Whenever you see Ozzy talk you can barely understand because of his mumbling, yet he manages to sound quite decent in live concerts. I guess this is the guy to thank for that!
Vocalization and natural pronunciation are not going to sound the same to you for 2 reasons, you are familiarized with his lyrics and are already able to recognize what is being said. 2. Most Cockney or Welsh accents pronounce shit fast and ran together. All the sound guy is doing is making sure all of his levels are consistent no matter the variables in performance with regard to compression. I worked the Megadeth show a few days ago and Daves vocals were compressed and very consistent because the engineer was utilizing the same idea
Greg is one of the premier engineer's. Front of house or other wise. Above all, his mix decisions are based on what his ears hear... His presets and signal flow are well devised and studied so, while flexible, they also allow him to navigate quickly and NEVER second guess himself. PEACE
That console is nuts, man that’s like touring with a studio, I sopose if your that huge you want your performances to be perfect, it is the prince of darkness after all.
Audio engineers lives guys.Take it or leave it and do something else.There are too many informations in our head.Proud that i will follow this path in my life from now on.
Over use of compression is my biggest beef with some FOH guys. You have these wonderful new setups that can handle a huge dynamic range and the FOH guy makes it have the dynamic range of a 60’s transistor radio. I get that you have to control the transients a bit, but please don’t squeeze the life out of it!
As an USAF radio/PA guy, I understood all of that. He should try a pre-amp deliberator to provide inverse reactive current for use with unilateral phase detractors, it would also be capable of automatically synchronising the cardinal grammeters.
Back in the day I did the VERY SAME THING with multiple analog compressors and subgroups on a PM4000 using inserts for31 Band EQ or the compressors depending on desired sound quality. I used to drive the hard compressed drum sound, up under the more free breathing drum sound. I am sure an Avid console sounds much better than our experiments back then😂😂😂
Many of the same I use. I like the pyramid channeling. I kind of use that principal in studio one channel splits but not for vocals. I do like the waves vocal doubler though. When Live, I go simple (local scene), I do not have a digital board. I am old school so I tune/eq the room via a reference a stereo or mono 27 or 32 band EQ if the band gives me enough time (depends on whether I use my own system). Thanks for the video. Late comer here.
Great video. Priceless experience like this can only be garnered this way. I wish this was an hour or three longer. One question about grouping and crushing drums on avid desks regarding phasing. Last time I had a house gig with an avid desk, pre SL6, in an effort to leave the rest of the house engineering roster in the dust I adopted a groups based mixing style to allow for more surgical parallel processing, allowing to me to achieve perceived volumes that seemed audibly louder and much more full than Straight to the Stereo buss mixing. However, I always ran into problems with comb filtering/phasing at high volumes especially on groups with larger numbers of inputs like drums and horn sections. Any advice on eliminating this comb filtering, possible “dial in ms delay techniques” one can use a live plugin to attenuate? Cheers and thanks for the always great content.
I use a version of vocal doubling on my XR18 - amazingly enough. Vocal doubling delay on vocal and use the main FOH delay to fill it out. It isn't perfect - but it is a great sound for small venues - especially with the limited capabilities of the XR18.
As a person who worked in a studio for a good while, it's nice to understand most of what he's talking about. Otherwise it's like "UHH" for non audio people hah.
So I’m glad we can watch this guy talk, it I think everyone can agree, without hearing the audio and what he’s doing to it, this video is just useless.
Does the vocal doubler simply beef up the vocal? I thought Ozzy's triple tracking also involved putting two tracks slightly out of time to gain a slight chorus effect?
I would love to go to a rock concert and see a Soundcraft analog main & monitor board, some Universal Audio limiters, Drawmer gates, Lexicon reverb and delay racks, and that’s it. I’ve been to many concerts in many venues, when this was state of the art, and it always sounded great. Since the digital takeover, I’ve never actually enjoyed the sound of a rock concert. I’m not sure why FOH engineers still don’t understand that many people have complained for years about the overall sound quality since the AVID WAVE type digital takeover. And you can’t blame it on the venue. If it’s the venue, then what’s the point of all this digital equipment? Sometimes simple really is better.
