19/02/2023
You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette performed by Rock Revival
Timbre+ Eastside

After a short hiatus from uploading because I had zero time in between doing shows. I've been setting up for Kpop performers such as ITZY and MAMAMOO and now getting ready for Conan Gray's concert tomorrow! Anyways, I decided to record and upload last night's performance from Rock Revival. While their performance was great as always, I struggled to mix it right. Perhaps I might be tired? But really, there were a few things that were less than ideal. The vocal lines were coming in EXTREMELY hot (padded by -10db) and next to everything was clipping. I had to actually fight my faders to push the monitors for the vocalist to hear right at the point of feedback because there was zero headroom. Wasn't sure what happened in  the past couple of weeks but it feels as though I have less and less control of gain of everything. On stage, there were also a couple of things that were there but now missing - sonically speaking - and I had to compensate in the mix, hence the almost overbearing bass. Drums would be forever pushed to the back in the mix because it sounds amazing and very very loud live. Whatever it is,  I don't wish to make excuses for bad mixes because ultimately, Its my job to make music sound great. I hope I figure out what exactly is causing this because the customers deserve a great mix. That said, Its nobody's fault that this is an issue, all the other engineers are trying their best too with these issues and my heads are doing everything they can. Sometimes, these things just happen.

You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette performed by Rock Revival

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