Softube Console 1 Digital Or Analog

Great sound! i have a similar setup with console 1, what fader controller do you use in video?

Yo yo! I just found your channel Brotha, and I love every video so far.

I’ll write more later, but in the meantime, can you do a video walkthrough of your studio setup.
I see Logic, M32, Console 1, Outbound, Analog Desks, etc.
What interfaces, how’s it routed, all of that?

I’m currently, though slowly, building my “dream home studio”.
I’m setup Hybrid, “In the Box” I’ve also had Console 1 since the beginning, and all the emulations. Plus I have most of the Channel Strips from U.A, Waves, Plug-in Alliance, etc. I came up Analog and love the workflow and sound of that era, even in the box.

In addition to Console 1, the old SSL Duende system, as I’m sure you know was just updated to SSL Native 2, and now has a hardware controller the UC1, that I’ll eventually pick up, but you don’t actually need to use the system. The magical part of the new SSL system is another FREE app that they included, that most people are sleeping on, but does what Console 1 does not. And YOU will immediately appreciate. It’s called SSL 360, and inside of it is what they call the “Plug-in Mixer”. Like Console 1, you put the SSL Channel Strip plugin on every channel in your DAW, and like Console 1’s app “On Screen Display / OSD”, that separate application is communicating with the plugins in the DAW, and then the Hardware is speaking to the App, which passes data back and forth like a middle man.

The SSL system works the same, except where Console 1 gives you the pop up display on top of your DAW (dope btw), and modern information and controls over the (now 8) Softube Console Emulations, on a 1-Channel at a time basis, the SSL Plug-in Mixer should really go on a separate monitor and stay up because what it does is, like a real Analog Console, it let’s you both See and Adjust ALL of your channel strips side-by-side at once, like you’re standing over the board. Your whole mix is in front of you. You can see it all, and with the UC1, you can touch it channel-by-channel, making the hand-eye-ear-coordination/the-console-is-an-instrument aspect of mixing, as close to the real thing as we’ve ever been.

Like I said, I’m a Console 1 O.G. (I have an original unit that was made in Sweden and cost over a G), it was the game changer I needed to get rid of the damn mouse, and feel like I’m Mixing. SSL just jumped into the game and brought a missing ingredient to the table that you might not have realized was missing until you feel it. BUT, it does not Replace Console 1 as many in the cyber babel world keep trying to say. They’re similar, but different. And they don’t need to compete with each other, anymore than putting two other plugins or pieces of outboard on a track. I’ve put the SSL Native, AND Console 1 across every track, and built the ultimate channel strip, with the added advantage of being able to Insert between the two. And obviously SSL is only SSL 9000, whereas the C1 is two SSLs, plus API, Neve, Chandler, Summit, Empirical Labs, and Weiss, plus a TON of additional plugins from Softube and Universal Audio, all at your fingertips.

Now, I also have 4 Analog Consoles:
a Soundcraft Ghost (32-channels/inline 64), an Audient/Focusrite ASP2802 (8-flying faders, 32-channels on mix), a TL Audio M1 Tube Console (8-channel mixer, but run as tube channel strip inserts on the 2802), and an SSL SiX (because it was an SSL for $1500!)

My interfaces are 2 Presonus Quantum 4848s, so technically 96-channels of I/O, but really 64 pristine ad/da 120dB Dynamic Range converters at 0.91ms latency. Those 64 outs hit the Ghost Line & Tape Ins, the 32 4-band EQs can be split, into 32 Hi/Lo Shelves & 32 2-band Parametrics. The board has a Mix A, Mix B, and 8 busses, plus all the Auxes. Rather than Sum in the Ghost, 8-Stereo busses (Stems) go out of it into the 2802, so A,B,C,D are on Flying Faders, and E, F, G, H are on static faders (at unity). Those 8- Stereo Busses (16-channels, plus many more if I needed), output stems back to the DAW, and sum in the super clean Audient.

Across those 8-Audient Stereo Busses, and the 2-Bus, I have normalled on inserts, a TL Audio M1 (8-channels), V1 (8-channels), and C1 (2-channels).
So at the flip of a few switches, all the busses can go from ultra clean solid state analog, to dripping in tube/valve harmonic goodness.
(At least in theory, I have to actually finish putting it together, but it’s all sitting here waiting.)

Imma stop there, but I see you Brotha, and you see what I’m trying to do also.
Keep them videos coming.

G.

Dope! Subscribed!

Great sounds! I'm just learning, and getting my head around mixing, (I find it hard, like most im sure) and I got myself a console 1, I love it. So It's really interesting to see your workflow and those eq curves for drums, guitar etc. Appreciate any more vids on the console 1, but ill check out your others too. Liked and subbed!

Beefy Sound!!

Hello! I have bought the Console 1 recently. When I hold the device and turn it upside down, it rattles quite a bit. Is it as it should be or is there something wrong?