Thanks... You're absolutely right. To "work" on it is an honour because I imagine it is infused with the many brilliant efforts of many a Victorian Scottish draftsman.
I am amazed that you have time to post these videos each week. We are so privileged that there are generous people in the world like you sharing your musical journey. I live in Australia so not sure how accessible your actual scores are. Thanks - great video.
Hey Christian! Pertaining to the Black Magic boxes - Why not run camera framerate at 24 or 25? It will be smaller file sizes and enable you to lower shutter speed to 50. It will give you a little more light to the camera sensor without having to boost ISO. For the importing, the best cheap way to do it is buy a chromebook for like 200usd and use it as the import engine. Dump everything onto a ssd so you don't kill your main computer's real time processing power. I use h264 or prores 422 for codec. If anything doesn't match those codecs, then I use a program called EditReady to conform everything.
What are the micro slide and rotary controller you are using Christian? I’ve been looking for something so portable and compact simply because I travel a lot with my MacBook so can take them with me....
Christian, can you share more info about your keyboard stand? How easily do those shelves slide up and down, and how do you do that? I’d like to try and build my own.
Rewatching this video after a couple of years, regarding your data storage: I just switched to 10GB ET routers (Trendnet TEG-S750 as they have no fans, huge heatsinks and a acceptable power consumption of about 11.9W/h), an "OWC Thunderbolt 3 10G Ethernet Adapter" for my Macbook and a 2023 Mac Mini with the built-in 10GB ET upgrade as a server (the smallest Mac mini off the shelf, minimum RAM and disk), with several SSD connected. So the network provided 10 Gbit/s, which goes into my Macs with the same specs, then into 6 Gbit/s drives on the server end (SanDisk Extreme 2nd Gen, some older ones have problems with Ventura that require a firmware fix). Apart from doing all my editing from the network drives at a speed as if they were directly connected, copying 200GB now takes 7-12 minutes instead of 2-3 hours. So you MIGHT WANT to look into 10G Ethernet 😉
Also regarding the low light 1080p halftones vs 4K: I still use 1080p as my 2015 Macbook can't handle 4K, but I changed my rendering settings to 15 kbit/s for 1080p 60fps H264 .mp4 videos and now low light halftones look just like the original, uncompressed video ... until I upload them and TH-cam throws a bucket of manure at it.
H.265 is kinda the new standard for 4K as far as I know. Linus Tech Tips is one of the leading computer channels on TH-cam and has helped lots of other channels with their data management. Could be a cool collaboration
I love what you do, man. I've started using Spitfire stuff to try it out. I started with the LABS stuff and my God it's brilliant!!!!!! That you give this away is crazy. I got my first paid gig using your LABS stuff. I got paid and then upgraded to all the Originals series. Then , I'm getting paid for another track I used those on and the progression continues. Thank you all for whaat you do. You're legends.
Jesus Christain, that's a lot of gear; I am happy to have a straightforward set up using everything in the box. Thank you for making some of the best youtube videos in the world. Your hard work is showing.
Very nice! You loved that (so did I). I don’t know much about cameras or your rig but I do know that SD cards, even the fastest ones are pretty slow so you might want to look at that for the potential bottle neck.
- Super interesting. Your channel is fast becoming one of my favourites on TH-cam. (I was pleasantly surprised when I looked up more information about what you do, as i am a fan of your dad's work too.)
"Can you make music in a shed?" Dude, I was making music on the Nav desk in a KC-135 at 35K ft over Afghanistan. You can make music wherever the hell you are. That's the beauty of music. Okay, now that I answered that question, I guess I should watch the video! Cheers!
Hi Christian. You can get more presets and sounds out of the Dimension D by pressing more than one of the preset buttons at a time. It’s the same with the old Boss Dimension C pedal and the marvellous Boss Waza DC2W pedal too, which also has a very good SDD-320 mode as well. It’s also the case on the old Juno 6/60 where you can press both the Chorus buttons at the same time.
Did you ever solve the video question? My thought was to edit from the SD cards directly (usb-c straight out of the HyperDecks,) and to save a binder of SD cards, rather than transferring to drives. Blackmagic mentions this latter option on the HyperDeck page, and it mirrors how we used to record to two hour, $90 tapes, back in the day, that would never be reused. Fast enough cards to edit from would be a little dear, but made up for by zero transfer time. But really, the true purpose of the Blackmagic MultiDock is to edit media captured with their HyperDeck Studio.
Christian, LinusTechTips is the man! If you don't have a chance to arrange anything with him at least watch his videos that he made with other TH-camrs about their storage needs and copy. I'm terrified that you are going to go out and buy a huge over priced storage solution when you could save a lot of money building your own! LINUS IS THE MAN! Great video by the way :)
Hi Christian. I went looking for your music on Tidal earlier this week but couldn't find anything. In this video you mention and Album; can you publish a link to it please? Oh and hello from Portobello:)
Nice Aeron. I have one too. It's the only thing that stopped my backache... Of all the things I could have commented on! :D Also, you mentioned BT! He worked with Howard Jones on his last album which is fantastic!
