Mix With the Masters https://mixwiththemasters.com/ is a free YouTube channel and a series of paid tutorials online and in person in studios. They are more of a seminar or master class than a recording school or training program. In this one, Chris Lord-Alge https://www.chrislordalge.com/, demonstrates processing for a female vocal.
It shows the complexity of current parallel signal chains to get the mix on a single instrument, the voice. Drum kit capture, processing and mixing is similarly complex today. Of course, he never shows the exact models and settings of the compressors! You can see on the console some of the echo effects are mono send and stereo return.
Lord-Alge favors SSL consoles who were first to build parallel bus processing paths. Today it can be done in ProTools. But you can see how fast he is on a physical console interface, and the console is all digital and integrated with ProTools and the plug-in workflow.
Classical music and much jazz would be unlikely to use the processing he shows. But if you look at his credits he has mixed some famous singers adjacent to jazz, as well as live award shows.
It shows the complexity of current parallel signal chains to get the mix on a single instrument, the voice. Drum kit capture, processing and mixing is similarly complex today. Of course, he never shows the exact models and settings of the compressors! You can see on the console some of the echo effects are mono send and stereo return.
Lord-Alge favors SSL consoles who were first to build parallel bus processing paths. Today it can be done in ProTools. But you can see how fast he is on a physical console interface, and the console is all digital and integrated with ProTools and the plug-in workflow.
Classical music and much jazz would be unlikely to use the processing he shows. But if you look at his credits he has mixed some famous singers adjacent to jazz, as well as live award shows.
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