✅ Professional musician living in Kinsale, Ireland. Co-founder of the band Bootsauce - out of Canada. This is where I will document my life as a musician amongst other things...
✅ Good tips for recording your own stuff.
✅ Solving issues with Logic Pro X, my Digital Audio Workstation of choice.
✅ Reviews of gear I use, that you may like.
✅ Travel around beautiful Ireland, Europe and the world, well cuz I live here.
Thanks so much! and another song of mine was nominated for best Jazz song of the year by the Hollywood Independant Music Awards! "I Get BY" ☘️☮️🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮️☘️
RUBEN!! VALENTINA!! So glad you enjoyed it, we can't wait for you to visit Ireland. I hope you guys are doing well... From grey and almost warm Kinsale! ☘️☮️🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮️☘️
My sister & niece are in Ireland visiting, so here's our trip to the Kerry Bog Village museum. Thanks to my friend Pat Crowley for his piano version of Danny Boy. And the most beautiful Irish Wolfhound makes an appearance at the end of the video! ☘☮🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮☘
It's much more apparent without the RU-vid compression. If you're looking to warm up your mix this is it! Thanks for dropping inAND thanks for leaving a comment! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Thanks for the video. Looking at the 476 myself. Initially I plan to record videos directly through the camera app on my phone. Acoustic guitar, vocals and my drum pedal. Is this possible to do with the Volt 476? Uncomplicated plug and play. I will get eventually get into editing through a DAW but that’s for another day. Would you recommend 476 for this purpose? Thank you
Hey James! You will probably need to use a DAW right away, if you're filming everything separately - you need a way to put the different tracks together & balance them. If you plan to film them simultaneously, they will be on one track. Luckily DAWs are fairly easy to use! If you have a Mac you could start with Garageband. Hope this helps! ☘️☮️🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮️☘️
@@SonnyGreenwichJr thank you Sonny. I was hoping just to record a live performance video directly through Volt and into camera app in iPhone 15. Was thinking that this would capture the live sound to a higher quality than using built-in iPhone mic. Is this not possible?
@@JamesKavanagh-s6h It is possible, but you would need external mics to go into the Volt. The USBc out of the Volt should record into USBc on the iPhone - although I'm not 100% sure how to record to the camera app. Interesting idea! I have guests at the moment but I will test this out next week... 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Thanks for the video. Looking at the 476 myself. Initially I plan to record videos directly through the camera app on my phone. Acoustic guitar, vocals and my drum pedal. Is this possible to do with the Volt 476? Uncomplicated plug and play. I will get eventually get into editing through a DAW but that’s for another day. Would you recommend 476 for this purpose? Thank you
It is possible, but you would need external mics to go into the Volt. The USBc out of the Volt should record into USBc on the iPhone - although I'm not 100% sure how to record to the camera app. Interesting idea! I have guests at the moment but I will test this out next week... 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
You're welcome! My template changes almost with every song, or when I add/subtract plugins. It took me a while to figure how to put things in the order I wanted, it seems complicated for no good reason! haha! Hope you get your template to work great for you! ☘️☮️🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮️☘️
… Real chilled out sound and it just ‘took me away’. Very talented guy indeed. I was looking at getting the Faderport, but was unsure if everything would work in Logic Pro without having to tweak/reprogram half of its functions to operate Logic in the right way … Your vid goes someways to answering that for me ( thank you 😉 ).
@@leonbarton2766 No problem at all! I did get the SSL UF8 & UF1 in the end (expensive, but the gear is really good.) You can find them secondhand every so often, you may want to keep an eye out. They integrate almost seamlessly with Logic Pro...
I’ve got a guy that’s offered me the Faderport for a crazy good price of £150 - about $190 US ). Did you find that the FP worked well out of the box with Logic when you were using it or did you have to faff about a lot to program the thing ?
Hey thanks for the comment! I'll try to do a video on setting up the interface. They are quite easy to set up, so don't let that scare you into not buying one. Good to see you here! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Great to hear! It's funny how much time I waste doing things that end up easy to accomplish! I often forget things and have to watch my own videos over to see how to do it! haha! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
UAD has made partially a good job here but.... they continue to not think till the end on this. Needed are these: A gain match knob! A lowcut filter to leave the lows untouched. A mix knob to adjust wet and dry. and visual feedback with numbers in the eq adjustments. Its ok ok to faithfully recreate old good stuff... i'm with you. But in todays times we should make things better and more usefull. Right now i have to do a lot of tweakin.. parallel processing to get what i want from the Ampex ATR 102. Further the UAD App does have many problems.. doesnt open properly, crashes, does not recognize licenses, with lot of restarts needed. UAD should remove once for all this tedious Ilok system and provide licenses like any other modern manufacturer😊😊
Luckily, I haven't had any of the iLok or crash issues. I hadn't even considered gain, lowcut, mix knob, etc. This will give them some very good upgrades for the future! I came up using the actual machine, so just changed the things I wanted to hear without thinking too hard about it. I'd be happy if they implemented any or all of your ideas, let's hope! Thanks so much for dropping by the channel and leaving a great comment. Means a lot to me! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Hey Sonny. I have 2 UF8s and use Logic Pro. I always use 360 mode rather than DAW mode. Is there a way to set it up so that the left UF8 only has the channels on it and the right UF8 only has the track stacks (ie. busses) on there?
