They are both great Microphones....I have a pair of both now, the 184's and the AKG 414..I have recorded entire acoustic guitar albums with at first the AKG's And loved the sound..2 albums later I had purchased the Neumanns, And loved the sound of those to....They are both amazing microphones...

Nice one. Now why didn't I think of that. On a number of occasions I have refrained from flattening the take folder in case I wanted to go back. Or I exported the comp to a new track and muted the take folder. This is so much neater.

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A way to explain it better is to say something like from your preamp your gonna plug your microphone into the mic input then from the line output on the preamp goes into the input on the compressor then from the compressor output goes into the EQ input and from the EQ output goes into the audio interface input and explain what inputs and outputs your pluging them into so if you plug it into input 1 then say input 1 or if your pluging a cable into output 3 then say output 3 And one more tip if you took all your gear out of the rack maybe show how to put it together outside of the rack like show plugging the wires in and show where everything goes before putting it back in the rack so people no what to do It kinda just felt like you where jumping all over the places explaining things I’m not trying to tell you how to do things I’m just giving you some advice on how to explain it easier to people So I hope you understand I’m not trying to tell you how to do things

Very nice and informative. I looked up the KM184 is professional grade and very expensive (for me), would there be any budget mic you may recommend for a beginner? (I’d like to do violin main + piano accompaniment in a room setting) I can probably borrow a Shure SM57 from a guitar friend but not sure that’ll make do. I don’t really have $ to spend :)

Awesome, singing and playing

Does it make more sense to have an XLR patchbay due to potential Phantom power issues if you have an XLR to TRS out and only have a TRS patchbay? Thanks

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Who makes your colorful patch cables? Who’re they by?

excellent video.. I want to ask what cables are used to connect the 2 units that I see warm audio wa-76 and wa-2a until it reaches the sound card together with the patch bay? balanced stereo or unbalanced mono?

When your name is Mike and you talk all things mics and micing.

You are awesome and love your sense of humor

Hi, unfortunately I'm reset the qcon pro, and now I don't know what to do with the reinstall in windows. But the qcon Ex, runs Okey in my computer. There's any explanation for this or any solution to this situation? I'm dying inside. I'm suffering!!!! Please please, please! Help me. Greetings from Argentina

The 4040 sounds best to me. The snare comes out best.

Why have Americans changed the way "ROUTE" is said? For years it was pronouced "R-OO-T" noe ALLAmericans pronouce it "R-OW-T." A lot of us Brits hate the way Americans ruin English. We have a massive problem with the amount of U.S. shows we have in the UK and our children have problems in their 'English' lessons.

thank you very much

I was hoping you would address the actual room more. Tips on acoustic treatment, placement of drums in the room, ceiling height, floor materials etc.

Thanks for taking the time and effort to record this. I find there isn't a lot of concise video material on proper signal chain, eq and such for violin. It's all mostly recording technique.

Love the video have some of the same gear and the golden kitty!! Having a problem with finding how you set up your warm audio gear in the software of the Apollo interface. I know the INS and outs but I have to mute stereo inserts to hear them, so it's not doubled and also unmute the mono inputs to hear my mono gear 😢 how do I fix this? Using Pro tools 12 and a quad firewire also any help would be appreciated. Searched every where for the video

Do you angle the mic over the bridge, fingerboard, or f holes?

Awesome, thanks for the valuable information.

Great video, thanks for sharing.

I just bumped into this video and I want to thank you for making it. I was thinking on getting one of these controllers and I am definitely convinced now. Btw, do you know if that gen 1 still works on PT Studio 2022 and Logic?

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What's the name of the reverb you are recommending ?

This helped so much!

Great video man! Question, I’m in the middle of reorganizing my studio as well. If you had to have a summing mixer in between your Apollo and your patchbay, how would you go about connecting everything? This is my scenario and is driving me crazy I know is a heavy question,

I pressed the like button at the One Direction joke 😂

I watch this video a few times and love your set up, I am setting up my studio so thanks for the great information

Just bought a used QCon Pro G2 & I agree with everything you said in the video.

Thank you for your video. The Goldilock area is a great analogy. What microphone stand do you recommend?

Have a question on the Samson PB. Ive linked my Apollo8 up with the Samson PB exactly as the diagram posted round 11.00. Also connected my 76 as shown. When I turn on my Apollo8 the meters go to red and I have to switch off. Didn't switch the 76 on. Used all balanced cables. Is there a reason it might do this? Thank you for any help or advice you could give.

This is a great video! Appreciate all the detail gone into this must have took a good while! Im taking the plunge and just ordered the same PB (Samson s patch plus). I only have an Avalon 737 as my pre and two compressors. I plan to hook up my guitar pedal board to see what stuff I can do with a synth at some point. And like the idea of the XLR patchbay for the future. Subscribed.

Thank you! You just got me up and running for a violin recording session today

Blessings to you ❤💛💚

hiya man, came across your vid looking for answers to my patchy. first time im setting one up and I wanted to patch the headphone out of my interface through a patchbay. but then I read somewhere that an amplified signal like headphones or speakers is not a good thing. I always thought patch bays were just a direct connection but someone mentioned it could blow the patchbay. any advice would be great, thanks man

More videos please 😍😍

Thanks! This was super helpful. I'm hooking up a very smaller studio and using Audient id22 + 880 and I'm trying to blend it with outboard compressors etc.. I think the main problem I'm having is with routing cue mixes inside the Audient in conjunction with Ableton.. we are recording live as a three piece bass, guitar, drums and need decent headphone mixes.. seems like it would be the easiest thing but of course for me it's the hardest... 🤪 Definitely going to implement a patch Bay..

Nice video. So I have a 500 series preamp and want to connect it to a hardware compressor that is not a 500 series. So how do I connect the preamp to the compressor? If anyone know please let me know thanks

Awesome setup! My next piece of gear is gonna be the WA-2A…I have a couple of the WA-76 comps and they sound great!!

I’ve been looking for this for weeks. Saved me. New sub!

I'm limited by 1 thunderbolt daisy chain Apollo to Apollo satellite, then limited by usb Eleven rack guitar processor, pro tools usb dongle two usb hard drives playback for cpu crash relief full memory bays maxed.I have a small 8 channel board not even hooked in I don't use no usb's left. Apollo 8P w/no spdif no digital in/o, no digital abs no 1/4" stereo send no stereo return, no aex in/out; light wire but guitar processor has no light wire. I don't want to run the Apollo thunderbolt thru the elevenrack usb 2.0 into protools just crashes. How do I run the elevenrack as a processor only thru the Apollo thunderbolt. Do I run them both thru the small 8 channel usb board? Guitar processor does nothing in Send or Return to Apollo inputs 3/4. Out LR 1/2 in processor LR Snd/Rtn, out S/R in/o 3/4 in Apollo., 3/4 no signal on Apollo 3/4. I want the processor to run as a parallel effects mixer in 3/4 processor not a serial processor chain. Is the hardware processors send and return just for direct output analog?

💥👋 why everything is in mono?

I have that same desk! How'd you do the extra rack space to either side of the top front clusters?

Is really preamp required with a audio interface or I can use only audio interface.

The icon qcon look more what is used in an actual studio. I like the look of it.

Love this video! Thanks for sharing. Yours is one of the rare videos that actually goes into depth the BACK of the patchbays. Thank you!

Thanks for the great video, very down to earth. I've come across Icon Qcon Pro gen 1, looking forward get it all hooked up!

if finally understand what's phase issues are and how to correct them tnx!

Im workinh in my home, here in Costa Rica, I hope soon be recording drums in my garage