Episode 1
Darrell Thorp has been trusted to record and mix studio albums for artists like Radiohead, The Foo Fighters, Beck and dozens more in some of the best rooms in the world. So when Foster The People needed someone to record a live performance for them, they knew who to call.
As the demand increases for bands to produce more content in the streaming age, so does the need for recording and mixing engineers to rise up to the challenge of capturing an electrifying real-time performance and delivering it to the world.
In this two and a half hour long tutorial, Darrell shows you how he overcame the challenges associated with mixing a live performance video for the indie rock band, Foster The People.
See how Darrell:
- Compensates for a boomy acoustic venue
- Identifies and corrects polarity and phase issues
- Levels out inconsistent drums
- Mixes the bands triggered samples with live acoustic drums
- Befriends the bleed in the vocal and stage microphones
Software
- D-Verb
- FabFilter Pro DS
- FabFilter Pro G
- FabFilter Pro MB
- FabFilter Pro Q2
- Massey L2007
- Sound Radix Drum Leveler
- Soundtoys Micro Shift
- SSL E Series Channel Strip
- Trim
- UAD 1176 Rev A
- UAD API 550A
- UAD Dbx 160
- UAD EL7 Fatso Jr
- UAD Fairchild 660
- UAD Little Labs VOG
- UAD Maag EQ4
- UAD Millennia NSEQ-2
- UAD Neve 1073
- UAD Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
- UAD SPL Transient Designer
- UAD Teletronix LA-2A
- UAD Tube-Tech CL 1B
- Valhalla Vintage Verb
- Valhalla Freq Echo
Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2009. Its members are singer Mark Foster, guitarist Sean Cimino, and keyboardist Isom Innis. Foster founded the band in 2009 after spending several years in Los Angeles as a struggling musician and working as a commercial jingle writer.