My Vocal Chain 🎤 Part 1 | Microphone & Hardware 🎛️

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  • My Vocal Chain 🎤 Part 1! | Microphone & Hardware 🎛️
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    Sony C800G Condenser Microphone
    Vintech X73 Pre-Amp & EQ
    Tube-Tech CL1B Compressor
    Apollo X8 Audio Interface & Console App
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  • @iamkarramusic
    @iamkarramusic  Рік тому +21

    I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of my Vocal Chain series! Links to lead vocals, reverbs, and delay videos in description! 🎤🎶

    • @mettaman7053
      @mettaman7053 Рік тому +1

      Love watching your progress. I am confused tho, how can you have your preamp set to 60db as in other videos and then hit the tube tech CL1B as that would surly push the input to distort ?
      I would really appreciate to know the exact setting your are using on the mic >preamp CL1B> Apollo ❤

    • @hottrakz
      @hottrakz 8 місяців тому +1

      Her red knob was in line level volume adjustment on the preamp not for the mic.

  • @adamproductions4529
    @adamproductions4529 Рік тому +237

    Jesus that mic is worth more than my car

    • @papertiger9845
      @papertiger9845 9 місяців тому +12

      And she makes more money off that mic than anyone will ever make off their car besides professional racers

    • @BeauxLo
      @BeauxLo 5 місяців тому

      @@papertiger9845nice

    • @retrospy
      @retrospy 5 місяців тому

      same bro

    • @tubleejthoj6595
      @tubleejthoj6595 Місяць тому

      And almost my house price

    • @adamproductions4529
      @adamproductions4529 Місяць тому

      @@papertiger9845As she should. I’m not trying to take anything away from her you still need to be incredibly talented to use that equipment to make money.

  • @zKo87
    @zKo87 Рік тому +80

    "This is how rich people mix"

    • @RSB2650
      @RSB2650 5 місяців тому +4

      Exactly, hardware that feels like it regulates everything itself

    • @SonOfWalhall
      @SonOfWalhall 4 місяці тому

      Every component 🥴

    • @telemachia
      @telemachia 4 місяці тому +5

      Exactly. I can name 100 artists making much more interesting progressive music on much more lowkey lowfi equipment.

    • @whostroubled
      @whostroubled 2 місяці тому +5

      @@telemachiaher music sucks but she pretty and her fella is very knowledgeable

  • @AdzAdverse
    @AdzAdverse Рік тому +318

    All you Focusrite + Rode NT1-a Starter peeps stand up!

    • @PeterSven10
      @PeterSven10 Рік тому +26

      I got the Focusrite Scarlet Solo + Rode NT1 hahaha

    • @ghostplayermusic
      @ghostplayermusic Рік тому +11

      @@petebass4959 it’s really not, Rode NT1-A is a great vocal mic and doesn’t take a lot to make it sound professional

    • @quochuync
      @quochuync Рік тому +4

      NT1-a + Line6 UX2… 😂

    • @nicolobosco2226
      @nicolobosco2226 Рік тому +4

      Well.. rode NT USB but otherwise... Same 😂

    • @nicolobosco2226
      @nicolobosco2226 Рік тому +1

      Well.. rode NT USB but otherwise... Same 😂

  • @guill4882
    @guill4882 6 місяців тому +16

    Sm57 + behringer audio interface with cracked plugins lol

    • @exhaust4246
      @exhaust4246 3 місяці тому

      That's the best 😂🔥

  • @cassl7001
    @cassl7001 7 місяців тому +23

    This is totally wicked!!!
    But just a reminder to all… you don’t need all this to make incredible music! Use what you have 😊

    • @Ahahahah-es2ec
      @Ahahahah-es2ec 7 місяців тому +1

      True but I’d say it’s true on both ends meaning equiptment that’s too cheap also can’t make great music, me personally anything better than a focusrite all the way up to an Apollo is a good range

