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FOH and monitor engineer Charles Izzo

 


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FOH and Monitor Engineer Charles Izzo Chooses Waves MultiRack, SoundGrid® Extreme and Plugins for Childish Gambino This is America Tour

KNOXVILLE, TN, December 19, 2018— FOH and Monitor engineer Charles Izzo (Portugal. The Man, The Naked and Famous, Dawes) chooses products from Waves Audio, including MultiRack, SoundGrid® Extreme and Plugins, for the Childish Gambino This is America Tour.

Responsible for what Donald Glover, a.k.a. Childish Gambino, hears in his monitors night after night, Izzo comments about his setup, “I am using a Solid State Logic L500 console, which goes into 18 mixes of Shure PSM1000 IEMs, one Clair Cohesion wedge, one Clair Cohesion drum sub, and various mixes to other departments such as show director, lighting, video departments, etc. Running all those plugins through Waves MultiRack on my console is key,  and my Waves SoundGrid setup consists of two DiGiGrid MGB audio interfaces into a Mac Mini with a Waves SoundGrid Extreme Server. As far as analog outboard gear, I have two Empirical Labs Distressors and a Bricasti M7 Reverb unit.”

On using Waves plugins for Glover’s vocals, Izzo notes, “He’s a very dynamic vocal performer, ranging from sweet, quiet ballad tones, to full blast hip-hop in a matter of seconds throughout the performance. Because of that, I go first into my hardware Distressor to control the input. From there, I go to a Waves C6 Multiband Compressor, which is totally essential for a performer with multiple styles, in order to fine-tune the dynamic range of each frequency band. Then, out of the C6, I go into the NLS Non-Linear Summer analog console summing plugin, to really make the vocals pop.”

As for the backing choir, he adds, “They are actually all on individual hand-held mics. Before I send them out to individual mixes, I run them all into a stem and use the SSL G-Master Buss Compressor to tighten them up and make them sound like a wall of voices. I also run them through the Renaissance Reverb to give them a nice big gospel sound.”

About mixing the drums, Izzo says: “Our drummer Chris Hartz is also a producer with his own studio, so he expects superior audio quality in his ears at all times. I have always been a big fan of Waves’ emulation of the API EQ and compression, especially on drums. I use the API 560 EQ on my kick and the API 550 EQ on my snares. Also, with my L500 console, I’m able to send stem groups to monitor mixes, which allows me to use some front-of-house techniques such as parallel compression. With that in mind, I use the dbx 160 compressor on my drum bus, and I send that to the band members who want a little extra punch and presence in their drum monitor mix. When it comes to drums, the Waves InPhase plugin saves me! We have about fourteen or so open mics on percussion, all picking up the same sources from different distances. The ability to set one point as the focus and aligning all of the other mics with that – it’s such a game changer; instead of all of those inputs competing with each other, they all line up and work together as if they were a single input.”

Izzo adds, about proccessing bass, guitars and keys, “Our bass player Thomas Drayton is a very dynamic player. To keep everything in control, I use the ‘Bluey’ version of the CLA-76 compressor/limiter. It keeps everything in check and at concert level. It’s so transparent, Thomas doesn’t really notice that the compression is happening. On both guitar players, I use the Renaissance Axx compressor. It’s super easy to use and just works perfectly on guitars. I also use the NLS Channel analog summing plugin on each player to warm them up and add some more analog character to them. On keys, I use the Vitamin Sonic Enhancer in order to balance the character of each keyboard player in the mix. I also really like the way the Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter plugin sounds on a Rhodes.”

Izzo summarizes, “Doing monitors for the Childish Gambino band is a privilege. They’re all exceptional players and lovely to work with. They also have excellent ears and, rightfully, high expectations from what they get in their IEMs and stage monitors. Running all these plugins on my console through Waves MultiRack is key to fulfilling those expectations – for them and for every artist I work for, whether at FOH or at monitors. This is the way I can give them the studio-quality sound they want during the show.”


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