Tobi Neumann | In The Studio | Thomann
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- We had the chance to visit the one and only Tobi Neumann in his Apollo Studio in Berlin. He gave us a detailed tour of his huge synth collection consisting of vintage and modern synths.
Gear used:
Korg Minillogue: thmn.to/thoprod/379052?offid=...
Novation Summit: thmn.to/thoprod/465710?offid=...
Minimoog Model D: thmn.to/thoprod/553838?offid=...
Black Corporation Deckard´s Dream MKII: thmn.to/thoprod/499251?offid=...
UDO Audio Super 6 Black: thmn.to/thoprod/471405?offid=...
Zähl EQ1: thmn.to/thoprod/433161?offid=...
Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Yamaha DX7
1:59 UDO Audio Super 6
4:39 Oberheim Xpander
6:00 Minimoog Model D
9:39 Roland Jupiter 8
13:41 Yamaha SY-1
15:47 Roland SH-101
16:26 Korg Minilogue
17:30 Korg Polysix
19:14 Roland SH-2
22:16 Waldorf Pulse
24:43 Deckards Dream MK1
28:30 Novation Summit
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This guy has such real passion, I would gladly watch him explain the story behind every piece of gear in there
Regarding the Summit I fully agree. Completely underrated. Not only the sound you might get is excellent, also programming the Summit (and the Peak) is pure fun. Excellent sound, excellent UI, excellent quality.
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Its fantastic ❤ alot of research helped me purchase the summit.
the audio on this video is amazing, so clear, what an amazing studio collection
Because its Tobi :D
@@ThomannSynthesizers Charmeur! 😘
Should we wait for part 2 ? Mixing desk , recording workflow ? Thank you! Beautiful collection.
Not to mention the large Eurorack case.
We got you ;)
Goccine un rato dx k
Glad for all the positiv feedback. Thanks to the viewers of this channel and to the guys from Thomas Synthesizer!
Great audio engineer and great musician. Thank you for the video
original tobinator in his lovely element!!!❤🔊✨
😘😘😘
Gotta love Tobi. Gotta hate the fact that most of these awesome synths are hard to get or even unobtanium :D. Many thanks for this great interview!
Good to see someone giving the Summit some love. Very underrated synth
that was a great watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you
The reverb on the Moog sounded incredible!
Bricasti M7, Concert Hall
@@modmodell8897 Thanks!! Hearing it in this video might push me to buy liquidsonics Seventh Heaven plug-in.
So nice to see and listen to your passion for synths. Thank you. Love to hear and see more.
Man, those Model Ds really sing. It's just pure monophonic glory
They're amazing. Like a force of nature.
Fabulous tour of your studio and synthesizers. Thank you for sharing this!❤
Prologue has 16 voices for less then 2k and it sounds vintage. It s a big minilogue xd. Very underrated
That Piano of the DX7 - if that is a patch and not a rompler or something like it, it is excellent patch! Really a nice set of different synthesizer flavours! And we didn't even had a proper look at the desk, the outboard and the rest of the synthesizers!
I love these videos guys! Passionate peoples speaking about synthesizers, can't ask for more ❤
Incredible person and beautiful studio 💜💜🤘💜💜
💙💙😘💙💙
great video. i still listen to Tobi's Flieder Lieder mix once in a while, one of my favorite mixes ever.
Vor kurzem dachte ich noch so "Wäre interessant mal zu sehen wie sich Tobi's Studio seit dem letzten Videofeature entwickelt hat" - Und ihr liefert es 🙂Nice!
Freut uns zu hören :)
How can he not mention the huge modular with one word? Weed need part 2!
Yeah. I was SOOOOO disappointed...
would have been to much for this video... I was talking a lot about the modular in some videos already. This time full focus on the synths. Maybe in the future..
@@modmodell8897 könntest du die entsprechenden Videos verlinken? 🙃
Cool set up,great to see.peace on all planets.
Life goals
indeed
this is amazingly AWESOME!
Happy to hear that, thanks :)
Great video, his perspectives on each machine were very interesting... + I didn't know about that Yamaha Sy-1
Klasse Tobi 😍
ya !!! gout !!! fantastich !
Great video! Nice guy! Luckily there are more synth nerds around than me. Great collection, almost as huge as mine 😊
"...the latest synthesizer I got, and hopefully the last one."
Good luck with that, Tobi! :D
Synth-G ❤❤❤
🌷😘🌷
And still some idiots INSIST that
plugins sound the same and if you disagree then you're crazy. Fantastic video, thanks!
It logically makes no sense.
