NAMM 2025 Day Three: What's New?

[@Producelikeapro]

What Is Your Favourite Thing You've Seen In NAMM Wrap Up Videos?

[@crymearobot]

Your suit.

[@Producelikeapro]

@@crymearobot Haha thanks!

[@Producelikeapro]

00:00 SSL 18 and Alpha 8 Review 03:40 Harrison 32c Channel Strip 05:50 Z&H Design 13:34 Milab and Pearl with Steve Maggiora 17:40 API with David Hintze and Steve Maggiora 19:28 Panel with Songwriter and Producer Alina Smith 38:29 Warm Audio Bryce Young Announces 5 Year Warranty 40:48 Elysia max master bus processor 42:35 Austrian Audio OC - S10 47:38 Kali Audio SM - 8 with Charles Sprinkle 48:47 Sound Radix 50:42 Mantra's Spatial Reverb: Living Sky 1:05:57 The X Vive More You Hub: Revolutionising Collaborative Audio and discussion with Matt Starr

[@Joe-mz6dc]

PLAP is not only one of the greatest KZbin channels in history, but it's one of the greatest things in this entire universe. Pretty marvelous in fact.

[@Producelikeapro]

Aw shucks!! Thanks ever so much Joe! I really appreciate it

[@trexdel]

Ayyyy, been waiting for this one. The 360 environment is extremely compelling. Picked up an ssl18 as soon as I saw the announcement. As someone who can't go to namm, thanks for the coverage!!

[@paulvogel6303]

SSL-18 is cool, if you got lots of mics it seems awesome! I wish interfaces like this would have 3 adats in/out. I own the Arturia 16 rig it’s comparable to the ssl 18 but less mic more line I/o

[@Producelikeapro]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@TrapBoiFuse561]

Audien 48 something like it too

[@eoinc_Ire]

Warren… Happy Birthday! 🎂 Hope you get home to celebrate! Thanks for all the reviews! Us mere mortals will probably never get to go to NAMM! ❤

[@Producelikeapro]

Yes! I’m San Francisco on my birthday!! ❤

[@The-Skyking]

WONDERING when someone would cover SSL. The only bit of kit from NAMM I really wanted to see. Thank you!

[@Producelikeapro]

You’re very welcome! It’s a great unit from what I can tell!!

[@Bhallmed]

ssl has been killing it when transitioning to the consumer market vs big consoles

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much for sharing

[@cefahprod]

The Mntra expérience waaas increeeeedible. Like the best experience I had at NAMM.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much for sharing!

[@mastermindesrpr]

Thank you Mr. Warren for keeping us informed!

[@Producelikeapro]

My pleasure!

[@blondegirlsezthis8798]

I was in the Mackie booth at NAMM once and Tony Iommi was standing in the middle of the booth. In a cape. Michael Anthony rolls in with a bottle of Jack Daniels and the same terrible haircut from Van Halen 1. The old days!

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha nice! Thanks for sharing!

[@blondegirlsezthis8798]

@@ProducelikeaproYou should bring capes back! Dig up Ritchie Blackmore and get a midget just for that added push over the edge of English medieval "Stonehenge" Spinal Tap feel! I should say at this juncture that only the truly demonic are allowed to play Gibson SG's as well so maybe one of those (and get an SG Ukelele for the midget!)

[@angelorasmijn7306]

Those Milab mics are amazing, but rare. I was fortunate to use the Milab DC-96c on drum overheads. One of the best small condenser mic I ever used.

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much for sharing!

[@lance134679]

The SSL 18 seems very well thought out. It has pretty well everything I'd want in a multi-channel interface.

