Behind the Recording of ‘Paranoid-Black Sabbath
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Vol 4 next
Good documentary
You're channel is excellent. So interesting! thank you 🙂
Not wishing to contradict Geezer, and quite possibly they tried it, but I'm 99% sure that the Iron Man vocal effect isn't Ozzy singing through an electric fan. It's definitely a ring modulator. I actually worked in BBC Sound and used a ring modulator when we had the Daleks in the studio. That's exactly the sound.
Ward's set up is that of a jazz drummer. You hear the recording an imagine this monstrous drum set with several rack toms and cymbals. Nope, a 3 piece ludwig with a 14×5.5 supra snare and one ride, one crash. Wild.
I started my sound engineering career at Regent Sound in the late-70s, tape-opping with Jim and Karl, the two house engineers and later with Martin Moss, a great drum engineer who'd been working with The Police on their first two albums. The live studio was small, egg boxes on the ceiling, pegboard walls and a tiny drum booth (this was a slightly different layout from when the Stones, Beatles and Hendrix, among others, recorded though it was still the same overall size), with a plate reverb stuck away in the tape store at the far end. The control room had a 16-tk 3M recorder, though I can't remember what the desk was and a pair of huge Tannoy Lockwoods hanging from chains from the ceiling. The desk was set at right-angle to the control room window, probably to allow easier access to the live area, especially carrying gear. At the time of writing, the premises is a decent guitar shop called Regent Sounds and has various photos about the place of the earlier studio layout. As you walk in the shop, facing you was the front office when I started – turn right and a few paces along, you'd be in the control room, a few more and you would be in the live room, with a drum booth along the rhs and after that the plate room/store cupboard aginst the back wall. Pokey little studios, that's how great music was often made…
That‘s Rory‘s Rangemaster that was just given to Joe Bo
Lucky bastard
Just why are you quoting “Rolling Stone “ magazine. It’s only dead Americans who give a fk about their opinions. R&R hall for game next ffs.
The ring modulator used on the solo for Paranoid was made by Alan Exley, amazing guitar tech
OZZY’S VOICE on IRON MAN was created on an oscillating metal FAN ? I never knew that . I always assumed it was through equipment used in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by sound technicians like Brian Hodgson . (Paul)
Well said!
Flatwounds on the bass? Interesting.
78-79 i was 15-16 and played this all the time on 8 track cartrige. I never realized it was a 1970 rekease . that mix was ahead of its time.
The Vietnam war thing is a myth that everyone repeats. Ozzy said that the record company wanted to call the album "Paranoid" because they thought that was the biggest hit on it.
Black Sabbath were great, and meant to be. Same as the Who, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers and the Doors! (The way the above six great bands came together is nothing short of six miracles.)
Only one song on the first album was strat. The rest were SG. I don't believe he used the neck pickup for chords.
Slipknot Albums would be a really cool video
I’m lucky enough to grow up in that time remembering when the first one came out second and third and so on the best music that was ever recorded, and their concerts were the best ever compared to this generation nowadays, they have nothing but shit to listen to
And Tony added leather from an old jacket to his plastic finger tips, which he kept that same jacket throughout the decades so he can continue making tips with it.
Tony's Rangemaster was modified.
Please do some Masters of Reality, Vol. 4, and even some Blue Cheer.
I've really nerded out about production in the past 5 years, and it's crazy to go back and see that these guys were using Pultecs and all the iconic old gear in 1970.
Black Sabbath was before my time, and I'm almost 50. Classic rock stations in the '90s were CONSTANTLY playing Ozzy singles — Crazy Train, Flying High Again, Bark at the Moon and Mr. Crowley were played multiple times per day on EVERY classic rock station in the US. But not Black Sabbath.
Randy Rhoads was deified. It was an era of guitar gods, and Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Paige, David Gilmour and Randy Rhoads made the list. Even Satriani and other loner studio virtuosos made the list. But they just didn't play Sabbath or old Metallica with Cliff Burton.
Yet, Hendrix' Spanish Castle Magic preceded it by three years.
I want to know more about Black Sabbaths production. My favorite is master of reality!
I’m confused by what Iommi says with regards to pickup selection. He jumped down some dude’s throat for saying he used neck for chords and bridge for solos but, like you’ve said, I’ve always suspected that the guy was right
8 tracking recording. Not 4.
I cut my finger and have a raised scar on my friction ridge ,and I have joint pain in my finger joints. I had to totally change my playing style. I play with a feather touch now. No more visible fret wear on my nickle frets. No more divots. yay! I wonder if lord Iommi ever tried a telecaster? I think telecaster are the bees knees. I wonder about how they tuned the drums. They are high. I wonder if the reso heads are tighter than the batters.
Every hard rock/heavy metal band after Black Sabbath owes a debt of gratitude to Black Sabbath. PERIOD!!!!!!
Great choice for album. This one definitely had big impact on me as a kid. Sparked my love of metal music.. great video ????
Black Sabbath regained popularity among young people when I was in Jr High in the 2000's. It was a part of the "classic rock revival" that was happening then. EVERYONE had a Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and ACDC shirt (that they bought from Walmart of all places). I glossed right over Black Sabbath thinking there wasn't much to it because of this. It wasn't until nearly 15 years later that I really dug in to their catalog and finally understood it. A big part of that is that my wife really enjoys pop music from the 60's and 70's, so we had been listening to that quite a bit. I finally put the first album on, in the context of having listened to much of the other contemporary music of that time, and it felt like I got to experience it (as much as possible) as to what it must have been like to hear it for the first time back then. Compared to their contemporaries, Black Sabbath created something wholly different and EVIL sounding. In an era where that really wasn't much of that in the mainstream. I am a big metalhead nowadays. I love Black Metal, Doom Metal, pretty much everything I can find. I look back on this band and recognize that we have, quite literally, EVERY genre of metal because of them and that first album. It's rare to be able to point to a singular moment, a singular band, and a singular album, and see that it was the beginning of an entire genre(s). And of course, it all still holds up. They truly were an incredible band.
"it's regarded as perhaps the most influencial record in the birth of heavy metal" that's totally not true. The first album was the one that did it.
The album sounds so good. Just basic real, analog recording. The drums sounds great. The guitar sounds heavy and loud, but it isn't a wall or recorded mush like today, where everything's double and triple tracked and panned and the guitar basically had all frequencies, giving nothing to bite on or stand out from, just a mess of guitar rapin your ears. It's just a perfect recording through and through. We've gone so far and gotten so far away from that, that diminishing returns is all we've had since probably the end of using analog tape in the early to mid 2000s
Slack Babbath! m/
Sabbath remains the eternal stone slab from which all metal eternally rises – Ian Christe
0:32 is that really Toni’s hand?
do master of reality next!
Sabbath changed everything, their influence in heavy music (hell, all music) is incredible
Tony had the SG before Sabbath ever recorded. Wicked World was recorded with the Strat, and the pickup went out. The SG Special was used after that.
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