  • @Ahowe61993
    @Ahowe61993 Рік тому +106

    The fact that your start with a 10,000 dollar mic says it all

    • @harpoleon6806
      @harpoleon6806 Рік тому +17

      But to go to the knock off neve 😂😂

    • @silkroad1201
      @silkroad1201 10 місяців тому +4

      Too bad mo money doesn't equal mo sound

    • @therealea
      @therealea 10 місяців тому +9

      @@harpoleon6806In the analog world, emulations are welcomed by all. It’s not just “knockoffs”. Some emulations of pieces of gear are even better than the original

    • @harpoleon6806
      @harpoleon6806 10 місяців тому +2

      @therealea u don't go get a knock off Lamborghini when u flexin $50k key chains regardless of the reasons

    • @therealea
      @therealea 10 місяців тому +4

      @@harpoleon6806 This ain’t cars😂 analog gear is veryyy different. Sometimes it’s not even about matching the original, but the difference in tone of the emulation may be exactly what you’re looking for that the original doesn’t have

  • @genephillips4809
    @genephillips4809 Місяць тому +1

    Not bad not bad... $20,000 vocal chain😂

  • @liampendleton2948
    @liampendleton2948 Рік тому +9

    that only fans money going in 💰💸

  • @stoyanstefanov7461
    @stoyanstefanov7461 Рік тому +4

    What about the mouth clicks?

  • @spunkadellic
    @spunkadellic Рік тому +27

    A c800 going into an Apollo is like putting gold rims on a bucket

    • @4littled
      @4littled 11 місяців тому +4

      Right I was expecting a lynx aurora or sum lol

    • @iAmFlorez
      @iAmFlorez 9 місяців тому +2

      what? it's not much difference when it's going line in. n it's not like every record on the radio was recorded on an apollo or anything

    • @JakeLewisReal
      @JakeLewisReal 6 місяців тому +2

      @@iAmFlorezthe ADC on Apollo are good, but there are ADC’s that are much better, which you would expect to be converting a $18k+ vocal chain lol

    • @iAmFlorez
      @iAmFlorez 6 місяців тому +7

      @@JakeLewisReal i've recorded in some of the biggest n most expensive rooms in the country and they all are running apollos

    • @JakeLewisReal
      @JakeLewisReal 6 місяців тому +4

      @@iAmFlorez that's amazing for you! that doesn't change my original comment.

  • @imjustqg
    @imjustqg Рік тому +45

    Bro!! This at least a 25k vocal chain 🤯🤯🤯🫡 🔥🔥🔥

    • @RealHomeRecording
      @RealHomeRecording Рік тому +9

      Right? My first question would not be what is your vocal chain, it would be how did you afford your vocal chain!

    • @Junebug787
      @Junebug787 Рік тому +9

      And still misses with the crazy lack of sibilance control. $25k, all out of budget for an EQ lol

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS Рік тому +2

      @@RealHomeRecording She makes alot of money from paid promotions and voice over work and affiliated marketing plus Tiktok and UA-cam add money.

    • @RealHomeRecording
      @RealHomeRecording Рік тому

      @@HOLLASOUNDS makes sense. Thanks for the info

    • @tgparecords-Music
      @tgparecords-Music Рік тому +4

      ​@@Junebug787 tell me about it bruh🙄🙄 I had to turn my volume button down. I'm all fed up with Karra doing vids like this and still lack the sibilance control. like bruh💀

  • @raptydus3480
    @raptydus3480 Рік тому +58

    This is a good video for teaching what you use and also a good way to brag how much money you got 😂

    • @Matus0919
      @Matus0919 Рік тому +6

      She could afford a console instead she’s using Uad plugins 🤡

    • @raptydus3480
      @raptydus3480 Рік тому

      @@Matus0919 lol ye

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS Рік тому +3

      She is happy using what shes got and it's working She is having some succes and can spend her money on what ever. I recently spent about £5000 on gear, I can make do without, I just rather spend My money on music related then have it just sitting around.

    • @biggrimdog8825
      @biggrimdog8825 Рік тому +4

      @@Matus0919Imagine your head will explode when you find out that today’s greatest mix engineers often mix in the box.