I need all of them in my life
Marvellous
I want to see all about your console AM1 which is beautiful…
simply amazing!!!!! a great human
Das wird hier so das zweite Electronic Beats 👌🏻
One can really hear the difference in the sound with the Moog. None of the behringer or the vst clones sound like it
Sehr tolle Studiotour. Super symphathischer Typ. Das Modular-System könnte er auch noch vorstellen, vielleicht macht Ihr ja einen Teil 2.
das Modular System war schon öfters im Focus, deswegen haben wir uns für diesen Beitrag dagegen entscheiden. Kommt aber sicher bald noch eins.
Tobi it would be great if you did a live chat where synth nerds could hang and shoot the breeze about synths. Your passion for those great synths comes through and I loved it. Thanks for sharing with us!
you think.. good idea thanks. I‘ll consider it.
@@modmodell8897 You should definitely do that. Speedy J's Knob Twiddlers Hangout was awesome during the pandemic. I and some people I know miss it. The thing is we so rarely get to hear pros speak about subjects in a long format. There are interviews or short videos like this or Electronic Beats but these types of vids rarely go into depth on any topic. People are looking for knowledge and quality information but all we really have is a bunch of YT tutorial fakers who have never done shit in their lives telling us..."This is how you make techno like Tobi Neumann..."
Every time I listen to the Minimoog I love it so much.
And every time I listen to the Jupiter 8 I get disappointed.
I never get the Roland hype.
summit sounds brilliant
I would love a tour of the eurorack wall
Awesome collection. I couldn't agree more on the Korg ...logue series. Bargain.
Hi Tobi Thanks for the look at your studio, So many fav's but what don't you like you've tried, whats no fun to work with.
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I too have Yamaha's first synth the SY-1. Love the thing. Really characterful sounds, basic control but plenty of range on the "preset" switches.
macht viel spaß und freunde. danke sehr!
Awesome Tour! Lots of classics in there, In just wondering why there is no MFB or Vermona in there? What's your opinion on these, Tobi? just because I will never own original roland drummachines:)
Lovely studio, great taste, awesome talk. Really enjoyed it. Tobi seems like genuinely awesome person.
Just a little comment to Deckard's Dreams, even the controls resemble CS-80, the sound / VCO / architecture and outgoing sound is quite different. VCO is 3340 clone (so it is more SH101 / Prophet 5 etc. sound) and behaves lineary instead of IG00153 that is controlled exponentially also the filters sound different. Dont get me wrong, still amazing and amazing sounding polyphonic synth. I would recommend to dive into real CS and getting for example (still extremely affordable) CS-15 (thank or hate ma later). All the best! :-)
Does glide work on the mini Moog when triggering thru midi ? My 1972 Mini Moog won't glide when triggered thru CV gate .
yes, that works
@Tony: What Oscilloscope are you using (in the first 10" of the video)?
RTW corellation meter
Oh no... Tobi can't say the Moog Minimoog Voyager can be disappointing for basses... My Minimoog Voyager XL is the first synth I use for basslines and there are some videos on my channel proving its bass quality sounds. ♥ For me the Minimoog Voyager sounds as good as the original Minimoog and it's a pure joy to have patch memory and MIDI natively on it. The real modern Minimoog. :)
I agree with him about the Jupiter-8 beast & Deckards Dream mkI and its expander. Excellent instruments for sure!
Novation does really good stuff as well, including the Summit yeah.
Really nice episode!
Yeah. That's quite misleading what he says. What's more likely? That he has a poor listening position with low frequency cancelation in his old room where he was using those Keyboards? Or that Moog somehow managed to design nearly a dozen synthesizers that all have notes that drop out? 🤔 I'd say it was user-error. But.. like him I haven't actually owned a real minimoog, so maybe there really is something to it. I know that I prefer my Mother 32 for techno style bass to my slim phatty and micromoog. Had a voyager in the university studio and the bass was insane... but that's 12 year old fading memories.
@@subaquaticencountersofthed8515 You remember well because Voyager's basses are insane. ❤️
Well it was my experience. I gave them a try for more than 2 years, Voyager and Sub Phatty. Somehow the bass at the end was always a problem, it was swimming and not really there. Some notes were over present, some disappeared. And believe me I know my shit. On the SH 101 this problems doesn't exist neither on the Pulse or there SE-1X. And since I‘ve own the Minimoog I know what was wrong with the other Moogs. They didn‘t use a discret voiceboard. They work chip-based, with integrate circuits. And that made them blurry and undefined. The Voyager is a great synth no doubt, but one OSC, triangle wave (for me the supreme discipline) was never convincing me.
