With a clever double entendre, he belts out, “I wanna thank your father/ For making you on that day.” From the knock of the church organ to the rattling of a tambourine, Soulchild stands before the congregation to testify on a love so profound that he had to shout hallelujah. The Philly native pledges allegiance to his girl’s love kingdom with the fervor of a church choir. This melody could’ve been the precursor to 2007’s “B.U.D.D.Y.” with all of the “maybes” that are littered throughout the track. Soulchild is ready to become exclusive, but he can’t tell if his other half is on the same wavelength. The moment when you try to figure out the difference between “talking” and “dating” rears its head on this thumping track. AAries serves as that vocal figure on “Caughtup” where Soulchild seemingly rekindles an old flame that he plans to pursue once the formalities are out the way. The utilization of a woman’s voice plays a central role throughout this soundscape. “Everything is cool when love is all brand new/ ‘Cause you’re learning me and I’m learning you,” he sings. Via his cellular device, he gets to know his potential lifelong partner through a set of questions from “what’s your sign” to occupation to meeting the parents one day. It’s crispy, clear and pristine.Soulchild begins his journey to the land where lovers lay by getting over those awkward phone conversations. And after our first show with the dLive at Wolf Creek in Atlanta, Musiq told us, ‘Hey, man, this is the sound I want. He commented, “We’ve always wanted Musiq’s sound to be in the same class as a pop or rock artist. Harry says everyone at Digital World Live was impressed with the dLive’s ease of learning and they love its drag-n-drop touch-screen programming. Musiq’s musicians also use the recordings to update their show files during free time. They record Musiq’s performances to Tracks Live and Studio One setups and play them back during rehearsals using the dLive’s “Virtual Sound Check”. Both engineers also use dLive layers to keep track of the show’s 48 microphones, direct feeds and recorded tracks. Harry says the dLive’s scenes are much more flexible and intuitive than the “snapshots” on their previous digital mixer. Henry uses an Allen & Heath ME-1 Personal Mixer to monitor Musiq and the band and to listen to several talk-back mics for ques.īoth engineers use scenes to set up the dLive for different songs. He uses several dLive creative tools on vocals including the ADT voice doubler and tube preamp emulator and he uses a multi-band compressor on drums. “With the dLive,” he said, “we’re running at 96/24 and we didn’t get the noise.” Henry Timothee mixes in-ear and side-fill monitors on the S5000 Surface. Watkins noted that, as an R&B singer, Musiq’s ballads often feature softer, falsetto vocals requiring a higher gain setting with an accompanying increase in hiss noise. Tonderick Watkins mixes Musiq’s FOH on the S7000 Surface. “Now, with the dLive’s Dante card,” he continued,“we’ve got a pure digital signal throughout our entire system.” “And, after a few days of rehearsal, everyone was blown away.”Digital World Live also added a Shure wireless microphone system with Dante output. “So we researched new gear starting with the dLive,” Harry said. Prior to the tour, Musiq told Digital World Live’s Harry Timothee, (also Musiq’s Production Manager), that he wanted a “new sound”, one that would bring a “prestige” quality to his performances. Audio production on the tour is provided by Digital World Live, an Atlanta-based live sound training company using an Allen & Heath dLive S7000 Surface and DM48 MixRack for FOH and a dLive S5000 Surface with DM64 MixRack for monitors. A gifted vocalist with an engaging stage personality, Musiq is currently on tour in support of his seventh album, “Life on Earth”. Musiq Soulchild is an R&B artist and songwriter whose credits include 2 platinum albums, 2 gold albums, 7 hit singles and 11 Grammy nominations.
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