Hybrid Studio Setup - Recording Workflow Explained

[@Superjohn3607]

very interesting video Melvin

[@Richard_P_James]

Excellent set up.

[@optoproductions]

Thanks 🙌

[@VirtualModular]

Nice studio Melvin! My own 'hybrid setup' is a laptop, cheap Scarlet 2i2 interface and old 4-track from about 1995. It's really noisy so only used for extreme lo-fi and feedback experiments, but if you like genuine tape hiss and saturation it does the job🤣

[@optoproductions]

Thanks! That's an awesome setup, especially if you have a portastudio that can pitch down 2 octaves, there's some really cool things you can do with that :)

[@VirtualModular]

@@optoproductions yeah mine only has about 5 semitones pitch range, but once it has that tape sound, I can drop it an octave on the computer and it sounds just as good. That's also a good cheat for making tape loops, record it to tape to get the wow/flutter then record back into the laptop and loop it in an editor. So much easier and it sounds exactly the same! 😉

[@optoproductions]

@@VirtualModular oh you're right that's smart! No more cutting and pasting which is always a pain. Good tip!

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

am thinking about getting a 1950s tube preamp

[@optoproductions]

Ah nice, you should check out Sound Skulptor, they have some nice tube preamp kits.

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

I will 😎@@optoproductions

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

well the only analog gear I have is my 3 moogs and my UAD Volt 2

[@optoproductions]

That's plenty to get you started! Have you tried using the external inputs to run some drums through the filters?

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

not yet@@optoproductions

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

I should try it out on the mixer of the moog grandmother @@optoproductions

[@MartinFellerMusic]

Vette setup!

[@optoproductions]

Thanks 🙂