A lot to like about this video. The computer was asleep, the cosy studio, nice shelves with stuff on them, old kit and the presenter with a slight Harry Hillness. I'm a fan now. Thanks

Can't think you enough for doing this video. Answered and solved every problem I had!

Hi Dan, just wanted to say thanks for this content and the diagram at the end. I can't tell you how long I've been racking my brain trying to understand the concept of hybrid mixing. Please keep it up!

Brilliant video, Dan! Well done.

Interesting Dan !. i recently picked up a Soundcraft series 600 from a guy who was downsizing his studio.Its a board ive always wanted. Having used the 3200 back in the day. NOW this vid sheds some light into the integration with the current. Thanx man, lots to watch here.

Another great video thanks Dan - I love the flexibility of working with this type of hybrid setup ... thanks for the in depth run through.

Nice video. I totally get what you're doing. I have a Ghost 32 and a Behringer X32. I use Reaper with no Master Bus, as everything is monitored in the console. It's the best of both worlds because I operate the X32 in inline mode and monitor off Reaper's Record Monitor back through the console (I've eliminated latency with Dante). Works fantastic and with X32ReaperAutoMate for automation, I'm mixing records like I did in the 80s but with pristine audio (no tape hiss!) and full automation of over 10,000 parameters on the X32. I wish I had this setup back in 1985!

Lovely to see the blending of the old with the new, thank you. Used the old analogue gear (Teac Tascam Fostex Seck Soundcraft Synths and all the outboard rack units) throughout the 70s and 80s until the responsibilities of life took over. Still have most of it mothballed. Then in recent years I was dragged into the 21st century with an iPad. I found to my amazement the likes of GarageBand and the more sophisticated Cubasis,.......all my room of old gear jammed into an iPad! Having lived through the analogue days, the ease of use of the modern DAWs is astonishing, but I don’t half miss all those knobs and faders! Do I detect a resurrection of the analogue equipment? It seems to be happening in the synthesiser world with the revival of the hardware synth classics. Thank you for your videos, the content is still remarkably close to my heart.

YOU ARE THE MAN! I SCREEN SHOT COPIED THE DRAWING FOR MY SETUP WITH MY FOCUSRITE AND MY TASCAM M-2516 DESK MIXER! THIS HAS HELPED ME BIG TIME! Thank you!

Thank you very much! That will sure give something to ruminate on...awesome!

Great Video Thank you.I've been working on setting up a system like that.and your video is a big help.

just what I was looking for... Excellent explanation

You’re the best honestly mate. Amazing video and Blessings to you 🫶🏿✨

thanks awesome brother ive been forever trying to do this correctly between digital and my lovely analog gear to get my MPC X hip hop beats knocking .

yeah man, i agree the production of that era is a genre itself. including reggae and dub reggae. thanks for your very nice approach man.

Thank you for this great video... I have watched it so many times!! I can’t find anything on KZfaq to help me get this going but this video. I even ask for tech support at Sweetwater and they told me that this couldn’t be done with an analog mixer. I have a mackie usb mixer and I’m trying to get mines set up like this multi channel. Each separated channel... 1-2, 3-4...etc. I’m using Logic Pro x also. Ima keep watching this until I get it.

That helped me out alot , many thanks great vid !

Thanks Dan Baker!

Great vid!

Excellent and informative video, many thanks.

Thank you for these information...

Well explained. Thank you.

Great vid, I have a very similiar setup to you! Soundcraft Ghost 24 analog mixing desk, saffire 56 linked to behringer pro 8 via ADAT, learnt a lot from this, great work

Thank you .....great video...

I've been using a hybrid set up for awhile. Imho it ads to the sound pleasingly

Thanks. Very helpful.

Cool, I was curious how to fold back the audio from the interface into the board so I can leave the monitors plugged into it.

Love watching your videos Dan. But I have a question I really need to know about it. How do you record your final mix or your master on your mixing console please?

Such great info, but I'm still confused as ever, on trying to cable all my setup. Ugh...I'll keep learning! :o)

Thank you so much for great videos and positive spirit! Can you recommend how to properly gain stage line outputs from sound card into the line inputs of console (I am using Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 into old Studiomaster 16-4-2 Series 5, Logic and Pro Tools). I am using sine wave generator at 1kHz, but I don't know how many dBFS, -20, -18, -12...Cheers!

Really enjoyed watching this, learned a lot. I'm looking to build a similar setup to start mixing dub. I don't have any experience with these boards though, would you still recommend getting an older analog board or a newer hybrid mixer?

