EveryTime I Die : The Making Of Ex Lives - Recording With Joe Barresi

Joe Baressi is my type of engineer. Holy FUCK. He's got like, that Ross Robinson attitude towards a lot of things... he's one of the guys who does barely ANY cutting EQ wise and much prefers to boost....

BAHAHA the techies' say that's 'incorrect' but fuck, I boost 95% of the time. I only really cut when I hear unpleasant harmonics or ringing; which is mostly always OH and Room Mics..... other than that, HP/LP Filter and TASTEFUL boosting is all you need, IMO!

=D <3 <3 <3
 
No, it's not just you. I stopped watching the first video cause I was embarrassed for the guy ...

Please give more detailed explanation for douchebaggery.

Is it :

-the way he talks ?
-what he says (the actual content) ?
-his looks (beard/glasses nerd look coupled with "i work out chopping up trees for a living" buffiness) ?
-all the above ?

Dude looks/sounds a bit like a weirdo (which i think i could seem to be too if i had to talk in front of a videocamera) but otherwise he's cool to me. And his guitar parts are great (both on record and live) which is what matters most so he's ok in my book.
 
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I don't care what he looks like. It's the way he talks and what he says, which is the typical American "I really don't have a fuckin' clue about what I'm saying and it's really not very special - but I'll make it sound like the most awesomest thing evarrrr while using the same words again and again, knowamsayin'?!!11!" bullshit.

I didn't count how many times he said that Joe Barresi is "INSANE!" and everything Joe does is "INSANE!!" when it really is just regular stuff that people have been doing in recording studios forever. "OMG, we dropped a reverb box and recorded it and then used that sound that we recorded! It was soooo INSANE!".

8 year olds talk like that. Or people who desperately want to impress other people with stuff that isn't very impressive. I don't care if he is a good dude or makes great music - in this video he comes across like a highschool dropout.

If he proceeds to make more sense and sounds less like an imbecile in the second half of the video, good for him ...
 
8 year olds talk like that. Or people who desperately want to impress other people with stuff that isn't very impressive.

Or people who are put on the spot to talk in front of a camera about something . Honestly comes across to me like most musicians who do these videos, a little nervous, a little awkward but genuinely excited about cool studio shit.