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Sugadaisy live 2 track
The band Sugadaisy opened for a Trombone Shorty show here at the historic 1600 seat State Theatre in Ithaca, NY last month. We are a (damn near) hundred year old space. They are a quirky, poppy, indie rock band livin’ the dream and traveling in their van. God Bless the kids, huh? I take care of audio at the theatre so I mixed the show. They are allowing me to share this previously released copyrighted song because at this point any publicity is good publicity. Here’s the thing. This is a live recording off the console and another experiment in post processing a two track with Ozone 11. After the fact sweetening with EQ, compression, saturation, output limiting to get the LUFS level appropriately hot, and a very limited capability to control levels of the vocals, drums, or bass as they appear on the two track. In this case, I dropped the vocal level to better place it into the mix. Mixing live in the moment I find myself mixing far more dynamically than after repeated listenings and trying fit it all that energy inside the little speakers. So here’s where we landed after a quick soundcheck and post processing. Enjoy and comment. PT
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This is awesome, Paul! Sounds great, and what a fun happy tune! Without the sounds of a live audience you made this soundcheck sound like a record made in a badass 100-yr old “recording studio” – love it! Thanks so much for sharing the audio and pic of your “office”. haha. Amazing what you’re pulling off with Ozone and a 2-track! ⚡️
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Muchos gracias, but naw bruh, that’s from the show itself, not soundcheck. The off axis sound of the audience response through open vocal mics isn’t worth putting in at the end of the song. IMO It’s an old picture of the theatre and fortunately, I have an appropriately sized PA now. I’m happy to share more when something good happens and I can get permissions. PT
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Oh damn, the show itself! That’s awesome 🙌
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Paul, Usually live board mixes don’t sound nearly this good for all the obvious reasons. Love what you recorded and enhanced here with Ozone ( I use an earlier version of Ozone for mastering my own music. I like the tonal balance feature as it keeps me in the ballpark across the entire freq, spectrum since I lack a flat mixing environment) Dig the track as well! Fun times!
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David, Thanks. I solved my non flat mixing environment by going into headphones and using Sonarworks, the software that makes the frequency response neutral for hundreds of models/brands of headphones. Coupled with the tonal balance feature of Ozone that has amassed gadzooks of measurements to get a genre-specific target goal helping to we can get in the ballpark pretty quickly. Love that technology and the stabilizer too. That one is a dynamic EQ that keeps the overall tonality closer to the target curve offered up by the tonal balance even when the song’s frequency response changes somewhat.Have you explored that feature if it exists in your version? PT
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Paul, yes the dynamic EQ is awesome for exactly the reason you mention (I was going to say like a multi-band compressor on steroids but then I became curious about the differences & found this article https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/how-to-use-dynamic-eq-in-mastering.html (if you see the Access Denied graphic below, disregard and copy paste link into your browser, I guess Izotope doesn’t want people linking their articles from blogs?) )
I had the earliest Ozone when it came out and it was like Alice In Wonderland going down the rabbit hole lol, so much intricate control over settings that it was dangerous. I would spend a whole day experimenting and adjusting thinking it was great & then when i stepped away for a time realizing it sounded terrible… rabbit hole 101.
I have Ozone 9 now. Ozone has been a game changer for the mixer who wants to be able to master as well! Perfect for this new world of self produced streaming releases at an obtainable price. All the best! DM
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David, That’s a good find that I guess I missed on their educational website. Tonight’s reading for sure. Thnx PT
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