RSR271 - Marc Daniel Nelson - Mixing Music & Trailers In Pro Tools During Quarantine
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Marc Daniel Nelson is a Latin Grammy-nominated producer/mixer. He has been producing, mixing and managing creatives for over 19 years.
Since our last interview, Marc has been diving headfirst into the film and tv world for music. In 2018, Marc engineer and mixed the score for the film "Amanda" that went on to be nominated for the French Academy Award for "Best Score". That following spring he mixed the score and music for the Ukraine film "Ya, Ty, Vin", which was the last film Zelinsky Vladimir starred in before becoming president.
"Ya, Ty, Vin" went on to having the largest film opening in Ukraine history. In 2019 and 2020, Marc engineered and mixed the scores for a few Netflix originals movies. Outside of film score work, he has kept busy mixing numerous large action trailers and continuing work in the album world, with mixes for Francesca Battistelli, Eric Burdon / Ben Harper and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, PreSonus, API Audio, Isotope, Sound Porter, Mastering, JZ microphones, and Spectra-1964, |
| 0:14.0 | on the JZB-B-29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 Micpre, C-610 Complementer, and Isotope RX, and Ozone. |
| 0:24.4 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:27.1 | Little things like that add-up, going back to the Bill Schnee thing, I learned all of that from him. |
| 0:32.3 | I remember when I was watching him, mixed bass guitar. |
| 0:35.4 | Half the time, I never saw him EQ anything on a bass guitar. It was more balance. That stuck with me because before then, I was watching him mix bass guitar. Half the time, I never saw him EQ anything on a bass guitar. |
| 0:38.1 | It was more balance. |
| 0:39.2 | That stuck with me because before then, |
| 0:41.3 | I was EQing the absolute crap out of the bottom in of a bass |
| 0:44.3 | to get it to fit in a song. |
| 0:45.9 | Instead of hearing your environment and knowing that a bass is if it's recorded properly, |
| 0:49.8 | it's fine. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. It's fine. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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