I keep on rewatching this. I love that he doesn't mention the Genelec 1030A nearfields. Wonder how often he uses those. Also I can't believe he would have 2 Mac Pro towers and I think another PC tower so close to his listening position. Those computers and hard drives must make quite a noise that I couldn't tolerate for long periods. Otherwise great video, wish there were more.
I spent a night with Nick and Candace and friends drinking tequila and listening to those Lipinski's a few years back. Not only are the Lipinski's amazing but the the room itself is astonishing. I remember being to the outside of the left Lipinski and still being able to hear the sweet spot. Best sounding room(s) I have ever heard. We need a room like this down in Nashville!!
Impressive studio equipment! Personally, I love analog (pro) audio, tubes & hardware racks. I use different DAW's, like FL and Cubase, but a studio with lots of hardware equipment is something that I like the most. Different synth and modules in 19 inch and big analog mixers. Costs a fortune, I know, but the end results are well worth it for big artists who are famous around the world nowadays. Great video, mate!
I really like the LCD headphones. I hope someday maybe I can schedule an appointment to tour the studio. I want to hear your impression on my Alpha Dog headphones I have. I think they are some of the most ideal closed noise isolating studio mastering headphones you could possibly buy (reason being they weigh less than the LCD series and are more neutral sounding)
If tubes within the box are having audio passed through them then yeah even a slight amount of gain under a 1db would be noticeable to the trained ear. Analog gear has tubes and transistors that color the sound which a lot of Mastering Engineers use. Also the analog domain has a lot more head room than its digital counterpart so you can push an analog compressor, EQ, etc more than a digital one before clipping occurs. So degrading sound would probably be caused by over compressing in this case.
...why not just put a gain knob on your masterchannel and lower it, since DAW's work in floating point, it will never clip. And voila, endless headroom. Easy!
Antelope clock can improve source material by re-clocking and solidifying? What a load of BS. The complete opposite is true! Word clock is never as good as internal crystal so if you are using a high end converter, it will sound substantially better running on internal mode rather than using WC input. This guy doesn't know what he's on about.
Okay fair, the sontec and Lipinski speakers are impressive. I can't deny they're top end stuff. But.. I don't understand why you've downgraded so much with the other gear. No maselec master controller or prism converters? What about the bricasti converters or crane song converters which are technically far higher than any of it if you want to look at it in detail... And only one Manley compressor??? That's a weird choice for a compressor for mastering.. At the very least grab an elysia alpha or something thats actually higher end... I don't know. It just feels super weird. No curve bender either... It feels like someone built that room for him and he was assigned to work there... Cuz why would someone choose those gear choices? But I guess each to his own
I’ve just read your own extensive comment, Warren. Lots of interesting viewpoints and methods explained, until, that is, I got to the part where you explain with a perfectly straight face how parking the DAW’s master fader at “zero” and only changing the stems’ or channels’ much ‘simpler’ bit streams... blah, blah…. I expect this kind of nonsense on YT but not on a channel going by the name of Sonnox. Paul Frindle would be doing a face-palm. I would suggest, Warren, that you stick to the creative aspects and your opinions about them. Best not to make such blatantly untrue comments about code contained in digital audio if you don’t actually know what you’re saying. Giving a bad answer to the question no one is asking really took the shine off an otherwise interesting narrative.
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I keep on rewatching this. I love that he doesn't mention the Genelec 1030A nearfields. Wonder how often he uses those. Also I can't believe he would have 2 Mac Pro towers and I think another PC tower so close to his listening position. Those computers and hard drives must make quite a noise that I couldn't tolerate for long periods. Otherwise great video, wish there were more.
Where's your video showing your expertise, and how it really should be done pro?
I spent a night with Nick and Candace and friends drinking tequila and listening to those Lipinski's a few years back. Not only are the Lipinski's amazing but the the room itself is astonishing. I remember being to the outside of the left Lipinski and still being able to hear the sweet spot. Best sounding room(s) I have ever heard. We need a room like this down in Nashville!!
Impressive studio equipment! Personally, I love analog (pro) audio, tubes & hardware racks. I use different DAW's, like FL and Cubase, but a studio with lots of hardware equipment is something that I like the most. Different synth and modules in 19 inch and big analog mixers. Costs a fortune, I know, but the end results are well worth it for big artists who are famous around the world nowadays. Great video, mate!