    • @therealea
      @therealea 10 місяців тому

      @@Matus0919She doesn’t even need a console lol. Do you see the money she’s spent on her hardware alone? She’s more than able to get a good mixes without a full console😂

  • @andrexaviermusic
    @andrexaviermusic 6 місяців тому +1

    “Whatever DAW I feel like” love that 🔥

  • @wwompwomp
    @wwompwomp 7 місяців тому +1

    I have a quarter of that and I legit need nothing else. Point is, it's not what you have it's what you can do with what you have!
    If you're good, you're good.

  • @mikegmusic
    @mikegmusic Рік тому +5

    Super dope setup! Definitely don’t need half this to get a really good sound tho, including the mic ❤️ keep being great 🙌

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS Рік тому

      She is not telling people they need what shes got.

    • @inkognitomusic1956
      @inkognitomusic1956 Рік тому

      As they say in Russia - show-offs are more expensive than money

  • @jaystay1514
    @jaystay1514 Рік тому +18

    What’s ur vocal chain…it’s made of unobtainium

    • @najee2123
      @najee2123 Рік тому

      Lmfao 😂 I swear bro most us average folk gotta go to the studio for all this. 300,000k with kids and a fam is like winning the lottery

    • @jaystay1514
      @jaystay1514 Рік тому +1

      @@najee2123 I own a recording studio already to be honest.....but this is just unnecessarily expensive...you could get just as good possibly even better results with a vocal chain that costs 1% of what this vocal chain costs....a famous example of this is look at Russ's vocal chain....lol
      I just thought it was funny that she was humble bragging about her maxed out end game vocal chain, like it was no big deal

  • @joshuamcpherson2386
    @joshuamcpherson2386 4 місяці тому

    Why not the Neve 1073? Im trying to make a choice between Neve 1073 , Vintech 73x(the one in your video) or the Rupert Neve channel strip. Whats best for Jamaica dancehall vocal ?

  • @MalvoNTheStudio
    @MalvoNTheStudio Рік тому +2

    I used to have a nice analog studio set up in the nineties that cost a lot of money. Today, with advanced technology and software, you don't have to spend a ton of money to get great vocal or instrument sounds. 🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @victordiaz77
    @victordiaz77 Рік тому +1

    Nice SETUP, congrats 👍

  • @bigcrazy9068
    @bigcrazy9068 Рік тому +1

    Musical genius and gorgeous 😮

  • @6ense
    @6ense Рік тому +1

    Why did you chose that Neve instead of the classic 1083?

  • @elissitdesign
    @elissitdesign Місяць тому

    I love my Apollo 8 channel. Nice chain you got there

  • @elmzgalaxy3313
    @elmzgalaxy3313 Рік тому +1

    Your shorts are awesome they just keep popping up on my shorts and you give great advice thx

  • @JUSTUSraps
    @JUSTUSraps Рік тому +1

    So dope 🔥🔥

  • @PhilippJCaesar
    @PhilippJCaesar 7 місяців тому

    You are helping out a lot. Thanks for the info. Blessings

  • @Weonlyknewoneway
    @Weonlyknewoneway Рік тому

    love the tips Karra. you have an amazing voice and are beautiful as well. Really hope you blow up. you deserve it (future)

  • @i10dopeboy_
    @i10dopeboy_ 10 місяців тому

    Super clean love it

  • @gabrielferri
    @gabrielferri Рік тому

    that is one very awesome setup. THX for sharing

  • @arock-vmp5475
    @arock-vmp5475 3 місяці тому

    Beautiful setup

  • @icyroc
    @icyroc 15 днів тому +1

    I’m in love

  • @adikeys
    @adikeys Рік тому

    Recently came to see your shorts. You keep inspiring❤
    Gratitude 🙏

  • @oldunclemick
    @oldunclemick Рік тому

    Processing on the way in 👍. Costs money up front but saves a huge amount of time. For the less well-off the ART Voice Channel is great value.

  • @wyattstevens7789
    @wyattstevens7789 Рік тому

    Awesome chain! Keep up the good work and forget the haters!

    • @silkroad1201
      @silkroad1201 10 місяців тому

      I'm not hating. It's just not that great of a mic.
      "Spend more, get better sound" is an unfortunate myth that many people fall for. I blame Sony, not her

  • @najee2123
    @najee2123 Рік тому

    🔥🔥🔥these are my dream goals Karra!!

