TMBOY is an electronic “shadow pop duo” formed by members Sarah Aument and Will Shore. Their music has an organic feel, courtesy of Shore’s live vibraphone performances, mixed with elements of house and techno which serve to amplify the emotion in Sarah’s lyrics. Jingle writers by day, indie artists by night, TMBOY’s music combines synth elements with irresistible melodies and well-crafted lyrics that capture their audience’s attention and won’t let go.
In this puremix.net exclusive, Grammy award-winning engineer, Fab Dupont, mixes a single off of their upcoming record called “The Light” and demonstrates how he:
- Deals with a troublesome snare drum using techniques like pitch shifting, distortion, and transient design.
- Uses metering and gain staging techniques to set himself up for delivering to streaming platforms.
- Balances multiple bass synth patches against each other and creates space for each to avoid masking.
- Sets up his 2 bus compression to add density and weight to the mix
- Uses parallel compression to increase the impact of the drums
Once the mix is complete, Fab recalls the original mix that he did for the record to compare his on the fly, in the box mix to the version that went through multiple recalls and made the record to see which one wins.
Watch Fab Dupont mix the Brooklyn based duo, TMBOY. Only on puremix.net
Software
- Avid EQ3 1 Band
- Avid Mod Delay III
- Fab Filter Pro-Q2
- Massey Tape Head
- Oxford Dynamics
- Oxford Limiter
- Oxford Reverb
- Oxford Supresser
- Softube Active Equalizer
- Softube TSAR-1 Reverb
- Sound Toys Decapitator
- Sound Toys Devil-Loc
- Sound Toys Little Alter Boy
- Sound Toys Micro Shift
- UAD 1176LN Rev E
- UAD AMS RMX 16
- UAD Dangerous BAX EQ
- UAD EMT 140
- UAD EMT 250
- UAD Lexicon 224
- UAD Maximizer
- UAD Pultec-Pro Legacy
- UAD SSL G Bus Compressor
- UAD dbx 160
- Waves RBass