Christian, you have a truly wonderful place to make music in. I would love to see you talk about the building itself (how big is the shelf, insulation, the build, etc.). Thanks
Whole set up looks the business. Studio always looking great. Cam set up and look I can't complain, looks neat. Onwards and upwards to 6k scale down to 4k in the future. Or 6k output, when TH-cam gets it's shit together. That would be even more LIT on mobile devices. A friend at Digital Heart in Leicester is working with 6k.
Hey Cristian, regarding the question at 12:04, I have a 10Gbps fiber network at studio transfer speeds are insane. There are 10Gps fiber switches that are fanless these days and quite cheap. Ebay also has a ton of 10Gbps server cards for like $50.
I used to have a dozen midi keyboards - MS20 was my first (non midi) but I also had some you don't have - the fabulous Synthex and one of the first OSCars ever - serial 0051 - an early mirage - DX7 (of course) Emax - wonder where they are now. I had to sell them all when I went digital to finance the new set up - and take a lot less space. Wish I could have kept them now.
Great setup. One thing that strikes me, though, is that your mic, stand and shock mount are so ponderous. Have you ever investigated getting a Yellowtec Mikarm? They’re pretty amazing for moving around and placing a microphone. Designed for radio announcers. Very streamlined, and the springs are internal, with friction mounts where the joints meet. I play a lot of real instruments in front of my computer, and the Yellowtec Mikarm lets me easily position the mic with one hand. Also, have you ever experimented with your voice through a Shure SM-7? The have a built-in pop filter and shock mount. A LOT less hardware in the scene.
I just LOVE the look of your studio! It's amazing that we get videos from pros like Jason Graves, Paul, Junkie XL and you...what a time to be alive! PS: You can hide the chins with a beard. ;)
Hi Christian, Are you using Neve preamps for synths? Are they worth to use on synth? It is hard to find any info about it. Second question. So, Manley EQ or compressors are only worth to use on final master?
@@TheCrowHillCo Thanks Christian! I'm watching your vlog since very beginning. Good advices for others composers too. Also I'm using a lot of Spitfire since very first Albion :) You're helping me understand better spoken english, since sometimes is quite hard ;)
@Christian Henson Music. You might consider replacing the RE-20 with a great shotgun, like I use in the field for recording. My standby in the Sennheiser MKE 600 en-us.sennheiser.com/camera-mic-dslr-shotgun-video-mke-600 Which I also use in studio for Voice Over recording and ADR. A small boom stand (very light weight) and your set. This mic is very directional w/low cut filter, phantom powered.
I'm now making some tests to create tutorials and found that the easiest way is to record on OBS with external cards in 4K directly in H.264 with a high constant bitrate (my AMD card, a Vega 64 has an encoder). So far, I'm happy with the results. If you follow some hardcore gamers and streamers a lot of them use a two computers setup. One computer to play video games and another computer to record and stream (usually with OBS). This is very versatile because, that recording computer can always be expanded and you can update to new HDMI capture cards, etc. All has its pros and cons, this setup works well when you record only one camera at a time or a multi-camera scene at any given time, you can't record two cameras separately AFAIK (maybe opening multiple OBS instances? I have to try that). Anyway, here's no perfect setup, I think you are aiming for really high value production that will always come with space issues, I record on 4K to crop and publish in 1080p.
Linus Tech Tips where moaning about their Red cameras and Corridor Digital tore a strip off them saying 'Why are you recording at top quality? You only need that if you are doing Grade A effects shots for movies!' So basically stop recording in ProRes or drop the quality. 100Mbit/sec is still fine. I worked on a low budget feature where the director insisted on the max quality his Atomos could capture and it was making 300Mb/sec as 14bit png files. He spent over a month just rendering proxies in ProRes and then ended up converting them to mp4 to edit with! So in short, yes, record music in wav or aiff but video, especially for TH-cam, only has to be above what TH-cam puts out so 50mbit/sec is absolutely fine.
Thanks for the tour, very nice set up, I like how you’ve got enough space to have “ in the box” &” out of the box”areas,.Love your mini Roland analogue collection! Even though I’ve got much less of a set up I really like hardware sequencers/dawless approach so you’ve given me few ideas, thanks! I don’t know a huge amount about video but I personally agree with those that say 4K isn’t really worth it ( good, well lit, 1080p I think is indistinguishable from 4K on anything less than 65inch display & consider most people watch this on portable devices). (Btw , I think you accidentally said H264 instead of H265 codec at one point).
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K could be a good choice for you. Pro Res is still the best codec IMHO, but DaVinci Resolve 16 is a beast for editing, CC, and with the addition of Fairlight, mixing as well. All my Waves plugins work in it, as well as Slate and others. I have upscaled ProRes 422 HD to 4K using Resolve and it is very good. Problem is the acquisition on 4K really helps in the low light, so recording lower res and upscaling won't really help. I would load the ISO cameras directly into my editor, edit the material from the SSD's, and then after your project is done copy the SSD's and clear them off. Blackmagic Multidock 10G has 4 SSS slots that show up on the desktop as separate discs, so you can put your 3 sources into slots and have your renders and master on a 4th. Out of the camera, into the editor with no down time.