  • @fl7210
    @fl7210 Рік тому

    NICE TASTE IN GEAR!!

  • @uprisemusic2428
    @uprisemusic2428 2 місяці тому

    Can you replicate this in plugin mode?

  • @thisisj88
    @thisisj88 5 місяців тому

    That’s badass. Have you ever used the Manley voxbox?

  • @Yaminity
    @Yaminity Рік тому +1

    Love you amazing Karra, do you have a full album? I wanna hear it the whole day on repeat.

  • @lilgates4890
    @lilgates4890 Рік тому +8

    She uses a 10k mic then compresses the ever loving life out of it. Hear all those mouth sounds? Not for me…

  • @kon9274
    @kon9274 8 місяців тому

    Hallo , you Use eq Settings on the c 800 g ?
    Love your content 🎉

  • @Hesinsky
    @Hesinsky Рік тому

    If you set up your analog preamp comp and eq on your microphone did you add latter some eq comp itp to your vocal chain in DAW ? or you just just use only analog

  • @najee2123
    @najee2123 Рік тому

    The mic by itself is over 10k!!! 🔥🔥🔥🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @norbel97
    @norbel97 8 днів тому

    What is the model of the screen you have on the left side of your workstation? I see it's monitoring your UAD's Console app but idk what screen is that.

  • @LDZate_Music
    @LDZate_Music Рік тому

    Thats fire❤❤

  • @ProdbyCeeSick
    @ProdbyCeeSick Рік тому

    Ouuu I’ve been waiting to see your hardware your software is incredible 😮😂😂

  • @Rhuggins
    @Rhuggins 10 місяців тому

    I love the CL1B

  • @nqobilesibisi3544
    @nqobilesibisi3544 7 місяців тому

    Amazing 👌

  • @amercer639
    @amercer639 4 місяці тому

    I love it

  • @beathogsproductioncompany5478
    @beathogsproductioncompany5478 Місяць тому

    Have you ever tried 10 to one ratio on the tube tech?

  • @jakethegamer64
    @jakethegamer64 3 місяці тому

    What made you choose the vintech instead of a regular neve 1073

  • @miscmisc1023
    @miscmisc1023 9 місяців тому

    THE C 800 OR THE U87 WITH EVERYTHING ELSE IS BUTTER!

  • @Toxicmahn
    @Toxicmahn Рік тому

    Wow..❤

  • @soizu
    @soizu 3 місяці тому

    That feet pic money goes hard 🗣🔥‼️

  • @PeterSven10
    @PeterSven10 Рік тому +10

    Her vocal chain costs more than my yearly income…

    • @luccianoblock5127
      @luccianoblock5127 Рік тому +1

      nah you don't need fancy gear like that It's just cool to have but usually works better in the daw

    • @bigstevedzn2353
      @bigstevedzn2353 Рік тому

      @@luccianoblock5127 here’s the answer everyone always asks for. This is objective:
      “You will never be able to achieve the sound you dream of with your current setup. Can you make good sounding mixes and songs? Of course. Will it ever be THAT sound? Hell nah.”

    • @luccianoblock5127
      @luccianoblock5127 Рік тому

      @@bigstevedzn2353 it will and I have with my setup and any setup I believe oppositely

    • @SamiDaComposer
      @SamiDaComposer Рік тому

      @@bigstevedzn2353 your wrong coming from and engineer u can make a computer and mic with decent interface sound like it was perfected in the studio and still get that sound a lot of our hits now from new artist are recorded in home studios plus all they do when they done recording is send it to a good engineer for example the engineer for young thug (Alex tummy) mixed bestfriend one of his biggest hit in a car and laptop not only that he recorded savage mode with metro boomin(part one) in a basement with a cheap muffled mic and guess what it won a whole Grammy beating other artist who recorded in pro studios with gear but because he was the engineer and his skill it don’t sound like it was in a basement and u forget engineer s can manipulate to get them sounds alot of pro engineer said this THE ONYL REASON WHY GEAR IS IMPORTANT IS LIKE SHE SAID WITH THE C800 mic “it brings out great sound without any mixies”. So the purpose is to make it easy for us while giving the sound we want that’s all GEAR third example and I’m done Ali the engineer for Kendrick said he only use gear for crips sound because it makes it easier and give that sound already then me trying then he does the rest in the box so replying to u u are very wrong and mixing is a huge everlasting rabbit whole my guy if u can’t see it like that u won’t get it and music

