Timecodes 0:00 - Intro 0:44 - 6176 610B Preamp Section 1:12 - 6176 1176LN Dynamics Section 1:30 - 6176 Back Panel Input and Outputs 1:40 - 6176 VU Meter Function 1:54 - 6176 at zzounds.com/a--3979429 2:22 - Tubes & Transformers 3:30 - Test Details 4:20 - 6176 on Vocals 4:55 - 6176 on Bass Guitar 5:28 - 6176 on Electric Guitar 6:02 - 6176 on Drums 6:19 - In The Mix (With and Without 6176)

One of the best channel strips in the last 20yrs

@LesVegasMusic

Ай бұрын

@ReynaldolvanPena 💯. You know, I got my first one in 2005. I was 25 years old. I had to sell it because as an aspiring musician and producer, I didn't have any money to pay rent. I also didn't really know what I had at the time or how to use it properly. I actually did just fine with it just by using my ears, but technically, I didn't know much about it and hadn't yet developed an ear for compression. Ever since then, I always wanted another one. When I made this video is when I was finally able to get one again. Thanks to zZounds. I find myself using the 6176 and LA-610 MKII more often than my Neve 1073's, API's and SSL preamps purely based on its versatility and the large, "inflated" sound I can get from it. You know lately, I've actually been using it with a vintage Shure 588SA Hi-Z dynamic mic! I bought it for $35 on reverb.com. I'm finding the combination to be great for vintage sounding rock vocals. I just have a lot of fun with it. ✌🏼❤️

my god these are the demo/reviews we need love this format keep doing more of these man!

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

@ArthurAhlfont Thanks man! I really appreciate that. So glad you like the demo and format. Thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to leave a comment. Your support really helps keep me motivated to make more videos like this one. Please feel free to contact me anytime with any questions you might have along the way. I'm always available. You can just leave a comment on one of my videos or email me at lesvegasmusic@gmail.com. Thanks again!

Fantastic review, love this box!

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks John! It's nice in combination with a U87 too isn't it?! 🙂

Excellent information Les! Congratulations you're almost to 1000 subscribers!!😎👊

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much William! Yeah! Almost there! Getting close!

*Awesome video and excellent information. thank you Less* !

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I’m excited about what this can do!

Love this guy-excellent review-keep em comin👍👍👍👍😎

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

@Blind Albert Thanks for watching and for your comment! So glad you liked it! See you on the next one!

Great demo - great tune too. Thx,

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much David! I'm so glad you enjoyed the demo. I hope you have a good day!

Great job! ❤

@LesVegasMusic

5 ай бұрын

@bobdillan5391 Thanks so much!

Gorgeous pice of kit. Thank you.

@LesVegasMusic

Ай бұрын

@davidmarais1048 Yeah man! It really is. I just just used it the other day on vocals with a vintage Shure 588SA Hi-Z dynamic microphone I bought on reverb.com for $35! Passed it through the 610 preamp and 1176 compressor. Great rock vocal sound! Thank you for watching and for your comment. I really appreciate it!

Its amazing how that thing warms up vocals. I sold mine when i first started mixing because it looked intimidating. Now almost 3 years later i would definitely purchase again. I use the ua -610 unison preamp in my apollo on all my vocals

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

Dude! I hear you. I bought one back in 2005 but didn't know what I had or how to use it properly so I sold it. Then many years later I realized what I had, learned how use it and wanted it back ever since! So, here we are. Sounds wonderful. I'm a happy puppy.

Great song ♥️☘️

@LesVegasMusic

10 ай бұрын

@jamesokeeffe3216 Thanks so much!

Great comparison video. The pre sounds big, and of course the comp is a classic. Yeah I don't think plugins are matching this. Maybe something from Acustica could get close-ish but still not quite there in sound, and nowhere even close in workflow. For someone not recording entire bands but just recording themselves, or doing one track at a time, a single channel of this could be a gamechanger. Thanks for making the video!

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

@Timedog. You're welcome! Thank you for watching and for your comment. Totally! That's what I'm doing. You can do a lot with just one. 1176 Hardware vs Plugins video comparing all the most popular 1176 plugin emulations to this unit is coming next! Do you have an analog recording channel strip?

