HOW TO CONNECT A HOME STUDIO LIKE A PRO STUDIO

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[@AndrewMasters]

What are you doing in your studio?

[@ajcohen2621]

Is it worth investing in the Neve genesis black 32

[@millennialanimal]

I basically have two signal paths, 16 inputs for my drums, and then a two channel pre I use for recording everything else. A snake helps keep everything looking clean, also a 4 channel DI unit for my pre amp to interface and for recording DI guitars along side recording my amps. As for monitoring, speakers out of my interface and a really long headphone cable for my drums 😅 simple and sweet. Love your set up, I hope to have something similar in the future. Here’s a video of my studio build if anyones interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4CrqGCng9iIbMU

[@m.i.stapes]

Just got my first patchbay!

[@zoggy_stardust]

I'm using a 40 channel modified Allen and Heath GL2800 along with a Presonus Quantum and a 4848. I just got a new 16x4 snake to run mic lines, but I still need to get some patchbays and a headphone system

[@StanAllDay]

Watching this video lol

[@SchnookumsOfficial]

andrew, as an aspiring audio engineer (and music artist) you have given me the drive to keep going and become a professional! thank you

[@gonzorudeboy]

This video summarizes what I love about your work on YT. The photography is neat, the delivery and explanations are clear and easy to get. This is really motivating.

[@gonzorudeboy]

And you seem to be such an easy going guy.

[@jaredwhispell4793]

Man I’ve been looking for so long for a video like this that actually goes this in depth and practical and is explained well. Thank you!!

[@archiebeatz]

Beautiful done video Andrew. Perfectly explained. Creating without technical hang ups.

[@jaredroberts6726]

Andrew, Thank you for breaking it down for us dummies who love your channel but don’t understand 95% of the videos, the learning curve is steep for us newcomers. Hoping you and Colt, collab on a Recording/Mixing/Mastering basics class I can buy! Cheers mate! Very Respectfully, Jared

[@scotth4041]

This is exactly the video I was looking for! Thank you so much for explaining your setup! I'm going to be finishing my studio in a couple months and this content hit the nail on the head.

[@AndrewMasters]

Glad it was helpful!

[@southisaac]

This was a huge amount of help. I feel like a load has been lifted off my mind after watching this. Answered so many questions. Thank you!!!

[@ccrowe714]

Your videos rule man! Always wondered these types of things please more on this matter!

[@harrymindgameTV]

Good to see a nice technical video of how a studio is configured. Never seen all of this info in one place. Very useful

[@mikewentworth9819]

What an informative video!!! Great job,man.

[@chrispendergrass5829]

Great video Andrew! Very helpful I'm in the process of drawing up diagrams for my studio and you gave me some ideas, love your studio man! Very nice!

[@shitfaced1337]

Thanks man, I even went to school for this and I didnt really understand patch bays untill now.

[@Itsyunlo]

so clear and to the point. awesome video!

[@m.i.stapes]

Oh yeah! Getting into the good stuff 🙌

[@chrisaaron7755]

I love this. And I’m exactly the same. Gotta build the magic of a studio at home. And I hate to have a software version of everything. Having tangible gear really makes the work flow a lot more fluid, and way more fun.

[@ColinsBackingTracks]

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you for this

[@amphetagrooves]

dope man! good to see I've followed much of what you did

[@tonyadams6985]

This great for me, as I have a few older items I purchased decades ago, like a producer pack and old Neumann & AKG mics, even a nice old Trident console! (Needs major service), when I was recording in 2 inch tape studios as a singer/songwriter/guitarist in bands. I’d done a couple of albums & my bass player got us into a Paris system at the time. He was into the newest technologies of the day. Fast forward many years & I get an Apollo and logic & Luna and some plugins and want to utilise analogue gear which I own as well! I’ve been gigging with various bands, and felt almost ashamed at having many songs & ideas and nice studio bits and pieces but realised “I” need to get a handle on this before I’m in a rocking chair regretting wasting time, equipment & ideas!! I’ve always known what I like to hear, and some of my ideas became decisions employed by producers and engineers on tracks! I just never knew anything outside of the few things I saw engineers doing in those hideously expensive studios with only Cubase beginning to be incorporated. My bass player got all the early “Paris” set up and running back then, so understanding any technical stuff was his domain. Anyhow, thanks for showing these steps, as it’s a steep learning curve I’m embarking on. If you’re interested, below is something my band recorded on tape and believe we’d just purchased Paris, which was to overtake and succeed Cubase! Early 90’s. (Hope I correctly linked, I’m such a novice). kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6K8Z5hsg8p_otE

