Thanks for the insight. I personally got myself a 6u 500 series rack filled with stereo eq, bus comp and tape emulators. So far, this has been a great purchase, as I might be using that not only in studio conditions, but also in a live situation. It helps me making classical recordings, sound designs, homeworks for university, rent it to other mixing engineers etc. And I agree on a processing power + headphone for a portable mixing solution. At this point mixing / mastering job is least important compared to organisational / soft skills and initial gear / space to make recording job possible. Years pass by, but your content touches me more and more, as usually I am preferring not to leave comments. Thanks for the topic and video. Cheers! 👋🏻
I had the chance to demo a bunch of gear a few months back via access analog (and what I will say is not a reflection of them, I think they offer a great service!). With one exception, everything I tried was... an awful lot like the plugins I already have. Good, but not "I need to spend $5000 to get this sound" good. It's nice to know, and I agree some of these pieces would probably lend some credibility to my services that I am lacking on being fully ITB right now. But then, the client that cares about that sort of thing probably is not going to choose to work with me just because I went out and bought one or two things that I never use anyways, so I don't think that's a valid reason to buy gear either. And before I get asked, the one thing that did sound great and I want was a Louder than Liftoff Silver Bullet. Basically everything I want in an analog chain and comes with a great mic pre to boot.
I respect ur choice to go ITB, but their gear absolutely doesnt sound like plugins. If i think i have a rly good digital mix going on, i can get an extra 15-20% improvement out of it if i let it run through their stuff When i let my (non-producer) friends A/B the mix and i ask them Which one is better? Theyve picked the access analog one like every time so far, (meaning 22 out of 23 if im counting well). Its a world of difference in our field...
Seems like I am on the right track here :)! Got myself a pair of MM-500's comin from yamaha HS7's and AKG712's.. more worth the money then I could have ever imagined haha Also got myself a massively overpriced PC and even that PC still is able to be capped out pretty easily because of the serial processing nature and only about 1 core being used when rendering out a master :')
I love this topic, as it allows me to shill DIY studio equipment lol. If you're technically minded, as a lot of audio engineers ofc are, in many cases you can save a boat load on decently built gear if you just build it yourself! There's tons of resorces online that can help, as well as some places that sell kits, although that's not the most economical way to do it, it's nice for learning the ropes of DIY gear and a good way to ease into building it. Eventually you can just see a scematic, design a PCB or get one pre made, and source all the parts yourself. When you do it this way you can build gear for a fraction of the price in some cases (it just costs a fair bit of time...), and almost always at least half price of a retail unit (which can be many thousands in some cases) ... for example a stereo LA2A I built for about 1.5k-2k, and could of done it much cheaper ~1k-1.25k had I skimped on certain parts, but I went all out. That's two full LA2As in one case for
Thanks for the insight.
I personally got myself a 6u 500 series rack filled with stereo eq, bus comp and tape emulators.
So far, this has been a great purchase, as I might be using that not only in studio conditions, but also in a live situation.
It helps me making classical recordings, sound designs, homeworks for university, rent it to other mixing engineers etc.
And I agree on a processing power + headphone for a portable mixing solution.
At this point mixing / mastering job is least important compared to organisational / soft skills and initial gear / space to make recording job possible.
Years pass by, but your content touches me more and more, as usually I am preferring not to leave comments.
Thanks for the topic and video. Cheers! 👋🏻
Is your vari mu not the Mastering version with stepped pots? Didn’t you think you needed that? All the best, Bjørn
I had the chance to demo a bunch of gear a few months back via access analog (and what I will say is not a reflection of them, I think they offer a great service!). With one exception, everything I tried was... an awful lot like the plugins I already have. Good, but not "I need to spend $5000 to get this sound" good. It's nice to know, and I agree some of these pieces would probably lend some credibility to my services that I am lacking on being fully ITB right now. But then, the client that cares about that sort of thing probably is not going to choose to work with me just because I went out and bought one or two things that I never use anyways, so I don't think that's a valid reason to buy gear either.
And before I get asked, the one thing that did sound great and I want was a Louder than Liftoff Silver Bullet. Basically everything I want in an analog chain and comes with a great mic pre to boot.
I respect ur choice to go ITB, but their gear absolutely doesnt sound like plugins.
If i think i have a rly good digital mix going on, i can get an extra 15-20% improvement out of it if i let it run through their stuff
When i let my (non-producer) friends A/B the mix and i ask them Which one is better? Theyve picked the access analog one like every time so far, (meaning 22 out of 23 if im counting well).
Its a world of difference in our field...
ITB FTW
That’s the reality for 90% of pro engineers anyone who says otherwise is all cap.
Seems like I am on the right track here :)!
Got myself a pair of MM-500's comin from yamaha HS7's and AKG712's.. more worth the money then I could have ever imagined haha
Also got myself a massively overpriced PC and even that PC still is able to be capped out pretty easily because of the serial processing nature and only about 1 core being used when rendering out a master :')
Stream deck ftw. 🙌
I love this topic, as it allows me to shill DIY studio equipment lol. If you're technically minded, as a lot of audio engineers ofc are, in many cases you can save a boat load on decently built gear if you just build it yourself! There's tons of resorces online that can help, as well as some places that sell kits, although that's not the most economical way to do it, it's nice for learning the ropes of DIY gear and a good way to ease into building it. Eventually you can just see a scematic, design a PCB or get one pre made, and source all the parts yourself. When you do it this way you can build gear for a fraction of the price in some cases (it just costs a fair bit of time...), and almost always at least half price of a retail unit (which can be many thousands in some cases) ... for example a stereo LA2A I built for about 1.5k-2k, and could of done it much cheaper ~1k-1.25k had I skimped on certain parts, but I went all out. That's two full LA2As in one case for