Studio Tour 2021
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2021
- I've just spent a week in London so grabbed that opportunity to tweak the spec of my shed studio. I say tweak, we went from a stereo set up to a permanent 5.1 with a totally new camera system! So I thought it was high time to take you on another studio tour running through an inventory of divorceware and changes to my workflow.
Is there anything you'd like me to focus in on specifically, if so please leave in the comments below.
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No one asked me but I'm gonna say it anyway: the RE-20 is lovingly called "the elephant d*ck" here in the Netherlands. I'm assuming my German colleagues call it the same...
i've heard "donkey d...".
😁
Lmao
Finland too. Norsunkyrpä ♥️
I just googled this and here you where all the time!
I've always been impressed with your evolving studio space but, it's your humility, humor and willingness to share your knowledge which keeps me watching this channel. I've learned a great deal from you and for that, I thank you.
I feel like... "ive got this really smart friend in the music business" thanks Christian. A studio is a wonderland of productivity and enjoyment on a deep level. Im not pro at all but when im in mine, its heaven.
Good for you Christian, you’ve worked blummin hard to achieve that studio, enjoy it!!
This studio is a master piece. What a lovely place, congrats, Christian!
I like the way that you are so clear in speaking! Great space and also great collection!
Thanks for the tour!
amazing - loved the tour - thanks for showing us.
It bloomed beautifully! I would spend days and nights in there and wouldn't know with what to play first 😎 Probably the modular! Or Moogs! Or the Tape Corner! Or... 🤣
Truly amazing studio 👌 Watch your head, Christian 😊
So cool, loved the walk around and man! What a lot of kit, loved it Christian, thank you
That was an amazing studio tour and the shed looks like a fantastic place to work.
I'm not jealous, why would you think that? Ok ok, i'm jealous lol.
What a lovely space well earned and deserved!
So awesome christian, I'm very envious of your shed. I would love to see you focus in on the nitty gritty of how you hookup all your outboard gear in your racks. Thanks!
I have not been so happy to find a channel since finding Ian Hubert in 2017. This is amazing. You are amazing sir. Cannot wait to see what’s to come👍🏻
Awesome space you got Christian, thank you for sharing!
Boss! Your setup is friggin awesome. Truly inspirational 🙏🏾
Love your setup! Looks so warm and cozy!
I really like the general vibe in the shed...warm lighting and all that stylish furniture!
I've always loved watching your space change mate! I'm jealous of the garden room / shed alone 😂
This studio is absolute goals
Dan from The Gig Rig and That Pedal Show created a couple of boards for Ed O'Brien from Radiohead ... not Scotland-based, but would be up for it I'm sure and would be a great collaboration.
Highly second that !
Wouldn't recommend anyone else. Would love a Christian/That Pedal Show crossover.
I was just about to write the same thing haha. Dan is the man.
My first thought too! Hit up Dan and he'll sort that out good
Really hope this collab happens
awesome tour! really awesome to see and really inspiring to continue modifying my own studio space
Wish i had that great studio of yours.....its like my babies watching them, playing with them.....you are really a great person for let us sharing those beauties.......thank you !!!
Such amazing detail and what a place!!!! Top vid
I enjoyed your reasoning on having all that stuff - not necessary to create cool stuff but oh so inspiring to have at hand and to create an environment that you love to work in. I get that.
How come this channel hasn't reached 100k subscribers ages ago? - Does. Not. Compute. Fascinating and inspirational ideas voiced by an obviously knowledgeable, humble and entertaining chap. Anyone even half interested in making music should be all over this.
What a great video to enjoy my Saturday morning coffee with!
Christian great studio, very nice selection of audio gear, outboard and the camera setup is awesome.
..awesome studio..and looks quiet cozy 🖤🖤❤
Great space Christian - by the way I was very moved to hear your tribute to your mum on Last Word - I had no idea but now I do know I can see her in you. Warm, friendly and enthusiastic. She must have been proud
Studio spaces are always changing. 🙌🏾
Thanks a lot for a great walkthrough of your studio!
The one piece I would love the most to see more is the Colossus/Dave-synth...
Would love and hear more on that synth!
What a wonderful walkthrough. Thanks for this.
Great nice tour Christian really nice shed .
wonderful! you are fortunate, indeed :) there's one way to pay back to the world: creating amazing sound & music!
