How Paris LaMont Uses Safari Pedals Audio Plugins in His Live Rig

Hey y’all!
I had the awesome opportunity to chat with Grammy-nominated musician and producer Paris LaMont about how he incorporates Safari Pedals plugins into his live rig for his keys setup when performing with artists like Protoje and the In.Digg.Nation collective.

I asked him:

“How do you incorporate the Safari line of plugins into your live workflow and route them in?”

Why Safari Pedals Audio Plugins Work in a Live Rig

He said:

“Even though I mostly use Safari plugins in the studio, I love how seamlessly they’ve integrated into my live rig. I run my setup through MainStage, routing sounds like brass, synths, and samples through Safari plugins. Right now, my go-to delay for live performance is Yak Delay—it delivers that mean, analog delay vibe that’s perfect for dub and versatile enough to cut through different moments in a set. What really makes it stand out is how alive it feels. That kind of responsiveness is rare in software effects and helps keep the sound organic, which is essential to the style of music I play.

Routing, Control, and Consistency

Safari plugins sit at the heart of my effects chain inside MainStage. I route all sounds through two master FX buses at the concert level—the highest level in MainStage’s organizational structure. This means I don’t need to create individual buses for each patch or song, and it keeps things super efficient and consistent.

ALL my brass sounds—whether they’re samples or AU instruments—get a light layer of reverb and delay, using LadyBug Reverb and Yak Delay. For certain songs like “Sudden Flight”, I’ve mapped parameters to a MIDI foot pedal to trigger the delay send and bypass, and also mapped delay time and feedback to knobs on my MIDI keyboard. That lets me emulate the dub-style brass delay heard on the original recording—bringing it in and out at just the right moments during the performance.

Optimized for Performance

Of course, performance reliability is everything. These plugins are not just about vibe—they’re optimized. Yak Delay, for example, only takes up 46Kb of memory in my rig. That’s wild! No lag, no glitching, no CPU stress. Just sound!

What I love most is that these plugins are intuitive and musical. They’ve got warmth, grit, and personality—traits that aren’t easy to find in modern plugins. You can push them and they respond like they’re meant to be part of the performance, not just sitting in the background as passive effects. That’s exactly the kind of energy I look for, especially in a live setting.

At the end of the day, tools should inspire you. With so many plugins on the market, it's refreshing to find ones that bring soul, character, and simplicity to your workflow. Safari Pedals has that in spades. Whether you’re playing live, producing in the studio, or blending both worlds—these plugins just feel right.”

In Conclusion:

As a producer who rarely leaves my little studio cave or sees sunlight,

It was epic reading how Paris uses the Safari plugins outside the studio- finding creative ways to trigger them and pull out vibe and emotion in a live setting. It got me thinking about how I use plugins differently- how I can better extract emotion and vibe from them, almost like I was on stage and needed to make that happen in real time.

Thank you so much, Paris for the live workflow deep dive!

Catch y'all next blog!