@@modmodell8897 I grew up with a Minimoog in the 70's. Years after bought a Voyager when it first came out, and spent more than a decade trying to gel with it, finally sold it. Literally weeks later Moog reissued the Minimoog, bought one immediately and have been happy ever since. Oh, but if someone would actually reissue a hardware-based Jupiter 8...
A SMALL note on the modular could be made :D
Amazing Video & Studio View Tobi ! You also use the Cirklon sequencer! Do you control your 909/808 with the Cirklon? Or do you think the famous shuffle will be lost then?
actually I don‘t control the 808 and 909 from the Cirklon.., I believe in their internal groove. But everybody says its super massive to do it with the Cirklon.
I'm surprised he was allowed to criticise so much of Thomann's current stock. Fair play.
Great video - really enjoyed it and hope you go into a little bit about your desk and processing gear- perhaps a little about recording techniques also :) but my question is what are your thoughts about the nord lead 3 versus the novation you play last?
I never played the Nord Lead 3 and I can‘t involve all synthesizer.
Awesome collection!🎹🎛️👌 I like to ask does the add-on that you have for Decker's dream also come with the ring modulator?
Full facts on the Moog Model D. That thing sounds heavenly. As much as I love my Matriarch... The bass can be rather inconsistent. My Sub 25 on the other hand... never fails to deliver on anything.
How do you hook the 909 with minilogue someone please! Amazing.
just Midi Out from 909 to Midi in from the Korg. And then program the extern Instrument track on the 909. Grooves like hell!
At least he has Neumann monitors 😊
and a few Neumann Mics. 😉
Thank you for the great video! Аmong the other things it is also a perfect demonstration of good synthesizer sound! It's funny because I've just watched some reviews of the new Roland SH-4d and was wondering if there is something wrong with my hearing... but the section where Tobi speaks about SH-2 says it all :-)
Question: how did you record the synth audio? From the monitors using an external mic?
Hey thanks. We I recorded the synths directly thru the mixing console and then straight on the DAW, and then gave the file to the guys from Thomann. Just the Decker's Dream and the Summit are unfortunately not directly recorded.
@@modmodell8897 Great video, what kind of interface/ad converters/patchbay setup do you use? Do you send any midi coming out of logic?
It’s a shame, because the new SH4D is a true beast with a really good workflow and a really really good emulation of those classics Roland synths.
I understand what Tobi said about the legacy of Roland’s stuff, and he is right when we talk about some recent gears that sound too plastic and perfect, without any organic feelings. I have a TR8, it sound good, but without processing, it sound too « digital perfect » for e.g.
But, this is not systematically true, and I think we don’t have to be snobbish when a digital one virtualise some og’s analog just because there are digitals…
The SH4D sound massive and dirty, and I think he has some permanent kind of drive on the filter, who make the feeling that it sound analog. 2500 euros for a Juno106 or 1700 euros for an SH101 seriously lol…
Amazing collection! I'd love to hear about your modular setup as well. What are your thoughts on the Hydrasynth?
for the modular I need a own video. And one day we‘ll do that as well. This one here was for my synths.
How do you get all the audio super tight when recording. Do you use some kind of device ERM multiclock?
I‘m using the predecessor of the Multiclock, 2 SND ACMEs.
Hey Tobi, very nice Studio ! Which Reverb do you use in Mini Moog Chapter ?
Bricasti M7
@@touchingsound5591 Oh wow ! I love my PCM 80 too !
Hi Tobi, if you had to choice between the UDO S6 and the Summit, which is favorite?
Not really comparable.. the UDO is fill of character. The Summit more "neutral". But as I said in the video, that‘s why I like the Summit.
Excellent tour, surprised to not see a Virus or two though.
they stole my Virus Kb 2 back in 2005, and I never found one again. The TI I didn't like so much. And it‘s not possible to have all synths.
Du hast vollkommen recht. War auch mal ein Roland-Fanboy hoch 10 … der letzte große Roland ist für mich der JD 800. Ok, vielleicht noch der Vsynth mit Abstrichen.
Who is the german composer he references at 9:53?
Nevermind I found it XD Eberhard Schoener
👍.. funny and nice to See you here ✌️
I would love to know what converters are being used here, everything sounded so pure. Also what reverb was on the Moog? It sounded like EMT but much fatter maybe eventide?
Hey, we use Funk symmetry amplifier directly behind the synths and then record everything thru the Zähl AM1 and DoTec Andiamo Converters. And the reverb in this case is a Bricasti M7 Concert Hall.
@@touchingsound5591 a bit more information about the funk symmetry amp would be great please?
@@form193 funk-tonstudiotechnik.de/SAM-2B.V2-Info-2-spaltig.pdf
@@touchingsound5591 Thank You for sharing. Love the sound you have achieved there. Blew my mind. Much appreciated.
