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Before I was using Waves’ C6, I would start to EQ his vocal in sound check when he was hitting the mic pretty hard, and I could get it sounding pretty good. For example, Matt tends to do a bit of talking in between songs. There are so many great tools available to correct issues that you wouldn’t typically think of. One of the main artists I’ve been fortunate to work with is Matt Redman, and throughout the past 5 years of working with him I’ve been able to try out many different plugins and develop a great library of presets for his band. I was using Waves Multirack years before I came on board with them as their Live Product Specialist, as one of the FOH volunteers at Passion Church in Atlanta, GA, and also when mixing other artists. In other words, where I would normally have been doing damage control and just trying to make sure nothing is feeding back, I’m able to actually fix the issues with some of these tools, and then mix into the music like a studio mixer would and take the live experience for the listeners to the next level. To that, I must say that using plugins has put me on the mixing offensive rather than the defensive. I think that a large misconception about using plugins live is that it’s unnecessary all just icing on the cake. Furthermore, you can make these racks mono, stereo, or even mono-to-stereo for different processing like FX returns. You can continue to add as many rack spaces as needed for processing. input channels, output channels, groups, etc.), and you can add up to eight plugins per rack and arrange the processing order any way you’d like. Just like a hardware insert, you can insert this rack on anything you’d like (ie. When you first open Multirack, it’s just a blank rack space. The application itself is visually laid out just like a rack of outboard gear that you would use at a gig or in a studio. Waves Audio created an application called Multirack, a host platform used to run their plugins for live sound. Thankfully there is one company who realized years back that this shouldn’t be the case, and have put a lot of their resources into creating and supporting a platform that is purely dedicated to giving live engineers the ability to use their favorite tools in a live setting. Shouldn’t live engineers get to use the same tools that their studio counterparts use? It’s true that digital live sound consoles have come a long way quickly and continue to evolve with higher fidelity and reliability, but in the live world you are still very much limited to the basic tools that come with the desk. But with all this technology becoming increasingly affordable in the studio world, it seems that the live side of audio engineering often gets left out. With the emergence of increasingly powerful laptop computers, inexpensive I/O, and advanced DAWs and audio plugins, artists and engineers can now cut a proper studio quality record in their basement.
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This has been an amazing era for studio engineers. Stephen Bailey uses Waves Multirack to mix Matt Redman at Abbey Road.