PureMix – Gearfest 2012: Tracking Series (TUTORIAL)

By | November 12, 2025

 

Release Year: 2012
Producer: pureMix
Producer’s Website: www.puremix.net/video/recording/gearfest-series.html
Author: Fab Dupont & Ben Lindell
Duration: 01:00:00
Type of Material Handout: Video Lesson
Language: English


Description: Once again, the pureMix team performed on the Sweewater Gearfest theater stage. Fab and Ben recorded “The Liza Colby Sound,” live, without safety net, showing how to place microphones, use preamps, and process audio in real time while recording.
Part 1 of this seminar: dealing with the setup and kick drum recording.
Part 2 of this seminar, dealing with overheads and snare recording.
Part 3 of this seminar, dealing with bass guitar recording.
Part 4 of this seminar, dealing with guitar recording.
Part 5 of this seminar, dealing with vocal recording.
Part 6 of this seminar, dealing with the recording of a whole band.
The band was tracked with a full line of Lauten Audio (Atlantis, Clarion) and Blue (Mouse, Dragonflies, Stage 2 Bottle) microphones, UAD Apollo preamps and plugins, Manley (TNT Cool & Hot Pre, Dual Mono Pre) preamps, Dangerous Bax Eq, monitored through a Dangerous D-box and a pair of Focal Twins 6 and CMS Sub speakers.

Example files: None
Video format: FLV
Video: AVC, 1024×576, 16:9, 29.970 fps
Audio: AAC, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels
Total bitrate: 652 kbps



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