Audio / Video Library / Recall Sessions: Pentavirate / Mix it yourself
Mix the Pentavirate Session
Anthony Da Costa and Russell Durham, with Mark Raudabaugh on drums and Rhees Williams on bass, at Pentavirate Studios, Nashville, recorded by Bobby Holland. Thirty-two raw tracks, every ribbon straight into an Undertone Audio MPDI-4, no EQ anywhere. Pull up the mics, A/B the alternates, solo the room. Press play to load the stems (about 61 MB).
What you're hearing
Raw tracks straight off the converters: no EQ, no compression, no reverb. Your fader and pan moves are the whole mix. A safety limiter sits on the master so thirty-two tracks at once won't clip your speakers.
Comparisons worth making
Room SF-24 vs. SF-24V · Piano SF-2 vs. SF-24V · Overheads SF-12 Blumlein vs. R-12 spaced pair · Electric guitar R-121 vs. 57 · Bass amp (R-122V) vs. DI.
Keyboard
Space play/pause · Enter return to start · 0 reset mix
Finish it with Undertone Audio
The chain under every ribbon on this session
Every Royer on the floor fed an Undertone Audio MPDI-4 preamp, then Lynx converters and an API The Box 2 console. Nothing else touched the signal, which is why the stems are this clean to mix.
Download your mix as a WAV, drop it in your DAW, and finish it with the plugins Eric Valentine built from his own hardware: the MPEQ-1 for tone and the UnFairchild 670M II for glue. Both come with a 14-day free trial.
SF-2 · SF-12 · SF-24 · SF-24V · R-10 · R-12 · R-121 · R-122V
Four-channel mic preamp and DI, one channel per ribbon
Straight to disk at 48 kHz / 24-bit, no EQ, no compression
Faders and pans here · MPEQ-1 and UnFairchild in your DAW
Every channel on the session
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