What a fantastic laboratory to work in!
You should talk to the guys from the “That pedal show” about a rewire of your pedal board..
Yup I would second that recommendation! Straight away I thought "Oooh Dan needs to get his hands on that" Based in the south of England if I'm not mistaken but Dan Steinhardt is the man for the job for sure.
Makes me want to watch all the cribs videos again, hope you do more some time. Its like a modern version of the late night walks you spoke about with your mum to peer into other people's windows
I'd personally love to HEAR the vintage synth collection, not necessarily like a Sonic State review showing the sound of each oscillator and how it whatevers or a "how to use it" video... but maybe a demo of how YOU use it perhaps?
a pedal collab video with Dan from @ThatPedalShow. would be the job for the pedals over electric piano
I’ll second that!! Would be a real dream RUclips combo ❤️
Was just about to say that! Would be absolutely lovely
Yessssssssss
You're there buddy. Congrats!!
I came to your channel via LABS, and all those delightful freebies they supply on a regular basis. I thoroughly enjoyed the tour, but must confess that a lot of the gear you discussed has names and descriptions that went clear over my head. Not your fault, I'm not a trained sound engineer, just someone who fell under the spell of synthesisers, drum machines, samplers et al a long time ago(late 80's when I got a C64, it's MIDI controller keyboard, and the rudimentary internet), and have ended up with serious G.A.S over the last decade when I finally had the means to acquire things like a Yamaha D17, and on through Kawai, Novation, Korg, Roland, Akai, Alesis etc. I'm so glad your shed looks like it does, my converted garage has a similar vibe although most of my equipment and instruments are not exactly "pro" level. I hadn't played in bands until about 9yrs ago as I approached retirement from "thedayjob", and I was curious about what that would be like. Since then have spent time in a pro studio, rehearsal studios, played gigs in sheds, back gardens, clubs, pubs, theatres and festivals since, but get the most satisfaction from making my own music in my studio at home. So thankyou for the glimpse into your world
Great walk through..
Love the closing thoughts about not needing all that gear, you don't need modular to make that sound and have that mind frame... but I love modular and gear it's a lifelong pursuit
Christian... you're not old! I'm 65 and I'm STILL NOT OLD!! My 'studio' looks nothing like that... no synths, no outboard, but I DO have an 'old' Mac Pro, 12 core, with a few drives and about 12 Spitfire libraries, along with others... and still working to move more into composition. Perhaps you could create a video about finding inspiration for those who are beginners or are not full time professionals. Thanks so much! You're very inspiring!
Hi Christian. I can hardly wait to help you succeed!
Love the upgrades!! Something that you haven't gone into thus far are the ergonomics of your studio... seating height, desk height, pitfalls of crap positioning of kit. This is something that I continually struggle with in my studio and would love to hear your thoughts on it.
What a great joy to see all iterations of your studio! Wouldn’t it be nice to come back to earlier studio tours and elaborate on what parts of your setup did and did not work for you?
You quite rightly say that 'you don't need all this gear to make music', but the whole time all I'm thinking is 'I won't have truly made it as a composer until I have a third computer just for emails' 😂seriously though, very inspiring and informative, I hope to have such a magical musical space myself one day
Love using the ancient Doepfer as master key
Thanks for the tour!
It's also nice when kids take more than a passing interest in what their parents do... it brings to my mind some Monty Python... "One day lad, all this will be yours!"..."what, the curtains?".
(You have some great curtains, by the way 😂)
Ooo baby do you know what that’s worth?
Ooo heaven is a place on earth!
Truly!
Comment n° 100 !☕🤙 great tips and studio, Christian 👏👏👏👏
Nice, just checked the price of those external builds… Stunning..
Always love a man cave tour.. Nice work Christian.
What a great space and amazing range of inspiring kit! Is there a 2022 update to this vid?
THIS STRESSED ME OUT FOR SOME REASON :)
Living organism thats for sure.I need to make space for my newly acquired Lyra-8.
