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you've never really heard yourself until you actually have recorded to take a place like this allows you to make music by hand my name is Adrian young and we're at Lanier labs there's one form of media as it pertains to music that has not died and that's vinyl this is the equipment that they use to make those records for the last 20 years I've been building a studio that exemplifies what I love about music I came up with these chords you may be gonna add some to it when you're hearing a recording from linear labs you're not hearing any plugins you're not hearing a bunch of retakes you're hearing exactly what it is this equipment allows you to create music with full resolution there are no computers here there is no digital recording here it's all recorded to analog tape you're not hearing a bunch of retakes you're hearing exactly what it is you're hearing how to actually capture a moment in time if you're using a compressor you're using a real piece of hardware if you're using a mic preamp you're using a real class a discrete preamp made from the 50s or the 60s you're using something that was built by hand my name is Ali Shaheed Muhammad and I am an artist on linear labs I could even in Oakland I'm your host Ari Shaffir my hamid as advances we have gotten in technology we're now capturing things at 192 so there's a clarity to it but there the warmth is not the same as something that is recorded to tape something that came out of actually adrian and i meeting over twitter the digital world is good for anything that's good for joining us you know Adrian and I formed a group called the midnight hour while we were working on the midnight hour we were hired to compose music for Luke Cage Marvel Netflix series and we recorded all the music um the scored music for season one and season two I was able to work with people like Snoop wu-tang scoring Black Dynamite and I always say to people that if you want to get close to an artist get their records it's as if we're looking back to look forward we're looking back in time when the equipment in the studio was the best the greatest and we're using that equipment to make music for today you