RSR300 - Michael Brauer - How to Design Your Own Mix Template in the Box
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Michael Brauer a multiple Grammy-winning New York mix engineer. His many credits include "Best Pop Vocal Album" for John Mayer's Continuum, "Best Alternative Album" for Coldplay's Parachutes, and also "Best Rock Album" for Coldplay's "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends". Other credits include The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Jeff Buckley, David Byrne, Paul McCartney, Ben Folds, Willie Nelson, KT Tunstall, Martha Wainwright, and more recent projects include Zac Brown Band, Hootie & the Blowfish, Michael Kiwanuka, Slash, and The Courteeners.
Beginning at MediaSound Studios in New York City in 1976, Michael worked his way up from the Shipping Department to staff engineer assisting the hottest guys in town including; Bob Clearmountain, Mike Barbiero, Ron St. Germain, Michael DeLugg, Ed Stasium, Godfrey Diamond, Tony Bongiovi and Harvey Goldberg. He became Luther Vandross''s engineer recording all his music for four years including two Aretha Franklin albums and spent half of the eighties making records in London's exploding music scene returning home to focus on the American scene after 1990.
In 2018 Michael opened BrauerSound Studios, in New York City's Chelsea area. At the new studio, he began utilizing a hybrid mixing setup for the first time in his career, making the mixing process more powerful and efficient. He also created the technique known as 'Brauerizing', in which mixes are routed through multiple compressors and busses to create a blended sound. And he is a co-founder of Mix With The Masters which has been running for over a decade.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Sound Porter Mastering, |
| 0:06.1 | OWC, Adam Audio, API Audio, JZ microphones, Spectra-1964, and Isotope. |
| 0:13.8 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now through the J-Z pop filter on the J-ZB-29 microphone, |
| 0:20.0 | through the Spectra-1964 STX-600 mic pre-complimeter and |
| 0:25.3 | isotope RX and ozone, all recorded safely onto an OWC, Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD. |
| 0:33.5 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:36.1 | Not every mix comes up and is a happy mix. |
| 0:39.4 | There are some that are unbelievably challenging. |
| 0:42.1 | It is stressful. |
| 0:43.3 | You get angry. |
| 0:44.4 | I mean, I will get up, slam the desk. |
| 0:47.0 | I'll walk out and I'll get it out. |
| 0:49.2 | You know, I'll just get really, really pissed off because I'm not getting it, |
| 0:52.9 | which is why I'm getting angry. You have to |
| 0:55.2 | let yourself do that. They come back and sit down and try it again. |
| 1:10.4 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:25.2 | When I'm Master a Song, I'm immersed and committed to a sonic fidelity from start to beyond finished. |
| 1:31.2 | Hi, I'm Brian Murphy of Sound Porter mastering. My goal in every master is to help you prepare so that you're not compromising your timeline, budget, or your mix. |
| 1:39.8 | My iterative process helps build a relationship with you so that you don't have to ever second |
| 1:44.3 | guess your mix. Let's pull back the curtains on mastering because there's no secrets here. Send me your |
| 1:49.5 | mix and I'll give you free feedback or a free mastered demo. Just hit me up at soundporter.com. |
| 2:00.2 | Whether you're in the studio or working remotely, |
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