Christian, I agree that a recording studio is a living organism and my studio set-up is what I call a mini Abbey Road or mini Air studio. The studio has a mixing board, external old school effects and a separate studio/recording room. The battery in my mixing board died recently and I had to disconnect everything to get inside the board to replace a $8 battery. Once I had everything disconnect, I decided to do a complete revamp of everything and I literally torn the studio apart, fixing wiring issues and repositioned everything to optimize the space. This was my 4th revamp of my studio since 2006 when I set it up and probably not my last. Having been a studio, producer, recording engineer, musician and songwriter for well over 45 years and a student of the ever changing landscape of recording, revamping a studio is "old hat". With the ever changing music industry, workflows, approaches and new way of doing things, you have to be flexible to go with the flow. Love your channel and I appreciate all your videos. Great Job!
Your studio is looking great, Christian! So interesting to see it develop through the lens of your RUclips videos. Nice placement of your Shallow Water pedal over in “Tape Corner”…. I might just be looking for clues to a puzzle that doesn’t exist, but it’s fun to spot its location in your recent videos. A sort of Where’s Waldo experience…. Where’s Shallow Water….
Well Done Christian, Colossal!
So I looked at my little Presonus Studio 24c interface, my cheapo Swisstronic keyboard, middle range headphones, my 3 microphones (the Shure 57 being the most expensive in the collection) and my 24" monitor and wept. Then I remembered that my music has been played in approaching 40 countries and on over 40 radio stations (song of the week on our local station - Wonderful Costa Calida International!) and realised that, although I´ll never be rich or famous I am happy and I wouldn´t have the first idea how to switch most of that gear on, let alone cause it to do anything useful. But I love these "gear porn" videos so keep making them. As you say, you don´t need all that gear (luckily!) but it is lovely to look at someone who does have it and uses it to good effect. Oh, and Labs is the greatest gift to musicians ever so thank you Christian.
That's the dream shed. I can spend days inside without leaving no problem.
beautiful studio!
congrats with the 100k! :)
Christian: "You don't need any of those".
Me:
All the best on the way to 100k!
I have no idea what I’m looking at but everything looks really cool :)
You don’t drop the reference flags fir the “linked above” references.
Love these nerd tours. This makes me think about what inspires me to do similarly in the box.
Cool to see you here, Keith !!!!!!!
Fab tour - thanks! I'd be interested to know your impressions and workflow using the SSL unit. I've read elsewhere that it's really optimised for ProTools and other DAWs can't really access its workflow and functionality to the same extent!
I think it would be pretty fun for you to interview various Composers/ producers about their first recording experiences. The what, where, and how of their audio production beginnings. Any other anecdotes about the ups and downs of such a journey would go hand in hand with your statement that you don't need a studio like yours. Very much like your PortaStudio nostalgia. It all started somwhere.
#letsallbesomething
Love your stuff, Christian! As an idea, I'd like to hear a little about working with an orchestrator.
Oh man, the pile of Moogerfoogers on the floor under the rack made me squeel like a wee lassie! Ha ha! I'm down the road in Alloa if you ever need an Americana esque singery guitary type person :)
Supremely amazing walkthrough. And love that you made the disclaimer up front and once again at the backend. Lovely lovely room of creation. I do wonder if you're still using the Blackmagic Dock with drives for your audio workdrive and sample drive. If so, have you made any updates to the shuttle drives you are using? Thanks Christian!
Very, very impressive ... THREE DAYS.
I’d love to see how you’re interfacing with the Apogee Symphony; what goes in, what goes out.
I hope Dave has a blanket, winter is coming.
Hi Christian!
Your 5.1 workflow would be great!
Very nice shed Christian. The Mac is truly a monster. And waaaay over my pay grade. Still running my Mac pro late 2012. 12-core/64GB ram. And it is a workhorse for me. Cubase Pro 10, Protools 11 and Digital Performer 10. About 5 years ago, I found the need to write and mix in 5.1. But mainly sound design and SFX. Some scoring. But now, as it turns out, engineers in mixing theaters in the states tend to only require 4.0 "Quad" to lay into their 5.1/7.1 Protools system. Occasionally, they do ask for a 4.1. But rarely. As to kit... I have been a VI junky since 2004. And a lot from your company. However, now I find I have too much kit. I don't remember where things are and it takes me so much time sorting out one instrument for a score. When I had less kit, I believe I was more creative. Had to work with what I had. And honestly, i think in some ways, it was better work. I also love the DynAudio monitors. Have 5 DB5a's MKII and a 12" sub.
Love the vid monitor
I need one of those Phoenix Culture vulture thingys! these rack units are just mental!
