The Ultimate Guide to Achieving a Pro Sound

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Billy Decker’s mixing has helped shift 25 million records, mostly in the country and rock arenas, but his production methods apply to many other genres. His theory is basically that it’s all in the template, that initial DAW setup that has channel settings, levels, plugin values all set up as you load a session up, allowing you to get on with the important business of mixing. He argues, very convincingly, that time spent setting ting up one great template – which might take up to a day to do – will save you hours at the mix stage (and he therefore advocates cates spending less than one hour mixing per track using this method).

It is indeed hard to argue with a man who goes oes into such detail – and there are some absolute gems of advice to pick up here. It’s not completely perfect – you might find nd yourself arguing with the odd, more subjective point, and nd themastering the mastering section doesn’t really touch on streaming – but the brilliant and clear way everything is presented and the actual (hallelujah!) settings for your template laid out for you, make this essential for any mix engineer, or anyone striving to be one.

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