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M I X E N G I N E E R · T O R O N T O One maker, one craft, every edition: producers, mixers, live and mastering engineers, artists, photographers who edit, creative directors. The questions are the same. The answers are not.
I N T E R V I E W B Y P H O T O G R A P H S B Y P H O T O G R A P H
T H E M A K E R , I N T H E R O O M
W H E R E D O E S A S E S S I O N S T A R T F O R Y O U ?
The template, and then I delete half of it. Every session I keep less. The things that survive are the things in this book.
Tell the truth. Monitors you trust, at a level you can hold for eight hours. Everything else is a plug-in and the argument is over.
H A R D W A R E O R S O F T W A R E , I F Y O U H A D T O P I C K ?
The interface and the monitors are hardware and everything else is a plug-in, and that has been true for five years. What matters is whether the tool does one thing well.
W H A T I S T H E C H A I N Y O U R E A C H F O R W I T H O U T T H I N K I N G ?
Correction, then a fast compressor, then a slow one, then the EQ that fixes what the compressors revealed. The reverb is a send. The order is the whole trick.
W H A T D O Y O U R E F U S E T O B U Y ?
Anything that promises a finished mix. Anything with more than one page of presets I would never use. Subscriptions for tools I use twice a year.