RSR280 - Justin Francis - More Mixing Tips For The Home Studio
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Justin Francis is a multiple Grammy Award nominee as an engineer, #1 Billboard chart mixer, and budding producer based right here in East Nashville. His work can be heard on records ranging from Ronnie Milsap to Alice Cooper including Top 40 hits for Little Big Town and Kelsea Ballerini; soundtracks with Kacey Musgraves and P!nk, and releases from diverse artists as Rodney Crowell, Tyler Childers, Margo Price, Buddy Guy, Deep Purple, Anti-Flag, Rozwell Kid and Diarrhea Planet reaching millions of streams every month.
Justin has been a guest on the podcast previously one episode RSR220 when we got to talk about his background in the recording. So this episode we will continue to dig into mixing and production and ways that we can ramp up the quality of our work in our own pro or home studios.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Sound Porter mastering, Adam Audio, OWC, JZ microphones, Spectra-1964, and Isotope. |
| 0:12.6 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now on the JZBB29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 micpre, C-610 complementer, and isotope RX and ozone. So get |
| 0:25.6 | ready to rock. The worst thing you can do is turn it down when something is tuning and you can't |
| 0:33.0 | fix it or whatever. Tuck it down and like, well, it's not going to be... It's all right, we'll just turn it down in the mix. |
| 0:38.3 | That never works. |
| 0:39.3 | Everything should be intentional and to the forefront. |
| 0:42.2 | And if there's a mistake, make it louder. |
| 0:44.7 | And now it's not a mistake because obviously they wouldn't ride it |
| 0:48.3 | and make it louder if it was a mistake, right? |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah. right 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. |
| 1:15.7 | I'm Brian Murphy, and I strive to produce masters that move your song emotionally, |
| 1:20.7 | but maintain the spirit of your mix and the intention of the artist. |
| 1:24.5 | My promise is to give your music its best sonic performance, not simply change it. |
| 1:29.3 | You work hard on your mix, and I always want to respect that. My goal is to help you realize how great your mix can be, and I'll work hard to make sure it succeeds. |
| 1:38.3 | I don't just master. I help your mix sound the best it can. Contact me for a free mastering demo at soundporter.com. |
| 1:47.0 | I've got two words for you that will help you make your best record ever and not lose it. |
| 1:53.0 | Storage and backup. |
| 1:54.5 | You want fast drives for composing and recording and reliable drives for backup so you don't lose all your hard work when something goes wrong. |
| 2:02.1 | That's why I chose OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G internal SSDs for my studio computer |
| 2:08.7 | and Mercury Elite Pro external drives for archiving. |
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