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Another live 2 track with mastering
Here’s another song from the band Sugadaisy that came through earlier this year. I recorded a live 2 track off the console and once again post processed with Ozone 11 to squeeze all the music into little speakers. It’s a challenge, The excitement of a live show is far more dynamic than what is deemed necessary for the recorded presentation. Clip gain during the intro to raise the level, compression to help hold the dynamics in check, a final limiter on the output to shave the peaks, saturation to add some harmonic content, subtle dynamic EQ to keep a somewhat stable tonal shape to the song, and the new tool I discovered, automation for the vocal separation level. You can literally ride the vocal level of a two track file after the fact. It’s magic! Specifically, my question would be “Does it feel too squished?” or is it just my auditory memory of a live show outweigh this presentation? I hope you enjoy my ramblings. PT
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Sounds nice and lively to me!
Would be hard to say without hearing the less squeezed version to say which is best. But feels nice to me as is!
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Awesome, Paul! Sounds great, and that is soooo cool about Ozone vocal automation WITHIN a stereo file – those izotope folks are straight-up wizards.
Really nice work on the mix (and post-mix magic-rebalance AI master??? Who knows what to call these new processes… haha). I’d love to hear a bit of the audience reaction before or during the fade-out. Even if the audience is only coming thru the stage mics it’d be cool as a listener to feel that raw, live crowd energy! Just a thought.
Great stuff!
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Thank you for the infectious enthusiasm. I’m getting better at the recording thing. I do wish I had a couple ambient mics to capture the crowd with for these Sugadaisy band songs I do like using the crowd as a character in a song like I did on that singer/songwriter live multi-track mix-down you heard earlier this year. The simplicity of just popping in a USB stick into the console and hitting record has its price. It would take a small recording rig to capture the audience mics separately. PT
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Agree with Dana. It’s sounding amazing. nothing is missing, and definitely not squished
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Appreciate the good word. I was feelin’ it that night knew it was a good one to work with. PT
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