    • @bigstevedzn2353
      @bigstevedzn2353 Рік тому +1

      @@SamiDaComposer I came from an mxl 990 into a focusrite 2i2, to a u87 into a BAE 1073 and Apollo x8. There is a HUGE difference. Ultimately the mix is greater than the sum of its parts. I am NOT saying that great sounding mixes cannot be made from amateur gear in NON suitable environments, I’m saying that the sonic detail of the vocals in particular will never be the same as your favorite artists BECAUSE of the gear. No matter if you’re using a slate VMS emulation or UAD mic pre emulation, it lacks specific magic of gear. probably should have been more specific in hindsight, but considering it’s a vocal chain video I figured I already was. And in terms of the actual MIX itself, matching the top mixers sonic signature is not achievable without gear. It is impossible to mix like Mike dean without his specific outboard gear. Alex tumay is a clean mixer who only recently (last 5 years or so) started using outboard gear (culture vulture, unfair child etc…). Great mixes are always possible from any equipment

  • @ladibeats
    @ladibeats Рік тому

    Too clean

  • @Jude107c
    @Jude107c Рік тому

    I’m in love! And with the Girl too!

  • @selfappropriation1407
    @selfappropriation1407 Рік тому

    Great gear

  • @richardharmon9596
    @richardharmon9596 4 місяці тому

    Nice vocal chain . How fortunate you are to have that Sony C800 mic

  • @massivebeatzz
    @massivebeatzz Рік тому

    the duckmouth LOLO...and missing top clothing.... great engineer..LOL!

  • @DangHuanVinh
    @DangHuanVinh 3 місяці тому

    Cặp loa của em đẹp quá

  • @josku5
    @josku5 Рік тому +1

    Jesus that’s 20k dropped right there

  • @dspoet1
    @dspoet1 2 місяці тому

    I just got the Warm Audio 1B.

  • @uriel-heavensguardian8949
    @uriel-heavensguardian8949 Рік тому

    Awesome

  • @jazzmastert
    @jazzmastert Рік тому +1

    Ok, reading all the haters, I have to say having followed Reid and Karra over the recent years, they work hard and invest in gear because they’re devoted to their art. Unless I am wrong, they aren’t rich folks without a clue but a couple with a shared passion for what they do. It’s choices right?

  • @VirTikall
    @VirTikall Місяць тому

    Thanks

  • @Shwnnn5x
    @Shwnnn5x Рік тому

    When you record do you usually change the compressor settings for every song? And do you keep the compressor level to 7?

  • @painauchocolate2395
    @painauchocolate2395 Рік тому

    Can I find your music anywhere?

  • @exchangedspider
    @exchangedspider Рік тому

    I'm intrigued, can you please link me to your music, Karra. I'd love to check you out.

  • @abracaroguearcane1484
    @abracaroguearcane1484 Рік тому

    Dream setup

  • @shan5445
    @shan5445 Рік тому +1

    Now I need to hear you sing through my poorly KRK VXT6's

  • @backlo96
    @backlo96 6 місяців тому

    I'd also recommend the izotope De-clip.

  • @WIIMTheMusician
    @WIIMTheMusician 3 місяці тому

    Why the Vintech over a Neve or Bae?

  • @captainjamesjamesy1053
    @captainjamesjamesy1053 6 місяців тому

    Is this studio only for personal use?

  • @March_iii_
    @March_iii_ Рік тому +1

    Weren’t you on the new FL Studio 21 update?

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS Рік тому

      I believe she has done voice over work for Ableton and ReasonStudios.

    • @March_iii_
      @March_iii_ Рік тому

      I usually see her with Reid Stefan. The realest puppet in the game.

