Dave Pensadohas mixed chart-toppers for some of the biggest names in show business, from The Black Eyed Peas to Justin Timberlake. After playing with several bands in the South, Dave began engineering during the late seventies in Atlanta, but really hit his stride during the nineties after relocating to L.A., lending his mixing talents to acts such as Elton John, Jamiroquai, and Christina Aguilera. In addition, Pensado also mixed the soundtracks of popular films such as White Men Can't Jump, Hurricane, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and Men of Honor. In 2002, Dave received a Grammy® for his work on the hit single “Lady Marmalade,” featuring Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa, and Pink.
Dave took some time out to share a few thoughts and production tips.
Waves has been at the forefront of what I think the technology should do. When you look at the brochure for Waves, very, very few of those items actually exist in the real world. When they do exist, Waves has taken them to a level you could never do in an analog way. That’s what I think the future is.
MaxxBass is one of those things that really doesn’t exist in the real world. There are a couple of products that are kind of close: they do one thing, but not very well. MaxxBass is one of those rare plugins that has a musicality to it.I use it in two ways. One, I use it in the way it was designed to be used, which is to add the impression of subharmonic tones to things that don’t have those tones inherently in the sound. Let’s say you’re working on a sound that just doesn’t have any frequencies below a certain point. With MaxxBass,you can actually synthesize and create the sound of those frequencies. That’s impossible to do in the analog world. You can take 25 equalizers and put them in series, but if it’s not there, it’s not
there. So MaxxBass can give you a subharmonic sound.
One of the songs I get a lot of compliments on is “Lady Marmalade” [the remake sung by Christina Aguilera, Mya, Li'l Kim and Pink, featured in the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. One of the problems I had with that mix was making it so that it would play on pop radio stations but at the same time giving it enough credibility to play on hip hop stations. If you’ve never had to solve that problem it might not seem so big to you, but trust me, it’s a difficult thing to do. One of the things that really made that solidify was MaxxBass. Putting it on the low end made it acceptable to the urban stations. On the pop stations, I actually had radio programmers telling me they had difficulty finding songs to play after it.
I have a bias towards the extreme ends of the frequency spectrum. It was something I just grew up with naturally. That has given me a little bit of an advantage in the musical world because it was something no one else was paying attention to. One of the things that distinguishes me is that I work very hard down there. I’ll spend hours down there where as some people will spend minutes. WavesMaxxBass gives me a tool that I can be really happy about when working down there in the basement. And now anybody can do it. It’s very affordable. It’s something that can basically make you sound like what I do.
Dave is One of my Favorite Producers when he talks I listen !!!!
- Dro Fontaine
Source :http://www.waves.com/Content.aspx?id=380#ixzz1s1zqrfFC
Dave took some time out to share a few thoughts and production tips.
Waves has been at the forefront of what I think the technology should do. When you look at the brochure for Waves, very, very few of those items actually exist in the real world. When they do exist, Waves has taken them to a level you could never do in an analog way. That’s what I think the future is.
MaxxBass is one of those things that really doesn’t exist in the real world. There are a couple of products that are kind of close: they do one thing, but not very well. MaxxBass is one of those rare plugins that has a musicality to it.I use it in two ways. One, I use it in the way it was designed to be used, which is to add the impression of subharmonic tones to things that don’t have those tones inherently in the sound. Let’s say you’re working on a sound that just doesn’t have any frequencies below a certain point. With MaxxBass,you can actually synthesize and create the sound of those frequencies. That’s impossible to do in the analog world. You can take 25 equalizers and put them in series, but if it’s not there, it’s not
there. So MaxxBass can give you a subharmonic sound.
One of the songs I get a lot of compliments on is “Lady Marmalade” [the remake sung by Christina Aguilera, Mya, Li'l Kim and Pink, featured in the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. One of the problems I had with that mix was making it so that it would play on pop radio stations but at the same time giving it enough credibility to play on hip hop stations. If you’ve never had to solve that problem it might not seem so big to you, but trust me, it’s a difficult thing to do. One of the things that really made that solidify was MaxxBass. Putting it on the low end made it acceptable to the urban stations. On the pop stations, I actually had radio programmers telling me they had difficulty finding songs to play after it.
I have a bias towards the extreme ends of the frequency spectrum. It was something I just grew up with naturally. That has given me a little bit of an advantage in the musical world because it was something no one else was paying attention to. One of the things that distinguishes me is that I work very hard down there. I’ll spend hours down there where as some people will spend minutes. WavesMaxxBass gives me a tool that I can be really happy about when working down there in the basement. And now anybody can do it. It’s very affordable. It’s something that can basically make you sound like what I do.
Dave is One of my Favorite Producers when he talks I listen !!!!
- Dro Fontaine
Source :http://www.waves.com/Content.aspx?id=380#ixzz1s1zqrfFC