Warm Audio WA-1B Tube Optical Compressor Review

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  • Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025

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  • @piggsquigg983
    @piggsquigg983 Год назад +10

    love the music you've done on the last couple of videos. really really nice, and the vocals sound great.

  • @diyrecordingstudio
    @diyrecordingstudio Год назад +5

    New setup looks awesome dude. Your barn is such a lovely live wooden room, maybe some acoustic paneling on the walls and clouds on the ceiling might get particular sections of the rooms sounding the way you want.
    Building more gobo type panels for your drums might be a way to go too.

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  Год назад +1

      I was thinking about doing that actually

  • @Beats_By_Ash
    @Beats_By_Ash 11 месяцев назад +2

    Hey Travis, Been watching your channel for years now and let me just say that your the best channel on RUclips keep up what your doing I love your videos you have inspired me to record analog now I have a revox b77 mk2. I started playing drums when I was 3 now im 12 and I have a bunch of analog stuff, thanks for everything you've done, Ash

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  11 месяцев назад

      Hi good to hear from you! Thanks for watching and I'm happy that you are making music :)

  • @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung
    @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great video travis . All sounding great . Love the setup . Have fun and keep recording .

  • @ironweedstudios
    @ironweedstudios Год назад +3

    love your vids and the relaxing barn. Its prolly not relaxing to you at this point, but i love the quiet times and the opportunity to be up in the middle of the night and just relax with your vids.

  • @simmermusic3894
    @simmermusic3894 8 месяцев назад

    Loving the character and warmth of your sound and your room sounds great!

  • @waskerbasket9601
    @waskerbasket9601 8 месяцев назад +1

    sounds really good, keep it up.

  • @PharaohLawLess1
    @PharaohLawLess1 10 месяцев назад

    Very nice and jazzy and relaxing track my brotha

  • @Mofdarts
    @Mofdarts Год назад

    Love your Videos and your Studio and your jams. Please keep them coming. Specialy multitrack tape recording technique.😎😇👍🏼

  • @theCarouselPainter
    @theCarouselPainter 8 месяцев назад

    Dude, time to get an 1176 clone, mine is from Lindell Audio, but i guess the WA76 or WES audio would work just fine aswell !

  • @benjicrane
    @benjicrane Год назад

    Very good work, thanks

  • @kenny_murray
    @kenny_murray 6 месяцев назад

    Miss your videos - hope you're well!

  • @AJOrpheo
    @AJOrpheo Год назад

    ngl liking the sound on the RE20. Might give that a try. Our go to is the Audix D6, its a great sound for us

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  Год назад

      oh yeah it was a game changer. I didn't even know people did that but I tried it and it was awesome. I heard Butch Vig and a lot of other producers in the 70s and 90s did it.

  • @Rhuggins
    @Rhuggins Год назад

    Have you seen the Revive mod to these? I think they are about 7-800 dollars, they claim to improve many of the components

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  Год назад

      I can't imagine it sounding any better I think warm audio did a great job!

    • @Rhuggins
      @Rhuggins Год назад

      @@travisraab well Thats great! Revive claims (and it stands to reason) that the signal path is very similar to the original, but the components (resistors, capacitors, etc.) are of much lower quality. They claim to be able to increase headroom and upgrade the parts to be in line with the original unit. I do find the Warm a bit grabby and more colored in the mid range than the original, which is smooth as butter. Really debating buying a modded unit

  • @jimroberts3504
    @jimroberts3504 8 месяцев назад

    Greetings fellow Raab. Very nice videos 👍🏼

  • @jasonjohnson4170
    @jasonjohnson4170 11 месяцев назад

    Love the reel to reel!!!

  • @jbonillaguitar
    @jbonillaguitar 7 месяцев назад

    Miss you travis!! make more videos!!

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  7 месяцев назад

      Man I was thinking about it! I'm not sure the algorithm gods will be friendly to me at this point. But I wanted to do some basic stuff and just talk about things, do simple music

    • @jbonillaguitar
      @jbonillaguitar 7 месяцев назад

      @@travisraab how's Walter doing?

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  7 месяцев назад

      @@jbonillaguitar I think he's well. I haven't seen him in a minute.

  • @johnnyhov2509
    @johnnyhov2509 9 месяцев назад

    Hi all! I got a WA-1B today and nothing happens when I turn it on. No light in power, display or tubes. I guess at least the power lamp should be lit all it seems like in the video :)

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  9 месяцев назад +1

      is your power turned on?

    • @johnnyhov2509
      @johnnyhov2509 9 месяцев назад

      @@travisraab solved. Opened it and the connector on power switch were loose.

