What are you doing in your studio?

andrew, as an aspiring audio engineer (and music artist) you have given me the drive to keep going and become a professional! thank you

This video summarizes what I love about your work on YT. The photography is neat, the delivery and explanations are clear and easy to get. This is really motivating.

Man I’ve been looking for so long for a video like this that actually goes this in depth and practical and is explained well. Thank you!!

Andrew, Thank you for breaking it down for us dummies who love your channel but don’t understand 95% of the videos, the learning curve is steep for us newcomers. Hoping you and Colt, collab on a Recording/Mixing/Mastering basics class I can buy! Cheers mate! Very Respectfully, Jared

This is exactly the video I was looking for! Thank you so much for explaining your setup! I'm going to be finishing my studio in a couple months and this content hit the nail on the head.

great video. I think the real take-away for people here no matter what level of complexity/or not their setup is, is that this arrangement is fully scaleable. So even if you've only got maybe a small mixer and/or a 4 or 8 channel interface, and just a couple of outboard items, and a couple of mics, you maybe able to be fully connected and ready to go with just one patch bay. I remember when i setup my first patchbay,. That I was then able to get into the flow without having to reconnect everything, everytime I had to record something else, was a liberating life changing experience in my humble little home studio.

Your desk config is awesome bro very smooth

Good to see a nice technical video of how a studio is configured. Never seen all of this info in one place. Very useful

This great for me, as I have a few older items I purchased decades ago, like a producer pack and old Neumann & AKG mics, even a nice old Trident console! (Needs major service), when I was recording in 2 inch tape studios as a singer/songwriter/guitarist in bands. I’d done a couple of albums & my bass player got us into a Paris system at the time. He was into the newest technologies of the day. Fast forward many years & I get an Apollo and logic & Luna and some plugins and want to utilise analogue gear which I own as well! I’ve been gigging with various bands, and felt almost ashamed at having many songs & ideas and nice studio bits and pieces but realised “I” need to get a handle on this before I’m in a rocking chair regretting wasting time, equipment & ideas!! I’ve always known what I like to hear, and some of my ideas became decisions employed by producers and engineers on tracks! I just never knew anything outside of the few things I saw engineers doing in those hideously expensive studios with only Cubase beginning to be incorporated. My bass player got all the early “Paris” set up and running back then, so understanding any technical stuff was his domain. Anyhow, thanks for showing these steps, as it’s a steep learning curve I’m embarking on. If you’re interested, below is something my band recorded on tape and believe we’d just purchased Paris, which was to overtake and succeed Cubase! Early 90’s. (Hope I correctly linked, I’m such a novice). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9eJachns8uwnKM.html

Been binge watching your videos. Moving into a new house, super psyched to set up my studio. Currently working in a small room. Kinda sucks. lol.

This was a huge amount of help. I feel like a load has been lifted off my mind after watching this. Answered so many questions. Thank you!!!

Beautiful done video Andrew. Perfectly explained. Creating without technical hang ups.

Thanks man, I even went to school for this and I didnt really understand patch bays untill now.

Fascinating and masochistic, learned quite a bit, would be great to see a video with more details re the personal monitor setup, like to send the audio from DAW to the system

truth is, I had the basic setups for a LONG time, but now I’m at a time in my recording/production “career” that I want to have all of the external hardware and gadgets to take my skills to the next level

very informative!! thanks Andrew!

Andrew: “If you’re a masochist like me” Me: Hold my beer *records to tape with an exclusively analog signal chain*

I remember putting my studio together years ago and there were no videos like this. Wish you were around five years ago.

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you for this

CRAZY CRAZY DOPE! intro beat!

great, I'm about to do a room for recording , mix and all.. not that complete in terms of material, but good enough. And this is always helpful. thanks great tips

Have you ever had a problem with bringing the mics into the patch bay as TRS? I assume you're really the only one plugging and unplugging mics in your studio. How do you ensure phantom power is managed properly? Keeping it off the passive ribbons, making sure not to short the TRS connections when patching, etc.? What part of the signal flow do you find most problematic? What would you most like to improve? What's the most clever thing you've done in your wiring? 🙂

Exatly what I needed to know about setting up outboard gear

Your videos rule man! Always wondered these types of things please more on this matter!

u my new teacher... new subscriber alert!!

Thank you for this amazing video. For now I'm fully digital producing in my studio. All inputs to an ADAT I/o to a small 18i8o interface.

Oh yeah! Getting into the good stuff 🙌

This was great, thank you!

I love this. And I’m exactly the same. Gotta build the magic of a studio at home. And I hate to have a software version of everything. Having tangible gear really makes the work flow a lot more fluid, and way more fun.

Great video man!

Fancy home studio I love it

New happy subscriber! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us , I’m a new studio dreamer and so happy with your videos and help 🙌🏻

Hey Andrew, Big fan of your work, a few questions (great videos by the way) 1)Do you have any of your Warm Audio Preamps Hooked up at Line level on your patchbay? 2) Do you have any issues running 48V Phantom power from the preamps on to your Patchbays, 3) is the grounding on your patchbays set to vertically strapped or issolated to avoid Ground loops?

