Fab Dupont is an award-winning NYC-based record producer, mixing/mastering engineer, and co-founder of pureMix.net.
Fab has been playing, writing, producing, and mixing music live and in studios worldwide. He's worked in cities like Paris, Boston, Brussels, Stockholm, London, and New York to name a few.
Fab has received many accolades worldwide, including wins at the Victoires de la Musique, South African Music awards, Pan African Music Awards, US independent music awards. He also has received Latin Grammy nominations and has worked on many Latin Grammy and Grammy-nominated albums.
In this pureMix.net exclusive, Fab opens up the multitrack for the single "This Is How I Feel Inside" by pop artist Mr. Emotional and produced by Angel Lopez (Kanye West, Jack Harlow, Coldplay, Nathy Peluso, Sam Smith, Chance The Rapper)
See how Fab Dupont:
- Opens the delivered files and sets up the session from scratch with his preferred way of routing tracks and organizing the session with folders
- Sets up his analog 2bus chain and explains the gain stage of his Pro Tools system
- Cleans up the low mids of the kick drum and adds a corner to the high pass filter for punch
- Adds width to the 808 bass with a Roland Dimension D
- Makes space for the bass drum and bass synths to coexist in the low end
- Creates a Kick/Snare Parallel bus for extra punch
- Creates a side-chained reverb using an EMT 250
- Checks the intention of the rough mix against his current mix
- Discusses when he uses clip gain versus compression
- Inserts his stereo bus chain to try out different pieces of outboard gear such as his Dangerous BAX EQ and Compressor, Smart Research C2 Compressor, Manley Stereo Pultec EQ, Neumann EQ, and API 2500
This is your chance to sit next to Fab Dupont as he crafts his mix of "How I Feel Inside" by Mr. Emotional.
After you see how Fab does it, practice what you have learned and download the multitrack to mix the song yourself!
