How To Use A Vintage Console: Neve 5300

In this video we demonstrate the layout and functionality of the Neve 5300 vintage analog console. Fun fact: this custom console, which currently lives in our studio B, was 1 of 2 identical consoles commissioned in 1976 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It then found its way to Hong Kong, San Francisco, before arriving to our sunny shores here in Winnipeg!
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0:00 - Introduction
1:04 - Getting things connected
2:18 - Getting audio through a channel
3:21 - Channel settings
4:06 - The routing section
5:04 - Recap
5:15 - Experimenting with the channels
5:30 - EQ (3115)
6:21 - Activate a second channel and enable panning
7:06 - The other EQ (3114) and using the patchbay
8:05 - Using AFL for solos
8:23 - Using inserts and FX
9:14 - Using the foldbacks and reverb (sends)
11:22 - Recording things from the Neve (to tape or DAW)
12:49 - Example of using groups
14:24 - Talkback setup and some other interesting things
15:38 - The End
No Fun Club is a hybrid analog/digital recording studio featuring two world class studios, one of which houses the Neve featured in this video. Located on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Canada.
Filmed and edited by Riley
Help with camera work in the first half by Charlie Rae Walker
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[@carterpochynok4874]

Ive been looking all over the internet for resources to study vintage neve operation. Cant tell you how grateful i am to find this!

[@nofunclub2604]

Awesome! Glad it’s helpful :)

[@PhatLvis]

Cool-sounding song.

[@RichardCowdrey]

"Let's start by putting an 1176 compressor on the snare. Who can argue with that?" Dig it!

[@Biosynth]

Good vid. Keep up Speaker dying « the Neve tone » 😄

[@cdeltv8025]

Awesome video thanks

[@eriksonderlon]

Super cool, man. Thank you!

[@chrish4500]

Awesome video

[@68Snaps]

Thanks for this console walkthrough. Very informative, thorough, and no "BS" video. Great work! :-)

[@TheStudio49]

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[@maba5219]

Nice stuff

[@Twintwa23]

Nice Riley!!

[@blashuvec]

awesome!! more of these please! especially the routing!!

[@nofunclub2604]

For sure! What sorta routing stuff you interested in seeing? Things with the patchbay?

[@blashuvec]

@@nofunclub2604 maybe routing the console to PT? and then including inserts maybe? or does the inserts happen on the board?

[@nofunclub2604]

@@blashuvec ​ Yeah for sure! I'll do a video on using hardware vs software inserts sometime with more details on the possible configurations, and more shots of what is happening on the DAW side. You can do inserts on the board or in Pro Tools, depending how you are using the console. As for routing, it's actually deceptively simple because of the half-normalling on the patch bay. If you send something out of say, "output 11" on PT, that comes up on "multitrack output 11" on the patch bay, which will automatically send to to the Line input of Chanel 11 on the console. As visualized at 1:48. At 7:15 in the video I briefly demonstrate how that "automatic" routing can be changed by manually patching the signal coming out of the computer on "Multitrack Output 3" to "Line Input 13".

[@nicholasmohammad6961]

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[@romancallum9239]

@Nicholas Mohammad Instablaster :)

[@MendryMusic]

Thx🕴

[@eliaspappas8891]

What is the advantage of having a half-normaled patchbay? Why would you want to keep the unprocessed signal and where does it go when it's split? Does it blend the compressed 1176 sound with the unprocessed signal because it goes into the half-normaled line input? Thanks for the great video!

[@seangorena2586]

Hey do you video on how to configure the console for an API 2488? How to set it for record mode?

[@nofunclub2604]

We don't have an API at the studio unfortunately

[@originaali]

Actually i bought acoustica audio gold and tought this would be great informative thing cause that plugin has so many "weird" knobs what you cannot find in nowadays plugins. I find this very informative and pleasing 😎🔥 nice job and beautiful console! U should really mic that little speaker 😂

[@kikohurtado1]

Is this a difficult console to maintain?

[@roberthill688]

Not really. It's been completely recapped and other than staying up on exercising all the switches and knobs it's relatively maintenance free...knock on wood!