@@Seanalbertt I’m not talking about the health and welfare of roadies. I’m talking about the overall sound quality of concerts. Most people don’t give a damn about the health and welfare of a UPS driver delivering their Amazon packages. They want their packages delivered on time and not damaged. You expect a certain standard of quality and service, and you don’t give a second thought of that driver killing himself in a hot package car in July, breaking his back to get people their heavy 150lb packages. In the profit ambition of sound reinforcement equipment companies introducing new products to sell to production companies, weight is not the selling point. Professional powered digital processed speakers and racks of digital processors with huge mixing desks still weigh a lot. It’s all still made with wood and metal just like it always has been. And I’m not talking about your cheap plastic digital DJ speakers. The selling point of new modern equipment is control and ease of use. The problem with this is, sound engineers spend too much time looking at a computer screen and not enough with their ears. Yes analog systems have their limitations on overall control compared to the digital system, but it forces the sound engineers to focus on the one thing that they are hired to do, focus on the sound. You can steer the sound all you want in the digital domain, but if it sounds like ass, who cares?
@@edwardmonsariste4050 you don’t need to preach to me about what speaker manufacturers are selling to production companies. I work full time as an audio technician for a pretty well known full service production company, and have deployed many top of the line speaker systems (L’acoustics, D&B, Meyer, and PKsound) and I can tell you weight in fact IS a major selling point for those companies because of trucking costs. Trucking costs eat up a ton in production budgets so much so that most of the time production companies look for the best sounding option in a certain weight class, and time and time again have chosen the lighter boxes over the box that sounds just slightly better. So next time you try to insult someone that probably knows more than you do maybe ask their experience in the industry first bud;)
@@Seanalbertt defensive much? Never insulted you bud. And yes I have WORKED in the industry as well, knowing all too well about packing design and weight of sound equipment in trailers. When you’ve done it for a couple of decades, you know damn well what weighs what. Thanks for being a jerk, like most people on social media.
@@Seanalbertt censer apologies. I shouldn’t have called you a jerk. That just makes me a hypocrite of keyboard warriors. Just like you don’t know me, I don’t know who you are and your background. Pointless to get into a pissing contest about things we both are passionate about.
Man I remember back in the day when I saw bands like Queen, Dio etc.. The Sound was absolutely amazing, pure and loud and would knock a hole in your chest I mean what did they have back then?? is all this crap necessary today? I've been going to a few concerts the last few years and for the life of me I can't understand why it just doesn't sound as good
Back in the days all mixing engineers had was eq, gates and compression. Now they mix it like its a studio recording, making it sound like a song for radio. And another thing is that PA's are getting better, meaning that old PA systems sound bad, and the engieneer had to compensate for that. Sometimes to make a old PA sound good was to play it loud, so the amplifiers and speaker elements could work and really color the mix making it sound warmer and thicker. Now everything is going through a computer and the warmth is gone.
Morten Solvang they don’t Sounded Bad, lets say different :-) and there Are lot of examples were Pa‘s Sounded Great like the First fourway System from eaw or „Stage acompany“ in the 90“s. I started Mixing live 1995 in the analog World, sure nowadays only on digital consoles, But i have a Small analog outboard Setup for my vocal Group wich i run Them thru ( preamp with eq and a bss dpr 901 analog Dynamic eq ) . I See a lot Mixers today wich use a Small Amount of analog outboard with digital consoles, only Plugins ...like you Described it, Radio Version and that will Not Grab your Balls:-)
They had all this stuff back in the 70's, it was just discreet rack units. Tape delays in stereo, compression, EQ, gates, reverb tanks, all of it. They didn't have multi-band compression in one unit, but they could build a multi-band out of multiple compressors, and that's exactly what they did.
yeah he said as much but that's very vauge. are there 3 vocal doublers in parallel? if the stereo separation is the width part of the pyramid, what is separating the vocal layers in the vertical dimension?
@@futurebeats898 that doesn't sound special at all. it's not even a pyramid! "Use a vocal doubler" isn't something that sounds like it needs a special name so there has to be something more to his process.
too bad Ozzy hasn't been able to sing in tune for about 10 years. Like completely off, not even in the same ballpark. But nobody seems to care! Cool stuff!!
Na, depends on his health. He had an ear complaint first half of the tour but by the time they reached the UK he was brilliant. I see your point and was worried about seeing them again when they reached Glasgow but he was ace.✌️
I use the exact same setup in the studio, but with all analog gear. Edit: Should have said same principle as I don't have the same physical compressors as the plugins, wish I did.
Tripple Tracking...etc etc , "what ever wanna I add in the middle, (Audio ShitPolishing), Reverb, Delay, more Frequency Specific Dynamic Processing, More of his Auto Tune etc etc etc"...It ends up being . ".... a Classic *Ozzy Sound* " . . yeah coz it helps to polish the turd of a seriously aging old man still trying to sing in Rock !!! *Madonna* enters "When is it my turn ???, I can pack on the Concealer n Foundation too, have a few young men looking to lick the boots of an aging Cougar with money LOTS OF MONEY, but, I just need something to sell tickets to live shows .. Can you help too, Greg with your upsidedown triangle soundy thing ????