My Studio Computer: For Recording, Producing, Mixing, & Mastering

PRODUCTS IN THIS VIDEO:
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We Produce: HIP HOP - EDM - POP - ROCK Tracks
We Mix Tracks $30/hour & Master $30/track
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TRUE SOUND STUDIOS:
Located in: Lancaster NY
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Typical the amount of hours to mix 1 song:
Hip Hop: 2-4 hours
Full Band: 4-6 hours
Acoustic: 2-3 hours
Pop/EDM: 3-5 hours
(This is all based on track count, amount of processing needed, length of track, and amount of production required)

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BACKGROUND: Ryan Weezna - Producer, Mix Engineer, Mastering Engineer, Keyboardist, Drummer, Singer
• Shared the stage with acts including Rihanna, Plain White T's and Teddy Geiger
• Performed and toured on the East Coast
• Produced and recorded over 3400 tracks of mixed musical genres
• Created music and appeared on major TV networks including, MTV, VH1 and CMT and ABC Family
• Worked with industry leading producers such as Shep Goodman, Kenny Gioia, and Sam Conjerti Jr.

[davebass]

It's nice to see another studio that is Non-Apple, Non-ProTools. I know that they are usually the Standard, but there are a lot of other DAWs out there besides ProTools. I have Sonar Producer Platinum running a Z Series HP Workstation that has dual Xeon 3.5 processors for a total of 8 cores with 32 Gigs RAM with Dual Monitor, and not once has it ever even hiccuped.Sounds awesome and I'm getting Platinum down since Upgrading from Sonar X2. Lots of improvements! Great studio you have man, subscribed to your channel.

[kris_lx]

Looks like you're only running audio tracks, try using a few instances of a softsynth like U-He Diva and your CPU will quickly go to 100%.

[refrodri]

Nice video man I like your set up! I was gonna ask you if i have to choose a motherboard that has thunderbolt ? Or any other input for audio hardware, I know u have the other card for the ssl converters . Thanks I hope u can reply

[iladelproductions]

nice set up still I would of went with AMD when it comes to the CPU regardless of there hyperthreading. there are more advantages to have 8 actual cores. don't get me wrong in most cases, Intel wins out. but audio is one the few processes that will actually take advantage of those cores that's why i think AMD is the best choice in this instance.

What's better for Music Production: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Intel Core i9-7900X @ 3.30GHz?

[samratkundu]

Would you recommend the ryzen over intel in 2019 for stable and long lasting performance.?
Or should I go with i5 8th or 9th gen?

[naturecollision]

how many hours do you spend on maintaining and setting up your system? how do you upgrade when needed? I used to be on windows and to tweak it and maintain it, cost me more hours than I saved by lower hardware costs.

[primarydisguise]

Damn you have a lot of money just for hard drives

[randallo]

DDR3? Wait, when was this video made?

[jdubbs]

Yep, Good stuff!!! Have you upgraded since putting this out? I would like to see you do a build video starting with finding the case and components especially during these times of a chip crisis. I think it would be an excellent challenge for the time!
Keep Doing That Voodoo That You Do!

[jdubb]

Hey brother any websites I can go to and have me a desktop or all in 1 built? Be a big help for any info I have about 1200 I’m trying to get something strictly for vocal recording no instrumentals

[DubCampbell]

Hey Ryan, great stuff, man, I'm subscribed and enjoy everything you do. I also use SONAR Platinum and have been using Cake products for nearly 20 years. I do have a question for you... What kind of latency do you get with a large project such as this 75 track one? My main DAW bit the dust recently so I bought an ASUS laptop, also with an i7 and 16 gigs of the new DDR4. Yes, the laptop rocks alright, enough so that I'm gonna put off buying another desktop machine for a while...but I know that if I run into a really high track count with some of Cakewalk's new plugins that require lots of horsepower I'm just gonna have to put a new DAW together.

I don't have a fancy interface for the laptop tho. I'm using a Line6 multi-effects guitar unit, the HD500. While it's great for guitar and bass and even vocals, the converters inside aren't the best and the drivers aren't either, so my buffers are high and the latency is unacceptable for playing softsynths in real time, especially when rhythmic playing is required. I'm wondering what you might use as a USB interface for the laptop AND what you might recommend as an interface for the new DAW once it's built. You mentioned some converters you use. I'm in the dark about how to choose converters or interfaces with good, but affordable, converters for the future DAW. Affordability is important at present because I'll be building a tower from scratch with all the good guts, something like yours probably.

I'll be 70 years old in August and have been in music all of my life and a recording artist since 1969. I love the digital world, as well as all the old school stuff and am looking forward to creating lots of good original material from rock to blues to house, dance and anything else that pops into my head or the heads of collaborators. I'm mainly a guitar player but am becoming more and more into the in-the-box recording, engineering and mixing. Unfortunately, I cannot do mastering on my own because of some hearing loss in the high end, so I recruit help for listening to the shakers and cymbals and triangles and such. It's working well so far.

Your answers to my questions will be most appreciated. Thanks.

Dub

[rapidfiremuzik_official]

Awesome Lab!
I was expecting to hear all the ravings of ProTools....glad it wasnt to be loloo no hate to the Pt Users tho

[ZacharySound]

Yep Mines a 4770K, 16 gb Vengence ram. Asus Hero VI. I'm future proofed for several years.

[allkindsofthings]

if something goes wrong I only have to install all the about cloning?

[djgeorgieporgie]

Couldn’t max out the cpu ? Bull shit . Run 2 omnisphere and 2 serum and watch that cpu smoke.

[GuitarStuffz]

I'm running a Windows 10 8GB RAM Core i5-4570, with a Berhinger UMC 202 HD audio interface

It's amazing for producing music, might need to upgrade the graphics card though it's an Intel HD 4600 graphics and can be a draw back on semi graphic intense games and apps at times but mostly it's awesome definitely a step up from my old 2GB Intel Core Duo desktop. Not gonna lie though that thing handles FL studio decent .

[leamonstubbs]

Great review... I've decided to take your advice... Computer systems have been developed into several different ways for music production nowadays. And this software takes the cake!!!

[Cluless]

I don't get it - my i7 6700K, 32 DDR4, SSD M.2 1T Win 7 64 bit falls apart just by a few tracks. I'm using PT 11 and cannot even use the MIDI editor at all. And, , , no one can seems to figure it out - they just give me the usual tips on optimizing the Bios and other system settings. Damn Damn Damn!

[zulfikartravel]

How much you take for mixing and Mastering??? Could we connect??