Chris Sorem: Studio Tour & Interview at Nest Recorders

[@Producelikeapro]

What are you all working on this weekend? Let me know below! Learn the art of pristine live recordings with Chris Sorem: bit.ly/3qpelIP

[@Electricowlworks]

Thanks Chris and Warren for the amazing tour! This weekend, I am mixing a nine song album for "The Thor Platter Band" who are an Americana/Indie-Folk group from Cleveland, Ohio. Cheers from South Wales, NY USA! -chaz

[@Producelikeapro]

@@Electricowlworks thanks for sharing!

[@toddgreenwood9631]

Well ... this weekend ... well the long story is that I recovered about 30 songs from my old hard disk unit because I didn't want to loose them. One of them is good enough to re-record so I've tracked vocals and instruments ... because ... the drummer I'm working with will do a great job on it. It's a ballad and will lend itself to pretty drumming and 70 style cymbal and tom bashing. Meh.

[@MarcBecker_Music]

This weekend, I started mixing one of my own songs. I still find it's a difficult undertaking to mix on my own stuff, but there's no use in whining, I have to master it one day 🙂

[@Producelikeapro]

@@toddgreenwood9631 congratulations on getting the songs back!

[@ericarway]

I really love these in-depth studio tours. I'm glad you were able to restart doing these again.

[@Producelikeapro]

Always love doing studio tours!

[@theheatstudio]

Loved this studio tour, Chris seems like a really genuine guy and love his gear selection. I remember the original video so it was good to see an updated version!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much! Glad to be able to help! Chris is the man!!

[@mannysmiclocker]

Loved this tour!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks Manny!

[@annode]

I loved everything about this walk through. Chris is very entertaining, I enjoyed his friendly personality, gear comments and stories...the same goes for you too Warren. Chris's studio is so organic, organized but also quirky, like an old chef's kitchen...a little bit of this and a little bit of that makes it so tasty. I like how you edited in HD camera shots for we gearheads to zone into.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Barry!

[@Joey-rp5vg]

What a cool dude and an amazing collection of gear. Thanks very much

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes! Great guy

[@soulmine6363]

What a place 🍺

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes, amazing!

[@shadowmixx]

Great studio tour. Chris' microphone collection is bananas. Speaking of mics, whatever mics you guys are using to record this tour sounds incredible. The minute you walked into the studio from the lobby and closed the door, you can hear the quietness of the room. The same for Scotty's studio room, and the control room. Awesome!

[@Producelikeapro]

Aw shucks! Thanks ever so much!

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes, he has a wonderful mic collection

[@whoakayno]

Chris is such a cool guy. Love this studio

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks Conor!

[@samuelellringmann3424]

Beautiful studio and fun interview. Thanks guys ☺️

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks Sam! You Rock my friend!

[@allpdmusic]

Still have my effectron jr from the early 80s. It's a little noisy but I still love it.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@MarcBecker_Music]

Great studio tour, thank you, Chris and Warren.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Marc!

[@boomxr]

Thank you!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks Keith!

[@RC32Smiths01]

Quite the interesting space there to say the least haha! Looking forward to the nooks and crannies involved here!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@joshcolebass]

Love Chris. The best dude.

[@Producelikeapro]

Chris rules!!

[@matthewteden2212]

Sweet tour! Can't get over how cool that reverb chamber is

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Matthew!

[@besenkopf77]

That was a great tour. Thanks!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@EricGPLAP]

Super fun tour, Chris is the man 😎

[@Producelikeapro]

Agreed!!

[@KarenBasset]

Great tour and interview! I love all the gear stories/history!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks very much Karen!

[@joshuamg2174]

Loved it when y'all entered the reverb room and Chris said "Sometimes I tell people that's the bathroom" 🤣🤣🤣

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha yes! Indeed!

[@toddgreenwood9631]

Very enjoyable tour.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@splashesin8]

I have nice little Silvertone amp, for my bass. Thanks for this tour Chris, and Warren!

[@Producelikeapro]

Fantastic! Thanks Audrey!

[@schattenheim]

Again a great insight :-) Take care guys and all the best…

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@dinofond]

Really good buddy

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@greganikin7003]

I'm a big fan of PMCs i'm on them for 10 years

[@Producelikeapro]

Fantastic! Thanks ever so much for sharing

[@toddgreenwood9631]

Love it when you say "Zed" my fellow common wealth comrade.

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha thanks!

[@diegooliveirabenjamin]

51:20 - You should try the Focusrite/Audient 2802, I had two of those and it’s an amazing desk if you can find someone inclined to sell. Great video as always WH

[@Producelikeapro]

Hi Diego! Thanks for the tip!

[@massivebeatzz]

The daw control will work since USB is class compliant and talks to DAW direct (MIDI or control messages). No driver updates needed.

[@Producelikeapro]

Interesting 😊

[@marcdanielnelson317]

This is great..😁

[@raysharpe8644]

Hi Warren. I have the Yamaha O1v96i console that looks just like that DM 1000(51:33). That might be a good Direct replacement?? You can get them for a good price second hand too.😎👍🏾

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@ianmcgranaghan9888]

Great Video!!! You should consider doing a tour of David’s studio from Mixbus TV. Would love to see that and he has tons of marvelous gear!