Christian - AMAZING update. I'm building a 5.1 room now and would love to hear your workflow now using 5.1. I'm using logic so hoping you will mix in logic, but any chance of a video of that in the future?
Hey Christian,
I'm sure that you've taken care of it, but something I might have missed is fire suppression and detection for your gear. Apart from being a commercial trumpet player, I am an architect, and have had multiple clients that are renovating after an electrical fire. Of course insurance is good (but not covered if you use powerboards in Australia), and electrical breakers will trip on shorts, but often on tube gear it may burn out and catch fire but not trip electrical safety protections. Would hate for anything to happen to this lovely collection.
Very nice! I wouldn’t even know where to begin with all that gear/kit…..
Such a joyous journey through your studio. A true altarpiece. You asked about any ideas for tutorials; how about doing something on the integration of spitfire libraries and classical notation programs like Dorico or Sibelius. Reasonable workflows to use Spitfire in connection with conventional notation would be much appreciated.
I pretty much live in a shed studio. It's a seperate garage/shed combo disconnected from the main house. I don't own the property but I stay here rent free. I had a window unit A/C and a gas heater for ages. Both were extremely noisy. Last year a mini-split was installed. I was going to pay for it, but the property owner insisted they cover it. All the noise from the mini split is outside, can barely hear it inside. The only audio problem I have now is the kennel across the alley.
Figured it was a Green Retreat. (quite a bit bigger than mine). Only thing I'm not mad about is the interlocking metal roof design - rain sounds like someone pouring gravel on it & a pigeon landing makes a proper bang..
Dan from That Pedal Show would be great. I would also recommend checking out Goodwood Audio. In addition to pedalboard setups, they also create custom junction boxes for all sorts of creative i/o to and from your board. Unfortunately, they're only located in the USA and Australia, but you might find some inspiration from their products!
The first commercially available synth with MIDI was the Prophet 600.
Amazing Studio, very nice!
Please do talk about 5.1 😊
hendrix owned it! that makes it a budget studio.
WOw!! Amazing...
Have you binned the Kemper? Awesome that you've set up a 5.1 facility and don't have to travel as much (although I'm quite sure there's a couple in Glasgow).
God damn it Christian now I cannot unsee the crack between my 2 monitors!
I had a Tascam Porta One! It was a big advancement over bouncing between two cassette decks with a Radio Shack mixer. ;)
😆 I used to bounce between two tape recorders just using a microphone! (The quality deteriorated pretty quickly with each bounce)
Hi Christian! Love your channel! Could you talk more about your 5.1 setup? Which audio interface is and how it works, also how do you have to configure logic for a 5.1 mix? Thanks for your video and your time, cheers!
Part 2 “how it’s all connected!”
go for the 100K Christian thanks for sharing
Nice! Dynaudios/Atmos!!! Cheers as always...
My shed is Dyns, Focal center, M&K sub, xducer under, and rest are all cute BlueRooms!!!
7.2.4! McIntosh power & Haflers, and will watch the Dolby guys turn green as they protest in horror, yet...the pudding proofs!
What a great tour! and an area I’ve been dying to hear about is the vintage corner because like your daughter said I’ve never seen you wonder over and have a widdle on those synths. One thing I would be interested to hear about, and whilst a potentially dull subject, some might be interested to understand is how all that gear is powered. As you’re in a nice garden room that appears external to the main dwelling I presume there must be some decent power connection to a consumer unit and then off to a load of sockets followed by connections to loads of 6 socket extensions leads? How is the mains ‘cleaned’ and how do you avoid mains hum etc. Some tips in this regard would be most appreciated as I only have a modest setup at home and with a couple of mixers, 3 computers, two sets of speakers a tv and 3 monitors competing with tape machines and finally the sexy stuff that makes the sound, I sound like Heinbach before I’ve even pressed a key 🤣
That edit at 1:07 is soooo smooooooth!
The "Fart confession" was hilarious!
Christian- I can't find a video that you refer to in regards to your humongous (!) monitor...... can you please give some more info regarding where we mere mortals may purchase one? As always, many many thanks for your invaluable input :)
Thank you for the tour! I’d love to hear more about how you use your pedals with the Wurlitzer. I’m about to be the lucky recipient of my uncle’s (RIP) old wurli. Also, where can I get a SA T-shirt? Cheers!!