Waves Audio is seeing a growing number of young cutting-edge
live engineers turn to WavesLive tools, including front-of-house engineer
Vincent Casamatta (OK GO, They Might Be Giants) currently on the road with
AWOLNATION.
He notes, “Using WavesLive tools is a central part of what
it takes to provide studio-quality mixes with consistency every night. I look
at digital mixing environments, like DiGiCo, as a blank slate, and using Waves
adds the color and punch to my mixes. The workflow is as simple as it gets. I
spend nearly the whole show tweaking the Waves rack on my screen. Most
importantly, it has the exact same feel and sound of Waves that we use in the
studio, so it blurs the line with respect to what you can achieve in the studio
versus live.” By employing WavesLive tools, Casamatta helps these artists
achieve the level of polish attained in the recording studio.
His go-to plugins are C4 Multiband on guitar, which provides
him a “super-simple way to mellow out too much bite”; SSL G-Channel into L1 and
L2 Ultramaximizers and shaped with a PuigTec EQP-1A for the drum buss; LoAir on
synth low-end for sub-harmonics to “tighten up the whole mix”; DeEsser on main
vocals; CLA-2A on backing vocals; and H-Comp on the snare buss.
Vincent Casamatta is part of the growing trend among live
sound professionals who are making the move to the next-generation workflow
with Waves plugins and WavesLive SoundGrid®. Visit http://www.waves.com
and www.waveslive.com for more information.
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