Hey Danny! I think there may be a way, firstly I think they have to be separated in Logic. Meaning have all channels, then all your Stacks & busses following. The busses would have to have an SSL instance in the first slot to track to the 360º. There may be an easier way but I only have a single UF8 so i can't test. The Facebook group is a great place to ask questions. "SSL UF1/UF8/UC1/360 Users" is the group. Thanks for dropping by AND thanks for the comment! Hope you figure it out! Let me know if you do! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Right on . Likewise . I find some tape emulation pluguns really are just eq /compressors ….but who doesn’t love a GUI that makes you feel like you have the real thing . The idea that it rounds off some offensive highs sounds promising and the UAD native stuff has been pretty good. Thank you . I’ll check out more of jour videos as well !!!😎☮️
Hey Jon! I've tried quite a few of the tape simulators over the past couple of years, looking for "that" sound. Every one has been WAY to obvious, to the point of me not using them. They almost sound like they are just distortion, the 102 however is much more subtle. To my ear it sounds much closer to what the actual tape machines did, making the whole mix a bit more cohesive, not just added distortion. I'm not sure technically what it's doing but it seems to compress very evenly, making the track sound bigger. The high frequency trick that Marc Daniel Nelson uses, seems like it will be a real help getting highs that aren't piercing or shrill. I guess all I’m saying is, this works as advertised where the others I’ve tried did not. Thanks so much for stopping by AND leaving a comment. It does mean a lot to me! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
You know…, these little/big details that make a HUGE difference! It looks beautiful and it sounds awesome. Thank you, Maestro! Hugs from super hot 🥵 Italy 🇮🇹
Although it's hard to hear in the video, this thing is great! It can do it all, as far as tape emulators go! SAY HELLO down below! I love hearing from you guys! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Your dad is so underappreciated, one of my main influences. In particular this record, I heard it in the 80's at the Toronto library, and kept going back to hear it. Even then I could not find it.
Thanks so much, I'll pass on your comment. I wish there was a way to re-release the "lost" albums. I don't even have them all! Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
@@SonnyGreenwichJr Thank you, I would also love to buys his composition and his arrangement some of songs he wrote and played, this one and his take on mademoiselle de Paris. Again his music is truly uplifting, I have to confess I also like you band from back in the day.
Thanks for the great video! Do you have any suggestion about zoom function in Logic with UF8 encoder wheel? Also how to you scroll in your projects? I find the encoder too slow for navigation.
Hey! I bought the UF1, the jog wheel on it is great! I know that's not a great answer... I did program a 10 track jump into my soft keys, this helped a lot with giant mixes. There doesn't seem to be any way of changing the encoder though but do make sure youaren't in nudge mode Thanks for dropping by the channel and leavoing a comment, sorry I couldn't be of more help! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Me too! 3rd?! Amazing! I did try to go see them again, in Italy but the flights were just too expensive! Will go again next tour! thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
Dude I thought you’d changed my life then, but when I press save it asks me to save a preset. Is there anyway to stop ALL software instruments from creating buses?
Fantastic. Vegas is a place I’ve wanted to visit for a long time. Plus, you even got to see the Stones! I’ve been watching a Vegas Cop series on TV and boy, it looks a lively place. Your video really shows that too. Glad you had a good time. Next week, we’re off to USA for three weeks and crossing our fingers that we don’t get too badly hit by a hurricane! We’ve done that before in Miami with flying boats and all! This time, we’re down a bit to Key Largo.
Oh man, that sounds fantastic! I've played in Florida a few times but never made it as far as the Keys! Have a great trip, can't wait to see the videos! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
@@SonnyGreenwichJr I heard that the advanatge is having two TRS inputs to record line level stuff keybpards et c and bypass the vinatge/ compression ? does that sound correct?
Ah yes, there are two extra TRS inputs. These could indeed be helpful with Stereo stuff for sure. Because i'm on my own in my home studio, i often overlook things like that! 💪🏽🤠👍🏽
SONNY!!!! LOVE this vlog. Reminds me of the good old days 🥹 I was in Paris for work a couple of months ago - flew into Orly for the first time. Holy 💩- what a difference. Try and get there next time. If I can avoid CDG (or Pearson or Trudeau) I will 😅 loved seeing the sights you did around the city. You are such a great vlogger. Definitely taught ME a thing or two. Loved the graveyard - what a find you made. This is a passion of mine as well. Have been to graveyards in Vienna, Budapest and various other cities. Absolutely fascinating. Never in Paris though. Next time … much love to you from extremely sunny and fabulous Wales 🥰
Thanks so much, Mark! Crazy that I even got nominated! Hope to see you next time we hit Malaga, I've been through a couple of times but both for only a few days! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
If it wasn't for the fact I was just in Vegas, I would be going for sure! It's a long & expensive way from Ireland but I'm still hoping for a miracle! 🤣 Thanks so much for the comment! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥
