Carlo Cantini Analog Mixing on Neve (Soul-Singer) 

I wish I had people like you listening to my music 😂

Dude honestly, after like 50 hours on one, it's...really clunky. Disappointingly low-quality touchscreen too.

@@TJF97what’s clunky about the console apart from the touch screen?

@@caminglis53 To disregard the touch screen is to disregard most of the console's functionality; that's one issue with the console and your question. Now before I get too ahead of myself I'll say I'm not really entrenched in the recording world, so perhaps this is just the nuance of a tracking console vs a mixing console being lost on me, but: You can't do much on the desk without the touchscreen. The screen itself seems to be a commercial model similar to Planar 24"; if you've never used one, they have about a 1/4" gap between the touch plastic (not glass) and the display itself, which makes it feel flimsy to use. And if you wish to use any EQ, comp, or filters, you must use the screen, and you must drag and drop. To change an EQ param from bell to shelf, you must press several buttons at once. The only encoders on the control surface are for gain/trim, sends, and pan. All the cool bits of hybrid desks-soft patch matrix, session recall, template storage/recall, signal path adjustments-are locked to the touchscreen and are just about always drag-and-drop. It's thoroughly unpleasant to apply the requisite pressure and drag a finger over this touch surface, which, again, is slightly texured plastic and not glass. Adjustment of all EQ and comp circuits is done using a single set of four infinite encoders which do not intuitively translate to paramter adjustment for either processor. Aside from the touchscreen, I'm not a fan of: no hard patch coming into the desk, difficulty switching banks to DAW mode and back, frequent network failures, and personally I'd have loved a digital looback feeding a recorder, just for rough prints, but that's a me thing.

@@TJF97 yes right yeah I see. Regarding the faders that can be used for the daw do you think they properly zero out when in daw mode (this is hard electronics wise because of making both modes 100% compatible) but do you see the faders in daw mode working probably of notice what others have said, about not zeroing out daw tracks?

Maybe for recording but not for mixing and mastering.

@@jiddec Why not?,... for decades mixing and mastering did their work entirely on analog equipment. some of the best sounding records were recorded, mixed, edited and mastered totally in the analog world with the best equipment available ,... that is still highly sought after today. Obviously editing in the digital world is much quicker which is a huge benefit.The iZ Technology RADAR 24 digital multitrack recorder is the closest thing I have heard yet to 2" analog multitrack tape machines,... expensive but worth every penny if looking for that warm sound quality.

@@33AndAThirdRPM I think this is just a matter of preference based on a sound you're familiar with or used to because in reality no two analog boards sound the same and besides that, the consumers can't tell the subtle difference between two analog boards or OTB and ITB sounds, to them if it sounds good it's good. All these subtle differences talk happen only among audio engineers. To sum it up, when I watched the final video of this song (mastering) I concluded this is achievable 100% ITB in my opinion plus the advantage of recallable mix preset and faster workflow..

I don't think you can

@@andreagaravini5014 I do it all the time.

Its a Neve Genesys Black ;)

black Genesys

Yes!! white elephant! not use, only parket

of course lol. you can run any sound thru it from any recorder or digital audio recorder/DAW.. ur funny...

Ey man, i am thinking of getting some old analog mixer but it seems not every one can route audio from a daw thru the preamps and back. What would be the way to do it?What specifications on the mix desk should i look for? I just want to test this on some cheaper mixer and route audio from a DAW thru analog preamps and back.. Thx