You Need Saturation
In this video, I talk about the importance of saturation and EQ for bass players as well as for producers. We use a song I create to showcase the JHS Colour Box and its many helpful and creative applications. This video is sponsored by @jhspedals
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#Saturation
Originally posted by UCfRlprx-BEhwuVTWlHVyN6A at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W2yHm-ojho
Sweet vid. Should be producing for budos band
No way? Jhs
That's a pretty cool track! Great groove!
I appreciate the behind-the-scenes production peek.
Thank you, Philip ????????????
Hey Philip, awesome video! Really inspiring! I’ve also made some good experiences using the Origin Effects DCX Boost on vocals and other sounds to give a little UA610 saturation. Just curious how you are running the drums and horn out of the DAW through the pedal and back in. My IK Multimedia Axe I/O has a reamp output but just curious about your process. Thanks!
Man, as a musician, this video was so inspiring, what a great job you did, it really showed me a different perspective to music production, well done e
wow, cool idea and song
This was really interesting. Blown away by the production value and creativity here. I own a colour box v2 and have never really gotten my head around it so this is also super helpful.
Majestic recordings
Off brand danger mouse but two decades too late
Phillip – I feel that someone else has probably made this comparison by now, but the song you were working on in this video is making me think of Air's "La Femme D'Argent. You nailed the vibe whether you meant to or not. And you convinced me to order a COLOUR BOX! Congrats JHS!
Such a good bassline.
I can never seem to hear an effect a person calls “a subtle effect”. In this case, it just makes it a bit louder.
sincerely love your style of video making, skilled, talented and creative and absolutely impressive plus informative and educational. thank you, you rock. happy thankful weekend.
400$ for an EQ…thats insane and highly unnecessary
Nice porn-stache…
Smooth ????????????
Wow that intro !! ????
Man, that's a sick demo of a music product. Super fun and creative way to show how you could use the colour box. The intro song came out awesome!
I don't know why they put a switch in it, id never turn it off ????
Awesome video! I def need to get into my Colour Box V2 more so I love every cool video like this really showing awesome ways to use it on tracks
I am an acoustic guitar player, but nothing hits me harder than a fine sounding saturated bass. Easily the thing I spend the most time on on my home recordings. Thanks for these wonderful explorations!
Philip, this more than almost anything else that I've viewed on the Colour Box, makes me want to own a Colour Box. I love the content you're putting together – as long as it's life-giving to you, it's certainly worthwhile watching for me! Love what you put together with Rhett Shull too, but I'm really appreciating your bass-centric content here as well, being a multi-instrumentalist who started with bass guitar over two decades ago.
Where is your keyboard from it looks rad
Which headphones are you using Phil?
Such a great sneak peek into your producer’s brain. Thanks!
Nice video! Listening to isolated tracks by bassists like Jamerson, there's a lot of saturation from pushing the mixing board back in the day. Gave the bass some definition without overpowering the bottom end of the mix.
I borrowed a Colour Box from a drummer and really liked it. I also play a Mustang with flats and the pedal can add some warm saturation and bring out the overtones. Ultimately I had to return the pedal, but found I can get in the ballpark using Logic's stock plugins such as the soft-clip on the compressor.
Love those Quincy Jones Serge gainsbourg basslines
Oft times,…these "production value" vids (generally), are like a bunch of dudes gathered round sniffing corks (or farts)! This video is not one of those.
The grittiness sounds like shit though. Like it’s broken.
Great song
Voxengo Tube Amp is the only thing that i found that gives me this saturation without making it hard to use, i love it for palmmuting im using it for everything tho
Great conception and execution. Great to see/hear the device used in context
Great vid! From the first seconds I was hyped that it was a 15 minute song. Release that beast!!
Fantastic!
“Green Dolphin Street” on a color video? Well played trumpet. Well played. ????
I purchased one of these a few weeks ago in the anniversary color – this was the perfect video to get me excited for using the CB when it arrives! Thanks!
Saturation = Win. From drums, to vocals and of course bass.
I love your playing and tone … and your style of your vids
Well played sir! Came for tasty Mustang bass tones and stayed for cool production voodoo. I may have to give one of those a go and try some of those tricks. Thanks for the killer content! And… Kevin gets a subscriber too. Who can't use an occasional break beat to jam to?
Which half-round set are you using?
Ooh imma have to add a comment to boost you in the algorithm! This shit rules!!!
Excellent work. I really enjoyed the great intro song followed by how the colour box was used in creating the overall mood of the song. Cheers
Man you sound so good on a mustang!
Whenever I saw this pedal I didn't understand it and I saw no point because it's a pedal. Now I see that the form factor is deceptive. I need to think of it like a console. And record everything into it. Instead of fitting it on a board.
Man if all ads were like this I wouldn't be mad at all.
What pups are in that mustang? I ended up getting a vintera ii, put some chrome xl flats on em, but i find the pups a bit lackluster. and noisy. any advice?
Yo, this is good storytelling. But as a filmmaker of 20 years I want to offer one critique. Just talk to the camera more. Its really offputting to see where you are looking and NOT see what you are looking at. Plus, if you ever spoke to me like this in person, I'd walk away. If you are going to talk AT the camera like this, you need to talk TO the camera. We need your eye contact, even if you are blind. I bet you'd get 2x the views and video retention. You looking away the majority of the time makes this really uncomfortable to watch. I couldn't finish it. That said, I hope you make more vids! Its obvs ok to look off camera but when you are speaking you really need to give us your attention. -best
This is my TV/movie theater program for a little enjoyable time out! I don't have a TV and the movies are never worth it. So here and now, I buy my movie ticket for Philips' 'You Need Saturation', even though I'm just an amateur bass player – always curious, constantly learning, quite an art enthusiast. In every respect, lots of success, Philip!
Groovy baby
That's really an amazing approach to everything, from recording to editing and mixing.
Excellent sounds used throughout the whole track.
Great job, Philip.