Buy the Lexar 128GB 300MB/s Cards (the 256GB ones seem to be rare as hen's teeth) and use the included reader if you are going into a MacBook or an older iMac. The iMac Pro SD (SDXC) card slot should be fine however. These faster cards have an extra data lane that the older cards don't use and it essentially doubles the ingest speed, but your reader needs those lanes as well. I use a similar set-up and the workflow was somewhat transformed. You are shit out of luck with other CODECs at 4K unless you want to invest further in the latest Blackmagic boxes (yours are Hyperdeck Studio Minis, not Ultra Studio Minis) that allow H265 encoding @4K, which is very good. My preference remains ProRes though - the image cadence of an intra frame based encoder can't be beat and the video quality you are getting from your studio set-up is excellent.
CORRECTION: Peter Nichols' post below is the preferred method. You can now record to SSD's via the USB-C port at the back of the Hyperdeck Studio Minis. This wan't possible on the oder units.
Dimension D chorus is actually not the analogue chorus from the Junos and the like - that one is the same as the chorus in Roland's JC-120 amp. The Dimension D chorus gets a run in the RS-505 string machine though!
An observation: I just noticed following viewing this video (and a few others that you've produced) a sense of overload and exhaustion. It's difficult to rev up my mind and to get it in sync with the incredible flow (flood) of valuable information you convey. Once I catch up, another wave comes in and swamps the boat. Such sweet music as you have created rely upon the silences. Some of your work breathes; takes on a life form; lives mostly in the silences. May I suggest you consider not editing out pauses at least? Yes, perhaps the video will run a bit longer, but may be more digestible :) Cheers!
You talk sometimes about your album. Where can I listen to it? I really enjoy your videos and LABS and Spitfire Audio and Pianobook, I would definitly listen to it. What is your approach to music, not jobs for trailers and movies, but your own music? What are you doing with all this gear?
Could you tell us more about the jimi Hendrix box please
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Awesome video as always i can't fathom how you make the time to do all this. Very impressive. Is there maybe a way to connect the Ultrastudios to a Black Magic SG10 (has thunderbolt/usb-c for direct editing up to 8k if i read that correctly). Not sure that creates a better workflow or worse + it requires more investments. Personally i have been going on an "alternative to Adobe" quest this year. I know there is a lot of money/time wasted in learning new software, but i don't want to be dependent on an expensive subscription to work. I have migrated to Davinci Resolve (free/paid) for video editing, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer for photo editing, pixel and vector art, lastly Affinity Publisher for layout/posters/covers/printed media etc. At work we are slowly phasing out Adobe, which saves the workplace a decent chuck of money each year. If you have all 3 Affinity products and launch Affinity Publisher, you can instantly swap between all 3 product tools, which basically makes it a Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign replacement in 1 program. Cheap and a superb alternative + their iPad versions are the full versions of the programs, so same features and same file format as their Windows/Mac counterparts.
I’ve absolutely loved this series creative Cribbs. Brilliantly done I’d absolutely love to see Brian Bennett’s Honeyhill Studios (shadows drummer and composer). Just an idea, but would be so much appreciated. Thank you for your amazing channels and generous output, you deserve all the success that you get! (Despite my almost infinite envy of your own studios!😀) Thanks again
Love your videos! Thank you for posting. Curious, at about 19 minutes, those 5 tier pull out keyboard racks...where can I find something like that? Many thanks in advance!!
I'm certainly not speaking for the majority but in my case, 1080 is about all I can view. I live in a rural area of the US where internet speed is limited. We can stream 1080p but we can't stream anything higher because the download rate is just too high. With that said, I feel like 1080 does the job for your channel. The audio is one of the most important thing for you to care about which you're nailing. So.... Haha. I will be building my studio in a "shed" in a year or two. Thanks for sharing this!
Great vid as usual. I can't help but imagine there is an enormous power lever that requires two hands to operate just inside your shed door causing Edinburgh to dim slightly when operated. Question: when do you sleep?
@@keyz2life480 his shelves are library book shelves from Manchester library. He bought them from a boutique shop in London. Very expensive if I remember.
Brilliant video, as always! Many thanks Christian. Concerning the huge pile of video data: Have you tried recording to ProRes 422 LT (or even Proxxy) in 4K? I think it would be manageable and easily good enough for TH-cam.
Lovely set up. Could anyone tell me where to get a mic stand like the one Christian has for his piano? Looking to permanently mic my own piano and something like this would be perfect.
Reproducing 4k in 1080p screens may be different,because of the conversion, although when reproducion in most of the screens 1080p, you will not get more than 1920 x 1080 pixels. Nevertheless 4k footage is always good if you want to make 1080p crops.
