Ep.10 Mixing
With the entire production complete, the time has finally come for Greg Wells to pull up the multitrack for Bryce Drew's "Lucky Number" on the gorgeous, Sunset Sound Custom Discrete Console, loaded with API 550-A EQs on every channel.
Watch as Greg:
- Sets up a Hybrid workflow with both plugins and outboard gear
- Tries out a Custom Warner Brother EQ on the stereo bus
- Sets up a parallel bus with an outboard Neve 33609
- Uses an outboard 1176 as a parallel vocal compressor
- Creates an incredible stereo bus path using a Chandler Curve Bender and SSL style bus compressor
- Sends everything to a Chandler Zener Limiter as a parallel bus, adding a whole new dimension to the mix.
- Uses Neve Flying Fader Automation
- Explains how he works in mono
- Discusses lead vocal automation
- Shares multiple stories from his career of working with other engineers and vital pieces of information he has learned over the years
Now that you have seen Greg and Bryce create an entire song from scratch through to a final mix, it is your turn to download the multitrack and sit in Greg's chair to mix the song for yourself, in its entirety!
Watch the rest of the series here.
Software
- Fab Filter DS
- Fab Filter Pro-Q2
- Focusrite d2 6-Band
- Sound Toys Little Plate
- UAD Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
- Valhalla Plate
Hardware
- API 550 EQ
- Chandler Limited Zener Limiter
- Chandler Limiter Curve Bender
- Neve 33609
- Universal Audio 1176LN
The emotional landscape of Bryce Drew's music is brilliantly unsteady, with peaks and valleys ascending from emotive ballads into rhythmic pop anthems that carry the heartbeat of her Trinidadian-American roots. But in her soulful dexterity as an artist, and her innate ability to draw out complex emotions often hidden in the mundane, Bryce Drew shows she has all the elements of an icon in the making.