That was realy helpful for me - and a very good explanation thanks! In my studio i have more electronic equipment so i need also a ton of midi cables ..

This was super helpful! Just gonna stick with my small home studio vibe for now though.

Nice setup man. I like Warm Audio mic preamps. Art has some good mic preamps as well. Art is very underrated as an audio company.

Andrew has a large bowl of veggies just chillin on the desk! Great video by the way lol

I rap, make beats, and do post production stuff(mixing) with a hybrid setup. I've gone the semi-minimalist route, but high quality stuff. I have limited myself to 3 pieces of outboard gear, so my interface has sufficient ins and outs. No patch bay required. My outboard needed to have a "wow" factor to it to be kept, but ALSO had to have multiple uses. Tough to accomplish. With the (3) pieces I technically have 4 compressors, 5 styles of saturation, M/S functionality, a 3 band EQ, transformers and tubes, that can adequately be used on all forms of instrumentation and vocals. A tremendous amount of thought and tweaking went into my setup, so I really identify with and appreciate what you've done here. Its well though out for your use case.

You have help my studio so much brother thanks

I don't know if I would've understood this a few years ago. But man I bet it would've helped me understand signal flow faster.

oooh i see you have the audioscape neve style pres!! demo and comparison soon please??

What an informative video!!! Great job,man.

I love the setups where you can walk to an instrument cluster and make some noise and you can both get an immediate sound from what's in front of you and it's being piped into the system. Basically I love Stewart Copeland's studio lol. I want a halfway decent acoustic space, not too big, where everything is being recorded all of the time, even if it's just a few omni mics tucked here and there. SO MANY TIMES I say "always be recording" when something amazing happens and it's immediately vapor. There's no reason not to just have an old phone recording with the voice memo or something, you know?

Great information! Awesome studio!

I love all my outboard gear, wile wiring is a pain, it's still worth it

Thanks. I'm appreciated!

Beautiful video, very informative, just added more to my sweetwater cart lol

Thanks for doing that Andrew, i love cabeliing (is that a word) don't have many cables at this point but the cables i have you can not see them good job, keep it up man. love you channel

Love the videos. Would love more info on the I/O of the whole thing. How do you get from your snake into your patch bay? What connections are you using to get into all of your interfaces? Would love to see a big fat diagram that shows what connections lead to what, primarily how you end up from xlr to 1/4 inch to DB25 to adat and so on. Keep up the great work bro and thanks for all the info.

Serious Mr. Rogers vibes. Perfect!

it's all about the patch bays!!!

I've got 2 Neve pre's (without EQ), 4 SSL Xlogic VHD, 1 Distressor, Scarlett 18i8. 2 patchbays, Moogs, 2600s, etc, Marshalls, Strat, Les Paul, Music Man Bass, Clarinet, Sax, Theremin, etc. recent build. Loving the new home office. thanks for confirming much in your helpful vid. cheers. come out to SoCal Winecountry; we'll party, eat, and jam

Great video Andrew! Very helpful I'm in the process of drawing up diagrams for my studio and you gave me some ideas, love your studio man! Very nice!

very informative, thank you Andrew!!!

Love your channel thanks for theHelp

I would have loved this video when I first started recording! I’ll be honest though, patch bays still confuse me a little haha

dope man! good to see I've followed much of what you did

Super nice Video, thnx!

I would love to see you do hybrids "studio setups" that are confined to budget, size (pc+interface+rack all fits under/on a table) or genre. Either demonstrating with gear you have or theoretical gear

My brother Andrew, like many(!) it's like I know you personally. I agree with everyone's positive comments about the clarity of your teachings. My problem, for example is a little part of the patchbay description that seems to never be explained, and that's because I think everyone already knows what pro's like yourself are saying. You said (and directed by hand, "each microphone is coming into this patchbay (top), and the 2nd patchbay is all of your outboard gear. External EQ's etc are all on the 2nd PB. When you say "on," I don't know how things are connected, what ins/outs are used when putting your external gear on the PB. What outputs from the top PB? Do I go out of PB1 to IN on my WA-73EQ, then out of that into...the In of the 2nd PB? There's much more to understand with not knowing these little things, so my problem becomes complicated. You're saying in and out a lot, but where is the rack gear placed? Between what in's and out's on the patchbay/s?

im trying to get my acoustics right in my production room

__Great Information_ *Andrew* ‼I did expect to see a shrimp pop out of your salad 🦐

thanks man! ...

Awesomeness

Thank you for this! You’ve got such a great setup. How do you manage power? Are you using a power conditioner and are you able to fit everything on one circuit? If so, how many amps are on that circuit? Also, what does the power consumption of a setup like this require? Looking to spec out a PV solar panel setup.