[@marzo22oficial]

New happy subscriber! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us , I’m a new studio dreamer and so happy with your videos and help 🙌🏻

[@martinjefeslash]

this video is gold. Thank you!!

[@PunkRockVibes]

Been binge watching your videos. Moving into a new house, super psyched to set up my studio. Currently working in a small room. Kinda sucks. lol.

[@MirkkoDeMaio]

very informative, thank you Andrew!!!

[@LesTutosdeHuito]

very informative!! thanks Andrew!

[@joseluismorelsantos5045]

Very well explained. Thank you for your video

[@brin57]

great video. I think the real take-away for people here no matter what level of complexity/or not their setup is, is that this arrangement is fully scaleable. So even if you've only got maybe a small mixer and/or a 4 or 8 channel interface, and just a couple of outboard items, and a couple of mics, you maybe able to be fully connected and ready to go with just one patch bay. I remember when i setup my first patchbay,. That I was then able to get into the flow without having to reconnect everything, everytime I had to record something else, was a liberating life changing experience in my humble little home studio.

[@amphetagrooves]

and DAW templates to pullup w/routing saved; huge time saver having HW&SW ready to jam/catch ideas

[@dee1380]

u my new teacher... new subscriber alert!!

[@kornelwav]

Wow, this home studio looks like a pro studio to me :) You did a demanding and outstanding job!

[@BeejayMorgan]

Have you ever had a problem with bringing the mics into the patch bay as TRS? I assume you're really the only one plugging and unplugging mics in your studio. How do you ensure phantom power is managed properly? Keeping it off the passive ribbons, making sure not to short the TRS connections when patching, etc.? What part of the signal flow do you find most problematic? What would you most like to improve? What's the most clever thing you've done in your wiring? 🙂

[@AndrewMasters]

I have a TT patchbay, i'm not sure if that's what you mean. I don't have any issues with phantom because I don't have anything normalled. If i patch into a mic pre I just make sure phantom power isn't on. But I have never had any issues with phantom. My favorite part for how i'm routing things is getting the patchbays separated by purpose. That has made everything extremely simple.

[@SongwriterReacts]

This was super helpful! Just gonna stick with my small home studio vibe for now though.

[@_033Music_]

Super nice Video, thnx!

[@laneysommer]

Great information! Awesome studio!

[@arianamastersofficial]

Thanks for watching!

[@PoliPopo]

Awesomeness

[@ditokhalibran]

Fancy home studio I love it

[@user-wv7io7pw3f]

Great video bro!!!!

[@Feraner]

Thanks. I'm appreciated!

[@nunoandradebluesdrive]

great, I'm about to do a room for recording , mix and all.. not that complete in terms of material, but good enough. And this is always helpful. thanks great tips

[@500mph]

This was great, thank you!

[@AndrewMasters]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@z6nestudio]

Your setup is sick man.. I like your style!

[@kevinlentz7604]

Love your channel thanks for theHelp

[@mcpribs]

Serious Mr. Rogers vibes. Perfect!

[@lapiezaestudio]

Thank you for this amazing video. For now I'm fully digital producing in my studio. All inputs to an ADAT I/o to a small 18i8o interface.

[@AndrewMasters]

That was my setup 5 years ago! A lot can happen in 5 years

[@jimigrok]

That was realy helpful for me - and a very good explanation thanks! In my studio i have more electronic equipment so i need also a ton of midi cables ..

[@gervenzehimana6867]

You have help my studio so much brother thanks

[@Bonzvy]

Exatly what I needed to know about setting up outboard gear

[@AndrewMasters]

Great!

