In this video, I go over how I would create a mastering chain for my live set.

Live set mastering is a lot easier and more gentle than mastering for an album. Your goal should be to achieve level at 0db without clipping an having a clean and consistent sound through out your set. You don't need to be so accurate and discerning to make it sound good coming out the PA. One of the key differences being that your creating a chain to accommodate for multiple tracks, rather than creating a tailored mastering chain for each individual track. Thus, you have to be a lot more gentle and general with your processing.

I cover EQ, Compression, Limiting and even Mid Side processing.

http://www.tronaudio.com/component/k2/item/72-live-set-mastering

Hope it helps..

-Andy

One of our main partners, Cosmic Corner, have released their new cd to the masses. Cosmic Roadtrip 2 is a dubstep/bass focused cd... and almost every artist on the disc has a profile on delicious music... which is great for us! yeya!

Get in to any Cosmic Corner store across New Zealand to secure your ltd edition cd.

KILL!
CLUB Presents Vincenzo

Sat 27th Feb 2010

An artist who has such talent, style and longevity is a rare creature nowadays... and Italo-German Vincenzo Ragone, known to the House world as Vincenzo, is indeed one of these special creatures! 

Hard to track down and often a man of the night, Ragone has been casting his deep and truly one-of-a-kind takes on House and Techno out into the ether for well over a decade. Vincenzo was a true child of the Acid House explosion, and one of an original cast of Hamburg based Djs and Producers, hanging out and collaborating with friends who would later become some of the trend setting icons of the present - notably Poker Flat's future ringmaster Steve Bug offered him some crucial gigs at the revered 'Reduced' parties at Hamburg's 'Front' Club! 

From here on the star in the making went on to produce his first ever productions for the Raw Elements label, alongside Sandro Catallo in 1995, and then released his first ever solo tracks with the label in '97. His production energies began to draw him further and further into this magical music, which knew no bounds, and in 1998 Vincenzo released his debut album, the classic '1-800-Vincenzo,' on none other than the newly blossoming Dessous Imprint to great International applause. 

Numerous solo and collaborative releases followed, notching up studio time in New York with Alexi Delano (aka A.D.N.Y), leading to the A.D.N.Y & Vincenzo project. Clearly picking up a heavy dose of those soulful, US House flavours that would never wash away... His year spent living in New York proved Vincenzo had real International appeal, and increased touring to play gigs in House Clubs stateside, as well as globally, confirmed this musical passion was meant to be.

His relationship with the funky yet stripped, Deep House movement continued through his enigmatic 'Strip Joint Grooves' series on Dessous, and also through further collaborations with San Francisco's Dj Rasoul, Nottingham's John Buckby aka Schmoov, Marc Schneider (aka Snider) and many, many more. Indeed his name and musical offerings continued to elevate and inspire, and recent releases and remixes on Dessous and Hamburg's Liebe*Detail records suggested a more mature, techy sound had sprouted from the seasoned house-head's mixing desk. 2007's notable remix for the Liebe*Detail offshoot label 'Spezial', a stunning re-think of a Move-D modern classic, 'Anne Will', won him notoriety for effortlessly transcending both the Deep House and Minimal Techno worlds.... creating a reduced beach party track that also had the power to deeply rock the clubs! 

Vincenzo racked-up a serious amount of air miles over his long and busy career (and he continues to do so!) He has worked with some of the most important producers and labels within his field of expertise, yet he maintains a humble existence, not wanting to over -play his part in the grand scheme of things. In fact, he shouldn't be so humble, as his records, both old and new, are consistently played and charted by a spectrum of Djs that most producers could only dream of... No surprise then that his most recent EP for Dessous, 'The Resident,' picked up big support from steve bug,laurent garnier,josh wink,ian pooley and sasse.only to name a few: proof once more that this traditionally-underground impresario of House is here to stay, and continues to share his unique sound with the world.

http://www.myspace.com/vincenzoragone

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Vincenzo

With residents Ben Fulford-Talbot, Minimal Wage (Psymon Barnett and Percs), Aragorn, Jae K

Visual stimulation - Warp TV and Nztechnique productions.

The best audio you have ever heard via The Greenhorn Co. and Andy TSG.

An intimate night with one of the Euro tech house masters.

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Live from Cosmic Corner's Outerspace, 7pm (+13 GMT) tonight... TwEQ, Psymon Barnet, Anikin and deliciousTV in the house.

http://www.livestream.com/delicious_tv

http://glitch.fm/glitchfm.pls

are the streaming options... catch you soon!

So I've been away for the past few weeks up in beautiful takaka, in the top of the South Island of New Zealand, while attending and playing at Luminate Festival. Was an amazing festival with may amazing musicians featured. While I was away we went for a few walks in the stunning bush with Shea "Squatchie" and Jakie "Psymon barnet" and took some nice field recordings. Heres a selection of samples which we took.

Theres some nice stream samples, lots with rocks, atmosphere, birds, wasps... All sorts. appologies for the stray voices in there, just hangin..

Check it out at

http://www.tronaudio.com/component/k2/item/70-luminate_2010_field_recordings

Hope its of some use

-Andy