Your Home Recording Studio's video: MOTU M4 Unbox and Workout

In this episode, I'll take a look at the MOTU M4, a 4x4 audio interface that's pretty new to the market. I'll go through its features, installing drivers, configuring it in my DAW, and I'll record a project through it to illustrate how it works. Timestamps: 0:00 - Music video excerpt 0:32 - Intro, unboxing, features 5:52 - Powering up the interface 6:47 - Downloading and installing drivers 8:36 - Configuring ASIO buffer size 11:47 - Recording sampled drums 13:17 - Recording acoustic guitar 15:48 - Recording bass guitar 18:34 - Recording electric guitar 21:45 - Plugging in an external preamp 23:17 - Recording acoustic drums 24:53 - Recording vocals 25:51 - Music video with final project 29:09 - Final thoughts A little info about the microphones, instruments, amplifiers and effects in this project: Scratch drums: Superior Drummer 3, Indiependent SDX Acoustic guitar: Martin D-41, AKG C414 XLS Bass guitar: MIM Fender Precision Bass. In the mix it went through Waves GTR3, NI Solid Bus Comp, ReaEQ Electric Guitar 1: Fender American Deluxe Telecaster, Mesa Lonestar Special, Cascade Fathead Electric Guitar 2: 1965 Fender Jazzmaster, Fender '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb, Ibanez TS9, Cascade Fathead Electric Guitar 3: Jazzmaster, '68 DR, Fulltone OCD, Cascade Fathead, Lexicon MPX room reverb Vocals: Lewitt LCT440 PURE, Empirical Labs Distressor, ReaEQ, Lexicon MPX plate reverb Backing vocals: LCT440, FMR RNC (Super Nice engaged), ReaEQ, Waves Deesser Acoustic Drums: Yamaha Stage Custom Birch, Zildjian A cymbals, AKG C414 XLS on overheads (Glyn Johns setup), Shure SM57 on snare, Sennheiser MD-421 on kick, Distressors, NI Solid Bus Comp, ReaEQ, Lexicon MPX room reverb, and MPX plate on the snare