Mix Notes From Hell

Expensive Thrifty-ness Cutting Corners        Studio Musicians

We start off discussing expensive thrift-ness or cutting corners to save money and having it hurt you in the end. Will tells us a story of why you need a producer.

Kenny tells stories of working with great (studio) musicians and how important that is and how easy it is to record and produce records using them. Plus all the time it saves.

We then talk about how novices might not know how a great record sounds without being there to see it happen.

Will tells a story of how important pre-production is.

The discussion moves on to discussing different types of producers and how to make sure everyone gets their ideas heard and when to have patience in the studio and when to move it along.

We move on to discussing Mixing again and how we want our tracks to arrive from engineers.

Finally we discuss getting tracks with FX printed vs getting everything dry.

 

Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's Facebook

Matt Hennessy - Matt's Website

Will Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's Facebook

Marc Lacuesta - Marc's Website

Richard Furch - Richard's Website

Phil Dubnick - Phil's Website

Self Producing                 as the Artist

We start off this episode by introducing ourselves again adding Grammy Winning/Multi-Platinum Mixer Richard Furch to the mix or group.

We then discuss more and more music being self produced by the artist and the positives and negatives of this situation. And the possibility of being able to record yourself becoming a part of the skill set in the future for artists.

The discussion changes again towards discussing changing the tracks of the artists we mix without getting their permission.

We then discuss the benefit of mixing as we go in the production process and how important the producer is.

We also talk about having to produce and engineer at the same time.

 

Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's Facebook

Matt Hennessy - Matt's Website

Will Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's Facebook

Marc Lacuesta - Marc's Website

Richard Furch - Richard's Website

Phil Dubnick - Phil's Website

Notes for the Mixer

We start off this episode by introducing ourselves and noting that Kenny doesn’t have a website (at the time) and giving him a hard time for it.

We move on to discussing “Mix Notes” and what’s the best way for engineers to communicate with their mixing engineer and vice versa to get the most out of this relationship.

The discussion moves towards “Mastering” and how important that is with a great mix and how much to squash it and how much to leave it til that stage.

Phil brings up the importance of having a mix sound good or translate on all systems.

Next we discuss chasing the rough or having to match elements of the rough mix that the client loved.

We move on to discussing how long it takes to mix and when you start to really “get it”.

The discussion moves on with Kenny describing his childhood and how he built a studio with no knowledge of how to do it.

Next we bring up the idea of Pro Tools rigs as a separate source of income and a Pro Tools operator or editor being a different job than a recording engineer.

We all then describe how we all moved from recording engineers on real consoles and tape machines to using DAWs as our main workstation.

Kenny Gioia - Kenny's Website - Kenny's Facebook

Matt Hennessy - Matt's Website

Will Kennedy - Will's Website - Will's Facebook

Marc Lacuesta - Marc's Website

Richard Furch - Richard's Website

Phil Dubnick - Phil's Website