Outboard Gear - Where to Start?

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Where do you start when you want to buy some analog outboard gear? Do you start with a preamp? Or a compressor? Maybe some FX units? Well where you will want to start is based on your recording interface. So we are going to use your audio interface as a guide to let us know where we should start with buying outboard gear.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Where to Start with Outboard Gear?
0:12 - Outboard - Tracking and Mixing
0:38 - Outboard Gear for Tracking
3:19 - Outboard Gear for Mixing
4:20 - Summary

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As someone who started in the box as a teenager, and has slowly but surely integrated A LOT of outboard gear & instruments and am now 30, my suggestion is start simple. I have some seriously high end pieces of gear that I’ve owned for 3 years and I still find myself being surprised at what they can do and building deeper relationships with their nuances. And I 100% was not using them intelligently at first, they were making certain things better but also introducing nee problems.

The other thing to bear in mind is hardware is not some magical silver bullet that will make your mixes suddenly sound professional and perfect. It has it’s own quirks and drawbacks and a totally different workflow. Hardware really starts to shine when the subtle artifacts add up across a production/mix. So if you get something that you can use a lot, it will have a bigger impact than just, for instance, a mixbuss compressor.

Channel strip is probs the move, saw that in another comment. If you have the budget, getting a stereo pair could be even more fun.

My personal philosophy when it comes to hardware though is don’t buy hardware for hardware’s sake. Save money and buy something of genuine quality. Plug-ins are good these days, you should buy something that is unique and can’t be well emulated. Something like the Overstayer NT0-2A would be a great thing to start with - badass analog distortion unit that can go subtle saturation to nuclear destructive distortion. Alternatively, don’t over-do it and think if you’re not buying SSL, Neve, or API that it’s a waste of money. Midrange priced clones are still a HUGE step up (ex: Heritage Audio 1073 clone). Once you cross a certain price point, the differences start to become marginal, but there is a big difference between a $300 preamp and a $800 preamp, for example. Less of a difference between an $800 and a $2000 pre.

Also ask why you want to get hardware. If you don’t have any exposure to it, try to find a show room and test some stuff out (not always possible of course). I think hardware makes the biggest noticeable difference on drums and vocals, which are usually the 2 most important things in most genres.

Also ask yourself if you want Tube gear or solid state gear. There is a remarkable difference between how they amplify audio. Tube is gonna give you a way more mellow sound - not always desirable! Solid state will sound closer to what you’re used to hearing digitally in terms of transient definition.

Anyway, doubt anyone read all this but if you did, hope it helps!

SylvanPaul

I’m 40 seconds in. Already this guy is explaining things perfectly and I have full faith this video will teach me a lot, which it already has done in 40 seconds. You have a way with words my friend, no doubt you have a way with music too! Peace

dystoproducing

You’re the only video and person so far I’ve found that’s made this topic easier to understand for someone whose been “in the box” for years and wants to get into outboard gear. Thank you!!

Though... how does the routing and exporting work for outboard gear in a daw when using gear for mixing? FYI I use Reason studios and Protools mostly.

MrEffectify

Thank you for being so concise with so much information! Very appreciated. I feel like a lot of the music community thinks everyone should learn the hard way, all trial and error and figuring everything out yourself. That's ridiculous, and videos like this spit in the face of that idea. Thanks again :)

parkerrieke

From my experience i would suggest the first analog piece for anyone would be to get a good channel strip. Its easy to connect and would get you a good recording going in to where you would need minimal work inside the box to finish a record. Once you master that every other analog equipment you buy will easily click on how to use it and a little easier to figure out how to route everything in a hybrid fashion.

michaelrice

Don't know if any of y'all don't know this but you can also achieve this with a mixer....Have your mic plugged into a mixer the line out of the the outboard gear plugged into your insert channel on your mixer and the mixer out into the input of the audio interface

neovincibeats

Clear and to the point. Exactly the info I was looking for.
I was considering trying to do it with a patch bay and a mixer with a 4X4 USB.

Feldspar__

Thank you bro. Was searching and searching. You got straight to the point and exactly what I was looking for

Spencerlayne

Great vid! Very simple yet utterly informative! Awesome job bud! 🙌🏽

francoisberkinjr

great explanation, simple and clear! thank you

willox

I remember way back when I started I didn’t hear as much about pres as I would come to hear in the last 10-15 yrs. Not that they weren’t acknowledged but the appreciation of what they offer in terms of color. Those early 2000’s especially got really sterile with people being afraid to record things with anything on it. But man I have come to really love a palette of them because it’s the frontline of color that made those older recordings part of their charm (on top of great talent and performance) they aren’t as “sexy” as compression and eq but you get cumulative with them and can really appreciate them.

nikdrown

I use a mixer and a few analog hardware like comps and preamps. I just use them mainly for vocals going to tape and everything else I use plugins. I would love to able to run my main mix out of the box to a nice compressor in the future

GuitarLessonsMadeEasy

Another choice would be a small mixer that would give you maybe 4 to 6 mono inputs with inserts plus maybe a couple of stereo inputs. All would come with some sort of EQ. Mixers are always useful to have around and can be found cheap second hand, I got my Peavey PV 10 for £20 from a charity shop. At the moment I have my CD player, Turntable and Reel to Reel machine plugged in to it it so I can choose which one I patch into my monitors for casual listening. It works a treat. The extra mic pre`s are there as a bonus for me just in case.

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