As with all technological advancements you still need to establish some sort of balance between traditional methodology and utilizing those shiny new tools that are now available. I’m seeing a trend of using as many plugins as you can thinking that if only you had that one plugin all your problems will be solved instead of going back to the basics and making sure you XLR lines are all cleanly soldered, you have a full understanding about every setting within your soundboard, etc. The second thing I wanted to talk about is the topic of this post, sometimes you can over-process, overthink, and overdo live mixing. This file exists to get me where I need to get to faster so I can focus on mixing and not programming. I’ve said this a lot and so I don’t feel the need to drill this down even more if only to remind you that what I’ve been writing about is my starting point, there is a lot of tweaking, editing, adjusting, burning with fire, and general changes that are made so that it fits every weekend or event. Templates are starting points to decrease setup time not permanent configurations. There are times when it doesn’t work for me and I need to start over and times when only minor changes are needed. The first is that my setup doesn’t work for everyone. Before writing this series I knew I wanted to be sure to make at least two points and make them stick. If you missed those first four posts here are some links for you ( Vocals, Bass Guitar, Kick and Snare, Electric Guitar ). I wanted to take a break in the middle of this big series talking about my multirack setup because it’s just a lot of information to keep up with so it’s time for something just a bit different than you might have expected.

Setting up waves multirack