| He's mixed a few things that I've engineered and I've been in the room before. The stuff he said in those interviews (links earlier in this thread) seem to be on par with what I saw. Drums were side-chained using the SSL small faders into a stereo Neve compressor. Distressor on the snare. He's not afraid of eq. Adds a good bit of high end and seems to carve out space for everything. Not much mix buss compression. No SSL comp on the stereo buss, he used the Focusrite Red and I think he may have put 2 Pultec Eq's across the stereo buss. It's a bit weird as an engineer to hear one of his mixes of a song you recorded because everything is really tweaked and sounds very different from how you've been used to hearing it during the making of the record. But, it does have that certain 'thing' and does seem to translate well on radio. It does seem like all of the radio processing doesn't change the sound of his mix too much. Also, he's a very 'big picture' kind of mixer. He seems to want to do his thing and not obsess over little tweaker details. If you have a micro-managing obsessive band member, it's best to keep him out of the studio with CLA. |