HOW TO CONNECT A HOME STUDIO LIKE A PRO STUDIO 

What are you doing in your studio?

andrew, as an aspiring audio engineer (and music artist) you have given me the drive to keep going and become a professional! thank you

This video summarizes what I love about your work on YT. The photography is neat, the delivery and explanations are clear and easy to get. This is really motivating.

Man I’ve been looking for so long for a video like this that actually goes this in depth and practical and is explained well. Thank you!!

Beautiful done video Andrew. Perfectly explained. Creating without technical hang ups.

Andrew, Thank you for breaking it down for us dummies who love your channel but don’t understand 95% of the videos, the learning curve is steep for us newcomers. Hoping you and Colt, collab on a Recording/Mixing/Mastering basics class I can buy! Cheers mate! Very Respectfully, Jared

Good to see a nice technical video of how a studio is configured. Never seen all of this info in one place. Very useful

This was a huge amount of help. I feel like a load has been lifted off my mind after watching this. Answered so many questions. Thank you!!!

This great for me, as I have a few older items I purchased decades ago, like a producer pack and old Neumann & AKG mics, even a nice old Trident console! (Needs major service), when I was recording in 2 inch tape studios as a singer/songwriter/guitarist in bands. I’d done a couple of albums & my bass player got us into a Paris system at the time. He was into the newest technologies of the day. Fast forward many years & I get an Apollo and logic & Luna and some plugins and want to utilise analogue gear which I own as well! I’ve been gigging with various bands, and felt almost ashamed at having many songs & ideas and nice studio bits and pieces but realised “I” need to get a handle on this before I’m in a rocking chair regretting wasting time, equipment & ideas!! I’ve always known what I like to hear, and some of my ideas became decisions employed by producers and engineers on tracks! I just never knew anything outside of the few things I saw engineers doing in those hideously expensive studios with only Cubase beginning to be incorporated. My bass player got all the early “Paris” set up and running back then, so understanding any technical stuff was his domain. Anyhow, thanks for showing these steps, as it’s a steep learning curve I’m embarking on. If you’re interested, below is something my band recorded on tape and believe we’d just purchased Paris, which was to overtake and succeed Cubase! Early 90’s. (Hope I correctly linked, I’m such a novice). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QqY6e6NeLlo.html

This is exactly the video I was looking for! Thank you so much for explaining your setup! I'm going to be finishing my studio in a couple months and this content hit the nail on the head.

I love this. And I’m exactly the same. Gotta build the magic of a studio at home. And I hate to have a software version of everything. Having tangible gear really makes the work flow a lot more fluid, and way more fun.

Your videos rule man! Always wondered these types of things please more on this matter!

Great video Andrew! Very helpful I'm in the process of drawing up diagrams for my studio and you gave me some ideas, love your studio man! Very nice!

Thanks man, I even went to school for this and I didnt really understand patch bays untill now.

very informative!! thanks Andrew!

What an informative video!!! Great job,man.

New happy subscriber! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us , I’m a new studio dreamer and so happy with your videos and help 🙌🏻

great, I'm about to do a room for recording , mix and all.. not that complete in terms of material, but good enough. And this is always helpful. thanks great tips

Have you ever had a problem with bringing the mics into the patch bay as TRS? I assume you're really the only one plugging and unplugging mics in your studio. How do you ensure phantom power is managed properly? Keeping it off the passive ribbons, making sure not to short the TRS connections when patching, etc.? What part of the signal flow do you find most problematic? What would you most like to improve? What's the most clever thing you've done in your wiring? 🙂

great video. I think the real take-away for people here no matter what level of complexity/or not their setup is, is that this arrangement is fully scaleable. So even if you've only got maybe a small mixer and/or a 4 or 8 channel interface, and just a couple of outboard items, and a couple of mics, you maybe able to be fully connected and ready to go with just one patch bay. I remember when i setup my first patchbay,. That I was then able to get into the flow without having to reconnect everything, everytime I had to record something else, was a liberating life changing experience in my humble little home studio.

Thank you for this amazing video. For now I'm fully digital producing in my studio. All inputs to an ADAT I/o to a small 18i8o interface.

so clear and to the point. awesome video!

Fascinating and masochistic, learned quite a bit, would be great to see a video with more details re the personal monitor setup, like to send the audio from DAW to the system

Oh yeah! Getting into the good stuff 🙌

Been binge watching your videos. Moving into a new house, super psyched to set up my studio. Currently working in a small room. Kinda sucks. lol.

I rap, make beats, and do post production stuff(mixing) with a hybrid setup. I've gone the semi-minimalist route, but high quality stuff. I have limited myself to 3 pieces of outboard gear, so my interface has sufficient ins and outs. No patch bay required. My outboard needed to have a "wow" factor to it to be kept, but ALSO had to have multiple uses. Tough to accomplish. With the (3) pieces I technically have 4 compressors, 5 styles of saturation, M/S functionality, a 3 band EQ, transformers and tubes, that can adequately be used on all forms of instrumentation and vocals. A tremendous amount of thought and tweaking went into my setup, so I really identify with and appreciate what you've done here. Its well though out for your use case.