@briefcasemanx

Жыл бұрын

@@LesVegasMusic No, I'm currently all ITB, but owned analog gear in the past and miss it.

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

​@@briefcasemanx I feel you! The good news is, we don't know need a whole lot of analog hardware today. Just a handful of carefully selected pieces of hardware for each stage of the recording, mixing and mastering process is all we need to take our production to the next level.

Can this device be used in a live show setting as a preamp for bass ? It would be connected to a powered bass cabinet. Great demo and thanks ..

It would be a fair comparison if you compare the file using the Universal Audio 6176 with a file using a similar signal chain with plugins. Then one would notice that the difference in price between some good plugins (and they don't even have to be expensive) and the hardware would surely be in favor of the plugins.

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

@BartWesterduin Totally! Thanks for watching and for your comment. That video's coming up next! Thanks for the suggestion!

Where can I have this song ? For listening purposes :D I humm this all day long. 😀

Sounds great. I’m a bit confused though As a mono unit, Did you run the stereo drum bus through the 1176 twice?

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

@basilandrigsby Thank you! And yes, for any stereo sources in this demo I just processed and printed the left channel first, then the right channel, then combined them into one stereo file to get the same result as if I had a matched pair.

Hi Les, great content. Hey do you own or use a standalone UA 1176 hardware compressor? Is it worth buying if you already own the 6176? Im considering both units and not sure if it's worth it if you own one or another, thank you

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

@mariomaslik Thank you! I do own the 6176 that you see in my videos, but I don't own an 1176. I never have, but I have heard them. They are different, but they're too similar for me to justify getting an 1176 when I already have the 1176LN made for the 6176. When I want that sound, I have access to it with the 6176 and that's good for what I do with it. For my own stuff, and already owning a 6176, I think I would actually get a Distressor first before an 1176. It's a little more versatile and transparent which is helpful for some genres of music I produce. If I was only recording rock, I'd choose the 1176 all day long for the sound and grit it gets. But I get in the mood to record dance, pop and rap sometimes too, and I know the Distressor would be the one I'd reach for first for that stuff. I only produce and record my own music in my private home studio, but if I had a public studio and I was recording bands all the time, that would be a good reason for me to buy a couple 1176's in addition to the 6176. I really love having the channel strips with the LA-610 Mk II and 6176. Having the ability to just plug in an instrument and throw some compression and a bit of basic EQ on it on the way in is great and makes the channel strips more valuable to me than having an 1176 that can only do compression. Let me know what you end up doing! I'd love to hear your thoughts and how you plan to use them.

Awmannn, it sounded great on everything..... but how about those DRUMs though?! Made them sound so fat and punchy without overdoing it Cheers for the vid man, will def look into this gear. I can get some great recordings with my Aston Spirit and my Bass going straight into a UR-C , but seems a good preamp (esp w tube) was the thing that was missing to get that crunch and saturation that i lack in a dry signal. I've known the power of tubes since a little boy when my sound-tech father showed me a tube in an amplifier he was repairing and explained how it made the sound more powerful and loud, and i was fascinated 😅😂 (sry rant over, great vid dude

@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

@GeneMcBeats Thanks for watching and for your comment. Haha. I know it right?! It's all about the 1176LN compressor on drums. Besides the obvious improvement on the sound and dynamics, what I really like is how it takes the level of excitement up 10 notches! It goes from sounding good, to sounding fun and exciting which helps keeps people listening. I think that's what's most important. So cool your dad was a sound-tech! Thanks for sharing that story. Feel free to contact me any time with any questions you might have along the way. You can always just leave a comment on one of my videos or email me at lesvegasmusic@gmail.com. I love to help and talk gear! Thanks again!

