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Watch Fab Dupont Mix A Problematic Track Recorded In A Home Studio
We asked the pureMix Pro Members to send us sessions recorded in home studios with common problems that we all deal with. Distorted tracks, tracks with excessive bleed, you name it, we asked for it.
Mike Brown and the band “Gladhand” obliged with their track “All My Dogs”, recorded live to ADAT in 1996.
The track has all of the fairly common challenges. Too much high hat bleed in the snare mic, an unfocused mono overhead, tom mics that may have been a little far away from the toms, and more.
In this pureMix.net exclusive, watch as Grammy Award Winning Engineer, Fab Dupont, deals with everyday challenges to extract a vibe that is consistent with the band’s intent and deliver a stellar mix from source tracks that need a little love.
See how Fab:
- Deals with a snare drum with too much ring
- Replaces toms recorded with a less than ideal mic technique
- Creates a vibe around the drums from a mono overhead
- Adds definition, clarity and tone to the bass track
- Creates space around close mic’d guitar amplifiers
- Addresses clipping on the guitar tracks
- Fits in an overdubbed violin track
- Creates a two bus processing chain that adds movement and supports the groove of the mix.
After you've seen how Fab does it, download the stems and practice what you've learned!
Watch Fab Dupont, deal with everyday problems on tracks recorded in a home studio, while mixing “All My Dogs” from Gladhand. Only on pureMix.net
Software
- Avid Pro Expander
- Fab Filter Pro-DS
- Fab Filter Pro-Q2
- Oxford Dynamics
- Oxford Inflator
- Oxford Limiter
- Oxford Reverb
- PSP Nexcellence
- SansAmp
- Sound Toys Decapitator
- Sound Toys Echo Boy Jr.
- UAD 1176
- UAD Ampeg SVTVR
- UAD Dangerous BAX EQ
- UAD Fairchild 670
- UAD Ocean Ways Studios
- UAD Pultec-Pro Legacy
- UAD SSL G Bus Compressor
- UAD Studer A800
- UAD Teletronix LA-2A
- UAD dbx 160
- apulSoft apTrigga 3
Fab Dupont is a Grammy winning NYC based record producer, mixing/mastering engineer and co-founder of pureMix.net.
Fab has been playing, writing, producing and mixing music both live and in studios all over the world. He's worked in cities like Paris, Boston, Brussels, Stockholm, London and New York just to name a few.
He has his own studio called FLUX Studios in the East Village of New York City.
Fab has been nominated for Grammys 6 times, including two Latin Grammys and has received many other accolades around the world, including Victoires de la Musique, South African Music awards, Pan African Music Awards and US independent music awards.
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