[@Rabbit895]

Outstanding

[@lucapresents4790]

Fascinating and masochistic, learned quite a bit, would be great to see a video with more details re the personal monitor setup, like to send the audio from DAW to the system

[@Fuskacore]

Beautiful video, very informative, just added more to my sweetwater cart lol

[@CharlesCleyn]

Great video man!

[@studiokounouz1064]

Fabulous 👌 tips

[@user-cu6uo1wu1b]

Thanks for doing that Andrew, i love cabeliing (is that a word) don't have many cables at this point but the cables i have you can not see them good job, keep it up man. love you channel

[@gnmorales1]

truth is, I had the basic setups for a LONG time, but now I’m at a time in my recording/production “career” that I want to have all of the external hardware and gadgets to take my skills to the next level

[@lightafluident.9950]

Nice setup man. I like Warm Audio mic preamps. Art has some good mic preamps as well. Art is very underrated as an audio company.

[@chasecampan-thornburg1721]

Thank you for this! You’ve got such a great setup. How do you manage power? Are you using a power conditioner and are you able to fit everything on one circuit? If so, how many amps are on that circuit? Also, what does the power consumption of a setup like this require? Looking to spec out a PV solar panel setup.

[@theintentionalist]

I remember putting my studio together years ago and there were no videos like this. Wish you were around five years ago.

[@johnvcougar]

Woah, seasick intro clip … wheeee! You sure have a collection of cool stuff, mate! Nice spaghetti, by the way!

[@bingybeats189]

I rap, make beats, and do post production stuff(mixing) with a hybrid setup. I've gone the semi-minimalist route, but high quality stuff. I have limited myself to 3 pieces of outboard gear, so my interface has sufficient ins and outs. No patch bay required. My outboard needed to have a "wow" factor to it to be kept, but ALSO had to have multiple uses. Tough to accomplish. With the (3) pieces I technically have 4 compressors, 5 styles of saturation, M/S functionality, a 3 band EQ, transformers and tubes, that can adequately be used on all forms of instrumentation and vocals. A tremendous amount of thought and tweaking went into my setup, so I really identify with and appreciate what you've done here. Its well though out for your use case.

[@dcampagna1772]

Great breakdown, thanks for all the info. One question: How is MIDI implemented and how does it integrate with the audio setup and your DAW?

[@devids51]

I would love to see you do hybrids "studio setups" that are confined to budget, size (pc+interface+rack all fits under/on a table) or genre. Either demonstrating with gear you have or theoretical gear

[@Terrible_Peril]

I love the setups where you can walk to an instrument cluster and make some noise and you can both get an immediate sound from what's in front of you and it's being piped into the system. Basically I love Stewart Copeland's studio lol. I want a halfway decent acoustic space, not too big, where everything is being recorded all of the time, even if it's just a few omni mics tucked here and there. SO MANY TIMES I say "always be recording" when something amazing happens and it's immediately vapor. There's no reason not to just have an old phone recording with the voice memo or something, you know?

[@lessecretsduson]

m905 !!!! congrats !!!! hope you took it with the DA card !!! the DAC is just incredible BTW feedback on this burl summing ??? I am starting to think about getting one

[@blashuvec]

oooh i see you have the audioscape neve style pres!! demo and comparison soon please??

[@jerrodvanderheiden3032]

Love the videos. Would love more info on the I/O of the whole thing. How do you get from your snake into your patch bay? What connections are you using to get into all of your interfaces? Would love to see a big fat diagram that shows what connections lead to what, primarily how you end up from xlr to 1/4 inch to DB25 to adat and so on. Keep up the great work bro and thanks for all the info.

[@AndrewMasters]

All the patchbays are DB25, so I just get snakes that go from XLR to DB25. The interface IO connections are all DB25 to DB25.

[@jerrodvanderheiden3032]

@@AndrewMasters makes sense. Thanks so much for the reply.

[@TheRealCalijokes01]

Thx it’s hard to find these setup videos

[@LilLWH]

I don't know if I would've understood this a few years ago. But man I bet it would've helped me understand signal flow faster.

