Tracking with an Original UA 610 Console
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Universal Audio teams up with engineer John Nowland and Neil Young's original UA 610 Console for a live tracking session.
Learn more about the UAD plug-in version of the UA 610: u.audio/2ooLyEk
John Nowland is a longtime, accomplished veteran of the music industry dating back to the mid 1960’s. He has worked with artists such as Crosby, Stills and Nash, Emmylou Harris, and has been heavily involved with Neil Young’s lasting career.
For this session, John brought Neil Young’s original UA 610 console to UA headquarters and recorded Universal Audio employees performing Miles Davis’ "All Blues.”
Watch the session unfold as they tweak the 610’s buttons and knobs, and show what is happening under its hood. Hear the 610’s history and see a handful of historic documents attached to Bill Putnam and the original UA 610 Console as well. In addition to tracking on the 610, note that the men's room was used as an echo chamber, a vintage Cooper Time Cube was used for pre-delay, and a 176 (predecessor to the 1176) was patched to the kick drum.
“It (Putnam 610 Tube Console) has a great tone to it, and a great vibe to it… so we keep using it.” - John Nowland (Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Emmylou Harris)
Though the 610 Tube Console is a unobtainable vintage piece of equipment, you can still find this timeless design in a modern day form factor with The UA SOLO/610. It completely delivers the classic Putnam 610 tube console sound in a portable, highly versatile mic preamp design. The SOLO/610 provides the silky, vintage warmth of the original console’s mic amp design, and it both flatters and enhances any microphone or instrument with its iconic tones.
Learn more about Universal Audio’s SOLO/610 tube mic preamp, here: u.audio/2lTNQdr
♫ Song Info ♫
“All Blues”
Written by Miles Davis
Performed by UA Employees
Recorded by John Nowland
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Hahahaha haha I’m dying at the fact that they really used their bathroom for reverb! Love it
I idolize your pops work. Not only am I obsessed with the era recordings and studios he built I also run a super stripped down 50's studio in the bay area. Going off your fathers work. When I hear a Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Miles Davis etc recording it just takes my soul. Most incredible sound you can ever ask for. I wish there was more gear of his around that people could use and show people what music is supposed to sound like again. I am so tired of the modern approach, no life, no passion and emotion in most of it. Bill was just brilliant. Got a RCA BC-3C console I use but one day hope to put my hands on a UA . Blow my mind!
I wish more studios cared about using equipment like this. It seems we are going in the opposite direction.
music is life that the only thing that keep people together.i believe in music ,i believe in love.
and no one is commenting about the mammoth Moog Modular System 55 in the background.... some nice kit in this studio!
That thing is stellar. Wow
Really great sound and nice smooth jazz version of "All Blues" !
That just sounds so good. Good pre's, good mics, good musos, aint that all you need.
i never get sick of listening to this
An engineer I met who worked at the old Verve facility told me they used a stairwell as a reverb area. Nice hollow-state console - nice outboard gear!!!
Oh, yeah! The wholesome tube sound that purifies the audio perception! It's like an ambient cool breeze on a warm day. Neeto, vintagely used for something new is better known as 'cool' when it relates to the tube equipment.
Even on my lousy PC speakers this sounds incredible.
these classic gears have their own vibe, it's not only about analog, u can feel the music throught these vintage machines.
Old school recording/mixing techniques us engineers just love. Another awesome post from the UA crew!
What a fun trip into the past! I was smiling ear to ear UNTIL I noticed your keyboard player using a digital (XK2?) keyboard rather than that perfectly awesome vintage 200 lb Hammond L100 tonewheel organ sitting up against the wall.
Amassingggg Video, the sound is real and so great. This is a real stuff and not from the digital era where we live now.
This is the most beautiful console ever
Can I get a camel no filter to go with that 610 console to my digs??? Suhweeet! I love tracking reverb spaces, and esp focus on live sessions, preferably all in our studio 1 with no cans, let us capture the performance correctly and not make fake studio magic, which is also cool but live, thats where its at baby!! thanks guys you rock! very inspiring for this jazz player and producer :-)
I'm showing my age,but this is the console I was trained on initially while a high school and college intern at King Records in Cincinnati for the late,great,Bud Hobgood (James Brown's producer/engineer). The reverb he used was an EMT plate reverb.
