Welcome.
I'm Soul Wallace, Mobile Studio director for UniqueSquared.com.
We're on board our 45 foot custom coach that's been converted into a mobile recording studio.
We've partnered with state of the art, top notch manufacturers with the best equipment
and gear to outfit our mobile studio.
Duplicuts is going to take you on a tour to show you all the equipment and gear we have
on board.
Welcome, let's go.
Alright guys welcome we are here in the control room at the UniqueSquared Mobile Studio.
As you can see we are running, pretty much a state of the art, a lot of the latest and
greatest gear any musician could want to get.
On the control desk here we've got a dual monitor setup provided by apple which works
really great because I can have tracks on one screen all laid out as it's playing left
to right and then my mixers, mixers, faders, pans, all that stuff on the right, on the
other screen.
Speaking of that we're running Protools 9 the latest and greatest version of Protools
9 of course.
And one of the great things about Protools 9, is the fact that you can now run it in
conjunction with any interface, any audio interface you want.
So because that's the case we are running it into a Presonus 24.4.2.
Presonus StudioLive is a great mixer very adaptable you can use it in a studio setting,
you can use it in a live situation, really one of the more flexible all around mixers
that you have at your disposal now-a-days. and the sound we're getting out through these
bad boys, quick little preview of some of the music we've been making.
We're running M-Audio DSM 2 monitors on our desk.
Really great monitors provided to us by AVID and under the desk here you have the Mac tower.
It's a heck of a work horse for recording all the audio tracks and sweetening it up
with plugins and playback and other kinds of stuff.
It won't fail on you.
And for anyone who comes in and wants to tinker around with any of the plugins and plug their
own computer their own laptop in and kind of tinker around with some of the settings,
we have the Akai MPK Mini.
Its got 8 little touch sensitive pads here and little mini keyboard 25 keys.
It's a great little setup.
That will bring us over to our rack and our rack is complete.
It's like busting at the seams with gear here.
If I start at the top we've got the Presonus HP-60 which allows up to 6 musicians to get
their own individual mixes on their headphones which is really nice.
Sometimes a bass player wants to hear the drums a bit higher but maybe the keyboard
player doesn't.
So it works out great.
And here we have a couple of things that, a couple of units that maybe people don't
realize Presonus makes.
It's the ADL-600 and they're mic pres.
They're actually really really good mic pres combined with the microphones that we use
with it, which we'll get into in a little while, you get a very rich warm tone and obviously
you can change that however you need to depending on the situation but very great mic pres here
ADL-600 by Presonus.
Here we have the Central Station.
The PreSonus Central Station can determine whether i want to hear my musical feed from
the control room monitors up here and then I can switch it right here with the press
of a button and decide if I want to hear it from the tracking area which we're going to
get into that area in a little while.
So this is a great pice of gear here the Central Station.
And that brings us to the Rack Eleven by DigiDesign provided to us by AVID.
This is a great piece of gear here some of you may be familiar this, may be familiar
with the plugin version of it which is great.
The plugin version is fantastic.
But if you think this is just a hardware version of that you'd be sorely mistaken because this
can also act as an interface, an audio interface.
So suppose you have this and you don't have a full blown mixer on your desk, you can take
this and have inputs going into it right into your computer and it works perfectly with
Protools 9.
And then under that we've got a Pro 3500 power conditioner provided to us by Monster.
It's an excellent power conditioner particularly in a situation like this where we're on a
bus and sometimes you'll have fluctuations in voltage and you'll have electro magnetic
fields and things of that nature, this will keep your gear in tip top shape.
It will protect all your gear from any electrical anomalies and occurrences.
This works great on our bus, in our setup, and it would also work great in your home.
Once we wrap that up we're going to walk over to our vocal booth.
Our crowning jewel i might add.
As I open the door here you'll notice the first thing is all laced out in Auralex.
Auralex provided us with a lot of the sound absorption you see here.
The whole bus is carpeted but whatever you don't see carpeted and you see these little
grey panels, purple panels and sometimes you'll see the blue panels, that's all provided by
Auralex.
It provides a great sound absorption and sound diffusion, amazing products.
Here we were talking about earlier about the microphones.
I don't know if you can see that here but we've got the Shure KSM-42.
A lot of MCs, a lot of performers and vocalists have been raving about this.
This is a really great mic combined with the ADL-600 I was talking about earlier, great
little combination there.
Rich warm vocal tones, and it also helps to bring out a lot of that bottom end that a
lot of the men have when they come in here, the vocalists have.
A lot of the baritone vocal men will get that emphasized with this microphone.
Of course can't forget about the Beats by Dre headphones provided to us by Monster.
That's also a favorite of all the vocalists and performers who come on the bus.
They are always talking about the Beats by Dre.
They see it and they're like, "Oh I haven't seen those yet, I haven't tried those yet,"
and then they put it on they're like, "Oh I wonder if I can take this home."
So that brings us into the tracking area, and this area here is one of my favorite because
the area is actually kind of nice and cozy.
Musicians come in here and they immediately just feel right at home.
Starting over in the rhythm section area, the drum section, we've got the Alesis DM10.
A great piece of gear.
It's got a bunch of kits here that you can just kind of scroll through and figure out
I want this kick, I want these toms and this snare.
