SSL SiX: Using Bus-B To Create Electronic Music
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2022
- In this video I explore some more possibilities with the SSL SiX. This time I'm giving a quick rundown on how I employ Bus-B to help record electronic instruments quickly and easy in Ableton Live. If you like this video, please remember to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel!
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Great pal,👌
Thank you so much! I appreciate it :)
nice dude :)
Great content
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this video. I really like how you explain the features in an easy to understand language. Subscribed. Is this how you'd use the Six as a mix Bus Compressor?
Hey Bill, thanks for the positive feedback and the subscription! Yes, turning on the G-Series Bus Compressor applies compression to all channels exiting the unit and back into my interface. Lately I have been doing all my mixes with it on the whole time!
thanks
You're welcome!
Thanks, Nicolas. This is useful. I'm curious how you would do things differently if you had more inputs and outputs on your audio interface. Would you use a combination of bus B and ALT sends to route stems from the SSL to Abelton? It looks like (I just watched your other SSL video) you are generally using the SSL to combine signals from your DAW with external hardware which you then record into Abelton as a stereo mix (with G series glue). I am doing something similar but am wondering about how best to track into Abelton through the SSL - if I had an 8 in / 8 out audio interface. Ideally without a patchbay :)
Hi Duncan. Thanks for the question! This is my (entirely subjective) response. I would run hardware directly into the interface using inputs 1-6 for multitracking. Inputs 7+8 stereo input from the SSL. Outputs 1-8 into SSL line ins --if you use the DB25 connectors on the back of the SSL, this will look clean and also allow you to use the Insert.
With this approach, you can easily multitrack into your DAW and use the SSL as a monitor controller, summing mixer/audio processor. You could also simultaneously record DI and processed signals of your hardware instruments in real time which could be very powerful for arrangements --eg. record a synth dry into your interface while concurrently sending it out to SSL where you could apply time based effects and record that signal through 7-8 on your interface.
Hope this makes sense. YMMV and this is just one person's idea of how to integrate! Have fun.
@@nicolasfieldsoundservices can you use the channel insert to process a signal before it is sent out of buss B?
@@alexdawson7851 yup I am pretty sure you can!
Wouldn’t this require you to use Bus Bs outputs to your Apollo and the main outputs to your Apollo? When you mute to Bus B doesn’t it send it to a separate set of outputs, not the mains?
No, you might be thinking of the monitor outs --you can select Mains or Alternate. Otherwise the console only has stereo XLR out.
@@nicolasfieldsoundservices I’m literally looking at the back of the console and it says “BUS B OUT L/R”.
Please explain how you did this using one set out outputs to your DAW
@@HotelPools Ah! You're right and I apologize for giving you the wrong information. Here's the thing: I don't plug anything into the Bus B outputs. I only use the XLR L/R outs into the Apollo.
Enabling Bus B reroutes the audio signal from the Main L/R (which go into the Apollo) to, in my case, nowhere.
Importantly, you can ALWAYS enable or disable "Bus B" in your monitoring chain. This way you can hear what's being sent there via the monitor outs or headphones out.
You can think of it as a selective mute. It mutes the signal going out to the Apollo, but I can still hear it through the monitors.
Does that make sense?
SSL was always thinner and timid than NEVE, I could never make my house tracks with TR909 without a NEVE table.
SSL is more for pop rock, folk stuff... it doesn't have the warmth I want from a NEVE with the rounded distortion.
Fair enough! Neve makes some very nice kit. Cheers