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Hi, welcome to my studio. We’ve got lots of knobs and blinky lights. Let’s turn off the outboard gear and blast 24K Magic or Cirkut’s Blow remix and just feel the sound.

🔊 Star Trek: Khan — Score breakdown 📷 @willmix.studio @moosetunes @sammymocho ▶️ avid.com/pro-tools

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Today we celebrate the release of @shantheband Ghost Girl. This one features 3x @chrisnthomas_music, @dannygarrettmusicandwords with rotary harp FX, me doing bass and mix shenanigans, and Shannon as the Oracle of Delphi. Mastered by @rollmottle at SENTRALL Sound, Los Angeles.

Mix notes! Not a burden, an opportunity.

My first mix is my best interpretation of what your song wants to sound like, but it doesn’t end there. Your feedback takes it to the next level, and we’ll keep working until it’s exactly the song you envisioned.

Big things coming? Big things are some of my favorite things to mix. Tell me about your big things.

I know a great cook. She’ll serve a meal and start critiquing it even before I can take the first bite.

Don’t undersell your work before the audience can come to appreciate it.

If something about your song is keeping you up at night, try to address it before apologizing. Reach out to a friend with fresh ears for help.

Practice pressing play, sitting on your hands, and keeping your lips sealed. You made this.

Hobbies? Sure. When I’m not mixing your songs, sometimes I play an instrument. Working on one “track guy” project, and one project where I record bass and then mix. I’m still #mtd4lyfe, but this MIJ Jaguar Bass is the sound of rock.

A moody slow burn from @drawing_mazes, “Fixated”.

Drums by @francpratt.
Bass by Andy Warner.
Electric guitar by @nickson81.
Mixed by yours truly.

It’s a beautiful day to be in the basement mixing songs for independent artists.

Stoked as always to be mixing today. Thank you for trusting me with your favorite songs and your deepest expression. I don’t take it lightly!

Prep this @avid.protools session for mixing with me.

Sometimes people ask me if I master, and it’s a little bit of a sticky subject—I’m not going to get into the philosophy of it—but I do mix loud.

And I HOPE that there’s a mastering stage.

But if you want a master that’s going to jump out of the speakers, the mix has to jump out of the speakers. And not in a way that mastering is going to destroy it.

I learned this the hard way, over many mixes. And this is the way that it’s done in the biggest of big leagues for a reason. It has to be.

What artist wants to approve the perfect mix, only to send it to mastering and get back something that’s completely redesigned? It’s just not what mastering is for. The magic sauce—the transformation—all has to happen upstream.

We’re mixing for the real world. Streaming playlists and New Music Friday. Mastering engineers who aren’t algorithms. There is a better way.