Beautiful 🤩

Mixing on a console like this from a remote location is just the coolest ever. I don't quite understand why we would want to do that but its super cool.

How would you deal with not having your own Monitoring?

Thanks for sharing this, Kyle.👍🏼
 

Remote mixing: I'd love to run my tracks thru the bussing and channels of the Neve console. But in order for me to be the one mixing I'd have to physically go to the studio, and use their room and monitors, which I may not be familiar with.

Because this console is remote controllable, I can tap into the studio it's in via a screen sharing app like anydesk, or windows remote desktop ect. That gives me the control of the studios computer/daw/console, since the console is controllable via the daw (pluggin interface style). 

Just Dropbox the my mix session to them, they screen share with me, and I'm now running my mix on their daw/console, controlled by me at home.

For audio, you could use zoom or Skype for non critical type things, or a purpose made solution like Source Connect, or similar. These other options are relatively low latency, and send uncompressed full fidelity audio (not sure if they go high as 192k). They work by a simple plugin you put in the master bus of the studio daws session, and a channel on your computer. That is how you send the audio from the studio to your computer.

So I can essentially run and monitor the session going thru the Neve, at my home in near realtime. As a customer it saves me travel, and the cost of a Neve, lol. As the studio, it allows them to be booked remotely, so people don't even have to be present in the studio. Heck, the console could be in a warehouse or someones shed. It just needs to be powered, and connected to the daw/Internet. 

This remote ability basically bridges the gap between renting a studio and renting gear.

Couple that with something like the SSL? Patchbay you had, which was remote controllable, and you have the ability to patch in rack stuff too.

With reasonable delay compensation, and a redundant, reliable storage solution, you could actually record remotely in realtime thru the console. Remote recording tech is currently available, tho I'd have to try and find my notes I took when looking into a year or so ago.

Basically using gear I can't afford to own, or travel too, and/or booking my studio gear when I'm not using it is why remote controlled analog is such a groundbreaking feature to me. Its literally the best of both worlds.  Without daw integration/remote control, hybrid workflows are still a bit clunky, requiring manual recalls, or to be physically present with the gear.

There's already a company that let's you remote control their rack gear like a pultec eq, and use it with your tracks.

I see this trend growing, and don't think it's far fetched to imagine a warehouse setup like a computer server warehouse, but with audio gear.

The broadcast industry has been doing remote for a while, and I think music will follow suit.

Imagine you could run your sing thru the Abbey road rack!!?? Remote might just give the commercial studio a new lease on life.

Tho one has to still wonder how long analog will be preferable.

Here is quick overview of it. If I was starting over I would definitely look at this. Oh man... Look at these strips. So nice.