Errrm .. *cough* what about that Eurorack rack *cough* ? Did y'all overlook something?
for the modular I need a own video. And one day we‘ll do that as well. This one here was for my synths.
@@modmodell8897 Yeah, good point. You're shooting for a 2 hour in-depth video, right? :)
Looking forward to it.
bester mann
Danke Dani!
Tobi, if I picked only between Novation Peak, Black Corporation’s Deckard’s or Ise-Nin, I would pick the Ise-Nin for similar reasons you picked the Jupiter 8 as the one that remains. Which of those three would you pick if you can only have one? Thank you.
well if you can afford, get the Ice-Nin. I never compared it to my JP8 but I‘ve heard good things about it and I do trust the guys from Black Cooperation.
The Peak costs a quarter from a BC synth. But also a good synth as I mentioned in the video.
@@modmodell8897I appreciate the response, thank you!
Review that AM1!!!
check the next video from @thomannsynthesizers.. there I will speak about the mixing.
czcams.com/video/EtReHX-rEvs/video.html and also check part 2-5!
What's the name of track at the beginning of the video?
What is the synth/drum machine with the wooden panels right next to the keyboard?
Sequentix Cirklon Sequencer
@@modmodell8897 Thank you mate
Tobi ist ein Supertyp!
There's a few synths I've regretted selling over the years. The Waldorf Pulse is one of them, and it surprises me these still aren't very expensive for how great they are. Such a solid, very direct sound. Think it was Kirk Digiorgio that recommded them when I was a teenager (yip, in Sound on Sound 1998!). Videos like this might mean the prices go up ;) I do think last time I checked they might have been selling for 400+. Think I sold my Pulse to fund a Moog Voyager. But, Voyager wasn't necessarily better, just different. Love my Novation though.
i have a feeling that tobi would enjoy a asm hydrasynth as a masterkeyboard to play all those polyaftertouch synths with if he could get over the fact that its completely digital ;)
thanks for the tip, sends the asm master keyboard polyphonic aftertouch?
@@modmodell8897 yes it does! the synth on top is just a (very nice) bonus haha xD
@@vibratemutate I know that its an very interesting synth. Maybe one day.. ;)
TN looking particularly like Kyle MacLachlan's German cousin in this one. Rock on plz
Surprised he says the Summit doesn't have any character. The tones I heard from it in this video alone sounded more interesting that most of the other synths demo'd.
the classic minimoog
A remake 40 years newer...
@@subs4794 true
@@subs4794 these is nothing like a super high quality analog synthesizer 101 this is why i got the grandmother moog 😎
@@subs4794 maybe next i will get the minimoog
@@subs4794 well have good day mate for me it sleep time its like 5:34am😭💀 i did not sleep dude
nice person and gear. funny about the pulse. it was my first synth and i had it for many years but i never liked the tone somehow; it's monstrously huge but i could never get it to fit... anyway surely a problem of the operator
Hallo Tobi. Ich habe einen Controller für den Waldorf Pulse im ersten Lockdown Winter gebaut... Der macht wesentlich mehr Spaß als der Software Controller. Kannst dich gerne melden, falls du Interesse daran hast.
Link to it?
Danke aber ich habe schon so unendlich viel Kram im Studio.. brauche keine zusätzlichen Teile mehr.
I didn't realise Germans pronounced it as moog.
i got the grandmother moog
If I can give some constructive criticism it would be much more interesting to see how they use their equipment rather than a tour of instruments most of us pretty much know everything about already :).
In my opinion the polysix blows the Juno 60 out of the water. I had a Juno 6 and found the sounds thin and samish.
Nice tors Hood Day deutsch
Is he heir to the microphone company?
Neumann is a surname like Jackson. 😉
May God forgive our synths.
Künster:innen in Muttersprache + subtitlen wäre sehr angenehm imo. Sonst cool & weitermachen :)
100% agree with him about Roland as company and the legacy. The old Roland synths are awesome, among the best ever. Roland synths after the 90s XP80 are crappy. The latest Fantom is crap; RD2000 also a crap, Their hammond simulations are horrible and all products after year 2000 nowhere near the Nord or Yamaha.
Why do germans say BErlin when speaking in english but berLIN when in german?
Because in german it's pronounced BerLIN. And if you live in Berlin you meet a lot of people who speak english and say BERlin. So you get used to prnounce it like that when you're speaking english with people.
"CS-70 is a still at a reasonable price" Oooh.. *looks it up...$12,000* :|
This is the perfect example of how a huge arsenal of gear does not make you a great musician, sound designer, composer, artist.
I do not know only one song of this guy,
which means his tunes do not stick out or are timeless...