Devin Townsend Project Live Mixing

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Sounds amazing. Excellent work, really!

 

[GeertSamuel]

What an amazingly tight band live!
And Devin's voice is amazing.. did you do a lot of work to it or not?

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Thank you guys for the nice comments.
Concerning the edits there's nothing spectacular really. Ryan is a machine!

 

[The Dane]

Well he didn't have a second snare on that tour but maybe you're talking about the studio recording?

Or maybe the stage guy forgot to put a mic on it...

 

[JeffTD]

^^No, I saw the tour Brett did sound on - no second snare. The most recent that happened in October had an auxiliary snare, for sure, but the one back in January did not.

 

[John_C]

it's weird to hear the stage so quiet with no monitors or amps

 

[462studio]

it's weird to hear the stage so quiet with no monitors or amps

Haha, I thought so too.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Haha you should come at our rehearsal or shows. The only sound on stage is basically my voice, the rest is dead silent (well not really, you hear strings and fingers on keyboard, plus the noise of beater and sticks on drum pads.

Haha sorry for highjacking my own thread!

 

[462studio]

Haha you should come at our rehearsal or shows. The only sound on stage is basically my voice, the rest is dead silent (well not really, you hear strings and fingers on keyboard, plus the noise of beater and sticks on drum pads.

Haha sorry for highjacking my own thread!

That must be weird for you. I know it would freak me out.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

To highjack your own thread?

 

[462studio]

To highjack your own thread?

Yep.

 

[sawtooth]

Brilliant! Has Devin commented on it yet?

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Nope, didn't answer any of my latest emails
Dunno if they're too busy with the recording of Deconstruction or what...

 

[acappa]

Hey Brett! Very nice work man!!
I wonder if you´re able to shed some light in a few questions I have...
I mixed some low budget live shows and now I´m currently mixing one high budget from last Wacken, the band is gonna release a DVD so the output must me devastating!! XD

Well, from my experiences I always have problems with vocals and all the noise that get into them and also drums. Could you specify a bit of your processing in those aspects??? I usually gate the vocals and do the same process as it was recorded in studio....but I can´t get my vocals as clear as yours...so may be I´m doing something wrong. I appreciate very much your time.
Merci beaocoup!!

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Hola! I didn't gate the vocals but manually trimmed the different parts. I compressed them, eq'd them a little, set a shitload of delay (that's Devin's secret weapon) and automated the volume a bit, but nothing very special or different than the usual. Sure, you'll have some spills here and there but the volume of the actual vocals going into the microphone should be much higher than the noise, and that noise is pretty much the music, so it shouldn't be an issue really. I guess you low cut the vocals too, right?

 

[NSGUITAR]

For that BTBAM/DT show, did you do the sound for the Detroit show?

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Yep.

 

[LeSedna]

Son dernier cri sur Supercrush! est incroyable, à 4:53. Perfectly powerful and pitched, incredible !

 

[acappa]

I guess you low cut the vocals too, right?

Yes I do! I high pass at 100Hz and low pass at.....well, I think I never lowpass my vocals...which fr you tend to cut??
And as for drums, any special treatment? Gates, eq´s???

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

For live stuff I tend to low cut the vocals pretty high, probably around 200, sometimes even higher depending on the voice.
For the drums, no gates. Manually clean up the toms tracks. Eq if necessary but it's not an absolute rule, sometimes I don't touch the overheads besides a low cut too (frequency depends on the material too, usually between 200 and 500 at most but then again it depends on the slope you'll use, I use very steep ones).