RSR076 – Bjorgvin Benediktsson – Step By Step Mixing Q&A

Lij — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:00:25 +0000

RSR076 - Bjorgvin Benediktsson - Step By Step Mixing Q&A

Björgvin Benediktsson is author of the blog Audio-Issues where he writes all about recording, production, and mixing music from your studio. His new book Step By Step Mixing reached #1 on Amazon teaching you how to mix using only five basic plugins choices.

Bjorgvin joins us to talk about his new book and his full featured course Mixing with Five Plugins. We are trying something new for Recording Studio Rockstars. We won’t be going through the usual list of interview questions. Instead we reached out to you Rockstars ahead of time, and asked for your questions about mixing. We got lots of great submissions and are excited to dig into all of your great questions.

Here are some of the great questions we answer on this episode:

How to deal with sibilant vocals. How to handle crazy S's
EQ phase: Zero Latency, Natural, and Phase Linear modes
How to fix muddy EQ, and set your compression to keep your kick drum clear and punchy.
How to set your reverb and balance against a "dry" vocal sound.
Raising and lowering the EQ to affect the track in a positive way.
How to set your bus compression for different genres of music.
How to set the lows in your mix to play back great on a big system, even when you only have small speakers in your own mix studio.
How to use EQ to its full potential
More great tips on EQ, and tricks for getting an awesome kick drum in your mix.
How to use parallel compression to create a killer vocal mix.
How to use saturation to bring out your bass in the mix without creating too much low end.
Adding longer reverbs and delays to a vocal mix.
Using short delays for snare and guitars.

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RSR075 – Chris James – Grammy Nominee – Best Engineered Album for Prince

Lij — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 06:00:31 +0000

RSR075 – CHRIS JAMES – GRAMMY NOMINEE – BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM FOR PRINCE

Chris James is a Los Angeles based musician, songwriter, producer and first time Grammy Nominee in the 2017 Best Engineered Album - Non-Classical category for his work on what would become the last album from innovative icon Prince, HITNRUN:Phase 2. The Memphis-born musician moved to Maryville in East Tennessee at age ten where he honed his chops before going to college in Murfreesboro (near Nashville) to attend Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) for both music and recording.

As a founding member and keyboardist for the alternative-rock band, sElf, Chris James recorded and toured for several albums before the Dreamworks act moved to the Los Angeles area, where he opened The Archive Studio. Apart from his work as a multi-instrumentalist, Chris James has also produced, recorded and/or mixed material for many artists including Luther Vandross, Van Hunt, Ne-yo, Paramore, Miguel, Frank Ocean and Janelle Monáe.

In 2012, Chris James began a working relationship with Prince at Paisley Park Studios near Minneapolis, Minnesota. While in Chanhassen, Chris James recorded and mixed countless Prince productions including the Warner Bros. released albums, ART OFFICIAL AGE and PLECTRUMELECTRUM -- along with many unreleased songs for the legendary Prince Vault. A personal career highlight was when Prince invited Chris James to play guitar on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. Later that same year, Prince insisted he tour as live sound engineer where one notable gig included the critically praised set during SXSW (Prince’s first and only).

Chris James talks about his beginnings in music, his rad roommates in college, and his amazing journey leading to the Grammys (Sunday February 12th, 2017 8PM ET / 7PM CT on CBS - check local television listings in your area). February 17th hear a Kings of Leon concert mixed by Chris James of an AT&T/iHeart Radio performance airing on DirecTV Audience Network.

I think to me it’s the weirdest yet ultimate gig because there will never be another (one) like it in the world. @ChrisJamesPro

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