You could maybe keep the wide shot , but block off the light by overlaying a .PNG image mask that takes out just the light and replaces it with something more neutral from the background. This can be done in photoshop. I'm sure your video guys at Spitfire can rustle you something up.
Great stuff Christian. I just finished a new rewire/repurpose in my own studio that's eerily similar to yours. My question to you, having seen and drooled over Pauls' studio.... I notice your studio (Like mine) Has really low ceilings and not much trapping so assume bass build up especially in corners is a bit of a bugger? That piano is in the corner i believe so I'm curious how you are treating those acoustical issues?
There's really no point in shooting raw for this stuff. It's several crazy magnitudes of overkill. If you aren't doing aggressive grading (and exposure and white balance are set properly) then there really is no point. Just something like Prores 422 is more than sufficient. Also...if these are going up in HD, don't record 4K. Shoot in 2k (or even just in HD) and make your life easier. There won't be an appreciable decrease in quality.
Fantastic! I just wanted to say, and please forgive me for saying this, but to my untrained ears many of the available sample libraries sound similar so choosing who to invest in was difficult. Spitfire's commitment to quality content to help get the most out of products was the tie breaker for me. Not embarrased to say I am a true fanboi!
I was just watching the codec bit. Maybe use a second bank of Blackmagic recorders and actually capture that at lower res/quality for use as a proxy (created in real-time). At least avoids a transcoding step that might streamline things.
The bottle neck here in your video is the speed of the SD card. The simplest way to eliminate that is to use SSDs and plug them in to your blackmagic captures usb-c. (Sync all your captures to a master clock too) Then use another ssd hub dock to connect to iMac. Import in to premier and then use multi-cam to make clips in to a Multicam file. Don’t bother with any intermediate proxies, Ssd and Imac pro eats it, plus you can put viewer at quarter res if you need to to edit. Multi cam clips are easy to edit and switch. You could record your voice direct to a video stream too to save a step there. Any other questions please reach out. (Did / do Film Production p/t)
I maybe should name drop, that I work with David Wheeler, former Top Gear producer and director at the time you were commissioned to redo the theme. He vaguely remembers your name, but it was the other producer he says that "organised all that".
If your blackmagic boxes can do HEVC / h265 rather than h264 that should reduce the data sizes down 4-8x (i know, it sounds unbelievable but is amazing)? Your iMac Pro should decode it when editing without much additional strain, and moving stuff around should be much much faster - better video quality for less. Again, amazing maths.
So many shiny boxes to give one gear envy - but that Victorian desk is a thing of beauty.
Thanks... You're absolutely right. To "work" on it is an honour because I imagine it is infused with the many brilliant efforts of many a Victorian Scottish draftsman.
I am amazed that you have time to post these videos each week. We are so privileged that there are generous people in the world like you sharing your musical journey. I live in Australia so not sure how accessible your actual scores are. Thanks - great video.
For real...only in the creative space you won't find greed and selfishness (and i am talking about the creators and not some labels or smthg haha).
I stumbled upon this channel about 2 weeks ago and I have to say you are one of the best and most informative musicians on TH-cam. Thank you!
You forgot the "s around the word "musician" my new saying is but thank you so much for your comment.
Wave goodbye to hours of your life watching old episodes!! This channel is a real treat for everyone.
Out of all the gear you've mentioned, it's your honesty that encourages me to keep watching, over and over again. Thanks for the vid.
Thanks, I've got to the point now where the cams feel like my friends so I'm quite confident to talk to myself in an empty room!
Thanks for this, Christian. I've been waiting for an updated studio tour from you. Your wiring and studio setup videos were some of my favourite.
Music careers are ruthless enough, its always cool (and slightly terrifying) seeing how you manage the youtube thing at the same time.
This is fantastic ....great studio ! thanks for sharing.
Hey Christian! Pertaining to the Black Magic boxes - Why not run camera framerate at 24 or 25? It will be smaller file sizes and enable you to lower shutter speed to 50. It will give you a little more light to the camera sensor without having to boost ISO. For the importing, the best cheap way to do it is buy a chromebook for like 200usd and use it as the import engine. Dump everything onto a ssd so you don't kill your main computer's real time processing power. I use h264 or prores 422 for codec. If anything doesn't match those codecs, then I use a program called EditReady to conform everything.
As the son of a, now retired, draftsman it's wonderful to see that desk. My father has a similar one!
Thanks! I've always had a thing about stationary shops... don't know what it is but I like looking at art making stuff more than art itself.
The Rick Wakeman six wives studio shot was my holy grail, it’s amazing how it guides your purchases!!!
What are the micro slide and rotary controller you are using Christian? I’ve been looking for something so portable and compact simply because I travel a lot with my MacBook so can take them with me....
That is some serious bit of kit there. I do love watching how composers set up their space. Good luck with the album.
Christian, can you share more info about your keyboard stand? How easily do those shelves slide up and down, and how do you do that? I’d like to try and build my own.
