Vocal Recording: Inside a Professional Studio
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2023
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In this weeks video I show you exactly how we setup a vocal session in a professional studio.
Everything from picking out microphones, patching them to hardware preamps, patching them to protools and getting them to end up on a 96 channel SSL Duality Fuse analog console.
PLUS you get to hear my voice on 4 different microphones! The Neumann U67, Telefunken U47, Blue Kiwi, and an AEA ribbon mic that is identical to the one Elvis used.
DON'T FORGET! The comments of this video will be used for the next video I am making which is a Q&A. So you have any questions over the recording studio, the gear, the console, the microphones, mixing, editing, tuning, or the facility, through them in there and I will answer as many as I can in the video.
Thanks for watching!
If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask me in the comments.
the quality of this video is just UNREAL
Can you do one for guitars too? I am interested in your way of recording Acoustics and Elecrics.
Love your content bro! Keep it coming man ;)
tbh...the u47 on your voice is just crazy...all other mics are crazy as well but this fits right away....thanks!!!
Hi Josh, I have a question for you about mixing.
I'm a hobbyist and have a tiny mix studio with an analog desk, I got into the rats nest of LUFS targets and metering recently and it drives me a little bit nuts. There is so much information and a lot of bs about levels on the internet. I wanted to find a good healthy level to record my analog mix-bus. So this means mix level target, not mastering targets. Some people say to mix around -6 db peak loudness, with an average of -18 LUFS Integrated, others say mix as loud as you can while trying to get the best sound possible. For me -18 LUFS seems low and cranking everything as loud as possible feels a little bit too extreme to me. Maybe you could tell us how loud your levels are leaving the desk into the converters?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge to us, I enjoy your channel a lot ❤
This man looks like Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump!! Incredible!
I own a pro studio with a 56 channel Neve desk and I love your studio and your videos. Please keep going!
Patch bays are so nice it would be a nightmare without them. The Flock digital patch bay looks amazing.
Whoa...GAS...OMG I've never worked on the Duality, trained on a 9000j with the old TDM Digidesign system(had to run around the back of the 9000j to the Digidesign interfaces and switch them manually to whatever we where working in...44.1, 48khz mostly, as it was a very old Mac and would take an entire day to load a song onto it!), but man that Duality setup is so easy, it's awesome! Does it sound as good as the 9000 series? No info on it since I've never had the pleasure. "PRO TIP=Oil your Gobo casters! And clean em out with WD 40 at least 1x a year, and yeah oil em!
That room is insane! I have an SSL Matrix installed @ Frequency Recording in White Plains, NY. That Duality is NUTS!
Love the Keewee and UA 47 and incredible how the added walls made it more silent, tight. Nice. Thank you.
That Blue shockmount looks amazing!
❤❤ amazing video very useful and to the point
Amazing video ✌😍
This is absolutely INSANE. Thank you so much for making this video
You are MASTER!
best patchbay explanation i ever heard. thank u so so so much Josh. ur a beast
Thank you so much! Making these videos for you is a blast!
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Couldn't you undo the salder to the cold wire on the xlr for the ribbon and label it ribbon xlr? That way even if you accidently put 48 volts onto the cable it won't hit the ribbon mic.
Yes you could totally do that. Or just only turn on phantom power when you need it. Either way will work just fine. Thanks for watching!
How do you like the sonics of the SSL Duality compared to a vintage SSL 4000e j9000 etc…. And do you still need a machine room to run it
Personally I like the 9000j better. That desk is magic. If I had to pick between the duality and 4000, I would pick the duality just because I know it will always work every day haha and for the duality you do not need a machine room. Although this studio still has one for the amplifiers, macs, converters, and other miscellaneous gear that doesn’t have to be in the room or is just too noisy.
you don't use pop filter on the mics?
The mics are upside down for three reasons, the tube can get really hot. If the diaphragm of the mic heats up it changes the sound, so to prevent this they are upside down.
Because the mics are positioned a little bit higher (around the hight of the tip of the nose of the singer) plops and esses are not hitting the diaphragm directly so no pop filter is needed. This also creates the Sinatra effect how I call it, because the mic is a little bit higher it's easier for the singer to reach higher registers and that 'chest' sound.
Try singing a low tone with your head bended down and slowly tilt your head upwards, you'll notice the pitch goes up a bit. Really cool stuff 😀
@@Studio22mixgreat info. but on the ribbon you want a pop filter usually, if close up. but interesting to try the height thing you mentioned.
They should really add some kind of voltage protection to that ribbon mic. For the price you shouldn't be able to destroy it that easily.
There's no real good passive circuit to do that, that doesn't lower the output or change frequency response
Why, every single engineer knows to check it before you plug it in.
@@birdshapei though i hear a loud lifter type booster (transformer) has a 48v block somehow but forgot which brand..
@@chinmeysway the mic itself has a transformer. The issue is the initial transient from turning on phantom power
why no pop filter ?
You need more headphones 😂
i just hope some good sounds come outta there - not pop music