[@amphetagrooves]

I've got 2 Neve pre's (without EQ), 4 SSL Xlogic VHD, 1 Distressor, Scarlett 18i8. 2 patchbays, Moogs, 2600s, etc, Marshalls, Strat, Les Paul, Music Man Bass, Clarinet, Sax, Theremin, etc. recent build. Loving the new home office. thanks for confirming much in your helpful vid. cheers. come out to SoCal Winecountry; we'll party, eat, and jam

[@ScottFuckinRitchie]

I’m looking into the behringer p16 system like you have. I was just not sure if I could use the optical cable out from my Focusrite Saffire. I currently am using the adat in for an external behringer ada8200 mic pre for 16 channels.

[@LEXRAPS]

Andrew has a large bowl of veggies just chillin on the desk! Great video by the way lol

[@ryancoltonmusic]

I am actually in the process of wiring up everything in my new home studio to my new Dangerfox desk that arrived last week. I'm going to have a similar setup to yours with several pieces of outboard preamps, compressors, 500 series, summing mixer, etc. running into a couple Apollo interfaces. I noticed you have vents between most of your preamps now. Were you having heat buildup issues in the desk? The venting in the Dangerfox desk seems pretty adequate between the bottom and back sides of the rack box.

[@ProducersVault]

Hey Andrew, Big fan of your work, a few questions (great videos by the way) 1)Do you have any of your Warm Audio Preamps Hooked up at Line level on your patchbay? 2) Do you have any issues running 48V Phantom power from the preamps on to your Patchbays, 3) is the grounding on your patchbays set to vertically strapped or issolated to avoid Ground loops?

[@tapp8442]

Great Video Andrew! Do you mind sharing how you learned to setup your hardware and specifically how did you get over the learning curve of recording software? Did you go to school for this, watch vids/ read books, or learn from friends or hire a consultant? Also, if you were a beginner now with a similar setup, how would you learn the craft?

[@coywood203]

it's all about the patch bays!!!

[@pajarodebarro]

thanks man! ...

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks for watching!

[@813marvinb]

NICE

[@Strages_Powers]

This was awesome! So are your microphone cables all xlr to 1/4 inch trs into the patch bay?

[@AndrewMasters]

The patchbay is a TT patchbay. All connections going into the patchbay are Db25 connections so I have XLR to DB25 snakes for everything.

[@DevoT]

Dude I've been hoping someone would make a video exactly like this one. Would love to see a similar explanation on an old school analog tape set up.

[@AndrewMasters]

Everything is the same, but instead of the interface inputs, you go into the tape machine inputs.

[@DevoT]

@@AndrewMasters Thanks for the response. What I meant was more of an explanation/differences of how they would have done it in a 70s studio with absolutely no digital processing from start to mix down from different tape machines ie signal path from sound

[@sawyercustom]

I love all my outboard gear, wile wiring is a pain, it's still worth it

[@PrestonHazard]

Andrew: “If you’re a masochist like me” Me: Hold my beer *records to tape with an exclusively analog signal chain*

[@mullisharmonika2649]

mantap....bro

[@djrek521]

im trying to get my acoustics right in my production room

[@chesterfieldmusic7366]

Who built your audio desk?? Thinking of getting a new one. Great videos!! Thanks!

[@AndrewMasters]

Dangerfox, there’s a discount code in the description

[@infojunkie4989]

Currently trying to integrate a flock patch into my setup to do similar

[@impactleadershipempowermen2905]

Totally loved it !!! Always follow ur videos constantly !!! Keep making them...may ur channel grow amazing !!! I'm sharing to many. !! Absolutely love ur vids !! ...plz do teach about worship style mixing and the level of music in them ! Will always look up to u !!🤩

[@Formlessrecording]

Unhinged

[@MilestonesMusic1]

