01/02/2026
Grateful to end the year with an incredible Nashville based crew doing a hometown show. New Year’s Eve Nashville Big Bash on CBS was the perfect way for us to end the year. Our crew, producers, and equipment providers made this a special finish to a year of hard work. Thanks to @𝕂𝕚𝕞 𝔹𝕚𝕣𝕜𝕪 for keeping track of the details in the truck, both technically and musically, Santele for the heavy lifting engineering a complicated show both in terms of transmission, intercom, and truck to truck needs, Scoop Blanden for a stellar production mix in the house and for keeping a handle on all of the cues and massive amounts of details, Hughesfor vendor support, moral support, and intercom, Pfeffer for programming all of the house and RF comm, and a special thank you to and Wright for being such badass A2’s making everything outside of the truck work perfectly!
Side note… Dwight Yoakam was insanely good. He came out to the truck to listen down for a couple of hours between rehearsal and his performance and it was amazing. Such great ears, musical vision and his generosity in sharing the stories of making these records in legendary studios was a special moment. I took a photo of 2 plug-ins that really made a difference for us on this show. Using our Waves Audioio LiveBox, we ran a few instances of CEDAR Audioio StageVox to clean up bleed into vocal mics. With its near zero latency efficiency and stellar audio quality, the reduction it provided in background noise was incredibly useful on a loud stage with wedges and ripping amps. Lastly, the Universal Audioio Capitol Chambers plugin ended by up being the perfect choice for Dwight’s vocal verb (as well as some instruments). Dwight cut a lot of his records at Capitol and knew exactly what chamber and mic combo used in the studio. We were able to give him the exact vibe from the records he cut there in the 80’s and 90’s and he was stoked as hell we had this option for him.
Happy New Year, everyone! Looking forward to a healthy and happy 2026.