How do you connect it to your audio interface I have a id44 mk11 is it microphone plugged into mic side on the pre an on the comp side come out an in a line insert 1 or 2 on my id44

@LesVegasMusic

10 ай бұрын

@kelvinwilkins8406 Thanks for watching and for your question. Referencing the image of the rear panel at 1:36, you'll see the ins and outs for the compressor are on the left, and the ins and outs for the preamp are on the right. So, on the right, that's where you'd plug in your mic or mono line level instrument (Ex. Moog Subsequent 32). There's also a Hi Z input on the front panel. That's where you'd plug-in your guitar. So, that takes care of the inputs. Now just use the two outputs, and connect them to any two available inputs on your audio interface. Now, in your DAW, if you're just using the preamp section, assign the track to capture that input (let's say you plugged that into input 1 on your audio interface). But if you're using the compressor as well (that is, anytime the compressor section is not in bypass) then you can just assign the track in your DAW to capture the Line Output of the compressor section (let's say you plugged that into input 2 on your audio interface). The two outputs are there so if you want to capture the preamp section only and not use any compression, then you can. And if you want to send a signal out from your DAW (let's say a VST Instrument) and into the compressor section and just capture the compressed signal, then you can do that. You just have options this way, but only you will know how you plan to use it primarily. For example, say you intend to use it to track electric guitar primarily and you always want to apply compression on the way in. Well in that case, if you're going to use it like that all the time and you know that, then there's no need to connect the output of the preamp section to your audio interface because the preamp section gets fed into the compressor section and is sent out the line output on the rear of the 6176 whenever the compressor is not in bypass. Just connect that one cable to any available input on your audio interface and you're up and running with preamp, EQ and compression with one cable. Boom. It's that easy. Same goes for if you were micing a vocal or acoustic guitar. The only difference is you would plug the mic into the mic input on the rear instead of the front panel - out from the Line Output on the compressor section side to any available input on your audio interface again and boom. Same thing. You're all set. Preamp, EQ and compression recording to one track in your DAW with just one cable. Hope something I said here helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

I couldn’t hear the difference. Maybe I need to use studio monitors. I’m using my iPhone with Sound core Liberty 2 pro ear buds.

@LesVegasMusic

6 ай бұрын

@mikespor6504 Thanks for watching and for your comment. Yeah, get a good pair of reference headphones like Sennheiser HD-600's and you'll hear the differences between the dry unprocessed takes and the processed takes with the pre-amp, compressor and EQ. The EQ recordings are probably easiest to hear the differences because they're obviously changing the sound, but with the preamp and compressor takes, you have to know what to listen for. With the preamp, you're listening for drive, desired distortion, saturation and harmonics. With the compressor you're listening for consistency in volume and subtle tone variation.

@outdatedgear5036

6 ай бұрын

@@LesVegasMusic "You have to know what to listen for". That's the best advice i've heard in a long time. Listening critically is what i'm doing these days.

Unfortunately it sounds so subtle for my ears. I am pretty sure this high-end equipment really might add a lot of uniqueness to the sound, but even with a nice pair of headphones I could notice the EQ effect only and maybe Preamp when everything sounds warmer/thicker. But comoressor wise.... I couldn't really notice 😢

@LesVegasMusic

4 ай бұрын

@jaymzleutz well, I must have went too easy with it on this video then. The compressor on this thing is serious! You can really push into this thing hard for some very noticeable compression - especially on higher ratios. I could do a whole video on the compressor alone! It's really great for rock on drums and vocal but, it's good for anything you throw at it. Great vintage flavor as well. Thanks for watching and for your comment. Much appreciated!

@jaymzleutz

4 ай бұрын

@@LesVegasMusic thank you so much for such a prompt response. I am pretty sure that my ears are kinda limited! Nothing related to your recording, sir. I was referring to my ears sensitivity. I am really frustrated 🤷🏻‍♂️ I could not really feel the difference when hearing the dry signal recorded and the one touched by the 6176 😞

@LesVegasMusic

4 ай бұрын

Well, it is subtle in this video and depending what you're listening on, it is possible to not detect much of a difference. If it is true you can no longer hear or feel compression, that's absolutely fine. Focus on what you can hear and feel and let it steer you to your best work. That's all we can do. The universe will put us where it wants us and we'll be ok. ✌🏼❤️

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@LesVegasMusic

Жыл бұрын

Hi Aaron! Thank you! Man. I can't tell you how much your words of encouragement mean to me. I really appreciate that. It's people like you that keep me motivated. Thanks so much for your support. Feel free to write me anytime with any questions you might have. You can always reach me here or at lesvegasmusic@gmail.com. Thanks again! ✌🏼❤️

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@LesVegasMusic

8 ай бұрын

Haha. Thanks @jamesdavis5096! I've been trying to figure out how to make an AI version of myself.