Wow, this home studio looks like a pro studio to me :) You did a demanding and outstanding job!

That was realy helpful for me - and a very good explanation thanks! In my studio i have more electronic equipment so i need also a ton of midi cables ..

dope man! good to see I've followed much of what you did

This was super helpful! Just gonna stick with my small home studio vibe for now though.

Very well explained. Thank you for your video

Thanks for doing that Andrew, i love cabeliing (is that a word) don't have many cables at this point but the cables i have you can not see them good job, keep it up man. love you channel

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you for this

Fancy home studio I love it

truth is, I had the basic setups for a LONG time, but now I’m at a time in my recording/production “career” that I want to have all of the external hardware and gadgets to take my skills to the next level

this video is gold. Thank you!!

very informative, thank you Andrew!!!

I would love to see you do hybrids "studio setups" that are confined to budget, size (pc+interface+rack all fits under/on a table) or genre. Either demonstrating with gear you have or theoretical gear

Great video man!

Exatly what I needed to know about setting up outboard gear

Nice setup man. I like Warm Audio mic preamps. Art has some good mic preamps as well. Art is very underrated as an audio company.

Thank you for this! You’ve got such a great setup. How do you manage power? Are you using a power conditioner and are you able to fit everything on one circuit? If so, how many amps are on that circuit? Also, what does the power consumption of a setup like this require? Looking to spec out a PV solar panel setup.

Serious Mr. Rogers vibes. Perfect!

Your setup is sick man.. I like your style!

I love the setups where you can walk to an instrument cluster and make some noise and you can both get an immediate sound from what's in front of you and it's being piped into the system. Basically I love Stewart Copeland's studio lol. I want a halfway decent acoustic space, not too big, where everything is being recorded all of the time, even if it's just a few omni mics tucked here and there. SO MANY TIMES I say "always be recording" when something amazing happens and it's immediately vapor. There's no reason not to just have an old phone recording with the voice memo or something, you know?

Thanks. I'm appreciated!

Great information! Awesome studio!

I remember putting my studio together years ago and there were no videos like this. Wish you were around five years ago.

I've got 2 Neve pre's (without EQ), 4 SSL Xlogic VHD, 1 Distressor, Scarlett 18i8. 2 patchbays, Moogs, 2600s, etc, Marshalls, Strat, Les Paul, Music Man Bass, Clarinet, Sax, Theremin, etc. recent build. Loving the new home office. thanks for confirming much in your helpful vid. cheers. come out to SoCal Winecountry; we'll party, eat, and jam

u my new teacher... new subscriber alert!!

You have help my studio so much brother thanks

Super nice Video, thnx!

Great breakdown, thanks for all the info. One question: How is MIDI implemented and how does it integrate with the audio setup and your DAW?

Beautiful video, very informative, just added more to my sweetwater cart lol

Love your channel thanks for theHelp

This was great, thank you!

Woah, seasick intro clip … wheeee! You sure have a collection of cool stuff, mate! Nice spaghetti, by the way!

m905 !!!! congrats !!!! hope you took it with the DA card !!! the DAC is just incredible BTW feedback on this burl summing ??? I am starting to think about getting one

I am actually in the process of wiring up everything in my new home studio to my new Dangerfox desk that arrived last week. I'm going to have a similar setup to yours with several pieces of outboard preamps, compressors, 500 series, summing mixer, etc. running into a couple Apollo interfaces. I noticed you have vents between most of your preamps now. Were you having heat buildup issues in the desk? The venting in the Dangerfox desk seems pretty adequate between the bottom and back sides of the rack box.

I don't know if I would've understood this a few years ago. But man I bet it would've helped me understand signal flow faster.

oooh i see you have the audioscape neve style pres!! demo and comparison soon please??

Great video bro!!!!

I’m looking into the behringer p16 system like you have. I was just not sure if I could use the optical cable out from my Focusrite Saffire. I currently am using the adat in for an external behringer ada8200 mic pre for 16 channels.

Great Video Andrew! Do you mind sharing how you learned to setup your hardware and specifically how did you get over the learning curve of recording software? Did you go to school for this, watch vids/ read books, or learn from friends or hire a consultant? Also, if you were a beginner now with a similar setup, how would you learn the craft?

Fabulous 👌 tips

Outstanding

Hey Andrew, Big fan of your work, a few questions (great videos by the way) 1)Do you have any of your Warm Audio Preamps Hooked up at Line level on your patchbay? 2) Do you have any issues running 48V Phantom power from the preamps on to your Patchbays, 3) is the grounding on your patchbays set to vertically strapped or issolated to avoid Ground loops?

