Mixing with Waves and Avid S6L: Ozzy Osbourne on Tour

Nov 08, 2018 | 219,653 Views

How does Ozzy Osbourne FOH Greg Price get his mixes to really rock? Get a glimpse into techniques for stacking vocal effects and his coined "good cop, bad cop" parallel drum compression: direct from Ozzy's front-of-house. Also, Greg shares how he makes the most of Waves' plugin integration with the Avid S6L console while on tour.

In this video:

0:21 Building Ozzy's vocal chain
1:26 Ozzy's vocal effects pyramid
2:26 Parallel compression: Good Cop, Bad Cop
4:57 Why use Waves SoundGrid?
5:41 Waves plugins integrated with the Avid S6L console
6:08 Waves vintage modeling: An old-school engineer's dream

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