Octave Records Tour Part Two

[@BTom16]

Beautiful facility. ❤

[@Cienfuegos911]

❤🧡💛💚💙💜 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 Thank you Paul for this great tour & for sharing all the knowledge.

[@mpi5850]

Immensely enjoyed this, thanks Paul!

[@cletusberkeley9441]

I love the dound of the B3 and Fender Rhodes. 9:54 In my late teens early 20s I used to service Rhodes, B3s and Leslie cabinets, VOTTs and Revox reel to reels and McIntosh amps......ahhh, the memories ❤

[@phenomtyree]

Another super presentation!

[@PSA78]

There's a difference between building a studio and passionately building a studio, you did the latter. 👏 And yes, "dead" studios don't sound good, I've even heard musicians reflect over how they picked the wrong studio for an album.

[@morbidmanmusic]

it is a beautiful place. No doubt.

[@ford1546]

I think what someone meant when they said that the studio looks thrown together is the following. Ideally, the mixer should be in the middle of the room and speakers on both sides and equally far away from the wall on both sides. Not in a corner like ps audio has placed it with one speaker hidden behind the mixer in a corner. You are also sitting too close to the speakers. There's a reason studios have speakers above the mixer. Doesn't look like ps audio has put that much effort into fitting this into the room or to get it optimal.

[@johnwave2827]

Thank you for the tour!

[@cubeaceuk9034]

The coolest things for me was the headphone setup and the counterweights on your mic stands.

[@L.Scott_Music]

All the great tracking rooms are not dead. Sunset sound is very live, Appogee Studios, Capitol had live rooms, and Aspen's Place has a very nice live tracking room. They are just controlled so as to not have bad buildup and such. And not too live either.

[@babubabu12345]

Nice setup...👍

[@Singapore_Dude]

Very educational. Love it.

[@karstenpedersen4370]

Hej Paul. Thanks for good and informative foootages you make. I had a similar experience when building our new garden pavillon. Aften the COVID-19 crises we Got ceder, which in Denmark is called “thuja”. The Price had gone seriously down, and the smell is fantastic. Behind the wooden strips we placed acoustic absorbant material. Good solution.

[@Fastvoice]

Nope, thuja is not ceder - not even in Denmark. These are two different kind of wood. Look it up.

[@karstenpedersen4370]

@@Fastvoice ok. Thanks for info.

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

An interesting bit of history about Neumann.

[@Fastvoice]

... which is not completely accurate, but close enough to the truth.

[@hippydippy]

Nice clean simple but practical setup.

[@joeb4349]

Paul: What about the electrical inputs to this room? Do you use some type of conditioning or power conditioners for the instruments that require power? Nice Steinway and your use of a large area rug must be by design. A good looking tracking room.

[@Paulmcgowanpsaudio]

Yup. Each of the racks of equipment in the control room and mixroom are all powered by Power Plnat AC regennerators.

[@maddog3902]

I would absolutely love to come record some hard rock music there.

[@SuperMcgenius]

I have been in many studios and yes many are too dead. Small detail, but important , do the lights have dimmers, mood makes a difference.😊

[@AlexKnightVancouver]

Any plans to record other genres? Would love to hear some hard rock and metal.

[@costelloandsilke7321]

Re all German mics - looks like you might have a Royer 121 in there, Paul - on the stand front of the shot at the end of the video?

[@MisterChibs]

Which company was used for the acoustic wood panels?

[@Tolky48]

You do not use acoustic panels on the ceiling I see ?

[@jacksonreazin6042]

Part 1 showed what looked like a Vari-Mu below a summing amp/mixer. Is that for sending to mixdown?

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

That lobby is nicer than my entire presbytery.

[@al5152001]

👍

[@josefbuckland]

Are the doors Acoustic Geometry?

[@TheDanEdwards]

That's quite the rats' nest of cables on the floor! Otherwise, a wonderful set-up.

[@vincentwerner4856]

The brand of the drum set....??? (Drummers like to know!)

[@PlatinumMastering]

Part 1 nicerizer summing mixer and Manley vari mu is used for tracking or mixing ?

[@Fastvoice]

Just for tracking. Mixing will be part of video No. 3.

[@googoo-gjoob]

tracking room = 'the studio'.

[@BobGeogeo]

0:38 "c'mon along" with big arm wave could have been voiced John Wayne style 🙃.

[@clothyardshafts]

Interesting!

[@BruceCross]

"Tracking Room" is a strange term. I've heard it called the Live Room.

[@Fastvoice]

It's the standard terminology in the industry - as is the word "tracking" for recording. That changed over time when physical records were no longer part of the operation but instead tracks of a digital system.

[@BruceCross]

@@Fastvoice Thanks. OK, I'll take your word for it.

[@costelloandsilke7321]

Or, for completeness, a 122.

[@stimpy1226]

Jimmy Smith… My man

[@tinkwilkinson9446]

Should we buy chinese equipment to save money?

[@mugen2002]

All PS Audio products are made in China. The profit from these products built this studio.

[@necrodh]

Try Austrian Audio mics

[@ThinkingBetter]

I agree that the room should not be dead without room ambience. The question is how is the balance between what is in the recording and what is being added from your own room. Then comes to topic that some of us have moments of listening using headphones or earbuds, where we need the tracks to include room ambience. And nowadays some earbuds even add artificial room ambience through DSP to make the whole topic even more ambiguous.

[@josefbuckland]

I realize that this is KZbin and the microphone you’re using is probably not have a studio quality Neumann or something like that but the overall room noise still seems somewhat colorful, but I’m sure you’ve all done your homework and you’ve worked out any resident frequencies I mean look at who we’re dealing with here still maybe I was just expecting something different. I’m sure it’s a great studio. Look forward to hearing many more great recordings. Stay safe.

[@stevenkoski228]

Hmm, Octave Records has no records🤨.

[@Gary_Hun]

What's the point of a wealthy country, if it is a bigillion to lift up a toilet seat?.. to be honest, i would think overall wealth would mean ridiculous cheapness?.. But it is a crazy expense to exist in the US, and everything is cheap where people have nothing. Go figure. What an inside out upside down silly world.

[@stevenholquin2127]

This is Way Too Creepy

[@ernies8828]

Yeah, no joke.

[@ronniecramer1252]

@@ernies8828 Maybe you guys are just way too creepy

[@ernies8828]

@ronniecramer1252 -I'm sorry? We were referring to the video presentation, not us. Maybe this is not the place for you to troll and act like a child? Do you think? Just quit while you are behind.

[@ronniecramer1252]

@@ernies8828So what do you think was creepy about the video. presentation. Paul is an electrical engineer, not a movie producer. Most of us just appreciate him taking the time out of his day to show us his studio, without criticizing the video quality.

[@mikeeaglesham]

Two mics on the snare, one above, one below. I assume the phase is reversed on one mic?