The ANALOG MASTERING CHAIN for EVERYBODY?

INDEX
00:00 Intro
00:23 What is Access Analog?
00:42 The new chain
01:11 What's in the chain?
02:53 Disclosure
03:53 Testing
04:48 Infrasonic Transformer
05:13 Bax EQ
07:17 Massive Passive
09:52 Maag Magnum K
12:14 Masterbus processor
13:53 My Gear Addiction
14:31 Masterbus Converter and Limiter
15:02 The benefits of "analog in the cloud"
18:45 Support me!

[bontempo]

The Dangerous Bax EQ brings the audio into another dimension. Like, "here is all the weight and glory your audio could have, and i'll do that with sparkling crystal transparency".

[alkhayracademy]

Man, you DESERVE AT LEAST 500k subs. Quality, consistency, and detailed reviews. Keep it up !

[danielleohallisey]

I feel like this cool jazz is perfect for this demo. Very smooth, makes the magic of the gear really shine

[antoniodelgiudice]

The best plugin emulation of the Bax EQ is the Coral Bax-Ter Eq by acustica audio, which is free btw

[stevetaylor]

I’ve been using access analog for 4ish months now and absolutely love it. There is definitely the fact that I now have pieces of gear I absolutely want to buy but also the expense factor is an interesting topic to me because they offer unlimited use of the gear for $600 for 6 months. So at $100/month that’s much cheaper than buying all the gear I use regularly with AA. However, you get into the discuss of renting vs owning. A service like this you don’t own it so your money isn’t going into owning the gear but it’s also much less expensive and the pros of not needing to service the gear and having recall outweigh my personal need for owning the gear. For me personally it’s been an excellent option but there are downsides such as having to wait for gear to become available. That has been the biggest issue I’ve experienced. So even with a subscription I will still reserve the gear for an allotted amount of time.

I think it’s definitely something that will work amazing for some and not be worth it to others but I can say for me personally it has really been a great tool and I love using it.

[marcito]

theres plugins of all of these, do you plan on making a comparison video? that would probably be interesting

EDIT: im aware of paul third, i mean these specific units

[Whiteseastudio]

Access Analog recommends everybody to update to at least v6.0.16. The rate of the rig will be $89, 99 per hour, subscriptions are available as well.

To use the discount coupon (hidden in the video somewhere), go to the "Reserve" page and find the Infrasonic device and click into there. Then pick a time from the calendar and add the reservation to the cart. Then apply the coupon in the cart.

It would be cool to do a 'test' using similar plugins and then recreate them in Acces Analog and make adjustments.

[kipcasey]

11:42 everything is subtle, until you hit the Engage button

[Tyrell_Corp]

Considering you need to book time as though physically in their studio… I’m wondering how many of these particular set ups they have? It wouldn’t take long for a few hundred musicians around the world to overload the demand, especially if there was only one arrangement of all of these pieces. 🤔

[BociBeats]

I use Access Analog all the time for some mix bus bits and mastering work and I love it. Great to see the guys adding this mastering chain in too and I'm eager to try it out. It would be really awesome in the future to be able to use these beautiful pieces of hardware individually as you can with the RND Portico ii. Wanna get my hands on that hardware Bax as I use the Acustica Audio plugin, but I would love to have the hardware in my chain. Love the video.

[LarryLobo]

That Maag compressor instantly gave the feel of Al Schmitt’s mix! Crazy!!

[markuskopter]

As a German, I was surprised hearing you using the word Fingerspitzengefühl. I didn't know that this was a loanword in English. So, thank you! I learned something new today.

[andreievkalupniek]

You didn't re-engage the MAAG EQ - the last button on the right - it was dis-engaged at 10:55🙂 Happens to all of us

[GabePlaysYT]

I think this may genuinely be the future, though we're not there yet. Like he says, imagine all of our plugins are literally just accessing hardware gear in the cloud. Right now, I think it's not worth it to mix a whole track, but if you're working on a whole album or a slew of tracks that need final mastering, this is a great way to give them weight and depth

[TheSonorabob]

It also lets you stay right in the sweet spot for listening while making adjustments. Great stuff.

[ozyman]

You are a great individual, never stop being true to yourself and us respectively.

[xpirydate]

thank you for all your videos you are a blessing for the mixmaster community

[joosakurvinen]

This was also interesting from the accessibility point of view. For example I couldn't physically turn the knobs on analog gear, but using them through robots like this would open that world for me too.

[MattSalamone]

Awesome.. Can't wait for Brian Lucey's mastering chain with the Fairman EQ!