Hey hey Audient fans, Lizzy McAvoy here at my studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
We're talking about the always amazing ASP4816 if you are curious about the ASP4816 or
wondering how it works in home studio life, this is what this vlog series is
all about so I appreciate you tuning in.
So I've had the privilege of having this
amazing console in my studio for about a year now and it never ceases to amaze me
and I think you know one thing that we're always working on in studio life
as gear heads and musicians is we are trying to make the most creative space
that we can for people and we want them to come down and be inviting and be able
to make some music that they want to make and one thing that I have noticed
is having the 4816 in my studio, is that I have people coming in and saying
Lizzie this feels like a real studio and so all the time they're saying let's
write at your place let's come over, like, we love what you're about, we love what
you're doing we love the space, and you know, I'd like to say it's because of the
candles but I really think that it's because of the 4816.
So I've discovered a couple of new features on it
that I'm absolutely in love with and its really
helped with my workflow and my productivity
and I can't wait to share them with you guys.
So let's talk about two of my new
favourite things on the 4816 and it has to do all with the monitoring section.
So let's just say that you're listening to track you want to reference it on
different speakers, and it's so easy on the 4816 to do that.
So I have three speakers set up you can have the ability to hook up four
and so right now I've got it
going through my Focals, this is just a session that I'm working on for
reference today, and so I've got this going, Dim switched which is just like
the most magical things ever. So right now I have it going through my Focals and
let's just say hey I want to know what sounds like my Auratones.
I could do that so easy just click a button.
If I've got some friends or people hanging out
on the other side of studio on the sofa, I have some speakers that are hanging
from the ceiling and I can easily switch to that,just by the push of a button
and I can adjust the volume super well.
If I listen to a mix and I want to hear it in mono
there's mono.
There's Cut Left
and Cut Right
It's that simple.
I think it's really cool and I think it's really accessible and I think it's great to
make sure that you're mix is sounding good on all speakers.
So then I have a lot of
artists come in and they say "Hey Lizzie oh my gosh I love this song that's
playing on the radio right now, you've got to check it out and I want the
track today to sound like that", and I'm like "okay great"
So what's super easy is that I can
just pull up iTunes or whatever you like to listen to music on, Spotify, and then I
can just go in here, I can click on that track and then I can easily be like okay
this is what our track is sounding like
and I can say, "oh this is the song they want me to reference"
and so I have it set up right now that I can easily switch
between two different mixes and I think that's just so great.
So then I have a lot of artists come and say "Hey Lizzie, check out
this song I've got on my iPhone right now" so they'll pull their voice memo and
I have an aux cable to set up and that's what this "iPod" button is for right here
it's awesome, and I can just listen to what they're doing, I can then switch between both modes.
So the next thing that's really cool and it's been super helpful
and I absolutely love it is this last one on the end, my "print" button.
So if you've got any sort of outboard master bus compressor that you like to use or
any sort of outboard gear that you like to run stuff through, this is awesome.
I haven't set up so that if I'm using some sort 'in-the-box' mastering which I do a
lot or I'm using my outboard master in which I do a lot, I could A/B those levels,
I can see which one I'm liking better for the song
and I can kind of really dial it in that way, I can also just use my raw ProTools file
and I can go back and forth to really make sure that I'm using mastering to its best efficiency
and its best quality. So I think that's really cool.
What's also awesome is you don't have to do any of these this way, you can do it however it works
for your workflow. This works great for mine, and I think you that's awesome that
it's super accessible, you can change it up you could do it any which way you want.
That's the monitoring section on the ASP4816
I hope that you tune in for our next vlog, thank you so much!
Be sure to go on to Audient's website and check out the other amazing products that they have.
and happy music making from music city. I'll see you next time!