Create an ANALOG STUDIO in Your DAW

hey everybody welcome to home recording made easy in mixed tip Tuesday where every Tuesday I show you a new mixing tip to help you make more professional sounding mixes in your home studio before we get to this week's tip if you're new here please consider subscribing make sure you hit that notification bell and also stick around to the end of the video because at the end of the video I have something I want to give you absolutely free that's really going to help you with your mixing training so be sure to stick around [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay everybody welcome to mixed tip Tuesday so this time out we're going to talk about how you set up your da W to kind of emulate the signal flow of an analog studio I get this question a lot from people they see me do it in a lot of my training courses and they want to know a little bit more about it so there is a way that you can kind of emulate to replicate the signal flow through some plugins to kind of give you the same kind of signal flow that you would have in a real studio so let's first talk about the way the signal kind of flows to the studio a real studio so if you can imagine for a second where you are have a band playing out in the live room and all their instruments are miked up drum bass guitar vocals so on and so forth all those microphones are going to go into one or two places they're going to go into some kind of a patch Bay and then from there they're either gonna go into a multitrack tape machine like a 16 or a 24 track multitrack tape machine which a lot of studios would use and or sometimes they win and go to tape first they go directly into the console they'll go directly into say they're asked to sell their Neve their API console so on and so forth so you could do it either way studios will do it one of two ways I like to set up my D aw where we go into a multitrack tape machine first and then into the console they give us a little more color a little bit more compression a little bit more vibe little bit more bump in the low-end it's just like the way I like to work then from there it's going to go to the console you're gonna go through your channel strip and then it's going to go to your mix bus on your console and then it's going to go out to the master buss and then out to another tape machine so I want to show you how to do this with some plugins and then you can set this up in your da W as a template like I've done before so we have a blank session here so now the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to put this multitrack tape machine across all of the tracks and we're going to use the slate digital virtual tape machine you can use any tape machine it really doesn't matter the reason why I like this particular tape machine for this purpose is number one it's got two plugins it's really two tape machines they modeled in one plug-in you can see it here at the top right hand corner they have the Machine type they have the two inch 16 track which is what we're going to use on the individual channels and on the master buss we're going to use the half inch two-track machine okay so that's they model - completely - machines now whether you use you know 30 ups per second 15 ifs per second whatever you want to use is fine we're not gonna get into that today and again it doesn't matter what tape machine you use you can use any one that you like but for this example we're gonna use this so the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna spread this out across all of our tracks here so we'll take this and we'll just kind of dragging around all of the tracks again now one other thing about the slate tape machine that I like and again other tape machines will have this as well is that it's low CPU usage so one of the things and one of the the issues you could have when you're trying to set up this kind of a workflow is if your computer doesn't have the horsepower and you're trying you have a big session like in this particular session we have what do we have 26 tracks here 26 audio tracks right so in this example so you know you have to put 26 instances of the plug-in and then we're gonna put more plugins so that's something to be concerned about and to think about if you don't have a high power computer I'll talk about in a few minutes how you can maybe kind of do a modified version of this to try to save you on your CPU power and if you're running out of RAM and that kind of stuff so first first signal path is the multitrack tape machine alright so we're gonna make sure it's on the 16 track across all the individual tracks next up we're going to put up some console emulation now again from the tape machine it would typically go to a console so you can use a channel strip if you want and we'll do that in a second or you can just do something like the VCC by slate digital again this is a console emulator now this is now this emulates I believe the input of a console and there's six of them in this particular one and let's say we're gonna just say we'll stay on the Britt 4ke which is the SSL 4,000 e chant console but whatever one you want to use a guy so we're going from the tape machine into the console okay now you can do and what I like to do when we get to the next one here and again let's put this across all the tracks here and make sure that our hopefully our da W won't crash on us here and I'll show you what the CPU usage when we're done putting all these plugins on what it does to my computer now I do have an e core process sir with 64 gigs of RAM and a 20-19 or late 2018 iMac Pro so you know I have a kind of a highly SPECT computer but just to give you some kind of a reference when we get to the end here okay now from there you can just say okay well I'm going to tape going to my console and then I'm going to start doing my EQ and compression so on and so forth but what I like to do and against add a little more color a little more flavor is even though I have the console collection here I then like to put a channel strip on because I'm a big tranel strip user so if I'm going to really emulate I may get the 4000 ebuy plug-in Alliance which will kind of match up nicely with the slate digital VCC and again this is pretty good from a CPU perspective and I would drag this on all my tracks as well and hopefully our DW doesn't crash sometimes it will if you try to put too many of these plugins on all at once but studio one is usually pretty good about those things I can't say that about all the aw but anyway so let's put all these channel strips on here and if it crashes will reboot okay so now again some folks will say well if you already going to the VCC do you really need to go to the channel strip or instead