Hey Warren, is that a D01 by Junger Audio and if so how do you use it in your mastering chain? Thanks for the video...
All that cool gear, just so you can brick wall the crap out of the song or album.
I get the feeling this dude like rock!
i always read the monitors should be on same high as ear, why i see them so often lower like here?
great mastering equipment!
I really like the LCD headphones. I hope someday maybe I can schedule an appointment to tour the studio. I want to hear your impression on my Alpha Dog headphones I have. I think they are some of the most ideal closed noise isolating studio mastering headphones you could possibly buy (reason being they weigh less than the LCD series and are more neutral sounding)
2:50 Speaker That goes from 0 to 40KHz!!!!, I would love to buy that speaker!!!!!
The dream mastering rig!
whats the monitors on the desk are you using sir ?
i want the named od the loudness box i need one pls help me
Does anyone know what desk this ?
Is this after Avanger Endgame?? What is Captain America doing here?? 🎯
If tubes within the box are having audio passed through them then yeah even a slight amount of gain under a 1db would be noticeable to the trained ear. Analog gear has tubes and transistors that color the sound which a lot of Mastering Engineers use. Also the analog domain has a lot more head room than its digital counterpart so you can push an analog compressor, EQ, etc more than a digital one before clipping occurs. So degrading sound would probably be caused by over compressing in this case.
When u slam the tubes and get them glowing that's when the track really starts coming alive ;)
what the name of the imac ?
He looks like the officer from the Dumb & Dumber movie!!!!
+Filippo Reynoso 'give me that beer' .......... sk tsk stk......tsk tsk set...... 'get out of here'
Totally! I thought the same
And im not too sure on Dangerous and their hardware but I wouldn't doubt it if they installed tubes in there 2 Busses and similar pieces.
I always wanted to know how much does it cost for mastering 1 song...??
hermanmern about 15 bucks
magic
can't do without the manley passive
...why not just put a gain knob on your masterchannel and lower it, since DAW's work in floating point, it will never clip. And voila, endless headroom. Easy!
Thats pure bullshit... My DAW DEFINITELY clips...
hi
if you go Lipinski's speakers you are the winner...
magic?
Antelope clock can improve source material by re-clocking and solidifying? What a load of BS. The complete opposite is true! Word clock is never as good as internal crystal so if you are using a high end converter, it will sound substantially better running on internal mode rather than using WC input.
This guy doesn't know what he's on about.
So where's your video at genius?
Where's the god damn video expert?
Isn't it supposed to be atomic word clock? Atomic clocks are the most accurate ones out there.
Or am I missing something in the word clock part?
Thats why u work for Universal Music right... Oh right ur just some fool with a keyboard.
Okay fair, the sontec and Lipinski speakers are impressive. I can't deny they're top end stuff.
But.. I don't understand why you've downgraded so much with the other gear. No maselec master controller or prism converters? What about the bricasti converters or crane song converters which are technically far higher than any of it if you want to look at it in detail...
And only one Manley compressor??? That's a weird choice for a compressor for mastering.. At the very least grab an elysia alpha or something thats actually higher end...
I don't know. It just feels super weird. No curve bender either...
It feels like someone built that room for him and he was assigned to work there...
Cuz why would someone choose those gear choices?
But I guess each to his own
Because its not about the gear...
I’ve just read your own extensive comment, Warren. Lots of interesting viewpoints and methods explained, until, that is, I got to the part where you explain with a perfectly straight face how parking the DAW’s master fader at “zero” and only changing the stems’ or channels’ much ‘simpler’ bit streams... blah, blah….
I expect this kind of nonsense on YT but not on a channel going by the name of Sonnox. Paul Frindle would be doing a face-palm. I would suggest, Warren, that you stick to the creative aspects and your opinions about them. Best not to make such blatantly untrue comments about code contained in digital audio if you don’t actually know what you’re saying. Giving a bad answer to the question no one is asking really took the shine off an otherwise interesting narrative.
That gain he is talking about is just BS. The only thing that can do is degrading the soundquality.