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Anderson .Paak performs with the Free Nationals at the Producers & Engineers Wing 13th Annual GRAMMY® Week Celebration honoring Dre. Dre at Village Studios on Jan. 22, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of the Recording Academy®/photo by Rich Fury, Getty Images © 2020

FOH Engineer Eric Friedlander, shown with his Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer setup for the Recording Academy® Producers & Engineers Wing®’s 13th Annual GRAMMY® Week Celebration Honoring Dr. Dre and Featuring Anderson .Paak at the Village Studios

 


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FOH Engineer Eric Friedlander Chooses the Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer for the Recording Academy® Producers & Engineers Wing®’s 13th Annual GRAMMY® Week Celebration Honoring Dr. Dre and Featuring Anderson .Paak at the Village Studios

Knoxville, TN, February 12, 2020 — FOH engineer Eric Friedlander recently chose the Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer for the Recording Academy® Producers & Engineers Wing®’s 13th Annual GRAMMY® Week Celebration honoring Dr. Dre and featuring a musical performance from Anderson .Paak at the Village Studios.

Friedlander’s workflow for this special occasion included a two-screen up and down setup with one Waves Axis One custom-designed computer and one Waves SoundGrid® Extreme Server-C, mounted in the new OCD Labs LiteFly® housing system. His stagebox was the DSPRO StageGrid 4000, while running some local I/O (monitoring, record feeds) off of a DiGiGrid D.  

Friedlander comments, “The band brought their touring engineers to help support the show, and we were able to set up the entire LV1 system in a corner of the green room, hours before our performance space was ready, in order for us all to program and patch inputs and outputs. Additionally, the monitor engineer was familiar with the LV1 as well, and after a quick call to bring in another server, he was up and running on his laptop, and with one connection of a Cat6 cable he was sharing the stagebox I/O with me to build IEM mixes for the band.”

He adds, “Furthermore, with the audience being made up of some of the keenest ears in the industry, there's an obvious requirement for a fantastic mix – I can't put anything but my best foot forward for this show! Having access to the sonic tools from the Waves library, integrated seamlessly into the mixing platform, allowed me to open up and attack my mix from a variety of angles, both creatively and practically. I needed to tackle everything from removing noise and feedback on lectern microphones, to building an impactful but not aggressively loud drum mix for Anderson .Paak, while mixing a variety of broadcast mixes and instrument inputs in-between. Also, having worked with FOH engineer Will Madera on his system with Pitbull, and having significant prior experience with the LV1 platform, I've been extremely happy with the improvements in response and reliability of the Waves V11 release running on the Waves Axis One custom-designed computer.”

Friedlander comments, about using Waves plugins, “One of my favorite parts of the LV1 system is having the onboard Waves eMo plugins processing to work with. As I'm building a mix (especially in a time-constrained scenario), being able to quickly touch and grab different elements of the EQ or compressor in the channel strip makes dialing in settings really efficient and accurate, and the onboard processing just sounds good – some inputs speak for themselves without needing me to shape them! I’m a firm believer that plugins are a great tool for engineers to have in their toolbox, but not every input needs every tool in the toolbox used on it.”

He continues, “As far as some of the tools I use when I do dig into the toolbox... for building my mix and helping to just gel things together with a bit of heft, I love starting with the Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain on my stereo buss, but with the settings (limiter, spreader, etc.) dialed all the way out. Then, as I build up my mix and get to a point where I feel it’s close, I start to dial in the limiter, spreader and EQ portions of the plugin to help tighten things up and space my mix out a bit. On the other end of my workflow, I lean pretty heavily on the NLS Non-Linear Summer plugin. I enjoy using it to emphasize an instrument or input that already has a good bit of character to it and seeing what the plugin brings out as I dial up the drive. I’ll even throw it on busses sometimes, just to see what kind of punch it brings out in different instrument groupings. I also utilize the CLA-2A and 3A Compressor/Limiters as a go-to tool for a bit more character and a dB or two of compression in a multi-stage approach. As far as problem-solving, one of my favorite tools is Waves’ Center. As an engineer I'm trying to improve on how I handle M/S information when I'm mixing, and Center has been super helpful in that regard. Even if I'm not emphasizing an instrument or buss on the sides, I use Center to manage my mid information a bit, especially with a lot of stereo inputs that may conflict with the vocal in the middle. I also utilized Waves’ X-FDBK for the first time on this show, and it proved to be a big timesaver for me. It gave a really good starting point for me to ring out my lectern microphones, while leaving plenty of gain to work with for mixing and a bit of touch up EQ.”

He adds, “In addition, virtual soundcheck with Waves Tracks Live proved to be a lifesaver during this event. Due to the band's schedule we had an extremely quick soundcheck, but thanks to the virtual multitrack I was able to go back after they were finished to really tighten up my mix and optimize my gain structure. Being able to play back the live band performance with Tracks Live was super helpful for us setting levels and dialing all my record and broadcast feeds, as the entire event is broadcast over closed-circuit TV, and every studio in the venue has a pair of high-end studio monitors for attendees to listen to – so I really want to make sure my mix feeding all the broadcast sources is as well polished as possible!”

He sums it up: “This was my fourth year supporting this event, and it's the first year that we had a full band performance using IEMs, as well as the traditional awards ceremony and a live closed-circuit broadcast. Given the amount of I/O and mix control needed, as well as the small size of the main room and FOH area, the eMotion LV1 was really the only desk that could provide all the features I needed, with no compromises, with the necessary footprint and a fast interface that the two-screen setup allowed.”


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Photo caption 1: Anderson .Paak performs with the Free Nationals at the Producers & Engineers Wing 13th Annual GRAMMY® Week Celebration honoring Dre. Dre at Village Studios on Jan. 22, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of the Recording Academy®/photo by Rich Fury, Getty Images © 2020

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Photo caption 2: FOH Engineer Eric Friedlander, shown with his Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer setup for the Recording Academy® Producers & Engineers Wing®’s 13th Annual GRAMMY® Week Celebration Honoring Dr. Dre and Featuring Anderson .Paak at the Village Studios

About Waves Audio Ltd.:
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio DSP solutions for the professional, broadcast, and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early '90s with the introduction of the Q10 equalizer plugin, Waves has gone on to develop a comprehensive line of over 150 audio plugins, including industry standards like the L1 and L2 Ultramaximizers, popular vintage console models, and innovative mixing tools like Vocal Rider and the Artist Signature Series. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical GRAMMY® Award in 2011, and the Q10 was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame. In 2016, Waves released the eMotion LV1 mixer, a revolutionary live digital mixing console that provides real-time audio mixing for front-of-house, monitor, studio and broadcast engineers. Waves technologies are now used to improve sound quality in virtually every sector of the audio market, from recording, mixing, mastering and post-production to broadcast, live sound, and consumer electronics. Waves has over 25 years of expertise in the development of psychoacoustic signal processing algorithms that leverage knowledge of human auditory perception to radically improve perceived sound quality. Waves’ award-winning processors are utilized to improve sound quality in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games worldwide. Waves offers computer software and hardware-plus-software solutions for the professional and broadcast markets. The company’s WavesLive division is a market leader in all live sound sectors, spearheading the development of solutions for all live platforms. Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers semiconductor and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics applications. Waves technologies dramatically enhance audio performance and are used by industry leaders such as Dell, Google, Fitbit, Acer, Asus, Hisense and more.


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