Dynamic Versus Compressed In Live Mixes
Ruminating on the topic of improving intelligibility by reducing volume inconsistencies and dealing with reverberant room acoustics versus the loss of “slam-hit eye-blinking” impact.
March 10, 2021
Ruminating on the topic of improving intelligibility by reducing volume inconsistencies and dealing with reverberant room acoustics versus the loss of “slam-hit eye-blinking” impact.
“Sound systems only feed back at the frequencies indicated on the graphic equalizer…”
Focus on Main L/R bus processing, theories of mixing into certain processing, and how to approach matrices for sending out a live mix.
What’s your approach to plugins/outboard? Let’s see what our panel of front of house and monitor engineers has to say on the issue…
Taking some ideas from studio drum techniques to give your vocals a solid place in the mix.
We tend to forget that people really do like the sound of compression – when it’s not used to excess.
Some tuning techniques utilized over the years using nothing but my ears and a few select tracks.
“The measured and considered improvement over time in this case has led to a situation that gives me better results with fewer compromises.”
Continuing the discussion by considering computational complexity and the key benefits of FIR filters.