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Great video!
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For those of us used to the metric system, it would be really nice with a "translation" on screen, when you mention the size of the room in feet. Is that 8 x 6 meters or 3 x 4? It's a small detail, but makes everything a lot easier to understand for us weird metric kind of people.
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That was awesome. Such a brilliant album!!
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Spared no money on equipment….. SM57 👌🏼😍🤘🏼👍🏻
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LOVE this. Thank you for making this amazing video.
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Get your facts straight! The amp heard on Money for nothing is NOT a Marshall, but a Soldano SLO-100. It’s well known… And the Les Paul goes through a wah pedal as well .
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Omar Hakim, wow I had no idea!
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I had the LP and the sound on there was already totally bonkers.
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Still one of my favourite albums! Never skip a track when I listen to it 👌🏻
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please do any of Bon Jovi albums. Thank you.
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Great info , I remember my dad buying the cd
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Thank you!!
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I'm glad i still own the original pressing of the BIA CD. The subsequent ones ruined the dynamics with the added compression and mid-bass boost EQ, and rolled-off treble.
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Not much on how Terry Williams felt after having all his parts re-recorded. Hard to imagine why he stayed with the band to tour. Paycheck's a paycheck, I guess…
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Omar Hakim was flown in to replace Terry Williams drums.
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Great album, all the Dire Straits albums have an amazing sound quality to be fair.
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That Sax intro on “Your Latest Trick” is played by Mark Knopfler.
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For DireStraits fans (and others) I recomend to read the Dire Straits`s bass player`s John Illsley book. Many many insight facts and stories about this album and all the history of this band.
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I have that album on vinyl and it still blows your head. The sound is very punchy. Like Thriller.
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Very interesting documentary! Brothers in arms is not my favourite Dire Straits album although it contains with Money for Nothing and the title track one of the best Dire Straits songs ever. The Studio at Montserrat must have been a nice place. For me as a big Rolling Stones fan it has a special meaning. Mick and Keith ended their so-called third world war fight there and started to produce their 1989 comeback album Steel Wheels.
Unfortunately this studio doesn't exist anymore because of a big volcanic eruption that totally destroyed this venue. -
We still have that original CD at my father’s place…
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It was when we purchased our first CD players and the first popular CD marked as "DDD".
Plus it features several longversions of their songs.
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Recording painkiller please!
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That’s not a Neve 8078. That’s one of three consoles that were never given a series number
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This is immense
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Sadly, in 1989 Hurricane Hugo devastated Salem Island, and Montserrat AIR studio. While the building itself sustained only minor damage, it never reopened, mostly due to ongoing changes in the industry. This is how an icon of the 80s music faded into a complete and utter nothingness.
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The future recedes into the past. The future is behind us.
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Interesting. I never knew that this album was such a driving force behind the sale of CDs and CD players.
But I do remember that it was one of the sound sources that was presented to me when buying my loudspeaker cabinets in a Hi-Fi store. Evidently, they knew how to impress.
I never regretted my choice of loudspeakers, which I am still using to listen to this video at the moment.
Likewise, I never regretted buying this album. Although it is massively on the quiet side mastering-wise. There must be well over 3dB of empty headroom on the original release. That's using less than half the maximum encodable amplitude, i.e. wasting one out of 16 bits of audio resolution. And it still sounds like a million bucks today and wipes the floor with any over-compressed, side chain pumping, brickwall-limited-to-death mix you can get on Spotify these days. Talk about reverse loudness wars… -
How can you miss Master Bob Ludwig
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Nice vid!
However this was not the first album recorded digitally. Many, even famous artists did digital recordings prior. I think even back in the 70's. -
not to be "that guy" but Ron Eve is the man on the right laughing, and the man on the left is Joop de Korte
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Every song is so good. One of my favorite albums of all time.
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Luckily Andy Summers is short
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What an absolutely fantastic and informative video. This album is in my top 10 and has been since it came out. I bought it on CD, my first CD to be precise and the Sony CD player i bought to listen to it, with Sennheiser HD450's really did it justice. I still have all 3 items. Headphones have had various ear foam pads replaced but all in good working order. On another note, On every street and Love over gold are close behind BIA. The 3 albums are my favourite Straits studio albums. I'll happily loose hours and hours tinkling along on my synths or smashing away on the drums to all of them.
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There is a Documentary on Air Monserat Studios, amazing story. Jimmy Buffett recorded "Volcano" as the first recording at the studio. Sadly, the islands volcano erupted an destroyed the studio about 10 years after it was built.
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I wish we could hear Terry Williams original parts, as , to my ear, most of the drums seem light weight, their live sound , using Williams, sound far better.
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Yes one of my first cds I bought.
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The must have album of the 80’s especially when you had a new format to launch……from memory was the first DDD all digital rock album?
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Love this. Great job producing this video. ✨
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The amount of work in this album is incredible. Total perfectionists.
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I’ve just read John Illsley’s autobiography – so it was nice to find out some more about such an interesting time. Many thanks.
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Thanks for this very informative video.
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I was always aware of the part Sting played in the making of Brothers in Arms. What I didn’t know was that Dire Straits had also recruited Omar, who had also accompanied Sting in 1985, to add his drum stylings.
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Does anyone know the real reason why Terry, the original drummer, was replaced? I've seen him perform live, and he's worked on countless records with major pop artists, he is an incredible drummer, so I'm curious as to why he was replaced. While I fully recognize Omar Hakim's incredible talent, the drumming in this context didn’t seem to demand virtuoso-level skill. Is it just they were too relaxed? seems like a weak argument.
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Massive album from my teenage years. It was also the gold standard for production and a great advertisement for the CD format
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Thanks! And in 2025 it still has an incredible great sound.
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kinda awful record though. Dire Straits were not good after Pick Withers left
