Jamiroquai 'Vitamin'
Grammy Award Winning Engineer, Mixer, and Producer, Mick Guzauski, has made a name for himself as one of the top mixing engineers in the world. With over 27 #1 singles, few have risen to the heights of success that Mick has.
In this pureMix.net Exclusive, Mick opens his mix of Jamiroquai's song "Vitamin" to explain his thought process, workflow, and techniques that he used to create this incredibly tight, punchy and exciting mix that manages to have a ton of space without ever losing the impact of the tight performances.
Learn how Mick:
- Enhances low end on kick drums
- Creates a crisp and tight high hat sound with a stereo spread
- Adds space around elements of the mix with carefully chosen and tuned reverbs
- Adds compression without character to subtly control and already great sounding lead vocal
- How he sets up session routing to quickly create stems when requested
- Tweaks his stereo bus EQ to create a tight low end while still controlling subsonic energy
Watch Mick Guzauski mix Jamiroquai's "Vitamin". Only on pureMix.net
Software
- Audio Ease Altiverb XL
- Avid AIR Ensemble
- Avid BF-76
- Avid EQ3 7-Band
- Avid MOD DELAY III
- Avid Pro Subharmonic
- BraniWorx bx_solo
- Fab Filter Pro-C2
- Fab Filter Pro-DS
- Fab Filter Pro-G
- Fab Filter Pro-L
- Fab Filter Pro-MB
- Fab Filter Pro-Q2
- Sonnox Oxford Transmod
- Sound Toys Echo Boy
- UAD 1176LN Rev E
- UAD Massive Passive EQ
- UAD Pure Plate
- UAD SSL 4000 E
- UAD Teletronix LA-2A
- Valhalla Plate
- Valhalla Room
Jamiroquai are an English funk and acid jazz band from London. Formed in 1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. They built on their acid jazz sound in their early releases and later drew from rock, disco, electronic and Latin music genres. Lyrically, the group has addressed social and environmental justice. Kay has remained as the only original member through several line-up changes.