of the VCC could you just go to the channel strip because they're modeling the input side of the console as well apparently and the answer to that question is yes it's whatever you want to do again what I like about the VCC that's a little bit more color a little bit more vibe it more harmonic distortion a little bit more than analog mojo and then I double it up with a channel strip but again you can do either way okay just something to consider okay now from there now that my individual tracks that's all I'll do and then from there I'll start processing my mix using EQ and compression on the channel strip and maybe I'm adding some additional processing outs after that but that's my start of my signal flow now on my busses down here I have some busses down here drum buss space bus guitars keys vocals and such now I'm going to put my Virtual Console collection I'm gonna put the bus part of the plug-in on this so let me show you what that looks like if you don't know now if you don't have the VCC by slate digital you can also use something like the waves and it's nonlinear summing same kind of thing and there might be a couple other plugins out there that do a similar thing depending on when you're watching this video what I'm going to do for now is we're going to use the VCC and we're going to use the mix bar mix bus excuse me part of the plug-in because these are buses okay and I'm going to stay on the 4000 D okay the SSL I'm going to put that across all of my bus this year which I have like I said five or six of them here okay and sometimes I'll even put a tape machine before that but you can try and stay more true to what it would be like in an analog studio we're just gonna go with the VCC now I'm also on the very master bus in my main output I'm also gonna put another version of the VCC here and I'm going to use the same console as I do throughout all my individual tracks so I try to keep things consistent so if I'm using a 4000 a channel strip like plug in a line so I'm gonna use the 4000 e or the 4k excuse me console on the slate digital again just try to pair them up you know kind of nicely but you don't need to do that you can mix and match this stuff if you want but that's how I like to do it then from on the master bus now I'm going to add a buss compressor an EQ and then a compressor possibly so let's say again if we're talking about SSL again I might stay with the SSL buss compressor we have one by waves I also have one by Universal Audio let's let's grab the one by waves because that's what most people are gonna have probably so they make the 4000 E or 4000 G buss compressor the famous has to sell buss compressor let's see where is it here it is so we'll put that on here from here okay so we'll have that SSL vibe there as well for doing an SSL studio and then from there you can also add some EQ if you wanted to have an outboard EQ on there so I'm kind of a really gentle kind of an EQ you could do something like that or you could just go back to the next step would be enact the actual tape machine so again now I'll go put the sleep digital tape machine on my master buss as well as the last plug-in in the chain and I would use the 1/2 inch to track this time okay switch the tape machine type now again the speed of the tape is really up to you my kind of general rule of thumb and again this is how I kind of start on my master buss I'll usually use 15 inches per second on the individual tracks I might use 30 ups per second 50 nips is gonna slow down the tape a little bit it's gonna get a little bit more low-end a little bit more compression 30 ups is gonna be a little bit more transparence okay and that is the basics of how you set up your da W to be like the signal flow of an analog studio okay so in review on the individual tracks we're going to go tape machine then a console emulator and again you can use the analyst by waves the slate digital one like I'm using here that I'm going to a channel strip and again regardless of what companies plugins you use it doesn't matter okay on our bus that's our individual tracks on our buses I'm just gonna add the VCC here okay and then on my master bus I'm gonna use the VCC the bus so I'm gonna use the bus compressor and then I'm going to use the a tape machine here as well and again you can also insert an EQ of some kind you could also insert some kind of a color box as saturator or something like that which kind of does what tape does sometimes in an analog studio they'll insert the next and external piece of hardware but just to give you the basic lay of the land and then you can save this as a template so every time you bring up a mixing session you can import your WAV files into your session you'll already have these plugins already set up as kind of your analog studio now again before we end this video let me show you kind of the CPU usage here so as I said from we look at our performance monitor this is running at about 15% now again I have a 20-18 iMac Pro with 64 gigs of RAM and I think it's a six core processor in there so I have a pretty high spec computer and we have 26 so we have about 75 about almost 80 plugins on this mix okay we're at about 14% now again depending on your computer specs and also depending on the plugins that you use will depend on how much CPU you use slate digital stuff is really usually very light hunt CPU I mean same thing with plug-in Alliance whereas if you use let's say the waves Abbey Road stuff like the J 3078 machine or something like that which typically wouldn't be people code across all the channels but if you use multiple instances of that your CPU is gonna spike through the roof very very quickly okay so I hope you found that helpful on how you set up your da W like an analog studio to kind of get you that nice vibe in that nice flavor now because you stuck around to the end of the video I want to give you a couple of free gifts the first thing I want to tell you is if you have not been to home recording made easy calm head on out to home recording made easy calm and click the orange button right on the home page because I'm gonna give you five free mixing training courses it's my gift to you just for visiting home recording made easy calm and I also want to 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Channel: Home Recording Made Easy

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Keywords: david vignola, home recording made easy, homerecordingmadeeasy, presonus studio one, studio one, studio one 4, studio one 4.6, create analog studio, how to create analog studio in your daw, analog plugins, daw plugins

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Length: 13min 56sec (836 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 23 2020