Nothing beats real reverb
#bathroomverb
I can't believe I haven't thought about just placing a speaker for real reverb.
Excellent guitar and bass playing.
I LOVE Big Analog Knobs, EQs and Compressors!
I love my 610 mk2 preamp , he is absolutely fantastic sounding!!!
Amazing sound and amazing gear. UA stuff is really top notch.
You guys should do a video comparing the Apollo plugin emulation of the council and compared them
YO EDITOR YOU NEED TO CHILL!!!
Lol!
This is the what we should be teaching students today. Awesome video.
Man that sound of that keyboard organ is awesome great keyboardist as well I also love the reverb on the guitar
That's the way I want to lay it down it's gonna be a warm mix 👌 ✨
All these years later and I love watching this video. Though, I must admit, it still frustrates me a bit that there was a real, old school, analog Hammond organ in the studio, and they opted to use a digital clone. 🤦♂️. Regardless, sounds fantastic!
So sue me! The output was broken at the time.
The console certainly is wonderful, but dont read too, too much into that. There are many reasons this recording sounds so good. Its about the performance, the instruments, the amps (and settings), the room, the mics and placement. Of all these things, the mixer influences the sounds the very least. Especially one like this with almost no eq on board short of a few switches in-or out. It imparts a subtle quality indeed, but subtle is the word..
This is the best i ever heard something at 360! I want this console sooooo bad
I was in haven for a moment,,,, So i will press play and go back again.
WOWWW
Reminds me of a few friends who in the new beat era also used the bathroom as reverb unit :-D :-D
Atlantic Records, 234 W. 56th St., NYC used the bathrooms for echo and the main shipping room floor for a studio. Tom Dowd's shop was the control room...dozens of hits in the mid '50s from there!
On my cheap laptop speakers the Hammond just had me turn my head to the left to see what was making that noise there.
What a 3D sound!
To think, I watched a 6 channel UA mixer be tossed in the garbage at CBS in NY in 1978 and I didn't take it home.
After all, it was so big and didn't have EQ.
You guys should post the entire song ^^
What I dislike is the cigarette pack on the mixer looks cheezy
Nice to see the pros using the same techniques as unknown, and yet unrecognzed pros like me. :)
Specifically I refer to using a mixing board with computer.) I do my premixing in the DAW (cubase for me) and then send that premix through 4 stereo busses to the mixer, and the stereo signal is sent back to the DAW to be recorded.
Something about hand mixing on an actual physical mixing board that is very satisfying compared to working strictly within a DAW.
Walking the walk. Well done!!!!
I have the 78 of Peg-O-My Heart. And I also have Let's Dance by David Carroll And His Orchestra record by Bill Putnam in Chicago at Universal Recording Corp in Chicago. At Edison Street Studio, we have a 610 pre amp, that I like to use with my 44bx. I am building a tube reel to reel, it uses the Ampex 300 transport, Teac heads and custom built tube pre amps that use 6EU7 tubes.
bathroom as an echo chamber?
I know the music is gonna be funky!!
Absolutely fantastic.Thanks so much for sharing...love UA
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a reissue set of these. PLEASE. I'll pay literally almost anything.
I like the music. I'm no pro musician but I appreciate the art and genres. To me music is bad when it has no substance or soul. I'd love to jam with these guys.
These dudes jam!!!
Great sound!
So very cool. Love this stuff.
can't get any better
love the shred guitar
Very nice! And nice to see a good sized Moog modular in the studio. It actually looks 'modern' compared to the 610 Console! ;-) hhhmm, I actually wouldn't mind seeing a modular synth designed with the same size, knobs and controls as the 610!
That was awesome 💯
Just a bunch of YESSSSSSSSSSsssss all over this! 🎧🎶 💯
Hymn
U GUYS MADE MY DAY!..JUST WHEN I THOUGHT THERE WAS NOTHING WORTH WATCHING ON U TUBE ANYMORE...THIS! DROOOOOOOL !!! I WONDER IF TOM DOWD EVER TOUCHED THIS...
Holy bongsmoke Batman!
That console is awesome. It can run back to back with an old Neve eh? Sweet.
I always play people Mary Wells My Guy and let them hear the ending. I believe that is Motown Detroit's (Hitsville USA) primitive attic echo chamber in action.
Larry Crane from TapeOp 4:06!!!
