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Leading Front-of-House Mixer Brad Divens Employs
Auralex® Products in His New Personal Mix Room |
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| Brad Divens, pictured in his personal mix room, recently outfitted with acoustical treatment solutions from Auralex® |
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– Divens, the FOH mixer for GRAMMY® winner Enrique Iglesias, added a mix space to accommodate the fact that most live shows now are recorded to multitrack and need a proper mix post-event, and uses Auralex® acoustical solutions to make that space as sonically perfect as possible –
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| The NAMM Show, Anaheim, CA, January 19, 2017 – Brad Divens is a veteran road warrior. He’s mixed at front-of-house for artists including Garbage, Bob Seger, Jane’s Addiction and most recently Enrique Iglesias. As the music industry’s revenue model has shifted away from CDs and towards live shows, FOH mixers like Divens have found themselves also in demand to mix the recordings of those live shows for a variety of applications, from streaming to fan club posts to record releases. For instance, Divens has been called on to mix live tracks for Garbage and also for a boxed set for Finnish rock band HIM. Earlier this year, Divens built his own mix studio in his home in Maryland — named after his company, fixintogetmixin inc. — in order to accommodate the demand for post-event mixes, and he turned to Auralex® Acoustics, Inc. (booth 6957), the world’s leading brand of acoustical treatments, for the acoustical solutions needed to make that studio a great space to mix music in.
Divens was exposed to Auralex by Van Romaine, the drummer for Iglesias, who had used Auralex products in his own home studio. “Van was very happy with how his room turned out, so I was very receptive to talking with Auralex,” says Divens. “I realized that every gig I would be doing from now on was going to be recorded and would likely have to be mixed, and who better to mix it than the person who recorded it and mixed the live show? So I built myself a mix studio, but I knew it needed to be as accurate a monitoring environment as possible, because the tracks would have been recorded in many different places.”
“Auralex was very easy to work with — I sent them some dimensions and a diagram and they came back with their recommendations, which worked out very well,” he says. “And I was able to install of the treatments myself. It’s been an overall great experience.”
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