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I'm Junior Carelli and I'm gonna show you
why it's so important to us to be here in this studio,
histories and names that passed by,
and why it's so important and nice for us keyboardists
to be part of this moment.
So here we are in front of the legendary studio,
Sun Studio, from Sam Phillips,
where the first records known as real rock began.
This is a moment so meaningful to me,
I got thrilled several times back in there.
Because this is where it started,
all we know about the fusion between blues, gospel and country
turning into rock'n roll.
The first rock song recorded here was "Rocket 88",
and soon after this, in 1954, Elvis recorded,
during a jam session,
"That's All Right",
which spread out through all radio stations,
a tremendous success,
and then Elvis' career took off.
Today in here, there's a tour,
a historic tour where you learn about it
and also get to experience what happend here,
and we are having the chance to record a song in here.
One of the nicest things about what's happening today
is a mix between generations, we're in a totally old-school studio,
where those rock monsters recorded
and some are still recording - Bruno Mars for instance,
B. B. King rocorded here,
modern day artists also keep coming here.
But we're using a totally mobile system,
from IK Multimedia, and we'll set it to record
inside Sun Studio.
It's a shock between generations we are doing here.
One of the most insteresting stories from Sun Studio
is about the Million Dollar Quartet.
Elvis had a contract here,
Johnny Cash too,
Jerry Lee Lewis and Clark Perkins.
Those guys were once at the studio,
just hanging out, Elvis wasn't part of here anymore,
and they were jamming, just having fun for four hours.
Sam Phillps had the idea to put record on,
which he couldn't because Elvis were already RCA,
another studio, another company.
This record was kept hidden for a long time,
and then after 25 years they released it.
So check out a little of the songs they recorded
together, unintentionally, in that obscure moment
of those four guys together.
As a keyboardist, being here is mind-blowing
because that was the first time a pianist would put rock
in a trio made of drums, piano and bass,
from Jerry Lee Lewis.
Jerry Lee Lewis is the singer for that song which goes:
"You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain",
"Great Balls of Fire".
This was Sun Studio's second biggest hit, that's crazy.
The first major success is a Clark Perkins',
the second is Jerry Lee Lewis, a pianist who played rock,
who was here by chance to gig with those guys, Elvis,
joining them and raise the first rock trio, quartet.
Jerry Lee Lewis came as a hired pianist
and the guy laucnhed the second major success
by Sun Studio, "Great Balls of Fire".
To me, it's been really thrilling,
a magic awesome aura.
It's an honor to be here,
so check out what Noturnall did here
inside Sun Studios.
Well, after all that capture you saw us doing
back in the United States,
now it's time for mixing and mastering.
We usually do that here in Fusão studio,
which is Noturnall work base.
As some of you know,
we make all our production by ourselves.
Usually, mixing and mastering are under my responsibility,
each one of us is gonna talk about what they do in the band.
When I get everything that was recorded individually,
I open these audio files on my mixer,
it may be an analog one or a virtual one.
We use an SSL Key Action MT Plus,
and virtually, we use ProTools,
with our IK Multimedia plug-ins:
T-RackS and Lurssen.
In case of a mix, we are going to talk
about the equalization and compression we do on each channel.
What is compression and equalization on mixing?
When you listen in your car or on the computer
and that sound seems to lack low, high or mid,
or it's too shrill, without that thickness,
you're not feeling the kick hitting your chest,
and then you start tinkering with the graph on the computer
or the buttons in your car,
and you work on that to get to a quality you enjoy,
you are actually doing equalization,
which is a minor mixing or mastering, roughly speaking.
That's exactly what we do, but for each channel.
That's what equalization is about
in mixing or mastering.
In mastering, you have the overall shape of it.
After you've placed all that sound
that was recorded through individual channels,
you get a final single sound in a stereo channel,
everything mixed up in two channels, Left and Right,
and then you finally master, which is just repeating this process,
as the example in your car, or on your phone,
but this time on the stereo channel.
It's exactly the same, but using professional tools.
In this case, you have got
the IK Multimedia tools, T-RackS and Lurssen again.
T-RackS is currently the hors concours,
it's the most used in all studios and homestudios worldwide.
It's the basic tool used from the amateurs
to the most professional ones,
because it's really good.
When you boost a high or cut a low-mid,
put on a low or a mid, whatever you do,
you can listen really well to what is happening.
It's not a thing that only audiophiles will get.
You widen up that high, you hear it,
you cut off a low-mid, you hear the low-mid being cut,
you boost a low, you hear that low,
in a way that fits in your mix
and each thing can be heard the propper way
or the way you find as right.
That's the great thing about doing music,
there's no right or rong, there's what sounds good or bad.
Lurssen is one of the best compressors
I've ever seen in my life, we have used it a lot.
Besides, it ensures you to work things out
so the final volumes of the songs are equalized,
kind at the same level.
Also, you need to hear a good reference,
to know if the volume is even with the market,
so that it's not too loud, nor too low
for when someone makes the so-called mixtape -
at least in my times, nowadays we just call it...
"Let's hear you sound on the computer".
So if you'll record your band's sound
or from an artist you are working with,
you can't miss counting on IK Multimedia,
they're the best hardware and software in today's market.
And I don't say this for being an endorser for the brand,
but for being a producer who works with it
for more than 18 years,
and I've always used, since I first knew them,
the plug-ins from IK Multimedia
such as Lurssen or T-RackS,
the equalizers, compressors, limiters...
There's nothing like it, you have to use to get it.
Now you know it:
hardware and software for audio, IK Multimedia.