  • @johngreen7546
    @johngreen7546 Рік тому

    Beast set up monster set up

  • @negozel3677
    @negozel3677 9 місяців тому

    When I write, the peak sounds, how should I write so that it sounds comfortable?

  • @nahhdappaul4442
    @nahhdappaul4442 6 місяців тому +1

    Oppress us. I will like to hear your tracks. Are all these gears necessary in this modern age.

    • @SynysterReal
      @SynysterReal 3 місяці тому

      Not really because of emulation, but it’s worth it cause it’s the real thing that is accurately what it is… nothing else can beat that hardware in my opinion..

  • @sonicthehedgehog4659
    @sonicthehedgehog4659 6 днів тому

    😍

  • @pixssassin
    @pixssassin 9 місяців тому

    i mean yeah that analogue stuff prolly all enough major changes and minor with the daws

  • @AnwaarAliOfficial
    @AnwaarAliOfficial 6 місяців тому

    Micrphone with a huge power supply box😮

  • @JewelzUFO
    @JewelzUFO 8 місяців тому

    Software can easily replicate those "vintage sounds".
    You don't need 2k of analog to sound professional. This is for the beginners.

  • @run3157
    @run3157 Рік тому

    Is this preamp creating the new Neve sound or the vintage old Neve sound like bae?

  • @jobairahmed2517
    @jobairahmed2517 Рік тому

    Just tell me what is the difference between analog gears and digital/emulated plugins?

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS Рік тому +1

      In My opinion not that much however the plugin version of real hardware often does not function the same so you will need to ignore the fact that while they look the same they wimt sound the same with the same settings.

  • @manymusicstudio
    @manymusicstudio Рік тому

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️👌

  • @who_is_dis
    @who_is_dis 4 місяці тому

    Honestly, I prefer the sound of the U87 and U67 over the C-800 🤷‍♂️

  • @SavageUTG
    @SavageUTG 3 місяці тому

    Why do you need all that when the Apollo has them same plug ins that those machines do?

  • @yungskitzo661
    @yungskitzo661 9 місяців тому

    You ballin i only use a volt 1 interface and my dbx 286s then that goes 2 my tlm 103

  • @tom_bout
    @tom_bout 11 місяців тому

    Sony c800 👍

  • @ashconbeats8414
    @ashconbeats8414 5 днів тому

    This is so good and would love to have that but just so everyone is aware u can get the same/similar results spending much less money.

  • @ellistonvaccianna9120
    @ellistonvaccianna9120 Рік тому

    It was all a Dream love the set up would love to hear what my work sounds like going though all that hard goodness sweet 🍭🍫🍦🧁🍪🍰🍩🍭🧁🍦🍫😊

  • @peluchetv7494
    @peluchetv7494 7 місяців тому

    The cat near theses cables and hardware, take a good insurance or be very very nice with the black one 😅

  • @TzoHill
    @TzoHill Рік тому

    You're pengg 😍

  • @prongpraison8463
    @prongpraison8463 6 місяців тому +1

    I always wonder how one individual can afford this much 😢

  • @matthewkennedy5940
    @matthewkennedy5940 4 місяці тому

    I love the gear but I wanna know what shampoo/conditioner you use 😂

  • @grvyshiz
    @grvyshiz Рік тому

    Jesus christ i pray one day to have equipment like this 😭

  • @nahhdappaul4442
    @nahhdappaul4442 6 місяців тому

    Records from my phone still sound decent to me.

  • @muhammedmusthafa5385
    @muhammedmusthafa5385 Рік тому

    😍😍

  • @jayo.4039
    @jayo.4039 Рік тому

    Part 2 please

  • @storeroom1503
    @storeroom1503 7 місяців тому

    Hey Karra question, I’m considering doin a degree in Audio production. Is it really worth it? Are you guaranteed of jobs after completion of program? With a hefty amount of student loans too

    • @jacksp8de
      @jacksp8de 6 місяців тому

      Nah you don’t need it. Buy the equipment, pay for courses online, shadow an engineer at a local studio, practice relentlessly, make a brand and get it out there, network in person and on social media.