[@ArloTarr]

Matt is putting drums on my EP. He’s not only a phenomenal drummer but one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. If you need drums for a project, I HIGHLY recommend reaching out to him🤘 I really enjoyed your conversation with him Warren👍

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much for sharing

[@officialWWM]

Thanks for taking us along for the ride Warren. Going to NAMM is a life goal for me but it’s a long way from Tasmania. I doubt I’ll ever make it :/ I’d love one of those SSL channel strips but at 2k US it’s probably going to be closer to 4K Australian :/

[@sonicimpactstudio]

I really enjoyed your conversation with Matt! Thanks for the Great tips & Wisdom 🙏

[@Producelikeapro]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JesusArmasOficial]

Didn’t expect Matt Lange to be in the PreSonus booth. He used to collaborate with Avid with the whole Sonic Drop content.

[@Producelikeapro]

Matt is a great friend! Always amazing to support everything he does!!

[@JesusArmasOficial]

@ he does seem to be a great guy to be around ❤️

[@david25876]

I purchased the Big6 and it is an amazing little mixer. Worth a look for home studio cats.

[@murraywebster1228]

QSC System looks interesting, have used K10 & K12 boxes and was very happy with them….

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Jeremy_Kinsey]

That Harrison 32 Classic... TASTY! Thanks Warren, now I have to adjust my budget, haha. Cheers ~

[@aviolentpurple9925]

Hey great video and coverage!!!

[@Kuronekolarc]

15:44 Andrew Scheps 👀

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!! Haha yes! We saw him often

[@KreativeDevices]

🔥 Another good one

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@rayrecordings]

Warning: The OCS10 is a spectacular microphone. I had the privilege of using a prototype in october in Vienna on a songwriter pop production ( Elia Lunardi). It sounds like a C12 and a 251 combined together. Last year when Austrian was designing it we’ve been invited to a blind test and it kicked ass destroying some famous monster mics.

[@cefahprod]

@@rayrecordings I did tried it at the Austrian Audio booth and it is by far THE BEST mic I've ever tried right now. Kicked ass destroying some famous monster mics indeed

[@beatarcheologzt]

Mantra is such a great platform. If you don't know I'm telling you. Trust me

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks for sharing

[@Zwidawurzn]

Nice, Warm Audio and Austrian Audio in one video!

[@Producelikeapro]

Glad you like it!

[@kadiummusic]

Love my SSL 12, incredible value for money! 😎

[@Producelikeapro]

Marvellous! Thanks ever so much for sharing!

[@slacksmeridian]

After recently purchasing the UC1/UF1 and UF8 I can safely say that I absolutely adore the SSL way of doing things. The first console I ever got to use was one of the modern SSL consoles and I spent three years in University ONLY using that console. I loved everything about it and now I'm trying to get myself back into the SSL World. Truthfully, as someone that runs a more commercial studio I really want that SSL18 but I dont want to compromise myself into having only 44.1 and 48khz (Which is where I'm stuck at the moment) I'm going to need more IO than what SSL offer at the moment which is a real shame, As truthfully I want to just have an SSL Rack and use nothing else :D

[@Mister_Jahn]

you never forget your first ssl

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha indeed

[@jrileyhill]

@5:56 we say "zed" in Canada too Warren 😉

[@henrikpetersson3463]

Please add some chapters to the video! 🙏🏻 ♥️

[@Producelikeapro]

Coming! Stay tuned!!

[@Producelikeapro]

00:00 SSL 18 and Alpha 8 Review 03:40 Harrison 32c Channel Strip 05:50 Z&H Design 13:34 Milab and Pearl with Steve Maggiora 17:40 API with David Hintze and Steve Maggiora 19:28 Panel with Songwriter and Producer Alina Smith 38:29 Warm Audio Bryce Young Announces 5 Year Warranty 40:48 Elysia max master bus processor 42:35 Austrian Audio OC - S10 47:38 Kali Audio SM - 8 with Charles Sprinkle 48:47 Sound Radix 50:42 Mantra's Spatial Reverb: Living Sky 1:05:57 The X Vive More You Hub: Revolutionising Collaborative Audio and discussion with Matt Starr

[@PlayfulGenie]

Loved the interview at the end. My off topic question is, how did you get such a clean sound in the interview with no background noise, surrounded by hundreds of people at the NAMM show using Shure dynamic mics? In all the other NAMM coverage the background noise is off the chart...