That draftman table is NEAT!
A nice little starter shed.
Rewatching this video after a couple of years, regarding your data storage: I just switched to 10GB ET routers (Trendnet TEG-S750 as they have no fans, huge heatsinks and a acceptable power consumption of about 11.9W/h), an "OWC Thunderbolt 3 10G Ethernet Adapter" for my Macbook and a 2023 Mac Mini with the built-in 10GB ET upgrade as a server (the smallest Mac mini off the shelf, minimum RAM and disk), with several SSD connected. So the network provided 10 Gbit/s, which goes into my Macs with the same specs, then into 6 Gbit/s drives on the server end (SanDisk Extreme 2nd Gen, some older ones have problems with Ventura that require a firmware fix). Apart from doing all my editing from the network drives at a speed as if they were directly connected, copying 200GB now takes 7-12 minutes instead of 2-3 hours. So you MIGHT WANT to look into 10G Ethernet 😉
Also regarding the low light 1080p halftones vs 4K: I still use 1080p as my 2015 Macbook can't handle 4K, but I changed my rendering settings to 15 kbit/s for 1080p 60fps H264 .mp4 videos and now low light halftones look just like the original, uncompressed video ... until I upload them and TH-cam throws a bucket of manure at it.
H.265 is kinda the new standard for 4K as far as I know. Linus Tech Tips is one of the leading computer channels on TH-cam and has helped lots of other channels with their data management. Could be a cool collaboration
I love what you do, man. I've started using Spitfire stuff to try it out. I started with the LABS stuff and my God it's brilliant!!!!!! That you give this away is crazy. I got my first paid gig using your LABS stuff. I got paid and then upgraded to all the Originals series. Then , I'm getting paid for another track I used those on and the progression continues. Thank you all for whaat you do. You're legends.
I am building my film scoring/songwriting studio. Lots of fun! I enjoy your videos! Much success!
20:27 "The Study of Orchestration" on the table, great book!
Jesus Christain, that's a lot of gear; I am happy to have a straightforward set up using everything in the box.
Thank you for making some of the best youtube videos in the world. Your hard work is showing.
Been watching since 8K subs. Still loving your content and personality. :) well done Christian.
Very nice! You loved that (so did I). I don’t know much about cameras or your rig but I do know that SD cards, even the fastest ones are pretty slow so you might want to look at that for the potential bottle neck.
Strange to see this vid this morning with a passing mention of Una especially a I just happened to watch Golden Years last night ..🙏
- Super interesting. Your channel is fast becoming one of my favourites on TH-cam.
(I was pleasantly surprised when I looked up more information about what you do, as i am a fan of your dad's work too.)
"Can you make music in a shed?" Dude, I was making music on the Nav desk in a KC-135 at 35K ft over Afghanistan. You can make music wherever the hell you are. That's the beauty of music. Okay, now that I answered that question, I guess I should watch the video! Cheers!
You must be a hell of a great pilot to fly a stratotanker over Afghanistan and make music at the same time. ;-)
@@Hyper5nic I was a boom operator so I had a lot of down time. My pilots were great though, most of them at least. Haha.
Hey Christian! Can you tell what model the Schimmel is exactly? I'm on the lookout for a new piano and loved the sound of yours!
Hi Christian. You can get more presets and sounds out of the Dimension D by pressing more than one of the preset buttons at a time. It’s the same with the old Boss Dimension C pedal and the marvellous Boss Waza DC2W pedal too, which also has a very good SDD-320 mode as well. It’s also the case on the old Juno 6/60 where you can press both the Chorus buttons at the same time.
That modular synth setup is huge!
Did you ever solve the video question? My thought was to edit from the SD cards directly (usb-c straight out of the HyperDecks,) and to save a binder of SD cards, rather than transferring to drives. Blackmagic mentions this latter option on the HyperDeck page, and it mirrors how we used to record to two hour, $90 tapes, back in the day, that would never be reused. Fast enough cards to edit from would be a little dear, but made up for by zero transfer time. But really, the true purpose of the Blackmagic MultiDock is to edit media captured with their HyperDeck Studio.
I was literally making music in my mums garden shed until about this time last year, I’ll tweet a photo!
The Studio D Chorus: Doesn't it also have the all button setting? It's in the synths (and the UAD modulation of the same).
Great channel. Thank you so much
Finally a tour of the wonderful shed we deserved! Cheers!
So pleased i have stummbled on you Mr Henson
Christian, LinusTechTips is the man! If you don't have a chance to arrange anything with him at least watch his videos that he made with other TH-camrs about their storage needs and copy. I'm terrified that you are going to go out and buy a huge over priced storage solution when you could save a lot of money building your own! LINUS IS THE MAN! Great video by the way :)
Hi Christian. I went looking for your music on Tidal earlier this week but couldn't find anything. In this video you mention and Album; can you publish a link to it please? Oh and hello from Portobello:)
Lovely workspace
Nice Aeron. I have one too. It's the only thing that stopped my backache... Of all the things I could have commented on! :D Also, you mentioned BT! He worked with Howard Jones on his last album which is fantastic!