Thx it’s hard to find these setup videos

I am actually in the process of wiring up everything in my new home studio to my new Dangerfox desk that arrived last week. I'm going to have a similar setup to yours with several pieces of outboard preamps, compressors, 500 series, summing mixer, etc. running into a couple Apollo interfaces. I noticed you have vents between most of your preamps now. Were you having heat buildup issues in the desk? The venting in the Dangerfox desk seems pretty adequate between the bottom and back sides of the rack box.

m905 !!!! congrats !!!! hope you took it with the DA card !!! the DAC is just incredible BTW feedback on this burl summing ??? I am starting to think about getting one

Wow, this home studio looks like a pro studio to me :) You did a demanding and outstanding job!

I’m looking into the behringer p16 system like you have. I was just not sure if I could use the optical cable out from my Focusrite Saffire. I currently am using the adat in for an external behringer ada8200 mic pre for 16 channels.

Very well explained. Thank you for your video

Woah, seasick intro clip … wheeee! You sure have a collection of cool stuff, mate! Nice spaghetti, by the way!

Your setup is sick man.. I like your style!

Great video bro!!!!

Dude I've been hoping someone would make a video exactly like this one. Would love to see a similar explanation on an old school analog tape set up.

I see that new monitor controller 👀

so clear and to the point. awesome video!

I miss tape recording, press record and your off. AND HAPPY. And then you're done, you have recorded.

this video is gold. Thank you!!

i can not describe how nervous your bowl of soup on your desk makes me 😅

Just took the plunge into a 24 channel analog console, 8+ I/o interfaces and a patchbay for my home studio… this was super hElpful!!

Maybe a dumb question, but how are your mics connected to the patch bay? I assume they all have XLR on the mic side, but the patch bay clearly takes 1/4 inch (or maybe 3.5mm) cables. So are you using cables that have XLR on one side and TS/TRS on the other? And is this also true of the outboard gear that have XLR outs? Thanks for this video. My studio isn't quite big enough to warrant a patch bay yet but I may get there someday.

Well, you have an amazing studio bro! But I think that it would be beneficial to you to get a flock audio patch bay… I believe that it would speed up your workflow a lot while you are in the creative mood, and let you create without thinking about your patches as you can create presets to save and recall them.

Fabulous 👌 tips

Great video! 👏...but yours is more like a Home "PRO" studio lol, thanks for the sort of Recording studio connections 101, Basic Pro Studio setup, Studio Connections for dummies hehehe Very informative, thanks again and keep up with these kind of videos 👍

Hello, Andrew- I love your channel! Can you do a video on noise in the studio, such as emi noise, hums, buzzes, crackles, pops, etc- and how to get rid of that. Help us, Obi-Wan Kenobi....you're our only hope.....

Great Video Andrew! Do you mind sharing how you learned to setup your hardware and specifically how did you get over the learning curve of recording software? Did you go to school for this, watch vids/ read books, or learn from friends or hire a consultant? Also, if you were a beginner now with a similar setup, how would you learn the craft?

Andrew, I'm waiting for my Dangerfox 24U desk to arrive. It's taking forever but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I have an Apollo 6 from UA. A Focusrite ISA 428 mic pre. I have a UF8 SSL controller like you have and I want to rack mount it in the Genesis. I also have a UC1 which I'm hoping to rack mount next to it. I also have an AMS RMX verb that I notice you have rack mounted. I've been wondering if that can go into the Genesis as well in a 500 series rack, and it looks like you've done it. So everything is sitting and waiting for the Genesis to arrive. 18 weeks to get a desk is pretty nuts but I'm sure all that will be in the past once I have it assembled and gear going in. Enjoying your videos. My studio is primarily for my own personal use. Just acoustic guitar, and vocals, for tracking and then mixing and mastering.

Yooo, damn sick studio! For those using software plugins and instruments an MP Controller would be ideal!!

I thought I would see some advanced tips, didn't think you would be explaining what a mic does! LOL

The XLR connector was invented by James H. Cannon founder of Cannon Electric in LA

Currently trying to integrate a flock patch into my setup to do similar

Let's see more of the boring stuff. I'd love to see if and/or how you use your aux send and returns.

This video solved my question, that I was figuring out how to send 16 channels from Apollo to the P-16 system, due to the Apollo only provides 8 cues…

I watched the video hoping to find out about power supplies for a home recording studio in the uk. How is all the electric gear powered and what extensions etc do you use please?

amazing home setup... Just to get an idea, can you tell ballpark how much recording equipment is it worth ? (not counting instruments)... I reckon you are well over the $50K (probably double that) but then again I would qualify this as a professional home studio :)

Great breakdown, thanks for all the info. One question: How is MIDI implemented and how does it integrate with the audio setup and your DAW?

I want to know how you power everything on a home circuit? I have every outlet used in my mixing room and I'm maxed out. I would need another service to my house to add anymore consumers.

Nice but two thinks 1. If you own Apollo is it such much diference between unison preamps and real preamps ? :) 2. Due the Behriger system is needed meaning is not posible to make directly from Uad x8p ? ;)