[@kk_soldier]

please Wasn't there a home DSP at the NAMM 2025 that was easy to install and use? Or an active digital crossover? Or an equalizer with a separate digital channel? With easy use at home?

[@mwiggins4969]

Fantastic 😂😂😂

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much!

[@jmons33]

ELYSIA XMAX QUBE 😋😋😋 thank you!

[@therobcafaro]

This interface is so appealing, but a major drawback to me is it’s missing db25 line input connections. Other interfaces use that and makes it a one stop shop. I also see why maybe they made that decision, as the alpha 8 provides that, but not the other features in the ssl 18….

[@JBrm]

I don't think the alpha has dsub connectors

[@therobcafaro]

@ correct but it’s all line input anyways. I’m noting one interface that has separate line inputs that are selectable.

[@tvman7916]

What's the retail price on the Pearl ELM-T BM?

[@PurpleMusicProductions]

VERY interested in the API summing mixer and the unit from Elysia!!!

[@Producelikeapro]

Thanks ever so much

[@Producelikeapro]

We love them both

[@PurpleMusicProductions]

@@Producelikeapro Darn it Warren I cannot unsee that summing mixer 🤣

[@Producelikeapro]

@@PurpleMusicProductions haha sorry!!

[@PrantoKoX]

Excellent move by SSL: an interface that does simple, quality AD/DA via USB, with actual hardware balanced jacks (not the pesky & costly D-Subs), and individually selectable reference levels, an onboard heaphone out... plus it's reasonably priced! 👏🏻👍🏻 (All it misses for total perfection is the ability to daisy chain 2 or 3 of them with just one cable, as the excellent MOTU AVB line did) PS1, video editor: it's SontronICS, written on the mics, the guy's shirt, and in pretty huge letters on the booth backdrop! 🤷🏼‍♂️ PS2: while the QSC guy who ate all his hipster vitamins is talking, the son of Paul McCartney and Ed Cherney appears in the background... 😉

[@kenlen8029]

....Is any body going to make anything with these that hasn't already been done?

[@digitalsouthofficial]

uuuhhh SSL audio interface. very nice. but: what SSL thought when they give it this powerButton ? But you can't argue about taste :)

[@TheRickdoggie]

SSL for the win!

[@Producelikeapro]

Marvellous

[@Marky33]

The Spatial Reverb is cool.

[@tiptop8218]

Oh I love ssl with neve preamps in front :P

[@Chunksville]

Did anyone see what Lenbrook MQA LABS was showing allegedly new mixing and mastering tools I thought MQA was yesterdays news or are they going for studio integration now ?

[@oakidokio]

but does the ssl 18 have auto gain

[@paolotonolo1140]

Gosh I wish I was there

[@Producelikeapro]

It was fun! Exhausting, but very fun!

[@hburakurgay]

For a moment I thought I saw Steve Kerr working with Warm Audio..

[@DRUMAdam91]

only £899, nicely priced!

[@Producelikeapro]

Marvellous!

[@BarkingForBroccoliBG]

$2,000 SSL 10 input usb. Thsts one for zzounds paynent plan

[@Producelikeapro]

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

[@asalesagemedia]

Timestamps?

[@Producelikeapro]

00:00 SSL 18 and Alpha 8 Review 03:40 Harrison 32c Channel Strip 05:50 Z&H Design 13:34 Milab and Pearl with Steve Maggiora 17:40 API with David Hintze and Steve Maggiora 19:28 Panel with Songwriter and Producer Alina Smith 38:29 Warm Audio Bryce Young Announces 5 Year Warranty 40:48 Elysia max master bus processor 42:35 Austrian Audio OC - S10 47:38 Kali Audio SM - 8 with Charles Sprinkle 48:47 Sound Radix 50:42 Mantra's Spatial Reverb: Living Sky 1:05:57 The X Vive More You Hub: Revolutionising Collaborative Audio and discussion with Matt Starr

[@blueblueday]

15:44 - Andrew Schepps :)

[@dirtymusicassette]

1:46:11 👏🏻

[@leohwilson]

I feel like audio gear isn't really gonna get better at this point. There's not much more innovation left to do.