Christian, you have a truly wonderful place to make music in. I would love to see you talk about the building itself (how big is the shelf, insulation, the build, etc.). Thanks
Whole set up looks the business. Studio always looking great. Cam set up and look I can't complain, looks neat. Onwards and upwards to 6k scale down to 4k in the future. Or 6k output, when TH-cam gets it's shit together. That would be even more LIT on mobile devices. A friend at Digital Heart in Leicester is working with 6k.
Hey Cristian, regarding the question at 12:04, I have a 10Gbps fiber network at studio transfer speeds are insane. There are 10Gps fiber switches that are fanless these days and quite cheap. Ebay also has a ton of 10Gbps server cards for like $50.
My new favourite channel, learn so much, thanks
I used to have a dozen midi keyboards - MS20 was my first (non midi) but I also had some you don't have - the fabulous Synthex and one of the first OSCars ever - serial 0051 - an early mirage - DX7 (of course) Emax - wonder where they are now.
I had to sell them all when I went digital to finance the new set up - and take a lot less space. Wish I could have kept them now.
Hi Christian! Could you say something about the fader/rotary controller units, placed on the top of your keyboard? Greetings from Poland!
OK, now I know - it's Pallette Gear...
Great setup. One thing that strikes me, though, is that your mic, stand and shock mount are so ponderous. Have you ever investigated getting a Yellowtec Mikarm? They’re pretty amazing for moving around and placing a microphone. Designed for radio announcers. Very streamlined, and the springs are internal, with friction mounts where the joints meet. I play a lot of real instruments in front of my computer, and the Yellowtec Mikarm lets me easily position the mic with one hand. Also, have you ever experimented with your voice through a Shure SM-7? The have a built-in pop filter and shock mount. A LOT less hardware in the scene.
I just LOVE the look of your studio! It's amazing that we get videos from pros like Jason Graves, Paul, Junkie XL and you...what a time to be alive!
PS: You can hide the chins with a beard. ;)
Hi Christian, Are you using Neve preamps for synths? Are they worth to use on synth? It is hard to find any info about it. Second question. So, Manley EQ or compressors are only worth to use on final master?
PawelBlaszczak_Composer I would have preferred to buy a Neve 33609 but they’re having problems with their manufacturing at the moment.
@@TheCrowHillCo Thanks Christian! I'm watching your vlog since very beginning. Good advices for others composers too. Also I'm using a lot of Spitfire since very first Albion :) You're helping me understand better spoken english, since sometimes is quite hard ;)
I bought a neve 8068 from Herbie H. I had to refurb it. It was a black Neve. Which did A few of his hits. Miss that console.
@Christian Henson Music. You might consider replacing the RE-20 with a great shotgun, like I use in the field for recording. My standby in the Sennheiser MKE 600 en-us.sennheiser.com/camera-mic-dslr-shotgun-video-mke-600 Which I also use in studio for Voice Over recording and ADR. A small boom stand (very light weight) and your set. This mic is very directional w/low cut filter, phantom powered.
Christian, take a look at the AKAI MidiMix midi controller. It has nine fader and lots of rotary knobs, and portable!
I'm now making some tests to create tutorials and found that the easiest way is to record on OBS with external cards in 4K directly in H.264 with a high constant bitrate (my AMD card, a Vega 64 has an encoder). So far, I'm happy with the results. If you follow some hardcore gamers and streamers a lot of them use a two computers setup. One computer to play video games and another computer to record and stream (usually with OBS). This is very versatile because, that recording computer can always be expanded and you can update to new HDMI capture cards, etc. All has its pros and cons, this setup works well when you record only one camera at a time or a multi-camera scene at any given time, you can't record two cameras separately AFAIK (maybe opening multiple OBS instances? I have to try that). Anyway, here's no perfect setup, I think you are aiming for really high value production that will always come with space issues, I record on 4K to crop and publish in 1080p.
loved the Joey Diaz lurking there on you right monitor
Linus Tech Tips where moaning about their Red cameras and Corridor Digital tore a strip off them saying 'Why are you recording at top quality? You only need that if you are doing Grade A effects shots for movies!' So basically stop recording in ProRes or drop the quality. 100Mbit/sec is still fine.
I worked on a low budget feature where the director insisted on the max quality his Atomos could capture and it was making 300Mb/sec as 14bit png files. He spent over a month just rendering proxies in ProRes and then ended up converting them to mp4 to edit with!
So in short, yes, record music in wav or aiff but video, especially for TH-cam, only has to be above what TH-cam puts out so 50mbit/sec is absolutely fine.
Thanks for the tour, very nice set up, I like how you’ve got enough space to have “ in the box” &” out of the box”areas,.Love your mini Roland analogue collection! Even though I’ve got much less of a set up I really like hardware sequencers/dawless approach so you’ve given me few ideas, thanks! I don’t know a huge amount about video but I personally agree with those that say 4K isn’t really worth it ( good, well lit, 1080p I think is indistinguishable from 4K on anything less than 65inch display & consider most people watch this on portable devices). (Btw , I think you accidentally said H264 instead of H265 codec at one point).
