Determining Zulu settings for best results

Learn how to gauge levels and settings for Handsome Audio Zulu. I cover mixbuss, vocals and drums. Please be sure to leave a comment!

[jayemakebeats]

Great tutorials showing Zulu in action. Also thanks for sharing so many gems on using tape. Zulu will be a great addition in my set

[WeFullTime]

Major Gems Dropped, especially at 1:40:00, Thanks Langston, True Genius.

[AnthonyMartinsRock]

I can't wait to get mine!!! its in the post! So excited!

[michaelvanzetten]

Great stuff yeh the last bit of education towards the end was fab im into smokey 50, s style i have rca ribbons top end vintage neumann copys ol preamps rca ba6a im ready to make some sun music but can't be bothered handling tape i have a nagra4.2 rola 77 but yeh just cant be bothered ysing my fingaz fiddling have you got one of these puppy z with the eq thing available to buy im in Oz cheerz

[Truth-Speaker]

Could you show how you would track thru Zulu with a condenser mic that requires phantom power.

[langstonmasingale]

At 15:14 I misspoke. EX mode is Ampex 499. Long night LOL

[joshandrus]

What’s a girl gotta do to get themselves a Zulu?

[cbrooks]

I’m extremely frustrated that I bought this thing, and it came with no instructional manual. I have no clue what each knob is actually doing. The only knob I can hear any clear change with is the enhance knob. It seems to add treble and depth. The rest do almost nothing. To make it worse, there’s no tutorials on how to get it to run smoothly with Logic. I’m having all sorts of issues, and it seems like I’m SOL. I don’t know why, but I have the worst luck with gear.

[nzreggae]

This beat is wack. I can't hear what Zulu is doing. Having a techno distorted type bass drum sound doesn't help trying to discern the effect of the Zulu.
Take a one mic digital drum recording and turn it into a Daptone late 60's soul breakbeat sound with the Zulu then I'll believe in it.
Process individuals tracks and A/B switch between Zulu and no Zulu mix so we can hear a cumulative effect of the Zulu.
This isn't tape. It is hardware saturation. But how useful is it?
Telling me it sounds like you sent your wack beat to a mastering engineer with million dollar gear doesn't influence my ears or convince me.
Wack demo Langston.
PS, I'm still gonna buy one to experiment with it.