Hybrid mixing 80s style with hardware & plugins | A Song Is Born Ep.7

[@morphoice]

None of this is new to me, but it is still so incredibly inspiring to see with what level of dedication and love you process your songs! Really love your choice of signature effect processors aswell

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks for saying man! :)

[@AldoKoskettimet]

nice to see a Nordic guy using effects from Valhalla! haha thanks again for such a great and inspiring contribution Espen!

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers!

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Sounds great! It's really coming together already I'd say. These are the long and tedious parts of any song production. Rewarding in the end though.

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks man! Long in the making, but very fun to make as well. ;-)

[@bontempo1271]

I enjoyed that. Lots of inspiration, perfect 80s production as always from yourself. Also, can't believe you have a 480 ! Congrats 😂

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers! The 480L is not mine though.

[@bontempo1271]

@@EspenKraft ah, sadly. Have you had a chance to compare it to the plugin version yet ?

[@EspenKraft]

There are many plugin versions of the 480L. ;-) In any case, that 480L is long gone by now.

[@meme44kk]

Thanks Espen using the legand Lexicon 480L

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers!

[@wjklaver]

Hi Espen, thanks for the great insight into your way of mixing. It’s very enlightening for me 😀👍

[@EspenKraft]

Many thanks!

[@prodcountryjames]

Love the sounds of 80's music amazing song.... I have a problem, I've purchase a lexicon Mx200 a year ago and still having trouble getting the sound into protools. Not enough info out here on this guy. If you have the answers I'm open ears and appreciate it. Thank you>..

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! Any external reverb can be used as I use mine in this video series/tutorial. How you route and set up external effects inside ProTools, or any other DAW will be a little different than this of course.

[@ClearColorCloud]

I was sweating when I saw the price for the 480L on Reverb from the last video in the series haha but you did convince me to pick up a SRV-2000! I've used the Lexicon Dark Hall from their plugin on my guitar sounds for a while now, I learned that one from Scott Henderson.. probably gonna have to stick with that for the foreseeable future, although that 480L sure is awesome.

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers!

[@RoyChartier]

PPS, that SRV really makes you sound great! I usually use the SRV on Roland synths or drums. I never tried mine on vocals, I leave that to the PCM90.

[@EspenKraft]

I too use it on snares most of the time.

[@RoyChartier]

PS, nothing will sound better than that 480. Nothing!

[@asdifasi]

2 iconic effect units are all you need for our music espen: yamaha spx90 lexicon pcm70

[@EspenKraft]

Good choices, but of course you need a lot more.

[@GizzyDillespee]

You could also add Eventide, Sony, AMS, Quantec and Publison 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RoyChartier]

How can you run plugins on that 386?

[@EspenKraft]

Not using a 386. ;-)