  • @ManiacX-rf3nx
    @ManiacX-rf3nx Год назад +1

    That snare rules

  • @overundah
    @overundah Год назад +2

    Get yourself a patch bay!

  • @bugattiveyron620
    @bugattiveyron620 9 месяцев назад

    Nice groove bro I like it

  • @shamaruku
    @shamaruku Год назад

    Sounds great, sounds alive

  • @juanrodriguezluis4811
    @juanrodriguezluis4811 11 месяцев назад

    Hey man, i just need to abo you. can you talk a lil more about your Mastering Process?

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  11 месяцев назад

      abo? I use izotope

  • @zakaroonetwork777
    @zakaroonetwork777 10 месяцев назад

    96K has Lower latency. 24-96K All Day long. You got All the Dream analog gear. Dont Cheap out on the Hard drive space.

  • @sl3102
    @sl3102 Год назад

    Nice! I like the latin vibe!

  • @Mr_A99
    @Mr_A99 Год назад +1

    Bro you gotta get a real rack sometime or build one with actual rails. This jank solution you are doing now is not worth that nice gear! Just a strong suggestion. Also plz turn up the audio samples a lot, your camera voice is pretty loud compared to the samples. Love the home vibe in your vids btw! Keep'em up! Regards from Denmark 🙂

  • @MaggieKeizai
    @MaggieKeizai Год назад

    Puig can suck it, 48 rules. My aphex converters only go at 48, so it's tops.
    Great tune, btw

  • @ralphups7782
    @ralphups7782 11 месяцев назад

    do you leave that window open, because you have a cat with a short temper which would knock the front door to get in and out at all hours.? 7:08/8:34 👈😒🚬👺👀👀👉😹

  • @oinkooink
    @oinkooink 7 месяцев назад

    You're a funny dude. :)

  • @nicefish10
    @nicefish10 Год назад +7

    WA 1b is trash. How many videos are people gonna put up with that thing bottoming out on the low meds at about five DB of gain reduction? I think it’s really sad that warm audio has decided to market that like it’s a CL1B clone and it’s nowhere near. Just because people spend their hard earned money on crap gear They automatically have a bias towards it. This thing would probably be fine if it sold for $400. But trying to charge over 1000 for it is a rip off.

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  Год назад +4

      I appreciate you sharing your opinion. I will take a close listen to it and if I get my hands on a cl1b I'll give them a nice comparison.

    • @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung
      @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung 11 месяцев назад +14

      Well mister @nicefish10 I think opinion is utter trash.
      I actually own both . I have a tube tech CL1b I’ve had for nearly 20 years and a few weeks ago I got a warm from a local dealer just to see what all the fuss was about and they asked me to compare them see how it stacked up . And it’s actually pretty damn close . In fact very damn close . Not as slow an attack at the slowest and a tiny low mid boost your talking less than a DB . But the characteristics are so damn close I kept the wa1b and added it to the rack cause who dosnt want 2 of them !
      And I’m been pumping a lot more than 5db of gain reduction and it ain’t bottoming out at all as you say it ! And to be fair a friend also has a CL1b not as old as mine his about 11 years old and it sounds different to mine more so than the warm !!
      So less of the negative vibes . And maybe just go and buy a tube tech or at least get on that waiting list and pay your $4000 and quit moaning about it ! It’s a quarter of the price for a very very very similar sounding and behaving compressor .

    • @SupremeSpeaking
      @SupremeSpeaking 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@Mrpsblobsoflowendmungthank you for validating what I thought by comparing it to a CL1B. I’m glad I made the investment. Warm definitely got it right with the WA1B, although it is slightly different it’s definitely a wonderful addition when CL1B’s are hard to come by

    • @yule41
      @yule41 8 месяцев назад +1

      People use this as a tracking compressor, you’re never going go use more than 5. And the original does the same thing buddy. Not all CL1B’s even sound the same.

  • @Rhuggins
    @Rhuggins Год назад +1

    Bro get yourself a proper rack

  • @atleengelstad5303
    @atleengelstad5303 Год назад +1

    You are in a dangerus zone right now....focusing more on gear than on the music,,,,,

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  Год назад +2

      is this what Kenny Loggins was talking about?

    • @thomasadams9199
      @thomasadams9199 10 месяцев назад

      @@travisraabhahahahahahahhaha love your sense of humor almost as much as your videos! Keep it up dude! The quality of your audio is literally why I just went out and purchased a focusrite Clarette plus 4 pre. Ticked me off when I saw that it came without an ungrounded power supply. Is yours ungrounded?

    • @travisraab
      @travisraab  10 месяцев назад +1

      no mine is not grounded@@thomasadams9199