Climie Fisher – Love Changes Everything
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2020 album Love Changes Everything.
Music from Love Changes Everything
Gear Used On Love Changes Everything
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Climie Fisher – Love Changes Everything (2020). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Simon Climie
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Software Plugins and VSTs used by Simon Climie on Love Changes Everything
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Excerpt from interview:
How do Sonnox plug-ins fit into your productions?
I’ve been using Sonnox for quite some time, but since they’ve been 32-bit / 64-bit, I’ve really noticed a massive sonic difference. They really have overtaken the best analogue equivalent now. For instance last year Eric and I produced The Breeze - an Appreciation of JJ Cale – among others Guest Artists we had Tom Petty and John Mayer sharing lead vocals with Eric. So a classic JJ Cale trick would be to put a stereo compressor across all the vocals and pull them forward. In Pro Tools, I would have a backing vocal bus which is often a good idea, but also I had a bus dedicated to the two lead vocals, panned slightly left or right and I then used the Sonnox Dynamics & EQ, stereo linked to just hold everything in place and fine tune the EQ. It’s really quite fantastic what you can do with it. I would say 50% of a really great record, has to be the vocals.
I also just finished mixing Slowhand at 70, Eric’s live shows from the Royal Albert Hall. The big issue with live shows is always the huge amounts of leakage on the stage mics. In the old days, you’d really have trouble with a conventional console, trying to get that to sound good, because so much goes through the actual lead vocal mic. Now, I have a real secret weapon - the Sonnox Dynamics. This is an incredible tool for filtering in an intuitive way, and I don’t mean just gating. With Sonnox Dynamics, you have limitless possibilities with Range and ADSR on the Expander to let as little or as much through as you want on any instrument before you compress or limit anything.
With the Eric Clapton project, you did surround and stereo?
Yes. Check out the Blu-ray if you can! The Surround is stunning, especially at 32-bit / 96kHz. On this project, we effectively built a Sonnox Oxford ‘console’ in the box by using the bussing within Pro Tools. I had all the tracks routed to one 5.1 buss, and across that I created what felt like a Classic Neve Surround Summing Mixer, using the Full Oxford Dynamics, GML EQ, and then finally the Oxford Limiter, which is really quite an incredible tool.