Awesome bro I’m currently in the midst of creating my home professional studio. My entire studio got flooded by than hurricane ida so I’m starting from scratch and I was just reading the comments on Sweetwater for those pre amps WA 273 reading the threads in comments is making me want to purchase atleast 1 I previously had the focusrite platinum voice master they were decent. I’m a protools user for over 20 years so I’m looking into these new interfaces the Apollo carbon presonus and focusrite what are your views between carbon from avid and the Apollo’s they both seem about similar

[@millennialanimal]

I would have loved this video when I first started recording! I’ll be honest though, patch bays still confuse me a little haha

[@leea.boyes-theaireguitaris7681]

Hi, just came across your video. It's great! Really clear. I've just done a refit in my home studio and I was offered loan of an outboard reverb unit (Lexicon mx400). I've only ever used software plugins so this is new territory for me. Could I hook it up to my audio interface via spdif so I still use the mic pre's on my interface? I'm thinking mic>interface>spdif out to reverb unit>spdif back in to interface>PC. Am I getting that right?? Sorry if it's a bit of a noob question 😬

[@BrokenRogue]

I watched the video hoping to find out about power supplies for a home recording studio in the uk. How is all the electric gear powered and what extensions etc do you use please?

[@Joey.Darkwoods-Studio]

Man, always great content and no fakery bullshit on this channel. Love it and thank you!

[@PabloGonzalezVargas]

Hi Andrew, I'm a big fan of your channel; wanted to know the brand/model of your black patch bays? Looked through the gear list that you posted but couldn't find them. Thank you : )

[@carlackers438]

Yooo, damn sick studio! For those using software plugins and instruments an MP Controller would be ideal!!

[@mmmusic5006]

I think I've seen this somewhere🤔

[@larrybrown1597]

Andrew, I'm waiting for my Dangerfox 24U desk to arrive. It's taking forever but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I have an Apollo 6 from UA. A Focusrite ISA 428 mic pre. I have a UF8 SSL controller like you have and I want to rack mount it in the Genesis. I also have a UC1 which I'm hoping to rack mount next to it. I also have an AMS RMX verb that I notice you have rack mounted. I've been wondering if that can go into the Genesis as well in a 500 series rack, and it looks like you've done it. So everything is sitting and waiting for the Genesis to arrive. 18 weeks to get a desk is pretty nuts but I'm sure all that will be in the past once I have it assembled and gear going in. Enjoying your videos. My studio is primarily for my own personal use. Just acoustic guitar, and vocals, for tracking and then mixing and mastering.

[@DODA1]

I see that new monitor controller 👀

[@buomoyeaganaba141]

Good

[@ymaxdtitanvictor9589]

Wow

[@GregoryGuay]

Question about the optical output of the Apollo unit - does that send a direct signal to the headphone mixing amp? Or is it post DAW?

[@cadriver2570]

Can you get into power conditioning? Is there anything actually worth buying to reduce noise/hiss in signals.

[@johnfranksongs]

__Great Information_ *Andrew* ‼I did expect to see a shrimp pop out of your salad 🦐

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks!

[@CodyPMack]

Just took the plunge into a 24 channel analog console, 8+ I/o interfaces and a patchbay for my home studio… this was super hElpful!!

[@duthvader]

I haven’t made the leap to a patchbay yet. Looking into it now as I have started acquiring outboard gear. Curious how phantom power works with a patchbay in the setup. Maybe a future video?

[@AndrewMasters]

It depends how your patch bay is normalled. I set all of my patch points to be isolated, so nothing is normalled, or half normalled. If you send +48, it goes where you send it.

[@ethanhicks9726]

@@AndrewMasters Wouldn't a Full-Normal setup make patching easier? Since you tend to leave things set, having your snake connections fall down into the pre-inputs (then pre-out fall into interface-in) would negate the need for 10,000 patch cables used on every session, right? Love that the custom blanks have found their way back into the racks, by the way.

[@AndrewMasters]

If this was a commercial room and the gear never changed that would make sense, but not here haha.

[@enrifretless]

Great video! 👏...but yours is more like a Home "PRO" studio lol, thanks for the sort of Recording studio connections 101, Basic Pro Studio setup, Studio Connections for dummies hehehe Very informative, thanks again and keep up with these kind of videos 👍