Hi Dan, great video thanks! I was wondering, how is the digital recorder hooked in to the system, and where do you input microphones? On the drawing it says channels 9-16 are used, but can you still use the mic inputs on 1-8 switching from line to mic? I have a 24/8 Soundcraft series 1600, Fostex D2424LV, and Scarlett 18i20, very similar to your set up, looking to get everything talking to each other in Reaper on a Mac Mini.

I love this video, explain exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thank you so much Dan. But can you please tell me how you add outputs from your DAW to your audio interface straight to the mixing console, so that I can record and use the console for mixing please?

@Dan Baker On 5:30, how exactly are you doing this? I'm a newbie to analog gear, I've been producing in the box only thus far.

I had the same desk! 4 buses, sweepable mids on all mono input channels.... Really nice desk. Actually miss the sound of it. Giving serious thought to getting a decent 2 Ch USB audio input and a basic 8 Ch mixing desk just for fact of having actual physical rotary controls... Which I miss

Do you recommend TRS or TS for snake cable? Also, do you have a vid with PatchBay set-up and explanations? Hands down one of the best hybrid explanation vids ive seen in last two decades. I could watch hours of instruction and be quite entertained. Thank you!!

Hi Dan, that is a great video and I had my mixer set up the same, but how do I configure Logic Pro X, as I have no sounds? I'm using 2 MOTU 828 MK 3's and a Tascam M-2516 16-8 desk. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you

It is great brother..... I do have one question; how can I connect soundcraft si impact mixer to pro tools plus how can I prepare a monitor output from the mixer with out using any audio interface ?

An Amazng and informative video thank you. The diagramme was magic for someone like me who is a little bot of a technophobe!

Thank you Dan, another great video which is a great help as I slowly assemble my studio. I was wondering if there was any chance you might be able to do a video on monitors and achieving a balanced recording and mixing reference system, or something along these lines?

I like this guy. I wanna set up an analog desk into protools, I just want faders and the feel of mixing, Im not fond at all of mixing in the box

great vid. thanks! oddly your board is the same one I've been watching on Reverb for sale.

Thanks Great Video your a natural.. Can I as what software Daw you use?

Great video! So, let's say I've got a drum track in my DAW, which I am putting out via an output channel on my audio interface, to track 1 on my mixer. And, as you did in the video (near the end), let's say I manipulate the EQ and levels a bit on the mixer, and then use the AUX to bring in a bit of "crunch" - It's sounding great! But, what do I do with that track now? How do I go about storing those physical changes? Is it simply a case of routing the drum track 1 over to one of the the group buses, and then record that bus into a new track in my DAW, and then replace the original track with the new one? Or, is there a way to record the new changes to drum track 1 without recording to a second intermediary track?

Hey fantastic video it a great help thanks for giving you time👍one of the best on KZfaq.. what mixer are you using plz

Are the input of your outboard FX monos ? Is there a point using a Y cable to an outboard fx input and put it back in stereo or is mono enough since my AUX output are monos ?

When you put tracks on a buss inside your daw do you come to mixer on a mono Channel or stereo channel?

what am I doing wrong? I have the same mixer but when I connect a guitar and preamp to a line input along with a drum machine to 2 other line inputs, I get no control over the volume with the faders? I have to press the PFL to hear what is going on through the monitors plugged into the control room outs. The volume is adjusted by the rotary gain control. How are the faders controling your sound? Thanks

I'm just getting back into the desk side of things, after many years of digitial. I want ti hook my Alesis Quad to the Soundcraft Spirit Studio, but I don't have Aux outs and returns? Only Aux and FX and Ins, any ideas? Love the channel BTW!

There is just one thing I don't understand yet. If you control all the effects on your mixing desk, how does your DAW safe these? When you use a plugin, that plugin is being saved on that channel you use the certain plugin on. Does this work the same with a mixing desk?

Hello Dan, I love your channel and your music as well as your unique creativity. A question regarding your video on using your Sc Spirit mixer along with your daw. What is the mixer’s main output connected to? I’m thinking the audio interface? Also how did you connect your interface to channels 1 and 2 of your mixer? Thanks again for all you do to help us music nuts out.

is it possible to use a mixer that have no usb conection but midi in/out/thru (5pin) and plug it to a soundcard like Focusrite that also have in and out conection and control a virtual mixer of a DAW ? I mean that if i use the midi learn protocol and assign 1 real fader to the virtual one via midi in an out conection, does the virtual mixer react ?

