Michael Wagener to release instructional producing DVD

[Virgil.]

Seems pretty cool!

Former SKID ROW, ACCEPT, DOKKEN Producer To Release Instructional DVD - July 22, 2011
He's worked with METALLICA, DOKKEN, PLASMATICS, MÖTLEY CRÜE, QUEEN, POISON, Randy Rhoads... and many more top artists. Now Michael Wagener is going to reveal his recording secrets in an upcoming instructional DVD.

For more information, watch the clip below.

Wagener is a music producer, mixer, and engineer from Hamburg, Germany, best known for his work with many top hard rock and heavy metal bands in the late '80s. Wagener's works have sold over 94 million albums worldwide.

Wagener was the original guitarist for the German band ACCEPT. When he turned 18, he was drafted into the German army and was stationed 350 miles away from home. This made it difficult for him to practice with the rest of ACCEPT and hence he quit the band. After completing his military service, Wagener began working as an audio engineer in Hamburg in 1972. Through a friendship with singer Don Dokken, Wagener moved to Los Angeles. In 1981 he produced the first DOKKEN album, and would go on to produce such seminal albums as SKID ROW's self-titled debut, which sold five million copies in the U.S. alone, and OZZY OSBOURNE's "No More Tears", which sold seven million in the US. Wagener also mixed METALLICA's 1986 classic "Master Of Puppets".

Source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=161000

 

[grywolf627]

One of my gods. Where can I pre-order, where can I pre-order???

 

[Virgil.]

haha for reals!

 

[Rockchops]

The price for the complete box set will be $650.00. You can pre-order now and you get a discount of $100, for a pre-order price of $550.00

and people thought Joe Barresi's instructional dvd was expensive...lol

 

[TRUIE]

More info here : http://www.michaelwagener.com/html/dvd.html

Price is a joke

 

[Virgil.]

So, basically you're spending $550-$650 for someone to give you G.A.S.?

 

[ahjteam]

and people thought Joe Barresi's instructional dvd was expensive...lol

Well, some people pay £1050 to meet Britney Spears... And the funny thing is that most of those meet and greet packages are SOLD OUT. Also Wagener's 7 day workshops that he mentions in the youtube video cost $3500 per person (max 12 per session), and they were booked solid too. It's not stupid who asks, but the one who pays.

 

[DanLights]

Wow, pricey. I'd love to have it, seems really in depth, but I can't, not at that price. Does it say how many DVDs the box set consists of?

 

[ElektricEyez]

I think it will be worth it!

 

[smy1]

Well, the dude hasn't really done much in the past 5-10 years (according to Discogs.com), so I guess that's a part of how he generates revenue these days. Pricing is definitely far away from the average buyer, but I don't think it's too much. It's about a month's worth of SAE tuition and you barely learn anything there ...

 

[guitarguru777]

Small price to pay for a look inside the mans head who made so many epic records. His guitar tones int he 80s were the best of the best. Listen to the stuff he did

• Accept - Breaker (engineer)
• Accept - Balls to the Wall (mixer)
• Alice Cooper - Constrictor (engineer, mixer)
• Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell (engineer, mixer)
• Bonfire - Fireworks (producer)
• Bonfire - Point Blank (producer, song writing)
• Dokken - Breaking the Chains (producer)
• Dokken - Tooth and Nail (mixing)
• Dokken - Under Lock and Key (producer)
• Extreme - Pornograffitti (producer)
• Great White - Great White (producer)
• Kane Roberts - Saints and Sinners (mixer)
• Keel - Keel (producer)
• King's X - Ogre Tones (producer)
• King's X - XV (producer)
• Lordi - Babez for Breakfast (2010) (producer)
• Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What! (mixing)
• Metallica - Master of Puppets (mixing)
• Mötley Crüe - Too Fast for Love (producer)
• Overkill - Under the Influence (mixing)
• Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (mixing)
• Skid Row - Skid Row (producer, engineer, mixing)
• Skid Row - Slave to the Grind (producer, mixing)
• Stryper - Soldiers Under Command (producer, engineer)
• The Rasmus - Black Roses (mixing)
• White Lion - Pride (producer)
• White Lion - Big Game (producer)

90% of this shit was ahead of its time, ESPECIALLY Puppets, that mix is just AMAZING from top to bottom. Its helped pave the way for the MODERN metal sound.

Something like this is easily worth $1000

 

[kev]

Interesting price tag, but you have to value your knowledge somehow. Especially as it will be pirated quicksticks.

 

[kaomao]

I don't get why he mixed so well a lot of albums but there are some others mixed not that well.
Big example is first skid row, it's too "fat" too muddy compared to the second one which is a lot better.
Puppets is classic big fat crushing guitar tone.
Well considering is a box set is not so insane... I'll never spend that much on something like this though.
I've seen in the past brand new "star trek the next generation" all seasons box-sets going for 200 euros when it was out.

 

[The spark]

I don't get why he mixed so well a lot of albums but there are some others mixed not that well.
Big example is first skid row, it's too "fat" too muddy compared to the second one which is a lot better.

Budgets probably. Studio time was expensive and new bands didnt always have the budget.

 

[amarshism]

It's a day or two days worth of booking in most small-medium studios. I'm sure those interested can afford it.

 

[dcb]

from my hometown!!! anyone here buy this?
i certainly will!

 

[olif8]

Why pay that when you could just buy the Waves OneKnob series?

 

[guitarguru777]

LOL ....One Knob is the wrost idea ever actually.

 

[The Unavoidable]

But to be honest, "Constrictor" sounds like shit

 

[-Noodles-]

Dude is crazy.

The world is in recession and he's going to charge $650 for a couple DVDS that people will upload within a few hours?
The Joe B thing caused a lot of stir over the price ($100 iirc) and in my opinion, his style varies from record to record. He doesn't leave his royer 121s setup.