[@Producelikeapro]

I hear what you're saying

[@balisaani]

You would be sorely mistaken. For starters, studio monitors of today are highly innovative, and leave their 20-year old brethren in the dust. There's no comparison. On the other end of the audio chain, there's substantial innovation on the microphone end, not least with the Lewitt RAY, but also with the UA and S mic modeling offerings. Outboard gear has shown some great innovation as well, for instance the Cranborne Audio integrated line of 500 series products - stellar in all regards. And instruments wise, be it synthesizers, digital stage pianos or electro acoustic keyboards (both Vintage Vibes and Rhodes have come up with brilliant enhancements to their competing products), or basses and guitars, I'm seeing some pretty hair raising stuff. I wish I'd had access to all this innovation when I got out of Berklee, or even 20 years ago. You've just no idea, and you've no idea how much innovation is cooking around the world in R&D labs.

[@mickael.defoiardefoiard7738]

SPEAK SPEAK SPEAK ....

[@MariJu1ce]

All these innovations man, great on paper. Still music sounded way better in 1965, and sonics definitely hasn't improved. Why have we still not improved on the 80 year old U47 for example.

[@alexchernikov6276]

😂😂😂😂

[@MariJu1ce]

@@alexchernikov6276 Guess im just so fed up with how modern music sounds🤣 Still some people who do it the proper way and make good recordings though.

[@henrikpetersson3463]

It has improved tremendously since 1965. So much better for a lot less money. The problem is that the market is quite conservative and want what they are familiar with. If you put the U47 as the gold standard then anything that sounds different from that will sound worse, regardless if it sounds better or not. There are so many awesome new microphones on the market now, both transparent and heavily coloured. Many of them I would personally pick before a U47. Those old microphones are very good, but they have also been glorified, and in the ears of some people nothing will be able to touch them. It’s a bit like The Beatles is for some people. Try to listen to some 60s recording objectively. Most of them doesn’t sound very good. But there is so much else emotionally connected to that sound and it’s sometimes hard to separate it.

[@MariJu1ce]

​@@henrikpetersson3463 Yes maybe the cheap stuff in the 60s was pretty bad compared to now, but the good records that were made without compromise sounded amazing objectively. And to me 10 times better than the A list stuff today. Ofc there has always been bad stuff, but the ceiling of how freaking awesome the gear sounded back then was so much higher than the best of the best "new stuff" today. Ive used all the so called "glorified" mics, and I've tried much of the new stuff, There is nothing like a good 67, C12, 251, M49. Simply magical. I just put u47 as an example. This modern stuff have never resonated with me. And how you can say the 60s stuff like the Beatles objectively sound bad, I don't get at all. Totally ok with that opinion. But to me those albums are one of the best sounding recordings ever made in my ears. Im trynna give new stuff a chance every once in a while, but its kinda depressing to not like anything new and I feel isolated. Since everybody is so crazy about the new modern music coming out, I just don't get any of it. Nothing about the sonics of modern records resonate with me. Everyhting is just so freaking loud and plastic sounding, I have no idea why people like that, and since it seems everybody likes it except me; it leaves me feeling a bit lonely and puts me in a negative space after when listening to that. And I also began to think that engineering is a lost art of the past. This new stuff, I just don't know how to give it a fair chance I guess.