[@Producelikeapro]

Absolutely! It will happen I'm sure!

[@gotyor]

Great video, cool studio. Let Chris Sorem know that the yamaha mixers usb drivers may stop being made... but if he hooks up everything old school midi (in & out through a standard midi interface) he should be able to get most all the features he did with usb with using controller commands. Between the highly programable DM mixer and Cubase 12 ability to map everything it wont be a problem. I did this with my old dm2000 when it lost it drivers and my radical sac2.2.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much! I hope Chris reads this

[@laurencecoch6023]

Current Yamaha offerings may be the CL series or the Nuage which is their big studio control surface and talks to Cubase and neuendo as well as their converters although I imagine you could use any. I have a dm2000 with Cubase on windows

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much Laurence!

[@theoliviaarchives4794]

6:18 Can you damage a guitar amp if you are using it for bass?

[@Producelikeapro]

Only if you were to only put low end in VERY loud! However, that would be difficult, we use guitar amps for the overdrive sound mixed in with low end from a bass amp or DI

[@theoliviaarchives4794]

Oh okay. I’ve been running synths through an old tube amp, but try to not push the amp too much. Thanks for the reply. I’ve seen a ton of your studio tours. Keep it up. 👏

[@davidreidy5750]

Would totally play that 3 string bass onstage🤖🛸

[@L.Scott_Music]

Friedman Dirty Shirley guitar amp for bass is great.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks Loren!

[@forestcochran4196]

Without rewatching the whole thing, did he talk about using Beyerdynamic M 88s for toms because of the good rejection, or am I misremembering?

[@Producelikeapro]

I believe you are correct!

[@GroberWeisenstein]

is there enough headroom to take advantage of natural room tone/reverb for drums for example? it seems over-dampened to me? wouldn't it better to just isolate and do them dry? please advise, thanks

[@Producelikeapro]

Are you talking about Chris' live room? It's super live and can be dampened down if necessary

[@GroberWeisenstein]

@@Producelikeapro yes, I was wondering how the ceiling rugs would affect the room compared with something like Mushroom studios in Vancouver. thank you!

[@Producelikeapro]

@@GroberWeisenstein aha! I will see if Chris can answer!

[@sonicmistress]

Nice Studio, love this as it's not the 'traditional' way to do things but still produces great music there's a lesson there somewhere. : ) Don't know if you'll see this Warren but please consider doing a Video about what would be the best gear to get first when setting up a home Studio, not a nice one like yours :) But a more real home Studio....;) (You know what I mean) I was using SW effects etc but want to go down the Hardware route but can't afford all those lovely rack units, so....you know a real more affordable list of what too get first, Compressor or Preamps or....Then what is best to get next on the list, hopefully you'll get what I'm trying to say. Cheers for the Video's learning a lot, slowly anyway, at 62, things move slower. Lol. :)

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much John! I really appreciate your great comment! I do have a home studio build video series! Please check that out. Many thanks!

[@sonicmistress]

​@@Producelikeapro Thanks for the reply Warren, I appreciate it as you must be mad busy....Sometimes it looks like there's someone off Camera gesturing you to hurry up lol - I've been watching the Home Studio Vids with great interest...As an example of what I really mean is, I use a 2008 DP Mac Pro using LPX into a Digidesign 003 Rack only with the BeyerDynamic DT-100's. So I have the basics but what would be the next logical piece of HW to relieve the aging MP for effects processing duties or is there an order of preference/importance what HW to add next, ie: Compressor or Seperate Mic Preamps etc....It might sound like going backwards for your channel but something along the lines of 'Back To Basics' (For those who Produce music in the corner of the Dining Room)😉

[@sonicmistress]

@@Producelikeapro Just also wanted to add this is my Fav Studio Tour you've done so far, it's like the Professional version of what beginners do and beg, steal and borrow gear to add to their setups when first starting out. (So thanks to Chris as well for having such a cool space/studio)

[@Producelikeapro]

@@sonicmistress thanks for the fear comment! Always looking to get better!

[@Producelikeapro]

@@sonicmistress wow! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@richiehelms]

Wörst Mic :D ❤

[@Producelikeapro]

Indeed!

[@Jordanchicity23]

WHOA...did you say a guy named Sam Gendel, "brought his own mic to a session" recently🤔. Now i could be going out on a limb here; because what are the odds of this being the same Sam Gendel i went to Redwood High School in Visalia, California (class 05).i wanna say this cat was a pretty talented sax player if my memory serves me correct and Chris Sorem did mention recording a horn section. Hhhmmm now if the owner Chris sees this message is Sam a thin red head dude about mid 30's?" this could be some small world type ish if so haha....🧐🤷‍♂🤫🤔

[@Producelikeapro]

That's a good question! Maybe Chris can confirm!

[@aleimprof27]

Open session Lari Basillio, mixing by Ross Rothero-Bourge

[@deanmatters]

Is Chris related to Mat Sorem?

[@Producelikeapro]

It’s Matt Sorum

[@VinceWhitacre]

I'd be very happy to buy Cesar's Chandlers... but I don't think he'd like what I have in my bank account 🤣

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha indeed!

[@theCarouselPainter]

Dude is so high even Warren is having a hard time