so cool
he's got the clean head then he's got the which is that that sort of lower false chord engage sound
and then he's got the going on so it's like this
and you get a sense of that air over it everything you say to me i'm about to break notice all those
intensities so cool and they seem to be getting slightly more intense as as they go on maybe some
of them are flown as gang vocals but but some of them are different i'm about to break here
the three components to his grit that i was just talking about everything you say to me
i'm about to break ooh hear how the delay was pulled on that one ah the nuances in his scream
he goes a little sharp there
hear this this anticipatory breath
cool break break break break break the dj nature of vocal production see what's going on here
oh yeah cool
the extra organic sounding drums with some of lincoln park's other sounds
such a wonderful blend shut up these are the things i was really looking forward to hearing in
up we're not isolation to you shut up he's got that pitch in there right this
isn't just an all-out scream there's there's music to it shut up we're not talking to you
shut up when i'm talking to you i mean that's that's the note that's not the sound
that's another part that makes his voice so cool is there is this this melodic sense to his screams
shut up whoa shut up oh that little break back there
shut up shut up and shut up shut up you hear the pitch and the grit it's one is layered over
the top it's almost like they're two separate things working together so cool and his voice
does this better than almost any other voice shut up when i'm talking to you shut up
shut up when i'm talking to you shut up oh and i love the letdowns that happen too shut up
it just it it shows the intensity shut up shut up ah it makes me clinch every time
shut up i'm about to run everything what's interesting too is he's pretty much at the same
pitch the whole time which it's part of the melody i mean if you listen to this section with with the
you know let's go with the bass shut up when i'm talking to you shut up right and then
so it's like this interval of a seventh that's happening
but you don't necessarily hear it that way in the full mix shut up
i do now i can't un-hear it but i don't know that i necessarily thought about him like
having a note there until i was able to hear these things in isolation i'm about
to pray everything you say to me and i'm about to break well let's listen to these one again here
now here's a question right here on these full out screams shut up those are still that
that band limited and very distorted sounding uh michael microphone chain i need a little room to
praise i'm about to break everything the contrast there is so cool everything you say to me
there's so much precision in the way that they've produced and trimmed and
you don't hear that on some of the isolated takes or isolated tracks that i've been
evaluating lately there's these are not very raw they're very produced
and very very highly edited that's the way linkin park rolled but they did a great job
of not taking away from the intensity with with the accuracy that they they left enough rawness
in there of course how could you not with chester's voice i need a little room to pray
break thanks again for watching and enjoying these tracks with me again if you'd like help
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