Shout out to guy w flip cam helping us date the video haha
Wow !!! That is legend !!!
the problem is.. now days music runs on "the dryer the better"
great video!
THIS IS THE COOLEST FRIKIN VIDEO ON RUclips!!!
sounds massive!
it sounds amazing guys
@timwarneka Pre-delay determines how fast or slow the attack of the reverb.
tight band, all I need to say. Sound top would by this record
i love this sound
To be a fly on the wall... 😌
Booooo for the phony B3!
But what a beautiful console... incredible sound!
Swooning.. Thanks! 🙃
I want this in my home.
You guys should make a reproduction of something like this!! maybe 16 channels? I'd love to do some stuff on something like this.
Tree audio
Nice!!!
@zkranz0 When I was about 25 I realised that music was as much about the idea as the execution. Thats why Tom Waits is good despite the fact he sings like a wino. I might want to record someone singing a decent song, maybe someone playing something from another country; something with a bit of charm - unlike the jazz rock wannabes on show here.
@lyrpat Actually they were recording into Pro Tools.
Harvest moon!!!! Deepest bass ever!!!
when i first bought my pair of LA610's, i tried various methods, instruments, and mic'ing techniques to make it sound bad..... I literally CANT MAKE ANYTHING SOUND BAD RUNNING THROUGH THIS UNIT. Cant live w/o my LA610's.
Nice console would like to place an order but don't see it on the website.
Sad to not be shown them actually setting up the session :(
Everything changes.
Sounds sp good!
So**
@timwarneka
CD? I want vinyl @45 rpm with their take of Watermelon Man on the flip!
@deadbirdsings Excellent point.
o h man so cool
We old guys always said, trash in- trash out. A great console like this separates the men from the boys.
If you dont sound good, - you wont sound good.
you think the coils on those pots are original? I wouldn't think so but that would be amazing.
Love this..
Well.....THAT was cool.
So much care, thought and emphasis on the vintage front end, and it all ends up in a DAW instead of a tape machine. So much of the warmth, punch and body of those tubes gets lost in the translation.
+Stephen Garland No it doesn't.
+Stephen Garland No it doesn't.
+Geoff mania Well good for you.
+Geoff mania Yes it does.
+Geoff mania Face it, Geoff. Affixing a DAW to all that analog gear is akin to attaching a giant sail to a Corvette Stingray. Makes no sense.
Does the Vintage button on the Volt audio interfaces emulate the 610?
want that console
Yeah, it's a beauty!!
@@UniversalAudio 8 pieces 6176 well vertically installed with custom green rack and vu meter, would look like that console
Universal Audio make it again!
I have a question. Is there any way to hook up one of these old consoles to an IZ Radar recorder instead of a two inch machine?
This is super cool, I love these consoles
But just looking at them, I'm wondering if they have much dynamic control
Or control in general
I saw him write 1176 on one of the channels so it makes me think they are using outboard compressors. No dynamics in the board
proud owner of UA 6176 ... massive fat... UA rocks big time as always my first choice :)
Just got mine yesterday.. a beast of a machine worth every penny!
Un buen samaritane que me saque de la duda, le hecho de poner un speaker en el baño y un microfono era para hacer el efecto de reverb ? eso fue lo que entendi, estoy bien ? y me podrian explicar como funciona ? de antemano gracias : )
@zkranz0 Well not necessarily but lets face it if Miles were alive today he wouldn't be doing this would he. He'd be most likely making beats and working with hip hop artists. That was the thing with Miles, he always knew where the good stuff was at. If you like this sort of thing then its up to you, obviously, but just because I've correctly identified that its half arsed, badly played and out of date doesn't mean I have 'terrible taste'. Quite the reverse, I would contend.
@BBTempo1 Hey Bob, what in the heck do you know??!! Ya put the speaker wherever it sounds good, man! You like SSL's and DS201's...
Show offs!
I Spy Larry Crane: Tape Op Mag Editor @4:06
#thanks
We won't have any idea what an mp3 is in one hundred years.
🤓
@fishybishbash can I just ask what kind of music YOU would want record if you could record a song on that console?
classic
The board doesn't sump the sound & harsh it up due to the tubes/transformers & the design the fact that it's basic only adds to the quality..
Original 176 on kick?
not on my KRK Rockit 8s.
Where can we Hear the Actual final Recording?
Sorry, it's not available.