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K could be a good choice for you. Pro Res is still the best codec IMHO, but DaVinci Resolve 16 is a beast for editing, CC, and with the addition of Fairlight, mixing as well. All my Waves plugins work in it, as well as Slate and others. I have upscaled ProRes 422 HD to 4K using Resolve and it is very good. Problem is the acquisition on 4K really helps in the low light, so recording lower res and upscaling won't really help. I would load the ISO cameras directly into my editor, edit the material from the SSD's, and then after your project is done copy the SSD's and clear them off. Blackmagic Multidock 10G has 4 SSS slots that show up on the desktop as separate discs, so you can put your 3 sources into slots and have your renders and master on a 4th. Out of the camera, into the editor with no down time.
Thank you for this and your great inspirational TH-cam channel/work in general! Cheers from The Netherlands, Jeroen Simons, Independent, ex - Epica.
Buy the Lexar 128GB 300MB/s Cards (the 256GB ones seem to be rare as hen's teeth) and use the included reader if you are going into a MacBook or an older iMac. The iMac Pro SD (SDXC) card slot should be fine however. These faster cards have an extra data lane that the older cards don't use and it essentially doubles the ingest speed, but your reader needs those lanes as well. I use a similar set-up and the workflow was somewhat transformed. You are shit out of luck with other CODECs at 4K unless you want to invest further in the latest Blackmagic boxes (yours are Hyperdeck Studio Minis, not Ultra Studio Minis) that allow H265 encoding @4K, which is very good. My preference remains ProRes though - the image cadence of an intra frame based encoder can't be beat and the video quality you are getting from your studio set-up is excellent.
CORRECTION: Peter Nichols' post below is the preferred method. You can now record to SSD's via the USB-C port at the back of the Hyperdeck Studio Minis. This wan't possible on the oder units.
Amazing space! Thank you very much for the tour! 😁🙏👊
you faders and controller extensions and expression midi controller gear your equipment list please
Dimension D chorus is actually not the analogue chorus from the Junos and the like - that one is the same as the chorus in Roland's JC-120 amp. The Dimension D chorus gets a run in the RS-505 string machine though!
An observation: I just noticed following viewing this video (and a few others that you've produced) a sense of overload and exhaustion. It's difficult to rev up my mind and to get it in sync with the incredible flow (flood) of valuable information you convey. Once I catch up, another wave comes in and swamps the boat.
Such sweet music as you have created rely upon the silences. Some of your work breathes; takes on a life form; lives mostly in the silences.
May I suggest you consider not editing out pauses at least? Yes, perhaps the video will run a bit longer, but may be more digestible :)
Cheers!
You talk sometimes about your album. Where can I listen to it? I really enjoy your videos and LABS and Spitfire Audio and Pianobook, I would definitly listen to it. What is your approach to music, not jobs for trailers and movies, but your own music? What are you doing with all this gear?
Could you tell us more about the jimi Hendrix box please
Awesome video as always i can't fathom how you make the time to do all this. Very impressive.
Is there maybe a way to connect the Ultrastudios to a Black Magic SG10 (has thunderbolt/usb-c for direct editing up to 8k if i read that correctly). Not sure that creates a better workflow or worse + it requires more investments. Personally i have been going on an "alternative to Adobe" quest this year. I know there is a lot of money/time wasted in learning new software, but i don't want to be dependent on an expensive subscription to work. I have migrated to Davinci Resolve (free/paid) for video editing, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer for photo editing, pixel and vector art, lastly Affinity Publisher for layout/posters/covers/printed media etc. At work we are slowly phasing out Adobe, which saves the workplace a decent chuck of money each year. If you have all 3 Affinity products and launch Affinity Publisher, you can instantly swap between all 3 product tools, which basically makes it a Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign replacement in 1 program. Cheap and a superb alternative + their iPad versions are the full versions of the programs, so same features and same file format as their Windows/Mac counterparts.
Very Nice place to make good music... congrats!
I’ve absolutely loved this series creative Cribbs. Brilliantly done
I’d absolutely love to see Brian Bennett’s Honeyhill Studios (shadows drummer and composer).
Just an idea, but would be so much appreciated.
Thank you for your amazing channels and generous output, you deserve all the success that you get! (Despite my almost infinite envy of your own studios!😀)
Thanks again
Love your videos! Thank you for posting. Curious, at about 19 minutes, those 5 tier pull out keyboard racks...where can I find something like that? Many thanks in advance!!
They're cast iron library book shelves, seriously heavy, the racks don't pull out got them from here: www.retrouvius.com/stock/?tags=furniture|storage
Christian Henson Music thank you!!
