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Think a big orchestra, a choir, nice concert hall, you in the audience, all individual instruments and voices mixing in 3-dimensional air before the sound reaches your ears. It doesn’t get more natural than that.
Compare this to mixing this performance in the box, each 1-dimensional individual instrument and voice channel stacked on top of the others into rigid 1-dimensional mix buses with no room for dissipation and interaction upways and sideways as in air. Tons of channel processing is needed to get even close to that concert hall experience, e.g. to tame all the individual plosives and whatnot as air would do.
Here’s the thought: Studio One has this interesting Mix-FX option where you can change the behaviour of the mixer as a whole. What about an ‘In Air’ Mix-FX plugin for that? Or even better, a ‘Royal Albert Hall’ Mix-FX plugin to name a famous concert hall. Would that be possible? It would in one fell swoop remove the need for 99% of the channel processing needed to make all those channels play nice together. The plugin puts you in the best seat in the house, few tweaks here and there and done. Pure science does the rest.
Does this take away from the sound engineer? Who decides how a performance should sound from say a pair of speakers: The sound engineer? Or the conductor? Or you in the audience who wants to reproduce that live experience?
Anyway, looking forward to your thoughts on this, both on the theoretical option of an ‘In Air’ mixer and the position of the sound engineer in deciding how a live performance should sound on track


Compare this to mixing this performance in the box, each 1-dimensional individual instrument and voice channel stacked on top of the others into rigid 1-dimensional mix buses with no room for dissipation and interaction upways and sideways as in air. Tons of channel processing is needed to get even close to that concert hall experience, e.g. to tame all the individual plosives and whatnot as air would do.
Here’s the thought: Studio One has this interesting Mix-FX option where you can change the behaviour of the mixer as a whole. What about an ‘In Air’ Mix-FX plugin for that? Or even better, a ‘Royal Albert Hall’ Mix-FX plugin to name a famous concert hall. Would that be possible? It would in one fell swoop remove the need for 99% of the channel processing needed to make all those channels play nice together. The plugin puts you in the best seat in the house, few tweaks here and there and done. Pure science does the rest.
Does this take away from the sound engineer? Who decides how a performance should sound from say a pair of speakers: The sound engineer? Or the conductor? Or you in the audience who wants to reproduce that live experience?
Anyway, looking forward to your thoughts on this, both on the theoretical option of an ‘In Air’ mixer and the position of the sound engineer in deciding how a live performance should sound on track



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