I want to tighten it up here and loosen it up there, so really great piece of gear.
And as we continue over here on my right we've got your choice, we've got a plethora of Vox
guitars.
Vox really hooked us up and provided us with a great array of string instruments here by
way of their guitars.
And over to my left we've got the Mackie's.
Mackie's HR824's are amazing back here.
This space is obviously a lot bigger than our control room so you want speakers that
can accommodate that space and these provide the thump.
They've got excellent crisp mid range and very clear and defined highs as well.
So a great addition back here to monitor the music that's being made.
And over the past few weeks we've worked on a fair amount of hip hop and of course no
hip hop studio, no hip hop production outfit would be complete without an AKAI MPC 1000.
This little bad boy here, this little workhorse provides some of the beats that you heard.
Provides a lot of the artistry producers exhibit when they come on board and they want to decide
to work on beats and things of that nature.
So great little piece of gear here.
AKAI MPC 1000.
And that brings us up to the little keyboard section.
We've got the Korg M3.
An amazing piece of machinery here that's got some of the karma technology into it,
built in.
Then we also have the AKAI MPK61.
So again if someone is interested in just kind of plugging their computer into it and
having a nice little controller to work with, they've got 16 pads here, you've got faders,
rotary knobs that you can encode to whatever you want to.
So a great little piece of gear here on the Akai MPK 61.
Now that brings us over to the Orange Amp.
Now for anyone out there who knows about amps this is a classic.
Any studio you've been to where you've got musicians jamming out and you've got the guitarist
who want nothing but the best and they're very discriminating in their taste, this is
a go to amp the Orange Tiny Terror here.
And there's a couple of versions.
The version we have here has the power unit separate from the actual amp.
There is another version where it's all combined and all in one and you can kind of just plug
it in and go.
It's a great little piece of gear.
And again more Vox guitars here directly in front of me.
We've got bass.
It's quite a set up that we have here ok.
So UniqueSquared mobile studio.
The greatest thing about all the stuff that you see here is the execution of what we've
done here is top notch, right.
You've got a recording studio on a bus, amazing, fantastic.
But you don't obviously have to have a bus to be able to get all this gear.
All of this gear is super affordable.
You can go to UniqueSquared.com and say,"Hey, that's that drum set that Duplicuts was talking
about, i can actually get that that's like under $1000 bucks, and these guitars and the
PreSonus mixer."
So all of this stuff that you've see here that I've shown you today you can get all
of the stuff at UniqueSquared.com.
Feel free to visit us at anytime.
UniqueSquared.com.
Be U Be Unique and this is Duplicuts coming at you live from the Mobile Studio.
Pretty impressive huh?
Talk about mobile music.
In addition to all of this fabulous gear that duplicuts just shared with you, we're are
also outfitted for DJs.
We can showcase the top DJ's and producers in the nation right here with the Unique Squared
Mobile Studio.
We have the capability of doing so inside the bus and outside.
DJ Scott Madflip is going to take you on a quick tour to show you what we've been outfitted
with.
What's going on this is Scott Magno DJ Madflip.
I'm here at UniqueSquared mobile studio bus.
We're going to have a look at some of the DJ gear that we have on the bus provided by
Numark.
Alright first off we have the Numark V7.
This is going to be a Serato Itch controller with a motorized turntable here.
High torq specifically for Itch.
It gets you in the mix, you can easily navigate, high performance piece, all of my effects
can be controlled from the V7.
Really nice piece of gear coming correct.
We've got that going into the Numark M6 USB mixer.
This is going to be your four channel club type mixer.
It has also the USB outs so if you want to take your audio and record it into your software,
the USB makes it very easy to do that as well.
If Vinyl is more your cup of tea when it comes to your scratching we have got the Numark
TTX.
This is the highest torque turntable in the market and it really doesn't fade as far as
doing your cuts really comes correct.
We can also go in digitally from there as well.
We've got that coupled with the Numark CX-1 Tony Touch scratching needles.
That's going to be a spherical needle so you won't have any problems doing back cueing,
really intricate cuts, and staying in the groove as well.
Our portable PA is going to be provided by Mackie.
We're going to be using the Mackie SRM-450 V2.
Now this is an active speaker system that's going to be bi-amped giving me 400 watts of
pristine sound.
Couple that with a Monster cable and you will be good to go.
We'll also be using a full range of Mackie Subs in order to implement our sound so we
can drop the bass.
We've got all of that going into the mixer with the monster cables the RCA to RCA and
the RCA to 1/4inch.
So the best passage of audio from Monster cables provided.
So we've got the DJ gear set up right next to the vocal booth here so if we got any artist
that requires any kind of cuts whenever their tracking, the DJ can sit right here and make
it happen right here in the tracking room.
We also use this setup if we're posted up at an event and we've got it outside and we
want to have DJ's come in who want to do a performance.
We take the same set up and we post it up outside as well.
So you know what if you've got vinyl emulation or vinyl manipulation, Numark's got you covered
right here.
Thanks Scott, the UniqueSquared Mobile Studio is more than just a recording studio and DJ
rig on wheels.
It's also a full media outlet with satellite, WiFi internet and and 8 55 inch flat screens
to display video content.
So there you have it.
The Mobile Studio brought to you by UniqueSquared.com Be U. Be Unique.