Hi Dan great video thanks. I have looked at a few of them and very impressed I have to say. I am a total newbie and connected my equipment up but unfortunately all to no avail. I can't get a sausage out of it (No audio in or out) . I have tried KZfaq and searching Google etc but can't seem to find exactly what I want. I am in the hope you or any readers can assist me please before I get the proverbial sledge-hammer to it all. I wanted to ask you about hooking up cables and which cable goes where. It is all for my own amusement as I recently had a heart attack and a stroke so got lots of time and thought I would try to create a new hobby if I can. The instruments I have so far is a Les Paul Electric (Copy) Fender Strat (Copy) Fender (Genuine Semi Acoustic) & Ibanez Base Guitar with Marshal amp. Windows PC with Ableton Live Lite v10. Equipment is:- Behringer (DI Box GI-100) - Personas Eris 3.5 Monitors - Mackie ProFX8v2 Mixer (USB) - Akai Professional MPK225 MIDI (USB) & Sure SM-57 Mic etc. Wondered if you can point me in the right direction as regards which cables go where and in what order please. I would really appreciate any help you can give or direct me to a Facebook page or forum as I am at a total loss. Many thanks Tony (Rotherham)

Nice workflow!

Nice One! Hooking up my old 1990 Fostex R8 with Logic this weekend to a new ADAT 8-channel interface. May dig out my Desk now for a bit of a play too?

do u prefer using mixing console? or in the box?

I had a question, can i use my Spirit Live 16 Power Supply with my Spirit Studio 16? Or do you use something else? CPS150 PSU? DCP has 5 pins and seemlingly same thread diameter. Looks like it would fit, any help. Also the live pins are slightly rotated clockwise, whereas the Studio is perfectly vertically. 3 pins on top, 2 on bottom

Tbh I’m stuck in choosing the appropriate mixer. I’m in between a Korg MW mixer or the new Tascam Models. I own a TR8, TB3, Korg KP3, Microkorg, CDJ, MPC, Guitar, Piano, Bass Guitar, a Boss Over-Drive Pedal, and a Boss Sp Sampler as of right now. So for a total of (11)hardware pieces/equipment what mixers are generally suggested? (including channel wise) I’m new to music and producing and would like to learn how to a build a workflow with mixer integration. Thank you!

Thanks for this great video! I love this way of mixing and I'm kinda doing it myself, but how do get your final mix (through the mixer) back to the computer? Do you send your returns back to the buss outputs or how does that goes? Edit: Nevermind, I've got the answer out of another video of yours, thanks anyways

Hello! I would like to record my band live, have it mixed, and burned straight to cd... I was wondering If I could connect an analog mixer with 16 channels to a cd digital recorder like the BOSS BR-1180 Thanks!

Great video. Love your work brother. You're a hell of a musician. I did have a question for you. Do your prefer plugging directly into the board or the interface for recording vocals? The reason I ask is due to the mic pre amps in each.

Great video, but I am new to this stuff and I was wondering how the daw would pick up the level changes on the mixer. If I record something at a certain volume and decide to reduce the volume then I export the project. Would the reduced volume be on the mp3/wav or would I have to re-record at a lower volume then export?

Thank you for sharing this... If possible can anyone help? , is it possible to assign and Control Logic X effects and channel faders with the Analogue multi-track mixer? So can have complete or at least more hands-on control mixing within Logic/DAW of choice. Can 'right-click, midi learn' be used to used to assign these functions? I assume all this is possible but would very much appreciate some confirmation if it is. All the best

Dan, another doubt here. How do you do the mix print with the console? Your faders all in the right position, your mix sounds good , bit how do you print it?? Thanks in advance once again!

I just seen this video and thought I would see if you had any input of another video I had seen they said that you can’t run analog into a DAW without a timing setup between the interface and your computer is this right our wrong looking at your setup you don’t have anything like that. Looking at the prices of a timing set up was just around 2500$ us and up if it’s something I don’t have to have I would like to know I’m a noob when it comes to this but trying to figure it out any feed back would help thanks

Another great insight into your setup - thanks! Just curious... I know you have more outboard than those four effects units (for example you have another compressor on the other shelf). Have you ever felt the need to consider using a patchbay?

hello Dan, thanks for the video. I do have the same mixing desk and i am following your connection. but one thing i need to know please if you don't mind me asking. HOW CAN I RECORD MY FINAL MIX ON THE CONSOLE ? straight to my DAW? THANK YOU

i have a question, do you then only record the outputs of the bus channels or also the main output channel? or is it bit of both to see what situation? i have a simple analog mixer with only one main output (i have no buss channels or single outputs from each track) all i can do is put the 8 outputs from my audio interface into my mixer but then only have 1 stereo channel out being the main mix, i feel like i need to upgrade to a little bit more option rich mixer? Thanks for the video in advance helped me a lot!

