Engineer Brad Wood talks about the Rupert Neve Designs 5060

Engineer Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Sunny Day Real Estate, Pete Yorn) talks about how he has his 5060 workflow, and gives several examples of how pushing level through the 5060 can add tone.
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[@drywski]

If anyone is wondering, the demo song is actually called "Notice Me," by Balance and Composure. Looks like Brad may have had the working title.

[@draztiqmeshaz6226]

oh nice! I love Sunny Day Real Estate, and even before I started growing my ears I thought they sounded great.

[@IsurusDrums]

Nice overview and demonstration. Stem summing is a great way of working in my opinion; representing the best of both worlds. The stereo channel inserts are a necessity. My preference is the pushed red silk mix for this material.

[@ME-ru4hv]

it gives more and more to stuff that was already sounding great.. sounds mastered just with gain and silk

[@VXTAPES666]

Balance and composure on a neve video haha. Talented guy!

[@philipplenz95]

When the rupert meters ping. How do you record the mix master in pro tools, without getting the digital clipping of the interface in the a/d ?

[@tyoung]

Actually a great question. He says he has his stereo mix out of the neve into a stereo compressor, so hes compressing into a/d saving some peaking. Best guess

[@philipplenz95]

@@tyoung neve gave me a cool email to this question....:For the 5060, to get the most tone out of it you need to drive it to the point of clipping the output transformers with silk on (or at least turning on the clip light regularly). The corresponding signal level will be around +26dBU, which is far above what an apollo can handle. You can turn down the master fader and still get some of the harmonic content from the internal mix buss and the insert send / return transformers, but the best way is to use an XLR pad of 5 or 10dB so you can fully clip the output transformers without clipping the apollo (some of the apollo's clip at +24dBU and some clip closer to +21dBU, so 5 may not be enough, although less attenuation is definitely preferable if you can get away with it.

[@tyoung]

@@philipplenz95 Wow very interesting, not what I would've guessed at all. The analog clipping out of this thing is so musical relative to digital clipping. Cool reply, thanks

[@philipplenz95]

@@tyoung i first thought i need a better a/d converter like crane, but sometimes it can be much easier :) i have the rupert neve masterbuss comp. As insert on the stereo master. After the xlr pad i ve got the portico tape saturation 5042. In love with my chain now

[@tyoung]

@@philipplenz95 Wow. That is absolutely an end-game chain. If I udnerstand you correctly, you were worried about a/d out of the 5060 but the masterbuss processor was plenty good? Do you know if xlr pad's degrade signal quality?

[@ismscsim]

Sounds nice man....a bit of nice production on that material. Glad I stumbled on your channel.

[@tozzlin2964]

really like the mix Brad Wood did.. any online mixing lesson from him ?

[@skythemusic]

This sounds phenomenal and seems like a perfect console replacement for my setup. My biggest concern is no panning and only 1 master fader. I am also wondering how you deal with muting one speaker or phase reversing without either of those in the monitor section (my Coleman has these options).

[@lonelyhashbrown]

+Scott Howard what do you mean? do you think he doesn't pan anything? they are stems!

[@artysanmobile]

I’m really surprised Neve has not offered scaling for the VUs. It is a serious omission.

[@gregbradshaw7220]

Sunny day real estate and SP? Wow

[@nikdrown]

Man that thing is perfect for my setup but at whooping penny it costs I will have to make with what I have. Someday......when they are obsolete lol.

[@sansocie]

I feel your pain. Right in the WALLET!!!

[@ArmandoPeraltaOfficialMusic]

Amazing !

[@princetonaudio]

Fantastic!!

[@EndOfEntertainment]

cool stuff :)

[@Dhkobe2]

You should use diff. Samples and genres of music

[@XARTRH]

Hey Brad ~ Way Cool Bro!!! R

[@underworldent4817]

a vcs3 ..... good good good