Your videos are always a pleasure to watch. I’ve been following you for awhile now. Very professional, well spoken, and lots of information. I love that you are using some older gear now and then, so we fans don’t feel like you always have to have the latest and most expensive gear. You do amazing things with all level of equipment. Very fun to watch. On a side note, I’d like to email you my setup…a hybrid of sorts, using a Soundcraft mixer, Reaper, hardware synths, etc….and see what your thoughts are. Be nice to get a pro’s input…to let me know if I’m doing things the best way. I know you are prolly very busy…so regardless, keep up the great work and thank you for all the videos. Hello from Ohio! 😊
Thank you! I have always enjoyed making the videos for this channel. I'll use whatever I come across to see if I get interesting sounds and also how useful it might be. I don't really have a lot of high-end gear myself but I have managed to collect some really nice sounding gear over the years. I'd be happy to help with your setup. You can email me Grady at twincreekaudio I don't think the contact form on my website works anymore. Thanks again;
i had a 450 and let me tell u brother im jelous. it was a great board and those of us who were crazy enough to record at home were real cowboys love the vid, love the channel
Thank you! I would have been extremely happy with this back in the 80s and rarely 90s. I only had a 4 track back then. I'd see these in the magazines and wish I had one with a little 8 track. Eventually I got one of those Tascam 488s which was super cool too!
Thank you! I. Finally finding time to make some new videos. I enjoyed our chat a lot as well. Glad to see that your channel is doing well. I always look forward to each new video especially when you are talking about analog gear.
Hi! I wonder if, in the case of having a small console without tape inserts, there is any difference in terms of the sound that can be achieved by connecting the signal through the line inputs. I have a small mixer, the Soundtracs Topaz Macro, and the line inputs of the mono channels go through the preamp. Thanks!
There may be a slight difference and you could use the EQ rather than a plugin but with only 8 channels and a clean sounding console like the Maxi, it won't add much analog color. Mostly likely a console emulation plugin would add more color as most small mixers are fairly clean sounding except for more vintage models. I don't remember how the EQ sounds on the Maxi but that could be an advantage to using it.
I saved this one from a pawn shop a few years ago to add to my collection. I would have loved to have this back in the 80s and 90s when I had no studio or gear. A lot of features for the money they go for now too.
The 454 is a little newer than the 450 and has some extra features and seems to be a little more solid but the 450 is reliable and well built too. The preamps are similar to most 4558/59 opamp based designs from the 80s like Carvin or earlier Mackie. There are clean and quiet as far as preamps go. Fairly accurate but they are transformerless and don't add a lot of color.
The firewire situation on new machines is depressing. I have a gorgeous sounding Focusrite liquid 56 firewire interface but I cant use the damn thing . I have a *theory* that I might be able to use it as an ADAT slave, but yeah. I replaced it with a Presonus interface and I'm *not* happy with that interface cos it seems to just have no headroom in the pre's forcing me to rely on ADAT to a crufty behringer ultragain (Thats actually quite nice, but its not as sweet sounding as that liquid56 did.)
I think there may be a work around on newer macOS if you feel like using the command line to try and fix it. I'm just going to stay with Monterey as long as I can. Eventually I'll have to replace all my audio interfaces or maybe start using my tape machine more instead since it doesn't get outdated by software changes.
@@TwinCreekAudio I know your gonna hate me for saying this but i have windows 10 running firewire on a yamaha N12 and a focusright pro 40 with no problems. I even have old laptops windows 7 that run perfect you can buy firewire card for a pc for $4