Love the Eames chair 👍👍
I'm certainly not speaking for the majority but in my case, 1080 is about all I can view. I live in a rural area of the US where internet speed is limited. We can stream 1080p but we can't stream anything higher because the download rate is just too high. With that said, I feel like 1080 does the job for your channel. The audio is one of the most important thing for you to care about which you're nailing. So.... Haha. I will be building my studio in a "shed" in a year or two. Thanks for sharing this!
"drummers... bless" had me lol'ing
Great vid as usual. I can't help but imagine there is an enormous power lever that requires two hands to operate just inside your shed door causing Edinburgh to dim slightly when operated. Question: when do you sleep?
I absolutly love your place.....A place to compose, to write songs :)
Hi Christian - what's the shelving system you use for the keyboards? cheers :-)
Anyone have an answer on the keyboard shelving
@@keyz2life480 his shelves are library book shelves from Manchester library. He bought them from a boutique shop in London. Very expensive if I remember.
The only piece of kit I went 'snap!' on was the JX-3P 🙂
Brilliant video, as always! Many thanks Christian. Concerning the huge pile of video data: Have you tried recording to ProRes 422 LT (or even Proxxy) in 4K? I think it would be manageable and easily good enough for TH-cam.
Lovely set up. Could anyone tell me where to get a mic stand like the one Christian has for his piano? Looking to permanently mic my own piano and something like this would be perfect.
Reproducing 4k in 1080p screens may be different,because of the conversion, although when reproducion in most of the screens 1080p, you will not get more than 1920 x 1080 pixels. Nevertheless 4k footage is always good if you want to make 1080p crops.
"Can you make music in a shed?"
meanwhile I make music in a bed
i only make music with my headphones and daw. You don't really need so many fancy instruments. Unless you want specific sound.
Hahaha!!! He's totally watching Joey Diaz's podcast. Great minds think alike.
Yes!
lolllll enjoyed the drummer dig near the end. #bless
How to deal with dust in your studio?:)
Nice studio! What is that keyboard rack on the left?
really enjoy your blunt mid-sentence video edits. totally not necessary but a nice bonus
I would love to see a Spitfire Creative Cribs Alexandre Desplat edition
You could maybe keep the wide shot , but block off the light by overlaying a .PNG image mask that takes out just the light and replaces it with something more neutral from the background. This can be done in photoshop. I'm sure your video guys at Spitfire can rustle you something up.
i love that mirror !
Great stuff Christian. I just finished a new rewire/repurpose in my own studio that's eerily similar to yours. My question to you, having seen and drooled over Pauls' studio.... I notice your studio (Like mine) Has really low ceilings and not much trapping so assume bass build up especially in corners is a bit of a bugger? That piano is in the corner i believe so I'm curious how you are treating those acoustical issues?
Black Magic Raw? Switch to the pocket 4K cameras and record 4k Black Magic raw but at a compression ratio that improves your workflow?
There's really no point in shooting raw for this stuff. It's several crazy magnitudes of overkill. If you aren't doing aggressive grading (and exposure and white balance are set properly) then there really is no point. Just something like Prores 422 is more than sufficient. Also...if these are going up in HD, don't record 4K. Shoot in 2k (or even just in HD) and make your life easier. There won't be an appreciable decrease in quality.
Fantastic! I just wanted to say, and please forgive me for saying this, but to my untrained ears many of the available sample libraries sound similar so choosing who to invest in was difficult. Spitfire's commitment to quality content to help get the most out of products was the tie breaker for me. Not embarrased to say I am a true fanboi!
Has the album been released yet? Would love to listen if it has
what's the name and brand of the upright piano mic stand? Anyone happen to know?
I was just watching the codec bit. Maybe use a second bank of Blackmagic recorders and actually capture that at lower res/quality for use as a proxy (created in real-time). At least avoids a transcoding step that might streamline things.
The bottle neck here in your video is the speed of the SD card. The simplest way to eliminate that is to use SSDs and plug them in to your blackmagic captures usb-c. (Sync all your captures to a master clock too) Then use another ssd hub dock to connect to iMac. Import in to premier and then use multi-cam to make clips in to a Multicam file. Don’t bother with any intermediate proxies, Ssd and Imac pro eats it, plus you can put viewer at quarter res if you need to to edit. Multi cam clips are easy to edit and switch. You could record your voice direct to a video stream too to save a step there. Any other questions please reach out. (Did / do Film Production p/t)
I maybe should name drop, that I work with David Wheeler, former Top Gear producer and director at the time you were commissioned to redo the theme. He vaguely remembers your name, but it was the other producer he says that "organised all that".
Why do you prefer Logic as opposed to Cubase? I have used both since 1988, but I was just curious.
Beautiful room! If you have a moment, could you give the measurements?
If your blackmagic boxes can do HEVC / h265 rather than h264 that should reduce the data sizes down 4-8x (i know, it sounds unbelievable but is amazing)? Your iMac Pro should decode it when editing without much additional strain, and moving stuff around should be much much faster - better video quality for less. Again, amazing maths.
this is a great comment!