The concerts took place over two nights, 29 and 30 October 2009, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and were broadcast on HBO. Creating a consistent sonic context for such a wide range of performers was the challenge faced by Music Mix Mobile, a New Jersey/California-based remote facilities company. The Music Mix Mobile team includes industry veterans John Harris, Jay Vicari, Joel Singer, Mitch Maketansky and newly added West Coast-based partners Bob Wartinbee and Mark Linett. For this concert, they relied on plug-ins from Waves Audio.
The broadcast music mix for the concert was handled by John Harris and Jay Vicari, working out of their M3 truck and also using their M1 Flightpack system; the audio was supervised by technical producer Gayle DePoli; and Firehouse Productions provided the sound system, with guest front-of-house mixers for each respective act. Carl Glanville did the remix in post-production for the broadcast on behalf of Music Mix Mobile.
Waves' SSL 4000 Collection and V-Series provided vintage EQ, compression, dynamics and other processing, modeled on classic SSL and Neve consoles. But in addition to providing state-of-the-art signal processing, the Waves bundles also gave the process an ergonomic workflow boost. "The whole premise was that we would take the capture of these performances seamlessly from recording to post-production, and the Waves was key to that," explains Joel Singer, Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering for Music Mix Mobile. "The settings on all of the processing were part of the Pro Tools sessions, so John and Jay were able to hand the sessions over to Carl just as they had recorded them. When Carl hit play, all the sounds were right there. This is workflow at its finest: saving time and money but never cutting any corners."
(Jim Evans)
