Hi Tony,
Thank you very much in advance for taking the time.
I really like your mixes and I have been listening to some of your work (without knowing you actually did it) for a while.
I am a producer and a mixer in south of France and I spend some time looking at all the different methods and approaches from genre to genre and from engineers to engineers. I am surprised by the apparent simplicity of your approach - compared to complex routings like the ones by Brauer, Jaycen Joshua, or methods like Shawn Everett (whose work I really like) listening band per band (among other things) through his multi band comp etc. But your mixes still sound very good and hi-fi. And somehow “obvious” and “true”.
During your journey as a mixer, did you spend some time comparing your in-progress-mixes to references ? Do you have any way of checking your mixes (like on mono cubes for instance) ? I find myself spending a lot of time sculpting and eq-ing the mids and low mids (on vocals, bass, guitars, keys, …) so it doesn’t sound « blurry »; which then becomes a little fight between « too much » and « not enough » etc. For example, I’m sure I would have tamed the little harshness in the 3Khz in the chorus’ vocals of How Does It Make You Feel. But you did not and it’s fine in the end. It looks like you do not fight and still make your mixes competitive.
How do you make yourself feel comfortable: do you have any safeguard that lets you know it is « enough » ?
Thank you very much !
Best regards,
Thomas