[@MariJu1ce]

​@@henrikpetersson3463 I wrote a comment but youtube deleted it :/. Anyways, I'm talking about the best of the best music from that time v.s this time. Go listen to the top 40 now and then. Maybe there is better budget gear now. But the best records I'm referring to were made with no compromise. The best of the best back in 1965 was recorded and engineered 100 times better than stuff today. It is truly a lost art. I cant understand how people are so crazy about this new modern hyper loud plastic sound. Makes me depressed, because I cant relate to anyone around me when It comes to music. Ive used all the "glorified" mics, they were simply just made better than stuff today, they weren't built to a price, and there weren't so many compromises. I was just using the u47 as an example. could also be c12,251,m49 etc, I've used them all, and some of the modern counterparts. For example take vacuum tubes as an example, a pair of NOS tubes will last for years, but the new tubes are just objectively bad and last so short. IMO it feels like technology has regressed majorly in quality. In Guitars, also the same. Look at the golden era gibsons vs today. In this so called technologically evolved time, why cant we build a guitar like they did back then and not have it cost 10k. And to use the Beatles as an example of objectively bad sounding stuff is just really funny to me. I'm not talking about measuring pristine distortionfree audio quality here. Where is the vibe and personality of modern records? The old egineering just had so much vibe and soul. Its mostly gone in even A list stuff today.

[@ethanchandler3934]

Bruh

[@Producelikeapro]

Haha KZbin suggested a translation haha

[@ethanchandler3934]

@@Producelikeapro my life is now complete Thanks Warren

[@Producelikeapro]

@@ethanchandler3934 Hahaha Thanks!

[@rayz5508]

I think these new products are made in China! Not really a bad thing.

[@jerdonsbabbler3515]

It’s definitely not a GOOD thing.

[@jasonwakeman]

All of them? There were like 500 hardwares lol. Also, who cares? If the corporations stand behind their brand and products it shouldn't matter if it's handmade by the founder or mass produced by cheap labor. Unless you are worried about the ethics, ...then I doubt a single product passes the mustard. Any of them union made, doubt it

[@thomasbroker69]

Don’t dye your hair…

[@mistergrooveman1018]

Why not ? is a rocker ,let the people live their life , where is the problèm ???

[@henrikpetersson3463]

Why? 🤷

[@thomasbroker69]

@@mistergrooveman1018 :) I’m kidding he could have it a rainbow colour for all I care! However looks more rock & roll if your hair isn’t fake , let it be natural for the video & be proud of the life experience..

[@chizzulwinduh1941]

SSL are ok, I like what they're doing, but their software sucks ass and they embarrassed themselves fighting with Paul Third.

[@PicassoBeatz]

Bryce, wish I knew how unserious Warm Audio was, when I purchased a few of the 1st 400 WA76s. Hot 🥵 fucken garbage. After refusing to fix one of my units, after the VU meter stopped working & the unit became problematic (month 6 of using it only on vocals). Warm Audio taught me that if you can’t afford the real gear, save your money & practice with plugins. WesAudio makes better gear than Warm Shit Audio, btw. 😢

[@stupidusername38]

The SSL 360 app is amazing if you combine it with a touch screen monitor. As close as we'll get in software to mixing on a desk

[@trexdel]

The 360 app integrates seamlessly with the SSL UF1, UF8 and UC1. That's as close as you can get to mixing on a console while in the box!

[@stupidusername38]

@trexdel the touch screen is direct interaction. Having used control surfaces before you've got banking to deal which is why I got rid of mine in favour of the touch screen monitor

[@hellofx]

SSL mic pres are .... meh.

[@Producelikeapro]

Peter Gabriel So Album, all SSL mic pres. The list is endless of insanely well recorded albums that used SSL mic pres!

[@MrAcEsNeIgHtS1188]

🦗🦗🦗🦗

[@crymearobot]

some of the best conversations and outtakes you have shared yet, Warren. Go get Jesse Wells and make the album we need right now.

[@Producelikeapro]

Marvellous! Thanks for sharing!

[@crymearobot]

Say Jessie Wells PLAP bot, haha Find him. Get him out of the weeds