Love the videos. Would love more info on the I/O of the whole thing. How do you get from your snake into your patch bay? What connections are you using to get into all of your interfaces? Would love to see a big fat diagram that shows what connections lead to what, primarily how you end up from xlr to 1/4 inch to DB25 to adat and so on. Keep up the great work bro and thanks for all the info.

Andrew has a large bowl of veggies just chillin on the desk! Great video by the way lol

Andrew: “If you’re a masochist like me” Me: Hold my beer *records to tape with an exclusively analog signal chain*

Currently trying to integrate a flock patch into my setup to do similar

Awesome bro I’m currently in the midst of creating my home professional studio. My entire studio got flooded by than hurricane ida so I’m starting from scratch and I was just reading the comments on Sweetwater for those pre amps WA 273 reading the threads in comments is making me want to purchase atleast 1 I previously had the focusrite platinum voice master they were decent. I’m a protools user for over 20 years so I’m looking into these new interfaces the Apollo carbon presonus and focusrite what are your views between carbon from avid and the Apollo’s they both seem about similar

I would have loved this video when I first started recording! I’ll be honest though, patch bays still confuse me a little haha

Hi, just came across your video. It's great! Really clear. I've just done a refit in my home studio and I was offered loan of an outboard reverb unit (Lexicon mx400). I've only ever used software plugins so this is new territory for me. Could I hook it up to my audio interface via spdif so I still use the mic pre's on my interface? I'm thinking mic>interface>spdif out to reverb unit>spdif back in to interface>PC. Am I getting that right?? Sorry if it's a bit of a noob question 😬

Andrew, I'm waiting for my Dangerfox 24U desk to arrive. It's taking forever but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I have an Apollo 6 from UA. A Focusrite ISA 428 mic pre. I have a UF8 SSL controller like you have and I want to rack mount it in the Genesis. I also have a UC1 which I'm hoping to rack mount next to it. I also have an AMS RMX verb that I notice you have rack mounted. I've been wondering if that can go into the Genesis as well in a 500 series rack, and it looks like you've done it. So everything is sitting and waiting for the Genesis to arrive. 18 weeks to get a desk is pretty nuts but I'm sure all that will be in the past once I have it assembled and gear going in. Enjoying your videos. My studio is primarily for my own personal use. Just acoustic guitar, and vocals, for tracking and then mixing and mastering.

Awesomeness

Thx it’s hard to find these setup videos

im trying to get my acoustics right in my production room

Dude I've been hoping someone would make a video exactly like this one. Would love to see a similar explanation on an old school analog tape set up.

it's all about the patch bays!!!

I love all my outboard gear, wile wiring is a pain, it's still worth it

I watched the video hoping to find out about power supplies for a home recording studio in the uk. How is all the electric gear powered and what extensions etc do you use please?

Can you get into power conditioning? Is there anything actually worth buying to reduce noise/hiss in signals.

Totally loved it !!! Always follow ur videos constantly !!! Keep making them...may ur channel grow amazing !!! I'm sharing to many. !! Absolutely love ur vids !! ...plz do teach about worship style mixing and the level of music in them ! Will always look up to u !!🤩

Hi Andrew, I'm a big fan of your channel; wanted to know the brand/model of your black patch bays? Looked through the gear list that you posted but couldn't find them. Thank you : )

Yooo, damn sick studio! For those using software plugins and instruments an MP Controller would be ideal!!

Question about the optical output of the Apollo unit - does that send a direct signal to the headphone mixing amp? Or is it post DAW?

I’m looking to connect my focusrite 18i20 3rd edition to a mic box and give me mroe inputs for microphones but not finding any options

How do you connect an xlr cable into the patch bay? Does it go into the preamps first and then the trs cable from the preamp go into the patch bay?

Man, always great content and no fakery bullshit on this channel. Love it and thank you!

I see that new monitor controller 👀

Who built your audio desk?? Thinking of getting a new one. Great videos!! Thanks!

Nice but two thinks 1. If you own Apollo is it such much diference between unison preamps and real preamps ? :) 2. Due the Behriger system is needed meaning is not posible to make directly from Uad x8p ? ;)

This was awesome! So are your microphone cables all xlr to 1/4 inch trs into the patch bay?

what's the manufacturer/model of patch bays you are using?

__Great Information_ *Andrew* ‼I did expect to see a shrimp pop out of your salad 🦐

I haven’t made the leap to a patchbay yet. Looking into it now as I have started acquiring outboard gear. Curious how phantom power works with a patchbay in the setup. Maybe a future video?

thanks man! ...

Great video! 👏...but yours is more like a Home "PRO" studio lol, thanks for the sort of Recording studio connections 101, Basic Pro Studio setup, Studio Connections for dummies hehehe Very informative, thanks again and keep up with these kind of videos 👍

I want to know how you power everything on a home circuit? I have every outlet used in my mixing room and I'm maxed out. I would need another service to my house to add anymore consumers.