hey what's going on out there i'm sean divine hope you all are doing well
today's tutorial i'm going to give you guys an inside look at the all-new ssl uc1 hardware
controller as well as the new and improved ssl channel strip 2 the bus compressor 2 and we're
going to be mixing rap vocals from scratch if you've been looking to get authentic ssl tone
and just that tactile experience i'm excited to show you guys what it's all about
so let's go ahead and dive in i'm gonna pull up the mixer and we have a lead
and a backing layer a couple of punches just gonna bring everything up get it in
the pocket with the beat and then we'll dive into working with the ssl native plugins and the uc1
this is not for the wealth not for my health only for the most high most millions never give us the
feeling when we've been reeling in the media keeps rambling on it's not the faith to lean
on but the truth and the hope is all clouded and smoke while they tell it if there's money
to be made you best believe they sell it wake up and smell the fear in the air who really cares
conversations in the middle yeah i meet you there love is on time what's it take to see the signs
gotta listen with intention empathetic intuition we're all sinning every minute why's the judging
intermittent write you off before you finish we could all use this repentence
breathe going over to the uc1 right now it just says no plugins because there are no instances of
the new ssl channel strip 2 yet but you see we've got the verse lead and the backing routed to this
bus over here and that's where we're gonna put that instance of channel strip 2 or at least the
first one so once we open that up you'll notice that it gives us this reading of verse lead this
is pretty much a plug-and-play sort of thing at least it has been in logic you install the ssl 360
software which that's running in the background i don't even have it open right now but as soon as
you put these plugins in then we can start just to navigate through them they'll automatically be in
here so you can see i can go on this control here and we can select verse lead stack and
automatically all of that is mapped to the channel strip controls so we can go in here and you'll see
the feedback of just all of these different things on the actual controller itself so really really
nice way to kind of get out of the daw get more of the authentic ssl console feel i'm going to show
you just the workflow of how this all happens in real time it's really fast just to be able
to put your hands on this and control it that way so let's go ahead and start dialing in a tone here
for our lead vocal we'll start with the compressor section and then we'll move over to the eq
dear god give me peace while i get back on my feet ran a couple thousand miles riots in these streets
on the move soul to soothe sweating demons in the booth doubts presented with the truth but
i got way much more to prove note to self this is not for the wealth not for my health only for the
most high multimillions never give us the feeling when we've been reeling and the media keeps
rambling on it's not the faith to lean on but the truth and the hope is all clouded and smoke
while they tell it if there's money to be made you best believe they sell it wake up and smell
just kissing the compressor a little bit nice smooth sound but now we're going to move over to
the eq and let's see if we can dial in here
so let's take the channel out let you hear what we did we just took a lot of the chunkiness
a lot of that low mid mud out of there eq the high end on this thing is just super clean
they've definitely gone back and really perfected the sound of this reminiscent to you know some of
the ssl consoles you guys are very fond of all right so just a nice clean tone and i'm going
to copy that over to the verse stack so i mean we've got one plug-in thus far just the channel
strips you can imagine if you use these across an entire daw session they're very efficient and you
can just scroll through all of these in the daw you know just like you would on a console and be
able to edit this for every single channel so very very powerful workflow there if we move over here
i have this second part of the verse that in the actual release you know i did kind of this cool
filtering effect but i'm going to see if we can just kind of replicate exactly what i did there
on this channel over here so we'll open up the channel strip 2 on that and let's just take a
listen to that one here i know i said way too much to bump this on your beats no pill form everybody
wants to rap like somebody else on a billboard we all got something to say something to give in our
way but this music isn't a hobby or a profession or a lesson to learn in a session all right so
let's try to dial in this kind of radio effect that i had here i know i said way too much to
bump this on your beats no pill form everybody wants to rap like somebody else on a billboard
we all got something to say something to give in our way but this music isn't a hobby or a
profession or a lesson to learn in a session and i can't teach you my obsession for something higher
lord use my voice to inspire and if they hate who am I to debate hope they relate blinded by faith
so that is extremely close to what i had on the release of this song but i just dialed that in
a lot faster so we got the core tone you know about 90 of what we need there but i'm gonna go
ahead and just add the vocal strip to just so that we can utilize the de-esser here
and let's see if we can get a sound for that i'm going to mute the stacks for now
all right so let's add a reverb to our lead i'm going to go ahead and just send
down here to the aux that i have set up right here on bus 4 and we're going to utilize the
ssl flex verb which is a really nice reverb if you guys aren't familiar here
we'll just dial in a nice smooth plate space for this so i'm gonna go ahead
and just send some down there we'll blend this in after we get it dialed in
so there's an internal side chaining on the flex verb you guys see i side chain my reverbs a lot
it creates a nice vibe but doesn't take away from the energy and the forwardness of the vocal
all right so we used two plugins which is the native channel strip 2 and the vocal strip 2
just the de-esser section and then we used the flex verb for a small space and that's it we got
a lot of tone and a lot of character but now just for fun i didn't show you guys that the uc1 also
controls the new bus compressor 2 which looks something like this and when we turn that on we
get this led indicator that lights up here on the controller and i've already got something dialed
in to just give us a little bit of that juice from the bus compressor that we are familiar with
give us a bit of lift perceived loudness so let's take a listen to what that does
all right y'all so hopefully that gives you a good idea of what is possible with
the new native channel strip 2 the new bus compressor 2 as well as the
uc1 hardware controller and the workflow that's possible here i know i'm having a lot of fun I'm
just getting my hands on with this so i wanted to share it with you guys let me know what you
think in the comments below if you have any questions about what we covered i'm happy to
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peace