Does this eliminate the need for saffire mix control to run the liquid 56.....wow i sure hope so. it would be a Godsend!

I need help I have a mixer and a PreSonus interphase trying to connect both

I always wish to mix like this but can u pls suggest me a good audio interface for as to accomplish my wish to do mixing in analogue

If with the help of a mixing desk and outboard equipment, I am able to generate the sound I need....what do I need a DAW for? I never understood how big recording studios have their set up. Do they use only mix consoles together with effects boxes or also use plugins for the effects with the DAW?

Does the effects from your outboard gear show up in your MP3 or do you have to use an external device?

Can I also use a midas venice 240 in this kind of setup

HELLO.. WHAT ID LIKE IS AN ANALOGUE MIXER WITH BETWEEN 12 AND 32 CHANNELS ..4 AUX SENDS.. THAT HAS A TRANSPARENT SOUND..IF POSSIBLE AN ADAT OUPUT CONNECTION AND NO BUILT IN EFFECTS OR RECORDERS OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT DETRACKS FROM SIMPLE TRACKING AND MIXING.. I AM USING A DAW AND OUTBOARD SYNTHS AND EFFECTS..WHAT PRODUCTS CAN YOU RECOMMEND PAST OR PRESENT PLEASE..ACUTUALLY I THINK I NEED AT LEAST 8 BUS SENDS AS I HAVE AROUND 12 SYNTH INPUTS FOR RECORDING DAMIEN

Could I use patch Bay to patch what goes inside the inputs on my mixer - either my gear (while recording) or the outputs of my interface (for playback)?

Is that that fostex d-100 digital recording machine in front? or whatever "d-xxx" model number it was... d-88?.. or is that tascam?.. :(

gr8 vid .. but you haven't mentioned the inputs and the outputs .. are the blue lines input?

Could I ask a question? When do you mix a song you do all in the box? Do you use Logic Pro's automations ? If you do in this way, are you using the audio mixer only to listen. Thank you in advance.

Hi :) maybe a stupid question. But how do you patch your monitorspeakers? My brain keeps giving me feedback allert signals ;) But you play everything nicely without out and ins feedbacking somewhere in the whole analogue/ daw , back and forth signal path. Im am in the proces of wiring up my studio according to the methods you are using , only diff is the instrument choice, but my not so logic brain messes up my return routing from daw to desk and back.. I hope you still can destill the question through my babbling 😅. How do you output your speakers. Through the same interface ? ( latency issues?) or via lightpipe or otherwise through a separate interface with just monitir speaker out ? Kind regards Mik

So are you using a split console? If so do I need a split console to be able to route each individual sound from my daw to the analog mixer?

BTW - this is all great but doesn't it limit you to 8 tracks of mixdown unless you mixdown in the box? and if working with many tracks don't you have to sub them together to output to the 8ch output of the focusrite for 'monitoring'?

Hello Dan, Nice video! I wander where you record your mixdown on what ?

I dan i have a question can you just plug your input of your sound card into your direct out of your channel mixer ?

Looking for an analog board now

When you say: "You can wire up extra outputs if you use a digital cable and another breakout box see you could actually have lot of lot this..." you mean to get 2 another saphire 56 to get those extra outputs?

Are there phase issues to expect when sending and receiving by using the same soundcard?

Why did you send to the interface via buss outputs and not the direct outs?

What desk is this?

What year model is your iMac? Great video man and that Funky Soul Jam sounds sooooo good!

Can you tell me what kind of interface?

Do you have a schematic

could anyone tell me which mixer Dan has?

some say that cheap analog mixer destroy the sound quality ..whats your opinion?

What model - brand is that mixer?

So you aren't mixing into a 2 bus comp then but applying it at the end in the DAW once you have finalized the mix.

Anyone have any experience with antique gear? I just acquired a yamaha m512 and two peavey cs800s for 200bucks! But I'm a bit over my head figuring it all out

Hi can you help me. ?? I have a normal. Domestic but powerful amplifier " a analog mixer. Beringer 8000. Desk. And a nice computer, and lots if keyboards and guitars. I was recording using wavpad". No problem " now i purchased mixpad. Which can multi track". BUT " when iv recorded say trac 1 , and listen to it while recording trac 2. , - track 2. Records what is on trac 1. Arrrggghhh". Iv wired it every which way. ????? And im an electronics engineer". More at home inside this stuff than around the front lol. I just want to record tracs while listening to any ither trac. To build my tune. Must be hiw its wired. My brain is about to explode ". Please help if you know the answer cheers sir.

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Sounds like a 70s porno soundtrack..nice work